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first versions of the new monodevelop are out. boy oh boy i cant wait.... on the official site you now also will find some installers. Unfortunately only for SUSE and stuff, no package for debian. But do not despair dear debian-comrades! You can find debian packages at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=980739 It has some drawbacks though: i didnt find a package for the debugger add-on yet, so if you depend on deb packages because you can't or don't want to build yourself (like me), so i still need to wait.

i had pre-christmas at work when after coming from my holidays i was presented with a new intel quad core pc. my colleages even already had installed a parallel XP/ubuntu on it. great, i thought "i can immediatly start working!". as long as the new monodevelop is not released, i am still stuck with eclipse (ganymede ). all i now had to do was i needed to install ganymede... after downloading ganymede from eclipse homepage, i fired it up but was very confused: eclipse behaved very sluggish.... ok, i am used to it behaving sluggish from my old machine (a p4 2100 with ubuntu), but i thought it should be quite fast with the new cpu. but i could barely work in a normal way: when doing a search, after pressing the shortcut i needed to wait for like 2 secs until i could press something that he'd recognize. and then after some time eclipse would crash with a "out of memory" exceptions. it also crashed sometimes with some other exceptions. this behavior and the fact that

today i got back from my 3 weeks trip in cuba. it was an.... interesting trip. i had better though. it seems to visit cuba at the moment is not the greatest idea: there are still many signs from the last 3 cyclones/hurricanes (of which i had the honor to experience the lastest). They also greatly affected tourism and thus: you. Plus they may have affected the mood of the people like 2 cubans pointed out to me. putting that aside it might be wise to reconsider if you really want to go to cuba if one of the following facts apply to you: * you dont speak spanish * you get annoyed if you get approached every 10 minutes by somebody wanting to sell you something or trying to trick you * you want to make a not-pre-planned trip with spontaneous decisions where to go and hate to remake your plans 4 times a week. * you get annoyed by waiting in lines maybe i'll post some things and facts about cuba in more detail at some later point. for now, i will now give in to the jet lag ;) best bytes

me and the people i am jamming with now think of doing a kyuss song together.my friend suggested to play the great song phototropic of their great album "and the circus leaves town".  unfortunately kyuss is still not so well known and there were no bass tabs for the song on the internet.  so i had to sit down and tab it out (which i am quite good at, but it is still work). actually i didnt plan to post any tabs on this blog, more so because they style of this blog is not designed for tabs, but i still thougt there might be some people interested in the tab to save the hassle of listening it out, so here it goes. If the line breaks / structure is not right with your browser/screen, you will have to copy paste the code into your text editor (/notepad). then it should look normal again. the bass should have a normal tuning, but some steps lower, starting with C instead of E.  0:30 |----------9---------------9--9-----9--9---------------- |--------------9--11--12------------------

grreeeeeetiinnnnngsss, thought i should post something after a that long time. what has happened? quite some things, but i now decided to tell you one thing. i was in amsterdam on holidays for one week. which was nice. thats a very special city we have there in the middle of west europe. i just can recommend you going thru the red light district once  in the evening when you are there. plus, i can recommend to see the "all famous sex show".  i thought, well, once in a livetime one has to have seen a sex show, and amsterdam is definetely the best place to do that in a safe environment. if you wonder where to find it? just ask in a  tourist information center ^^ i was lucky because i attached myself to two american girls who asked and directed us to the right place.  second, i think everybody has to have been in a coffeeshop once... well, i did so thrice ;) very nice trips i had.... on two of those occasions i was so completely lost... i forgot the concecpt of different langua

the last few weeks i got interested in how to write an RTS game. as an old die hard fan of c&c red alert (one) i began to search the net. i knew a few years back there was a project that took the released sourcecode of C&C and tried to evolve it. So what is there at the moment? The situation is somewhat confusing: There are 3 projects under sourceforge: 1)freeCnC 2)freeRA 3)openredalert those were created in that order. every one of them was created by taking the code of the former. freeCnC was the first project. as far as ive seen it was the also the biggest project. it seems to be dead currently.it aimed to support C&C Tiberian Dawn as well as Red Alert. they made the first port to linux, there was also support for multiplayer over tcp. it seems that (like for majority of such projects) being able to run it on linux was the utmost important target.... freeCnC is also relying on Boost (as well as on SDL and SDL_mixer). if you are not used to boost, i guess its a bit diffic

yesterday i used up the rest of my salvia divonorum. at first i took about 1g of my 5x extract of salvia and mixed them with tobacco. after smoking it i felt quite dizzy, but hard to tell how much of that was because of the tobacco smoked without filter. as no hallucinations took place i then rolled another one containing nearly no tobacco but dried pure salvia and another 1g of the 5x extract.  results? well, i felt dizzy, and inducing trance was easy. on the other hand, still no hallucinations. this time though i did not feel as i was observed like i did last time.... so maybe thats a plus?  :) i then decided to make some music. it didnt really feel anything different than from normal. i decided i will buy some more. mainly to have something at home if i decide to do some shamanistic journey again at some point in the future. for this, this stuff seems to be potent.  for the rest, i dont know..... it just doesnt seem to work properly for me cheers

