Wahhhhhh?

Nothing makes me feel older than the death of the people I grew up watching

Geez...

Stupid Apache2 on Leopard!

IMG_1157, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I finally got my dev server up and running....

I'm writing this because nobody had anything remotely helpful...

Turns out what I was doing wrong is not adding my external IP address to the apache httpd.conf file -_-;

Just adding ServerName "myIpAddressNotYours" got the IP to show the page in my Sites folder...

Oh and adding

'<'Directory "/Users/Cesar/Sites">'
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
'<'/Directory">"

'<'VirtualHost *:80'>'
DocumentRoot "/Users/Cesar/Sites"
ServerName localhost
'<'/VirtualHost'>'

to the *.conf file got everything to run smoothly...

Just in case anyone out there runs into the problem of Leopard only giving you the Apache welcome page for your IP and the User welcome page for the user...

No really, just edit the httpd.conf in the apache2 directory and the and your user conf file in the users folder of the apache2 directory and it should work.

Oh, and don't forger to set up the port forwarding on your router :3

There's A Reason Arcana Heart Is The Titular Character

Picture 2, originally uploaded by thecat16.

"Sometimes I wonder just what I should write in this thing." is what I've been thinking every time I started to think of a topic to write about.
Due to this, and finals, I slacked off and read some manga.

There's this series called Genshiken that tells the story of a club not really focused on anything in particular but at the same time dedicated to what should be called Modern Visual Culture. This of course means an extreme interest in anything that would get one labeled a weeaboo 'round these parts. Save for the video game aspect.

Near the end of the series, when discussing the possibility of Ogiue-san releasing a Yaoi Dojinshi, she asks " Do I really want to show the world all my sick and twisted fantasies?"

That line made me pause and think.
Not so much as in 'how much of an innuendo does this project' but more of 'what kind of message does this convey about me?'

This brought back the memories of my parents asking me what was up the characters on my folder, or why it was called Hotmail or what did the character in the background image represent. Since my room doesn't have a door, it's hard to keep things out in the open without being questioned about them. Like getting a package in the mail (so much for surprise mother's day gift), or holding a conversation over SMS ("Oh, someone is highly sought after today!"). Hell, I can't even type without raising some kind of concern ("Oh, who are you chatting with?").

I guess this is one of the reasons why I never learned to draw properly. Can't really shut myself up in my room and draw all day if I don't have a door now, can I?

Guess instead of expecting to hearing praise, all I expect to hear is ridicule.

*sigh*

Some times I wonder if that fear is what holds me back of my more creative projects.

Then again, I'm rather grateful since it's helped me avoid being mistaken for a tasteless anime fanboy >.<


As for opening up in regards to hobbies, I'm not sure I can that so freely. I mean, the anime and manga consumption is really due to their entertainment value in terms of how situations play out. Like listening to two storytellers tell the same story. It will come out differently. I like to learn from stuff like that.

And as for the whole thing with Mai, I don't care what any y'all say. She's the best fighter in KOF and if only Capcom vs. SNK 2 wasn't broken, everyone would know that, AND IT'S NOT THE BOOBS, SO DROP THAT ACCUSATION!!

I AM BOSS

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Been a while since I've written in this thing and I've been a bit happier since. Sadly, I'm in need of rest that I don't get since I'm usually up until 2am reading -_-'
I really should sleep earlier but all of you that know me well enough know I don't put down a story until I finish it or I pass out :P
Same thing happens with coding projects >.<

School wise I've been getting better. My Unix class has been more than I could ask for in how fun it's been. The group I'm in has been consistently getting over 90/100 points on our weekly assignments and the running gag that we're composed of Awk guy, Sed guy and Hot Project Manager keeps us in good spirits.
Matrix theory is getting to be a bit more fun. Especially since the prof gives a quiz every Monday so it pushes me to study over the weekend and it points out where I'm lacking in my studies. I'm not perfect but at least this way I'm not completely incompetent.
But my Pols 250 class that deals with politics at a somewhat global level has me a bit tuckered out. It's at ten in the morn and with me staying up late reading, I either get there late or not at all. Yeah, yeah, I should be whacked upside the head for doing crap like that but on the bright side the midterm, final and all the assignments are written assignments that only require me to be there if I can't answer the guiding questions on the syllabus.

