This is another example of a great project that uses social networking crowd-sourcing. I re-discovered this while looking through my Twitter following list. Check it out:

The project gathers @replies and mentions from Twitter, and displays an animation on a giant screen mounted on a building based on users’ tweets. (When it first came out, it was mounted in London, but now, it’s looking for a place to stay.)

How it works

You send an @reply to its Twitter account, @thehellowall, using a combination of the following commands:

• circle
• square
• rectangle
• triangle
• shake
• faster
• slower
• bigger
• smaller
• And HTML colors.

A command could look like this:

@thehellowall White circles bigger

The Wall will interpret your command, and display it instantly. It’s that simple!

And here’s what I hope for this blog this new year:

• REAL HTTPS that doesn’t cause the “OH NOEZ YOU’RE ABOUT TO ENTER DANGEROUS TERRITORY” message
• A new layout perhaps?
• More posts this year
• More people on our Minecraft server
• More views on this blog
• Monthly polls

Sound realistic? We’ll see.

Every year our neighbors celebrate with a gigantic party of 50 adults and a swarm of children. They run more than a fireworks party. It’s a huge social hour complete with beer, toy trucks for the kids, and even an outdoor movie screen. After walking around our entire neighborhood this night, I’m pretty sure we have the largest July4 party for miles around.

Good news this year is that there were no spontaneous fires (read last year’s post and my blog post for details.)

Bad news this year is that it’s RAINY which kind of spoils the fun. NOT. The rain ain’t gonna stop our neighborhood from partying till midnight. In fact, I think the crowds are bigger this year.

I always remember the Fourth of July. It’s one of those highlights of the year that you can’t miss.

We got a loaner trailer for our stuff, while our own trailer is finished being made and decorated. We were packing it last night, and we must finish that today.

I’ll post from Portland.

A (Mostly) Complete OpenWRT Tutorial

Go ahead and check it out.

I had to hard reset my mac unfortunately.

The IP responsible for this crap is 117.21.241.10 most likely.

Thanks,

Darren VanBuren

(Admin)

                  “Oh look, it’s the pointy-eared bastard.”

This film was awesome, even Star Trek fans would like it. It made over 350 million world gross. Terminator Salvation has failed with no reputation to speak of. I wonder what Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will turn up. Anywho Star Trek is AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seattle doesn’t get snow very often. So I’m excited that we got some. More is predicted to come on Wednesday. So enjoy the snow on my blog. If you’re on an iPhone or iPod touch, the snow is disabled due to performance issues. I will enable it on a dedicated snow page.

Anyways, after that bump, everything was quite easy. I also made MXR work after a bit of cgi.assign magic.

To view pages as served by lighttpd (Blog or Wiki or subdomains aren’t supported) just change the port to 81 by adding :81 after the domain.

My sister goes to Evergreen City Ballet. They put on a presentation of the Nutcracker at  Auburn High School Performing Arts Center and Renton IKEA Performing Arts center.

Last year, I played the role of the bed. I was underneath the bed, which moved around the stage. So how exactly does the bed work?

The Bed is nothing fancy, just some padding on top of a wooden frame they custom built, and on casters. There is a harness and buckles to buckle the harness to. Then, the person under the bed pulls the bed.

I hopefully will find some pictures of the bed so I can show you inside the bed.

That’s it for now.

Everyone loves to freeze SpringBoard between two screens.

More details here.

* Listening to Alice’s Restaraunt on KZOK

I didn’t watch the Macy’s parade, as I didn’t want to watch Rick Astley sing his crazy song.

Also, the I’m at my grandma’s house with the family. My cousin’s grandpa says hi.

I’ve had no problems so far. Installing wireless was one click. Same for flash.

So I’m going to continue setting that machine up.

This is the 60th post on OKS Blog

Apparently, in World History class, we were doing a crossword that had to do with European Exploration and Colonization of the World. One of the questions on the cross word was:

11 (Across): Hernando Cortez conquered which Mexican tribe in 1521?

We already knew that the second letter was a “Z”, but didn’t know the answer. In fact, I didn’t even read the question. This one guy, by the name of Reggie, asked me what the answer to 11 Across was. I looked at the row and made up the word “Ezbco”. It doesn’t make sense that Hernando Cortez conquered the Ezbco tribe, but Reggie actually believed it. He even asked the teacher if the answer was “Ezbco”. At that point I broke into an uncontrollable laughter that lasted ten minutes.

Hernando Cortez conquered the Aztecs.

I made up other words for some of the crossword answers like “Macon” (Question was “Which port did Columbus sail from?”). They actually believed me a few times even though they knew they fell for the first one.