2 days ago i tested some dried plants called "dreamherb" that i bought from azarius a long time ago. since then they just lay around in my cupboard.  now i decided it was time to try it out.  after reading some preparation descriptions in the internet, i started: i made myself some tea with about 7g of dried leafs. i left it in the hot boiling water for about 15 minutes. at the same time i made myself something to smoke out of some other part of the dried leaves.  when i was finisehd with rolling i started to drink the tea. man, that was bitter!  that stuff is in the top 3 of the worst tasting things i ever drank! i had about 3/4 liter made but only managed to drink about 1/2 litre.  then i smoked what i had... created. the taste was not THAT bad, but anything is better than drinking these dreamherbs! i felt a little dizzy afterwards, and then went to bed.  well what can i say? when i woke up in the morning i could not remember any dream at all. in fact i also had the impres

i noticed in games forums that nowadays the gaming industry changed its approach to copyprotection in some way. brief outline of the situation: so they can sell many many games, gaming companies give almost all games copy protection mechanisms. those SHALL prevent people from copying the games. alas that idea has a problem:those mechanisms for protecting are fascinating themselves. this means that there are people interested in those mechanisms: they want to understand them and then test their skills to see if they can outsmart them. in my opinion this is completely understandable.i admire the brains those people have. and i am most certain that they do not care for the games at all. (plus thats what they say).if you are capable of cracking those protections, you are not the kind of guy to waste time with playing computer games. fighting against game cracks seems to me like a battle the gaming industry will always loose in the long term.and the irony is: the people cracking it are not

i will just give a short update what happened.... friday, i helped my sister with moving into her new flat. but it was by far not that exhausting like on thuesday when we had to install the bed to the flat which was very big. on friday it was "only" the washing machine. what else did happen? not much, i was at one party on saturday evening , which was quite nice. now that i am in the middle of moving out/searching for a flat i look at flats that i go to differently :) party was nice, but i hated it when i realized that there are only couples at the party. normally i dont mind. it was also not like they were making out all the time or something. but still i didnt like it... :) oh yeah, and i again got up on saturday at 5 pm... thats somewhat a strange time... i really need to think if i should change something about that. sunday then.... was mostly a lost day, i got up at 2 pm, then some food. then i sat myself in the garden, the weather was so nice and hot.... messed round

Disclaimer: for anybody trying to look into Mono, you might also want to be able to use a database with easy ADO.NET access like you are used to in MS C#. especially if you think about getting an ASP.NET site running in Linux, you will have a database you need to use.  MS provides nice dlls for Ado.NET for Oracle and MS SQL.  so if you want to use linux you will now also probably want some free DB that you can use. mySQL is the way to go. Unfortunately this does not work out of the box. I spent some hours until i had accomplished getting mySQL to work with Mono with ado.NET.  this is something i did back a while, and already posted my experience in ubuntuforums.org but... well, to fill this place with some new acticle i will repost it here: I am trying to get the mySQL ADO.Net provider Connector/Net 5.1 to run under mono. as far as mySQL says so, it should run under mono.  For this i followed the steps at  http://mysql.mirrors.pair.com/doc/re...tion-unix.html. So I followed the provide

cant tell you how anxious i am about the upcoming release of monodevelop which will feature a ... debugger! what is granted and comes so naturally for other programming languages, or programmers used to windows, seems not to be too common if you want to develop on linux: yes THE one (and only) c# IDE on linux does not have a debugger at the moment. It seems it got broken with some changes in Mono. How someone can really put out a new release of a language (lets now consider mono an own language) and knowingly loose his frontend-debugger by that but accepting that.... i dont know. well the mono community did.  this also kept me from progressing with my interest in c# for linux. a language where i do not have a debugger is.... ridiculous.  but fear not! the new debugger is coming.... like you can read here . i cant wait for it to get released!  i finally want to develop some nice cross-GUI apps for linux! and i certainly wont do that with C++. everybody volintarily choosing c++ for that

if you ever plan to do cross platform programming in c++, avoid streams like hell, i tell you!  positioning inside streams, copying of streams, readbuf methods, calculating offsets.... some of these methods behave different on linux(32bit), linux(64bit) and windows(32bit), breaking your code big time.  i made the mistake to use them in the current project. but i wouldnt any more. easy example: create some instances of different streams, write some data into the streams, then check what in_avail() tells you. make the same on windows and linux, and already you can get different results.  maybe later on i will post some example code. bytes

