cloverfield is bullshit

just tried to watch this movie. It was crap. The moving camera gives me a headache and the story don't exist. It just follow these assholes and that's it.

Don't waste your time, I paid $2 for it, should have just downloaded it.

winxp sound disappeared

I was trying to install hauppage pvr150mce, a biatch of a device because it may not output sound. I install, uninstal many times, then the sound disappeared.

The solution is here:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/windows-xp-support/368757-no-sound-drivers-installed-no-conflicts-but-hardware-not-seen-software.html

this was not the site that I used but i think its the same. the part about the swenum.sys was not necessary. Just copy the machine.inf , mod the machine.inf then add new hardware.

I don't know how the hell this guy figured it out but thanks, heaps.

trying to buildroot

Boy another pain in the neck. This thing has so many build options, something is bound to go wrong, and it does. I'm still trying to build it after 3-4 days!

It has to download then all the incomplete dependencies/combo. What a nightmare.

to get past vm86:

See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235789
2008-09-09 Martin von Gagern

--- xorg-server-1.5.0.orig/hw/kdrive/vesa/vm86.h 2008-09-09 17:24:59.000000000 +0200
+++ xorg-server-1.5.0/hw/kdrive/vesa/vm86.h 2008-09-09 18:01:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@
#include "os.h"
#endif

+#ifndef IF_MASK
+#define IF_MASK X86_EFLAGS_IF
+#endif
+#ifndef IOPL_MASK
+#define IOPL_MASK X86_EFLAGS_IOPL
+#endif
+
typedef unsigned char U8;
typedef unsigned short U16;
typedef unsigned int U32;

Don't forget to add wchar (or wide char) support at the top level (and if not propergate to uClibc)
there as well. Also large file support is good too.

APE is crap again

I find that the JSF side is a little unreliable on firefox/linux (haven't tried any other combo). Sometimes (50%) it doesn't join the channel. ???

Why, donno.

Maybe I should reverse engineer anyterm. At least it's a better use of my time than this shite.

i've been hit by ... i've been hit by ... win32:vitro win32:virut

yes a smooth criminal indeed.

I have been hit by this evil virus. Reminds me of something I got ages ago and couldn't remove and had to not trust anything in my old archives until a scanner can definitely detect it. Avast is the only thing that can detect post infection but not during running as it seems to still spread even with avast running! Better than nothing. It's now doing a scan and boy basically all the exe's are infected. I'm glad there's laws for virus creators, we just have to catch the b*****d.

So now I have to do the same thing. Install windows and download everything again. I'll prolly have to zip password my new backups and sum archive a list. Man dotnet, SP3 and SFU are huge files.

at last I fixed it

After hours of reading, learning javascript, mootools, firebugging, wiresharking, ddd, gdb it works. It's exactly what I wanted but what a way to learn it. Anyways below is what I used to get a working controller demo working.

First the apache configuration. I got this from someones post, something about APE on ubuntu, see http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1847386878976174462.

Here's my apache config:
create
/etc/apache2/sites-available/ape.conf

Contents:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ape.ape-test.local
ServerAlias *.ape.ape-test.local

ProxyRequests Off
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

ProxyPass / http://localhost:6969/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:6969/

</VirtualHost>

Then run the following to enable the config
sudo a2ensite ape.conf

Then restart apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Put the demo into a directory served by apache, loading the script is another missing part.
demo.html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>

</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javaScript" src="../../Clients/mootools-core.js"></script>
<script type="text/javaScript" src="../../Clients/MooTools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javaScript" src="../config.js"></script>
<script type="text/javaScript" src="demo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javaScript">
var client = new APE.Client();
var debug=true;
client.load({
identifier: 'mailnotif',
channel: 'testchannel',
complete: function(ape){
var ape_c = new APE.Controller(ape, {container: $('ape_master_container')});
},
'scripts': APE.Config.scripts //Scripts to load for APE JSF
});
</script>
To try this demo, you need :
<ul>
<li>mod controller on APE server enabled</li>
<li>mod chat on APE server disabled</li>
<li>Set your APE server adresse in the controller/test.php</li>
</ul>
Then load this page and go to <a href="./test.php" target="_blank">controller/test.php</a> and you will see a message appear here.
<br/>
<br/>
<div id="ape_master_container" style="border:1px solid #000;padding:10px;background:#CCC;"></div>
<div id="debug"></div>
</body>
</html>

My demo.js, the join is the important missing part. It creates the channel.
APE.Controller = new Class({

Implements: [APE.Client, Options],

options:{
container: null,
logs_limit: 10
},


initialize: function(core, options){
this.core = core;

this.setOptions(options);
this.options.container = $(this.options.container) || document.body;
this.els = {};

this.onRaw('mailnotif', this.raw_data);

this.core.start();
// this.core.join('testchannel')
},
init: function() {
this.core.join('testchannel');
},

raw_data: function(raw, pipe){
new Element('div', {
'class': 'css_class',
'html': decodeURIComponent(raw.datas.value)
}).inject(this.options.container);
}

});

The ../config.js, the inclusion of mootools-core was missing as it defined the 'Class'. Also why the f*** is there 2 mootools-core? One in the Source directory and the other in Client, and they are different! Why not follow the common sense rule of using different names?
APE.Config.baseUrl = 'http://ape-test.local/jpscc/APE_JSF/Source'; //APE JSF
APE.Config.domain = 'ape-test.local'; //Your domain, must be the same than the domain in aped.conf of your server
APE.Config.server = 'ape.ape-test.local'; //APE server URL

//Scripts to load for APE JSF
(function(){
for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++)
APE.Config.scripts.push(APE.Config.baseUrl + '/' + arguments[i] + '.js');
})('mootools-core','Core/Events', 'Pipe/Pipe', 'Pipe/PipeProxy', 'Pipe/PipeMulti', 'Pipe/PipeSingle', 'Core/Core', 'Core/Utility','Core/Session');

the /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 ubuntu

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

127.0.0.1 0.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 1.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 2.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 3.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 4.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 5.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 6.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 7.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 8.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 9.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 10.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 11.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 12.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 13.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 14.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 15.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 *.ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 ape.ape-test.local
127.0.0.1 ape-test.local


Finally test.php
<?php
$ape_server = 'http://0.ape.ape-test.local';
file_get_contents($ape_server.'/?control&testpwd&testchannel&POSTMSG&mailnotif&testmsg&anticache');
echo 'Message sent!';
?>

Or if you prefer:
wget -c "http://0.ape.ape-test.local//?control&testpwd&testchannel&POSTMSG&mailnotif&hello_there&anticache"

There, that should work if I didn't miss anything. Phew all this just to scroll output from the console into a web page. APE doco and demo sucks but hope this helps you.

APE (ajax push engine) is shite

yes I was hoping to use some nifty (hopefully) asynchronous streaming using this shit but what I got was days of aggravation.

Yeah you will know something (as I have not finished yet) but from their lack of any useful documentation and their crappy demos which don't work. I'm trying to debug the bastard to see what's going on.

I'M STILL DEBUGGING!

Please god give me an alternative that does work! Somebody!