Peace out,

Ha ha!!!

–Jeff

UPDATE:

I did a Google search on “Ezbco” and guess what? It searched, and our blog was the FIRST ONE on its list of results. :-O !!!

We first peeled off the shell by immersing the eggs in 90mL of vinegar for three days. When we got back, all of the shell of my egg was removed. We decided to test how hypertonic laundry detergent and VitaminWater were to the egg. We immersed four de-shelled eggs, two into each solution.

After the first day, the results were quite obvious. The eggs immersed in VitaminWater were beginning to expand because water had been moving into the cell; apparently, the concentration of water in VitaminWater was greater than it was in the egg cell. The opposite happened to the eggs immersed in laundry detergent.

When we first saw our eggs, there was a one-inch thick membrane of semi-solid laundry detergent surrounding the eggs. It made the egg take on the appearance of an embryo. Upon taking the eggs out, we realized that almost all of the laundry detergent had taken on this solid form.

We proceeded to wash our eggs and our hands, but had no idea that the laundry detergent was notoriously difficult to wash off our hands.

When we examined the eggs, the surface was wrinkly and calluses were starting to form. But this would compare to nothing as we observed the next day. It was the first day’s results, ten times worse. The egg’s membrane had become so loose that we could lift the egg by the membrane and shake its contents around. The calluses were so abundant that the membrane had become a thick wall of bumps. On the other hand, the eggs immersed in VitaminWater were filled with the orange liquid and looked like they were ready to burst.

Eventually, we popped our eggs. Unlike some, where the contents exploded out of the hole, ours leaked out slowly. We had to squeeze our eggs to get the contents out. What was left was a membrane that I swore could have been converted into a small sack for storing things.

Never repeat this experiment, unless you want your hands to have a gooey feel and if you want to see what I mean by a one-inch thick membrane of semi-solid laundry detergent. I don’t think you would want to try this, considering that all my classmates cringed at the sight of my egg.

Peace out,
Deathgleaner

Not intended to be mean or condescending.

Biased, you could say that.

At the time of posting this blog, I discovered that the site admin changed the theme. Now the CSS or whatever runs really slowly, even when I’m using Firefox 3.0.4 on a Mac PPC. JavaScript would be a better alternative for adding effects to this webpage, including that pop up navbar you will see if you scroll down the page.

One of my friends by the name Dylan has a blog at www.conduitzone.com. He uses Joomla (whatever that may be) and enhances his page with JavaScript and Google Ads just for the purpose of earning money. His site runs just fine and smooth, except for the fact that it is quite slow to load.

Overall, the theme and asthetics of this blog are great, but needs some improvement on the code and technical part. Also, the “Log In” link could be a little more conspicous, I had to use the word find to find the link, which was hiding in the “Meta” section.

Since this topic is highly controversial for some people, everyone is welcome to post their comments about this and the Onekopakaspace Blog.

I hope to see many improvements being made in the near future.

Peace out,

Deathgleaner (aka mbg.gold)

OPINION ADDENDUM:

November 22, 2008 @ 3:14:15pm

The column on the right is sometimes very lengthy. At the end of some posts, it extends about a mile down the page, leaving a football field of blank space. The site admin needs to trim off some of that fat (no offense).

November 25, 2008 @ 12:40:09pm

I see that the theme has changed. now, the background is static. Good Idea. it just makes your blog run even slower.

UPDATE: The Belkin router is gone!

I’m new to this blogging thing but Darren says it’s fun. And I’m not really a Colonel, I just like the Air Force. Another thing: Vote for Obama!

• A kid held up a sign saying “OBAMA BIDEN 2008″
• Another kid held up a sign saying “MCCAIN PALIN 2008″. Gross.
• My friend by the name of Tyrone said that McCain would die in office and Palin would take over
• There has been much discussion about the election. All of my friends are voting for Obama

Please remember that Election Day is November 4th this year. If you are registered, don’t forget to vote!

And vote for Obama if you don’t want a president to get Alzheimer’s in office.

Change for the better.

Peace out,

Geoffrey Liu

ELECTION DAY UPDATE:

People are beginning to wear their campaign shirts and signs, I’ve seen equal numbers of both. After school, there was this huge crowd with Obama and McCain supporters all arguing about how good each of their candidates are. I have never seen anything like that.

According to CNN, Obama has won the presidential election. Good thing otherwise our country would get a lower average IQ (John McCain does not promote science) and McCain would have a heart attack if he jumped up and down because he won.