I have just finished the new and shiny extensions to socketCC. socketCC, the nice class based Socket library.... so now even more shiny!  :) the original socketCC library was mainly designed for linux. Mac OS support was added to it too, but you could not use it under windows.... awkward choice isnt it?  i therefore made it compiling and working with windows like i already said here . but now all bugs should be out and it works like charm!  the cool thing for all pure-windows VC coders out there is: there is a workable VS2008 solution, that can be compiled just like that, without the need for setting anything else up or understanding makefiles.  AFAIK there is no other nice free open library for windows that does this.  so heres a rough list of what has changed from the features of the original socketCC, (description for a deeper understanding of the original socketCC lib can be found in this Dr. Dobbs socketCC article): • support for windows , tested on VS2005 and VS2008 visual studi

as i am a IDE freak, always searching for the greatest comfort, i decided to test out Code::Blocks, also because i am still not completely satisfied with eclipse CDT (now version ganymede). Code::Blocks seems to be somewhat an underdog in the IDEs, so i thought i might give it a try.  also because its an IDE that has a free plugin to develop wxWidgets with a sort of WYSIWYG (its called wxSmith). so i then needed to look how to install it under ubuntu. installing something that cannot be obtained via the ubuntu package manager is always something i am uncomfortable with because it often.... fails :) and of course... code::blocks is not installable via the package manager.  SOOOO..... but in this case i found a nice and easy howto: "Installing Code::Blocks 8.02 on Ubuntu" that can be found here . just wanted to tell anybody interested. because it took some time until i found it...  now i just need some time to try it out... happy coding

i am perfectly aware that "rationate" itself is not a word of the english language, BUT.... still i like to use it to entitle my blog.  why?  first: if someone googles rationate, he will find my blog on the first page :) second: i think rationate is in itself a nice (un)word. it is great because its reminding of familiar sounding words like the english words "ratio" as well as "ration" plus the latin word "ratio". keep all 3 meanings in mind before reading "rationate insanity"... 

well well, a most interesting concert. black mountain was very good indeed. though their albums do not really touch me, their live performance was outstanding. if you ever have a chance to see them, dig that style of music but dont really like their CDs, go there anyway. it worked for me :) after black mountain, the crew began to prepare the stage for helmet. that was when most people left :) like i expected, black mountain and helmet have very different fanbases, most black mountain fans did not listen to helmet, and vice versa.  fortunately for me, i like both styles so i got more out of my ticket than most.  when helmet started i was a bit perplexed because it was BAD. i then concluded that this was because of the big musical gap between what black mountain are doing in comparison to helmet: this harsh, raw, purposedly dissonant music that helmet is doing did not sound RIGHT after a band like black mountain.  so me and my accompagnee needed some songs to get into it. then the conce

i was bored this evening so i decided to try the salvia divinorum i ordered more than a year ago on azarius as well as the salvia extract 5x i bought several weeks ago. though from a doctors side of view i shouldnt do it, but the heck with it. last time i tried salvia, taking it orally putting it under my tounge, i did not feel anything so i am not that respectful with that herb anymore :) mainly because it does not seem to work for me, some people on the net were also saying it does not work for them. i then tried it orally one more time without expecting much results: i put about 1/3 grams of the 5x extract under my bottom lip. after waiting 15 minutes without any result i continued: with much effort i manneged to roll myself a "little friend" containing of mainly dried salvia, with just a shot tobacco and, about 1/4 of it, tagetes lucida. it smoked itself quite fine, a bit harsh on the lungs, not as easy to smoke as normal pot, but easier than pure tobacco. result: i felt

tomorrow Helmet will be playing in the Arena. i am very much looking forward to that. curious to see if they play the oldschool stuff or much new things. to get myself started, i listened to all helmet albums for 2 days now. this is both good and bad: the good: i get prepared for the concert the bad: i get a slight depression. at least thats what helmet does for me. i find helmet is a blessing: when i slide down the mood spiral, helmet can ease the pain very good. its very dry and hard sound can absorb much of a depression. but on the other hand, when i am in a good mood, it can also slightly get me down. the second great thing about the concert is the other band thats playing: Black Mountain, a very different band from helmet. but a band that i am very interested in too. its a very important band in the psychedelic scene it seems. i dont like their records but many of those bands are very good live nonetheless. so i look forward to hear them bytes