Work... well, work is work. I'll leave it at that.

Been teaching Danny how to drive stick shift and that's been an adventure all on its own. Especially since it's been a whole two months and he still doesn't have it down -_-'
What makes matters worse is that he's proud to be the most incompetent student I've had.

Went out with Vy the other day and in the confusion of who was going where and at what time I went to Ranch Market to check if the Hello Boss was on sale since I needed drinks with which to stuff the mini-fridge in the youth room and, well, the cans were on sale at 5 for $2 so I picked up three cases :X
I mentioned this to Vy who didn't really care since she started work as a barista as had been force to drink coffee all day. This amused me since coffee has the opposite effect on her so poking and prodding was employed in the attempt to wake her up. That didn't help much since I found out she's not ticklish... so it's like "crap, I have a weakness she doesn't"

I really have to find something to annoy her with cause so far she's winning >.<

It's all YOUR fault Mr. Martin!!!

IMG_0950.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I managed to get a copy of the NNWKA program err... application from Em by pointing out that having a pop-up file chooser is possible in around 8 or 10 lines, depending on where you put the curly braces.

Anyway, I started to look at where I would put the code (somewhere in one of the custom FileReader files) and, well... I think I was going through that code at around 30 WTF/min :P

So I asked him if I could rewrite it since, well, the code just bothered me and it seemed well within my abilities.

And so I trudged. Two weeks later and I only have two bugs to fix. One being a "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space" and the other with exporting the contents of the HashMap to a readable (sort of :P) CSV in a timely manner (read: FAST).

The first one is easily fixed, conceptually anyway, by increasing the buffer size. But that will only let you get away with so much so the real solution would be to make it a loop in order to handle the amount of data...

The second one though.... I dunno. I've been at it for the past 4 days with no solution to the bottleneck.
Seriously, that's the only different between his code and mine. The speed.

And it's driving me nuts.

If it wasn't for the fact that this needs to be closed source I'd write it in PERL!!! YOU HEAR ME MARTIN?!!! PERL!!!

On the bright side, the code looks like code now, and acts like Object Oriented code should. Which means I ran into the problem of Generics. I really though I'd never have this problem up until I had to rearrange how stuff was getting read off the HashMap which mind you, is getting read out 3 objects deep ~\(-_-).

So yeah, my first productive contribution to a program not developed for a class -no class I'm in anyway- and I feel a bit happy about that. Just the notion that yes, I CAN code albeit in just one language, but it's the logic that counts.

I really like the concept that Em thought up for this and its purpose so I'm gonna develop this app for the time being. It'd be easier to know which way it was going if I had the dev notes that Em though up so I would know what to plan ahead for, or at least start working on. He was supposed to gimme a copy of it last week or so but he's been busy making the new PSA for HNAP along with the presence at ITP's Winter Show

I think the next part that I'll edit, once it's up and running properly, is to change the way stuff if being read in. ByteBuffer is nice and all, but Scanner is all the rage these days and ever so useful for adding in stuff from files. But then again, I've never dealt with having to read in data in these large quantities.



But yeah... I'm gonna write a Perl version.

Then a GUI for it.

Then a C++ version of just for kicks :D

Yes, I Would Open An Account...

DSC00015.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

If only it wasn't with Bank of America.

Bigger, Faster, Stronger

IMG_0938.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I put in a new drive into Aya-chan in order to replace the 80GB Seagate that had failure reports.

Wound up splitting it into two partitions. One with OSX Leo-pard and the other with XP.

The restore went rather well, I was up and running in around 4 hours times due to having to re-format the bloody drive twice.

Anyway, the old drive went into an enclosure and following my naming guidelines is now named Shinobu.

Also, I swapped the 300GB SATA I had lying around in the house into the tower so I could bring home the other 250GB PATA that was in the tower at church. Filled it up with the stuff in the SATA and brought it home.