Apparently, a few Winblows lovers are arguing that WinBLOWS is better than the Mac OS. I strongly disagree with them however. But, this one kid who’s my friend has a bunch of reasons why a Windows is better. All these reasons seem very controversial to what I’ve heard:

• “Windows Vista has better security…I once hacked my parents’ Mac. It was so easy to hack their Mac.”
• There are no admin privileges on Macs
• There’s better software for Windows

Only my other friend, who has a MacBook, and I know the REAL truth: Macs are better than winblows.

11-13-08 UPDATE: From my user talk page on Wikipedia-

At a recent forum, Ubuntu, Mac, and Vista were all put to the test of some of the worlds more skilled hackers to find a way into a up-to-date system. The mac box lasted a little over 10 minutes. The windows box hadn’t been cracked by the time the exercise was over.

Macs are pretty, like flowers. Windows is functional, like a set of cutters. Treat the cutters poorly, and they’ll rust and go blunt. Treat them well, and they’ll cut the head off your flowers any day. Doesn’t matter how you treat the flowers though, they’re gonna die eventually

That was quite surprising. Please see my user talk…

Now, on to the Chrome part.

Google Chrome, Google’s new open source browser, only for Windows (as of this writing) looks cool.

I’m just writing about Chrome right now because I’m now actually on a Windows machine. You most likely know that I stick with OS X Leopard or Linux. But, Google hasn’t gotten those done yet. So I have to deal with *shudder* Windows to use Chrome.

Chrome is fairly fast, and has a fair amount of animation (like closing, opening and switching tabs). Also, it was fast to setup.

I plan to use Chrome on Mac anad Linux as soon as they come out.

One annoying thing is that there’s no adblocking. Google, I know you make money off those ads, but please incorporate adblocking into  Chrome for the next release.

So, that’s it for this post. You have fun browsing the Internet (or crawling for those bots) but stay safe. (Use a REAL browser to look at that pr0n)

So what do you think? Is Quartz Renderman’s lost cousin? Seeing as that Pixar has always used Steve’s platform, it very well may be.

Photosynth, Microsoft’s new project which allows you to map out 3D space simply by putting together pictures.

When I went to the website (www.photosynth.net), I clicked one of the “synths”. I got this message:

Unfortunately, we’re not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.

I was running Firefox 3.1a2pre (i built it from hg!) on Mac OS X Leopard.

I also spoofed as Firefox 3.0 on Linux and it says the exact same thing.

Freddie is an expert bike rider, and can do all sorts of tricks and stunts, like ride his bicycle with no hands. But the one thing he can’t do is comb his hair while riding his bicycle, as he tried to do one day. Why can’t Freddie do this?

I have discovered two possible answers. You can try this brain teaser yourself!

Proof: I searched for ‘site:oks.verymad.net onekopakaspace’ on Live Search and Google. Here are the results pages:

Live Search

Google

UPDATE: The reason Google doesn’t crawl my site is because they don’t have FreeDNS DNS entries. Unfortunately, I only have FreeDNS subdomains.

So, add a comment if you want Google to retrieve FreeDNS DNS entries! (If you don’t, explain in a lengthy 2 paragraph comment that has no grammar or spelling errors)

You acknowledge that the Covered Code is not intended for use in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation, communication systems, or air traffic control machines in which case the failure of the Covered Code could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.

Kind of strange.

Any litigation or other dispute resolution between You and Apple relating to this License shall take place in the Northern District of California.

Home field advantage!

UPDATE: Web Pages DO work. Here is a sample I just published.

UPDATE 2: You can access the webapps but right now they fail.

UPDATE 3: The webapps are a bit better now, but still have issues.

it’s filed as rdar://problem/5923005 for the special Apple crowd with access to Radar reports.

The technical description of this bug is here.

There is also a 33 year old UNIX bug. It’s a buffer overflow bug. It’s technical description is here. As far as I know, there is no Radar report. But I wouldn’t know.

Anyways, let me know if you guys like this theme (add a comment) and we’ll decide if we should keep it.

UPDATE: We switched back to K2. Scrolling takes forever.

UPDATE: We switched to WicketPixie again. The scrolling problem is being fixed.

Any who: I just wanted to start a post that is to be a primer on open source.

Here’s a bug I fixed.

Happy 4th of July! This year makes the US 232 years old.

I am working on this bug and hope to have it fixed by the end of the day.

UPDATE: I had to go to 2.6-beta1 from my Time Machine Backup. Now we can use those kinds of URLs again.

I hope that this brings attention to WordPress developers, so they can fix this problem.

After much research, this bug also would affect us if we used /year/month/day/post-name.

The POS failed!