Here now the best responses i got on my inofficial slippy poem... SMS contest! was willst du denn du chicken? etwa in meinem PORNO ficken? -a --------------- ich saß an der copacabana in rio vor mir stand ein winzig indio beglückte mich mit fellatio und furzte dabei o sole mio der jüngling betrieb dies äußerst geschickt zum dank hab ich ihn ins arschloch gefickt -a --------------- man bezeichnete als graf der philosophie den großen herrn adorno der ist wohl so beliebt wie rocco der held des porno -a --------------- was wölbt deine hose nach vorn jo? na was?ich schau grad einen porno! -r --------------- wenn ich alleine sitze, trinke ich am liebsten korn o- der malz und schau im fernsehen porno! -a

when becoming a cross-platform novice, there was one thing that really disturbed me about linux that was so much better on windows: the standard commandline editor(s) for editing text files. if you are using gnome or KDE, the standard editors under linux (gedit/kedit) are better that the normal notepad under windows. but when it comes to commandline, the common windows-user is lost. if you are a non-hardcore linux user you know what i mean: vi(m) and emacs need to be LEARNED before they can be used. what a normal windows to linux switcher wants is an editor like the good old MS-DOS Editor "edit". what i want is an editor that i can simply USE without needing to learn it. there are thousands of different flavors of software out there for linux so i thought it shouldnt be difficult to find an editor that is as intuitie as MS edit. well, it was. but finally after about two hours i found one thats quite comfortable that satisdfies my needs. with you might feel at home with it to

nothing much to report. i am a bit exhausted and sick after going out on sunday, then working on monday and going to the EM match in the main fanzone of vienna.  i wondered very much what happened to me in the last 2 years when i even put on some paint onto my face like those freaky soccer watchers do. it did not help anyway.  in work there were some things happening, plus i am fighting with synergy desktop sharing software with my newly updated hardy heron ubuntu edition in the company. some characters are not transported to the other pc, hell knows why. with gutsy everything worked. so everything i could talk about now would be too much to... write  :) so i ll just leave it for now

This blog entry might get you up and running with Eclipse if you come from Visual Studio without you having the need to immediately look at how to create makefiles or how the eclipse workspace philosophy works. I expect that you are somewhat familiar with Visual C++ though. I like Eclipse. Well.... no, i don't. I like Visual Studio especially for C#, but Visual C++ has some drawbacks, especially when used to code cross platform non-.NET and without precompiled headers. Still I don't know why so many people find Eclipse so great, but granted, it has a very decent code completion, nice automake and a very good syntax highlighting. I use it too. Its the next best thing ive tried so far to VS. What I hate about it are the project- and workspace philosophies of Eclipse and that the program is somewhat slow. Visual Studio projects/solutions are much easier to use and you grasp its concepts quicker and, most importantly, you are free to include any file you want into your project ind

Finally i found a nice tool to search for files under linux! under windows i am using Agent Ransack , a very comfy and efficient tool for that purpose. I dont want to use grep under linux for my searches then i always would have to concentrate on the syntax, so i was looking for a nice tool that is a sort of to Agent Ransack under Linux, so i'll have a tool that does the job similar to my favorite search tool. ( i also dont want any desktop search app with all the overhead they seem bring) the next best thing i found was regexxer that can be installed by "sudo apt-get install regexxer". unfortunately you will not be able to use wildcards with regexxer but use regular expressions, which are a bit... more complex. but still it is the best alternative i found and, compared to some other linux apps, quite self explanatory. bytes

When beginning to think how some packing alorhytms for the project i am currently doing in my company, i decided to go with streams as the contained for the packed data. why? first, i knew some stream working from C#, second, i knew the packed data would be then sent over the network. in C# you can then quite easily convert your stream to a network stream and just send THAT over the network. out of some reason i thought that there surely also is some network stream class in c++. third, back when i learned programming in colleg we were doing streams and they told us we should use them. if i think about it now i think our professor had a certain crush on streams. fourth, i needed something abstract, where i just could put more and more data into easily and in the end, get everything out again. streams seem to be made for that right? ok, now let me tell you: if i could choose again, i would avoid them like a christian avoids hell. why? not only me but also my colleages find streams-progra

about two weeks ago i began porting the SocketCC library for Linux and Mac to Windows. SocketCC is a free C++ class-based library for using sockets and was written between 2001 and 2003 by Jason But. (You can download the original from the Monash University site here ). It is a nice small, free and clean library that suited our needs in the company for the project we are doing right now. What some of you hardcore C and C++ programmers wont like though is the fact that is uses Exceptions :) Alas, SocketCC was not working for windows, so i sat down to first) make it compileable, second) get the error codes also under windows, third) make it runable under windows. i did not have the time to make it perfect, because our target platform is linux so the windows implementation is sort of a bonus. this meant that i made some hacks and also omitted IPv6 support (some of our extensions we did to the library broke IPv6 functionality for linux as well anyway) additionally, i needed to use winsock

if you go thru the streets of vienna these days you can notice one thing: not even to the 50. anniversary of the austrian republic you could see so many flags of austria placed by private people. not even on that (one would say very important) anniversary for this republic one could see that many flags of austria hung out on the streets compared to flags of the soccer EM hung out these days. what does something like this hint you about this country? ^^ never mind, i am counting the days till the whole fuzz is over

Today i would like to tell you about my experiences with the new Ubuntu 8.04 release (called hardy heron). ... unfortunately i can't, because i still have not installed it  :) well, well. that was a phun post. i'll now go enjoy the sunday in some café with nice company.

