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Eric Mesa | February 29, 2008
My Vietnamese Zodiac program is on the first page of Google when you search for the term! In fact, that about 24 people have come to my site looking for that from a search engine as of 29 February! That’s exciting because I know a lot of people don’t look past the first [...]
Eric Mesa | February 28, 2008
It’s been a little delayed and it’s long in coming, but FreeBSD 7.0 is out now! They’ve made a LOT of updates over the 6.0 series; most importantly they’ve done a lot of work on the SMP kernel. SMP is what you use if you have more than one processor in your computer [...]
Eric Mesa | February 27, 2008
I forgot to post this about 1 or so weeks ago when I finsihed up the script. So here’s how the output looks on my flickr views program:
Now my next step is to put it on the web. However, the Python API I’m using doesn’t do web-based program authentication. It also doesn’t [...]
Eric Mesa | February 24, 2008
My excitement over Flock has faded a bit. It’s a bit bloated. I understand, because of the software involved in Flock’s features, why Flickr is so slow. However, Flickr is one of the sites I visit more often than any other, so I need it to go fast. Right now I [...]
Eric Mesa | February 22, 2008
At first I used Internet Explorer because we had a free trial of MSN. Then we switched to MCI, who used Netscape (although you could also use IE) and I mostly used Netscape. I think this was around Netscape 4 or 5. I really liked Netscape A LOT and used it almost to the exclusivity [...]
Eric Mesa | February 19, 2008
I’ve had this rhetorical question in my mind for quite some time now. There was a time, not too long ago, when the Iraq War dominated the news. Not only that, but people were protesting. Remember Cindy Sheehan who was camped outside Bush’s house in Texas and leading all these anti-war rallies. About four months [...]
Eric Mesa | February 18, 2008
I’ve always been a bookworm and so around the age of 11 or 12 I asked all my male and female friends whether they would vote for a black man or a white woman for president. Everyone, male and female alike would always say black man. I was surprised that the ladies didn’t stick up [...]
Eric Mesa | February 13, 2008
So, thanks to a problem I had with rigging up Nick in “Sugar“, I’ve temporarily lost interest in animation. This happens to me all the time, and I think I’ve mentioned it before in previous blog posts that I’m too lazy to look up before that I tend to gain and lose interest in my [...]
Eric Mesa | February 12, 2008
After a light window manager roundup in the latest LXF (Issue #103) I decided to give IceWM another shot. I had looked at it once before and found it to both be bare and lacking any programs in the IceWM->Programs menu. It loaded up ridiculously fast, which was nice. Unfortunately, for some strange reason, loading [...]
Eric Mesa | February 8, 2008
In celebration of the new year, and to solve a problem that I explain on the page, here’s a program to figure out which Zodiac animal corresponds to each year:
Vietnamese Zodiac
I’m still working some kinks out such as the fact that unicode is currently not working on my blog so depending on whether I’m testing [...]
Eric Mesa | February 5, 2008
I was writing a GUI for Pydvdauthor, my program for creating DVDs on Linux from an MPEG file. I wrote this in order to help me create the XML files necessary for dvdauthor. Here’s what the GUI looks like right now:
I updated the project on freshmeat, but they haven’t updated my main page [...]
Eric Mesa | February 4, 2008
Whenever you’re working with the file directory structure or with text in general, you can’t do any better than using the command line. For example, I was recently copying a bunch of files off of some old CDs because I was noticing that they were starting to develop bit-rot. (I couldn’t access all the files [...]
Eric Mesa | February 3, 2008
So, to wrap up a review I started a long time ago.
So I took a good look at the files and I had an xvid at 704×400 (I cropped a little) and an ogg theora with 720×480 resolution. Generally speaking, the ogg theora had much better audio/video sync. Throughout the entire film, [...]
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