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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...

yesterday i tried getting my Wacom Graphire4 Dashboard to work with ubuntu. actually.... not that i needed it, because actually all graphic programs i met for linux yet... plainly suck. the all-so praised GIMP is nothing compared to Paint.NET. Plus it is so-not intuitive. Well, there s not much to wonder about that fact i mean... its a linux program and by history linux programs are counter- intuitive :) ok by now i should already have succeeded in getting all the linux phanatix out there hating me, at first saying GIMP (one kindof opensource-linux flagship as i understand) sucks then making the blasphemy saying that a .NET program (which implies bad-bad MS) is better and then even saying linux would be counter intuitive. ok, enough-having made-friends with the linux community so far. nevertheless, i just wanted to see if i can get it to work under linux. which is as far as i am concerned very linux-geeky: trying to get something to work for linux which one actually does not really ...

Well ok, today something in german. An sich bin ich ja (auch bedingt) durch meine mehr als 2-jährige Arbeit in einer Microsoft-Partner Firma (inklusive MS Zertifizierung) kein verbissener Microsoft und Microsoft-Produkt Hasser [und stelle damit uU das schwarze Schaf in der Firma dar ;) ]. So bin ich auch der Überzeugung das dort nicht nur inkompetente Leute herumsitzen und schlechte Software und schlechte Designs schreiben. Ja sie öffnen ihre Sachen nicht so wie es sein sollte, aber es verlässt einiges Gutes was auf Kompetenz schließen lässt die Schmieden in Redmond. Wenn es jedoch um Basis-Technologien geht hat Microsoft jedoch wohl noch etwas nachzuholen wie man hier sieht ;) Aus der Microsoft-Philosophie heraus erklärbar warum man diese Info bekommt, aber dennoch zu belächeln.

hahaaaa, i found it, so lets try it again. Here i am...dududu hey all. the big question you all now ask yourself very very hard: what is this blog about? well i thought to myself: how can i make this world a better place. how can i contribute for a better live of all us people on this planet we have been given? then it just struck me: this world needs another blog! no pinky-winki-panda-saving earth hugging greenpeace activism no very attentive critical guy exposing big bad consiracies of even bigger and even worse companies and evil christ-loving politicians no, quite simple: this world need another blog ! that is the answer! let's see what this leads to. actually this blog could get different ... vibes.  some info/impressions about coding: impressions about coding Embedded C++ now in comparison with C#. the things i as a .NET programmer come across in my transition to this "old" language (and no i dont mean outdated before somebody begins to complain). some impressions ...

ok, at first this should have been about what this blog shall be about. i even managed to write some ironic stuff and was managing to be quite funny. but then ... the mechanics of this blog came in my way.... why can't i mark with CTRL-SHIFT left cursor, and then delete it??? i mean... this preview is nice but.... fastly deleting like i am used to do it when programming is way more important! well whatever.... now i lost interest after i lost my first writings. where do i find this drafts anyways?