[currently listening helmet to ease the mind a bit] ok, i wasnt looking for a once-to-be-married relationship. i wasnt looking for i-need-my-soulmate kind of love. its not as if i was directly looking for love in a classic way, i would be fine with many kinds of relationships. still, i wonder what her ambitions in this are. maybe i was looking for something more than just a fuck-buddy to put it plain simple, but i d be happy with that as well. i guess i can be also quite simple to handle: click on, click off. or in other words: i think i am very uncomplicated. but push the right buttons and tell me which ones you wanna push. somehow i am pissed if we first want to meet on saturday, then that gets postponed till monday for culture cinema, then that gets postponed, i propose thuesday for cinema, she says wednesday, i say ok, adapt my week-plans for that accordingly and then on wednesday she tells me we are going out with friends. then, on going out, she vanishes with them at 2:00am (ins

today i went to fencing course the second time. some time ago my sister and i decided we need to do something for our health. yeah, many of us do so at some point or another. for me, i just KNEW i should do something, but did not bother about it anymore. i do not really know any sport that has my attention drawn away from the fact that i exhaust myself while doing it.  one of two sports i know that succeed in getting me to forget the fact that i am exhausted is badminton. there are some phases when i occasionally play once every two weeks. but fencing was always on my mind to try out. and because my sister now also wanted to DO something and suggested fencing, i was immediately like "yeah, lets do it". so today was the second lesson. i have to say... i think its cool. it has something manly to it to fence  :). yeah, and of course thats the fact why i like it. its funny, it looks more easy than it is.... but of course, my body is a very uncoordinated bunch of flesh, because i

so to get something written down, some poems. i encouraged some of my friends to write me poems having "porno" in them via sms.  here are some of my "encourage" sms. the replies of them will follow. But... most on german :) Du bist eingeladen diesen holprigen Reim, zu verbessern in seinem sein. einzige bedingung: das letzte wort im reim muss porno sein -- if i have time i like to hear korn, but even more i enjoy to watch porn -- natalia sagte: i like to watch porn ja das glaub ich ihr schon die erzählt doch kan schmorrn --- von gottes gnade nah aneinander gebaut zwischen den 2 bergen widerhallt sich der laut neben dem hall vom horn-oh! auch jemandem schrein: PORNO! --- roman sich schließlich mit selbstzweifeln plagte, als endlich andrea die wahrheit ihm sagte: "zwar biste ganz lieb und auch kein blödel, doch will ich wen andern mit nem größeren dödel" sagte der felix: "denk dir da nix! ohne sie hast du den festeren wichs" --- deinem reim unterzi

one works 3+ years as a programmer. programming. every day. at least workday. at weekends off, sleeping, going out. doing the house stuff that needs to be done. every week the same. not much leisure time left, as one is working now. which topics to talk about are still remaining? when one meets other people? where can you link into a topic, if it isnt a computers topic? and even there specialiced ones. is this the same for every job? is one unavoidibly becoming a lame freak?

…or are they? Aren’t all linux nerds = Microsoft haters always complaining about MS world not using standards? I state that all those linux-guys are preaching water but drinking wine. Why? Tthere are multiple examples: I’ll post one that annoyed me just some moments ago right now, multiple others may follow later: It is an interesting fact that when you search things on the internet and you find resources to it which were written by some linux guys (or on linux but would also be usable in windows) they may post their code (in this case code, but I might also have found docs that way) for downloading. How can you obtain the stuff? You find it in an archive. As a .tar, or as a .tgz. or whatever other wicked linux-packing formats there are. Why use an open standard archive like .zip anyways? Just because EVERYBODY can open it? Noooooo my friend. Ok, i am not familiar, so: .tar/tgz may very well be open "standards", but whats a standard worth if 90% of all people are not abl