Upon scanning a DVD, the POS and Windows FAILS!

When I got there, which was after the fail, it was on the screen without the window that is shown when you’re logging on with Windows XP Pro

Then, my dad attempts to blame my mom for ‘scanning her card too early’.

But everyone knows that it’s Microsuck’s fault.

Liquidation World doesn’t though, their POS systems run a Red Hat derivative. See how smart some people are finally becoming.

Since then, I have only added music and copied some videos to it.

On to the actual review.

It’s somewhat less locked down then the RAZR in a couple ways:

• No requirement of Windows Media Player to add songs.
• Ability to add videos.
• Ability to send pictures over Bluetooth

But it’s also a bit more locked down in one way:

To change the proxy you MUST edit a hex file.

I think that is REALLY REALLY annoying.

Also, we switched to WordPress’s widget system, instead of K2′s because K2′s was all f’d up.

UPDATE: We also have scriptbot.asmcbain.net and asmcbain.net indexed.

On a lower note, our WordPress has a problem. Look at the bottom of this page. There’s a nasty PHP warning. I am upset with it too. I’ll just keep on doing svn up until it fixes itself.

On a higher note, our Trac is fixed. It also moved to /trac instead of /cgi-bin/trac. It also is running 0.12dev. 

UPDATE: WordPress was fixed. Wasn’t that fast?

mp3blaster works great. My build only does mp3 / wav, but when compiled on a different machine it can also play ogg and sid.

I am satisfied with mp3blaster’s performance. It runs nicely and can also use SDL for audio (a very good thing in my case).

I have a project that was just kickstarted into actual development.

ScriptBot was originally by AMcBain, and was pushed into our subversion repository, and development started.

If you feel that you could help this project, catch me in #bots.

This thing is about 20 times as powerful as the cheap $1 laser you would buy in a store, and it is 532nm ( green) so it is much more visible than a red pointer.
Here’s the features: (* means it is advertised to do this, but I haven’t gotten around to trying this, and in some cases, don’t have something to try it on.)

• Beam is visible in a medium-light room.
• Stings bare skin. *
• Makes rubber smoke and leaves the rubber scorched.
• Lights matches. *
• Goes for miles. *
• Pops balloons. *
• Etches plastic. (with lenses)
• Looks damn cool!

More to come later

And i’ll do it later.

Note: The champions’ names will remain undisclosed until further notice. We will refer to the winner of the winner’s bracket as Player 1 and the winner of the loser’s bracket as Player 2.

In the first game, Player 2 beat Player 1, and because this was Player 1′s first loss, the two had to battle each other again. This, as Player 2 would say, would be “a battle to the death”. After the game, we weren’t so sure if that final game really was.

In the opening of the second game, Player 1 was white and Player 2 was black. Player 1 opened by moving a pawn two spaces forward. Player 2 mirrored the move, so to speak. This continued with a few other moves. The knights were out, taking pawns and anything in their zigzag path. Then, Player 1 mobilizes his queen, and brings it out. Player 2 starts moving his pawns out, forming a discontinuous line of pawns. This lead to Player 2 being put in check by the opponent’s queen. By this time, both players have most of their pawns out. Player 2 sets up a queen-for-queen trade, quite a risky move. All of a sudden out of nowhere, Player 1 realizes he has a pawn at the other end of the board and promotes that pawn to a second queen. Despite the unexpected pawn promotion, Player 1 keeps walking his pawns. By this time, all of Player 2′s pieces are huddled in a corner (except for an out lier pawn), while Player 1′s pieces cover the whole board. The game suddenly ends when Player 1 puts Player 2 in checkmate with two queens and a bishop. There wasn’t even much of an endgame.

I will ponder over this while I sleep..

UPDATE: NAH!!!

“Internet Explorer is a piece of crap, and has decided to close on you.”

“00x000x00 – Unreferenced decision to close.”

“Kernel Panic – Woah! You ugly freak!”

Here is an example:

That has been cached so it doesn’t have to everytime that is loaded, call for latex, then dvipng.

I will be adding a math tag to the forums, which are here.

Update: The forums now are SMF which doesn’t allow custom BBCode.

<meta name=”generator” content=”Adobe GoLive” />
<title>Your Website</title>

At Cedar River Montessori School, there where some Macs from the Classic era. They had SimCity, and that was what they were used for. That was a very long time ago, about early 2000s. They ended being stored in a barn, where I would never see them again….

Fast-forward to December 25, 2007. That was the day I got my Mac Mini. I love it. It runs programs waaaaay faster than my Crapsta laptop.