people who know me know that i rarely speak of a perfect day. in fact i think i never called any day a perfect day till now. but... i have to say the weekend (26th,27th) was very close to perfection if not perfect. a cool race which i told you already, a cool party afterwards with nice friends, then sleeping long then going out again. having very nice conversations and a very nice girl.... party for me lasted until next morning when i accompanied her to her work. nice weather nice ... conditions ... some more sweet talking. man, i had to take care not to get too much into it. it was also fun to watch all those idiots doing the vienna marathon on that sunday. all guys running by with already empty bodies, having a dire stare of pain on their faces... something to laugh about (but also wonder why people do that). what a cool weekend that then itself started an also very nice week. though i have to say, work suffered a bit. but i dont care. anyway too occupied to write much. too much goin

yesterday i went with my working colleages to a kart-racecourse where we did a one hour race. everybody who's done this before knows that racing an hour is very exhausting. but very cool. when the race was over it was decided: i came out first . well, sort of... actually i came out 5th of ten participans, but : winner was a guy from ORF (thats the public TV-station in austria).those guys are FREAKS, the orf has a sortof professional kart team that gets sponsored by some companies and they always win races that are made regularily. so he sortof raced noncompetitive. second and third came out 2 guys from the rental department. they are also kindof regular kart racers, like participating each year in a 3 hours race and stuff. so no wonder they were better than me. so then on fourth positition was my boss. and of course i cannot beat my boss ;) what a dumb thing to do this would have been.... so you see, .... actually i came out first :) afterwards i then went to a party. 3 friends

but hope to be up on friday again, then we are going kart-driving with parts of the company.... because of my insignificant wheight i always do a good job at the races so i really wanna join them. plus afterwards there'll be a birthday party i'd like to join. then on saturday there will be another party... with some romanians ^^ i also wanna be ready to do THAT. we'll see

i finally managed to compile C++ code on my PSP. i completely removed my development environment for psp and began reinstalling: this time i relied on the MINPSPW project instead of doing all the cygwin stuff. after that i then used the makefile of Neko Grafico and now it compiles with C++. I am not too happy with all the tutorials out there to get one going creating stuff for the PSP. Especially Oslib with C++. So here a HowTo to set up Oslib with C++ to run from the scratch. This small turorial guides you how to get going creating C++ applications for your PSP with the OldSchool Library (at the moment of writing that is Oslib Version 2.10 Alpha) with Visual Studio Express 2008. At the end you will have a compiled program that you then can run on your PSP (if you know how). This tutorial will use the tools provided by the MINPSPW project. The advantage of this is that you will not need Cygwin for it to run. For getting this tutorial done you should not need any knowledge about Makefil

well not much to say. this is a rather irrelevant entry, you can skip it ;) friday evening i was just chilling in front of the tv. saturday i slept long like always, then went out on a date and saw some original but somewhat strange piece in the theatre, beforehand went out for dinner. afterwards i departed with my sweet company, drove to a friend and we went on a pub tour. we found a nice alternative pub i didnt know of before: Das Jetzt a nice place and they had 60s night so they already had my heart. beer not expensive, maybe a bit small. and not many girls. afterwards we went to the B72 where we then both felt a bit old: the music was crap which we arent used to in the B72 but it seems this is already like that for a half a year or so. afterwards we went to the Chelsea, there it was better. at 4 or something they threw us out. sunday then was just getting the alcohol out of my bloodstream and sleeping. so far so good, see what the week brings.... oh yeah, the Isis concert. probly,

Think Geek gave me some inspiration yesterday when i ordered some stuff. Every country has its list of "taboos" and Japan is no different There is a shirt showing some things you should avoid doing in Japan. In Japan you should avoid sleeping with your head pointing to the north putting chopsticks straight up in rice (both related to Japanese funerals) entering a house with dirty shoes on those are the 3 absolute No-No's in Japan. I think it is a very usable list and decided to extend it for some other countries. But what if you travel somewhere differently? Here now a helpful list with the 3 most important things you should avoid in other countries: In USA you should avoid Smoking in public drinking in public being a terrorist In England you should avoid saying you want to pay in euro going out after 23:00 eating native food In France there are certain taboos that you shouldnt go across, else they will regard you as a very wicked person and may not speak with you ever ag

here's something i agree to, and you should so too for the sake of society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Free_Culture_movement

yesterday i was in club ost. thats a club here in vienna i didn't know about till now. it somewhat shall give the visitors an eastern flair. which works pretty well for non-easteners. i was there with some romanian girls. they all told me it all doesn't "fit right". anyway a nice club. i was astonished i didnt know it till now. its not alternative like i like it but on the other hand its not that posh that i would immediately dislike it, maybe i'll once give it another try when there's no concert there. but from the start. a friend of mine called me if i wanted to go out with him and a romanian girl he met at university some time ago to a concert. i had 3 choices what to do with my friday: one: relaxed cinema/video watching with a friend two: go to a free concert of the singer of "Die Sterne" in Chelsea three: join him to a concert of some moldavian band. luckily, i chose number three. i met them at the appartment of the romanian girl. there i disco

today i watched weedeater in the arena. well i should have. but i didnt like them so i left early. pity in one way:  there even were more than 5 girls in the audience when weedeater started....  something i have not seen for quite a few concerts now  ;) thats the risk when you go to concerts of bands you do not know. you may not like them. but there are many examples when this calculation goes out positive. but before weedeater, 'Stinking Lizaveta' were playing.  though their gig was not super, their performance was outstanding nonetheless! Stinking Lizaveta consist of a couple and the brother of the guitarist playng e-bass (you know....cello type of bass), the couple both being...lez say 40+, but still rocking hard! they put up a show that most other bands can dream of, which sort of compensated the lack of musical greatness from the eyes of a stoner listener. though all their songs have much variety and idea, they are not what i dig nowadays. they more make a mix of noise-mus

yesterday i paid a visit to an exhibition of archimboldo , a painter painting from bout 1540 to 1595 or something. what is really interesting is that he made surreal pictures, his portraits of people consisting of objects: like a portrait consisting of only wild animals, or a portry consisting of fruit. with that he was really ahead of his time from our point of view, because many centuries passed until someone began painting in such a style again. another funny thing he "invented" were the upside down pictures: paintings of fruit bowls that, if you turn them upside down show a face. i moreso wonder about that because archimboldo was very popular back in his time and also famous, but when he died, he was forgotten and up until 1910 nobody knew who he was! i wonder how this has happened....  if you ever have a chance to see an exhibition of him, go there.  in vienna you can see him at the KHM  at the moment 

what was happening yesterday? i finally finished the psp game killzone liberation, one of the best portable games i know so far (including old-school gameboy).  thats about it on the private side. still need to look at the psp programming, too tired today. if everything goes well this weekend then i will have some cool code on the psp for monday to show my colleages. but actually i hope the weekend runs great then i will be too distracted with a veery sweet girl i wanna get to know better, then no time for the psp :) at work i finally had hands-on-experience why copy-constructors are so important in C++ while they are so minor in .NET, mostly having todo with (what else) the lack of garbage collection and the presence of pointers and explicitly reserved memory in c++. and even more so when you are using STL containers. but more on that maybe at some other time. i'll continue listening to fine dead meadow cd "old growth" now, isnt that a fine album. yes it iz.

psplink is a fine utility with which you are able to run psp-compiled programs without the need of manually copying your EBOOT file to the psp. i finally managed to compile it. i found a tutorial describing how to get to run this. unfortunately it is in french but for what did i learn it in school? ah yes, and for what do you have google.translate  ;) the link can be found  here   one thing to note: with just having M33 custom firmware installed the psplink software will not work. you first need to install dark alex 1.50 kernel-addon. else psplink will not start. after you installed this addon, you can run the psplink. but psplink is more than just a tool with which you can run your applications remotely. it is also a failsafe mechanism if the program crashes your PSP to resetting it fast and easy. plus you could also a debugger for debugging your program.  i didnt try it yet though. after this is working now.... i could finally start developing  :) but for now i will leave it be, i ha

is the lack of insight that one can gain. now i want to code some PSP games i also need further gimmicks installed on my PSP that will enable me to remote-debug my PSP programs and run my cross compiled programs on the PSP while they are still lying on my harddisk. for this there is a nice program called psplink. i think its the programs "fault" that nobody is using the oslib framework for the PSP i may have mentioned earlier for compiling on the pc, which is is supposed to support. because everybody seems to debug and test out the games with this psplink on their psp right away. fine so i thought, well then lets install this wonderful thing. unfortunately, the program does not start on my M33-90. search me why, but from some tutorials for some different homebrew i now know i need the 1.50-add on for the m33-90. i just installed that, but what i really would like to know is: what is that thing doing?  :)  you dont really get some info about that unfortunately, gettings things

mmmh, today i celebrated the last exam a student friend of mine had. before that the day didnt work quite round, the celebration did not easy my uneasiness. not that it was the groups fault. getting to some student restaurant with many fancy wancy dishes, but nearly all being only "light" food (ya know this esoteric african beans or goat cheese, but no hardcore beef dishes) for heavier prices, ordering a big beer and being told with a frown they only sell small beers did not raise my mood either. i hate that kind of clientele running and frequenting those places. why, and what i mean exactly by that, i ll maybe tell some other time. now i am just getting my tipsiness down and listening to some Radio Moscow . check them out they are a nice band making energetic blues rock. no more, but no less. then i ll just put myself to sleep and see what tomorrow brings. am a bit curious about creating some program for the PSP. patience my dear padawan...