It has died once and recently came back to life. Now you’ve been SERV’D! by it. (or him. Yes, it is a him, technically speaking. see here. It’s related because the mac is on irc.mozilla.org in #oksw, #mac, #bots, #classicrock, #shoutcast, and #astronomy as okswbot.)

But now this mac is your master.

svn co svn://theoks.net/tichat2/trunk tichat2trunk

Please note that TICHAT2 REQUIRES Omnicalc.

Seriously, who ever heard of a category cloud?

Tags are shorter, and you can apply more than one to a post.

A snapshot of what the Firefox Tinderbox looked like.

Look how long it takes Windows to build!

Linux could probably build 5 times in the time Windows takes to build once.

OS X could do at least 3 builds.

Update: Comments are closed on this fucking microtards.

Yes, it’s Classic Rock.

It may have been forgotten but now it’s making a come back!

The station ’round here (Seattle, WA) is KZOK. 102.5 MHz FM.

They also have an HD Radio channel.

1. It’s not open source.
2. It’s by Microsoft.
3. It’s not simple.

So that’s why I made the campaign against it.

(Silverlight: Ruin the Web button will go here.)

I only have it so I can use sites that require it.

Here’s to an open-source clone!

“We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo! and the market as a whole. Our goal in pursuing a combination with Yahoo! was to provide greater choice and innovation in the marketplace and create real value for our respective stockholders and employees,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft.

“Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal,” said Ballmer.

“We have a talented team in place and a compelling plan to grow our business through innovative new services and strategic transactions with other business partners. While Yahoo! would have accelerated our strategy, I am confident that we can continue to move forward toward our goals,” Ballmer said.

“We are investing heavily in new tools and Web experiences, we have dramatically improved our search performance and advertiser satisfaction, and we will continue to build our scale through organic growth and partnerships,” said Kevin Johnson, Microsoft president for platforms and services.

See here for more detail.

Mind you yesterday was the release day for the game.

There was at least 25 copies of the game still available!!!

Well, haven’t put the disk our Wii yet. We’ve looked at the manual and played around with the Wii wheel.

One funny part is:

Peter: I too will be abstinient. I’ll be as untouched as the turn signal in an Asian woman’s car.

Asian Woman: How much turn signal I need to cut across eight lane? None? I turn now! Good luck everyone!

[Asian Woman's car hits several cars and an oil tanker which explodes.]

Then there’s the angry German kid.

(Translated) Angry German Kid – Correct Translation

bugs.webkit.org:

BSD is for people who love UNIX. Linux is for those who hate Microsoft.
“XML is like violence: if it doesn’t solve your problem, you aren’t using enough of it.” – Chris Maden
UNIX is user friendly, it just picks its friends carefully.
Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support it for life. — Michael Sinz
Get me a 16-inch rotary debugger (extra cheese)
Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user!
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. – Dennis Ritchie
khtml/html/htmlparser.cpp:998: // support for really broken html. Can’t believe I’m supporting such crap (lars)

the above quip is true. at line 998, it really says that. See here for proof.

bugzilla.mozilla.org:

“…One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them…” JRR Tolkien
“640K ought to be enough for anyone.” – Bill Gates, 1981
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
“Is an IDONTCARE resolution in Bugzilla too much to ask?” — pavlov@pavlov.net
“Houston, we have a problem…” — James Lovell, Apollo 13
“Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free” — Linus Torvalds
+++OUT OF CHEESE ERROR: REDO FROM START+++
303 Keyboard error, press F1 to continue.
404. File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
How could I break the Mac? I don’t even BUILD on the Mac!
A Communicator access a day helps keep micro$oft’s fury at bay…
And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of
vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall
be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of
days.- Mozilla, 12:10
Area = Pi*r^2 — No no!! Pie are round, cornbread are square!
Do I have to pay the RIAA licensing fees for music I have stuck in my head?
Don’t make me bust a CAPS LOCK on your ASCII!!!
ERROR IN BRAIN.VXD: Thought Halted
Hey, can I use “background-colour:” in my stylesheets?
How to make COBOL a great language? Remove “OBOL”.
How to make COBOL a great language? Select “COBO” then Type “Per”.
Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No-one hears your screams.

Well, I’m done.

If you need more funny quips:
bugzilla.mozilla.org quips
bugs.webkit.org quips

Now, I unlocked Sonic, and Green Hills Zone.

After I finished SSE, there was like 12 things that popped up!

Anyways, it was very fun to play SSE. I’m not very good. I’m gonna start doing online play.

My Friend Code is: 1590-4739-1831

Please post your friend code in a comment.

Yes, it hurts.