yesterday and today i tried to get some own coded programs for the PSP to run on my cracked PSP. buying that piece of hardware was one of the best investments i did in the last 2 years: i spend nearly 2 hours per day in the public transport system, so having some gadget like this is essential: it really helps cut the time. and either i play some games, or i watch some movies. either way i sometimes am even disturbed when i finally reach home because i want to keep on watching/playing. the only thing i hate about it is the reflecting display. more so as i know that it is only there because americans dig it so much that sony decided to give it a reflecting display. please rest of the world: get it: reflecting displays are a pain in the ass. they are useless. the europeans know it (reflecting displays aren't liked in europe market research shows). because of reflection you see the contents of the screen not as good as you could. the europs already understood that. ok, but back to the

ever wondered how to execute a shell comand via commandline that will not quit itself? i did have to get that to work and it took me quite a while. here my knowledge as its nowhere on the net so far: i am talking about some command that will invoke something that will stay active as long you do not abort it (like with CTRL-C). Note: like a command that you, when in commandline type in, will not immediately return you to type something in but you have to abort it. in my case this was true to commandline commands for zeroconf (example for linuux is avahi ) if you want to run that on a button click, you of course cannot use system("yourCommand") because then your button event will never end. first idea would be now to create your own thread class via pthreads, and start the thread inside the button event, its execute routine calling this system("yourcommand"). unfortunately this will also cause wxWidgets to hang. wxWidgets itself has an own command called wxSystem fo

i found a nice C# blog with with some cool code demonstrating how to do a snake/nibbles in a simple windows.forms application.  fascinating idea  :) plus the small length of the code prooves how fast and easy you can write nice&fun applications in c#. here is the link. it is not a complete game at this stage, but you know how to improve it. i stumbled upon it when searching how to enable nice mySQL support for Mono, btw. happy coding

thuesday i watched SIENA ROOT in the arena. if you like deep purple from how they sounded in the early 70s, then you should check out that band. they had a tough challenge, because topping Dead Meadow, the band i watched on monday was nearly impossible.  there were even less people than on monday, i begin to fear that the arena will have to cancel their stoner events if so few people are interested in them. if i could be convinced that there is a god i'd pray that they continue. well, anyways: the band had another obstacle which was that their singer had to return home because of a death case in the family. for other genres this would mean the end of the tour, but as they are doing psychedelic they just decided to do an instrumental tour. i had my doubts if it could be good, because thats not what they usually do so but the concert was quite ok. yes, nothing compared to dead meadow, but they put effort into the show and made a good gig. for 2 songs they even had a sitar player play

on monday i had the honor of watching dead meadow play live in vienna. for everybody not knowing them, and i am most certain most, if not all readers are in that category, go, get a cd and listen to it!. .... well, ok actually to be honest i am pretty sure if you do that without being into psychedelic or stoner rock you wont like them, they are quite a heavy intro to that genre. you could try it anyway i am pretty sure it helps a lot when you are stoned  ;) ok, back to the gig. it was in the  arena, in my opinion the best place to play for a band in whole vienna  (and bands like bad religion and color haze agree with that) and the band started at about 10PM. the band that played before them were a local austrian band which meant that they sucked like nearly every austrian band does. unfortunately. but at ten o'clock dead meadow began, and they are actually, as expected, a great live band. they performed for about 1,5 hours with many many songs with lengths of 10+ mins. too bad ther

a while ago i had a quite interesting experience. about a year ago i bought some herbs at www.azarius.net/ when a friend of mine bought some other stuff there. with some others i also ordered a package of tagetes lucida. as i read already several times there are quite many not-that-dangerous herbs out there to get a nice trip out of. many of them having a hallucinogenic effect. a quite popular one of them is salvia divinorum . i already tried it but that did not have any effect on me.... other than i felt stupid with the others who tried it out as we all sat there for half an hour silently in dim light staring at each other and just waiting and wondering what we'll do if it doesnt work. maybe it was because we decided for the alternative method of not-smoking it but putting it under the tounge. because of my non-experiences with salvia i also didnt really much expect anything with those herbs including those tagetes lucida. but i wanted to try it out anyway because i was curious

maybe this article can help someone trying to figure if to or how to run wxWidgets with c++ under linux/windows. but first some intro. In the company i currently work in we are creating software for an embedded linux environment in c++. Because of Development Tools available in Windows, (yes linux also has many development tools but most are not as good as the MS tools, i just say: debugger [you are of course invited to start an argue ;)]) i decided to make the code run on both platforms where possible. then i had the idea to create a simulator with a GUI with which the status of the firmware can be shown . additionally it should be possible to "simulate" all non-hardware related parts on windows so that the software department could easily test their and our stuff. my second approach to this GUI then were wxWidgets. Coming from .NET i only was familiar with windows.forms programming and very sparse MFC, but for one and a half months i also looked into creating swing app