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~ Iain
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Aha! Here comes a New Post!
Hi, this is Iain Again.
Yes, I'm still alive and well... Much better than this blog is.
However, I'll be reviving this blog if I have readers and a reason to... Anyways, I'm just about to move to a new, bigger, better blog.
I'm going to write about my experance with Linux Today.
Now, for those of you who don't know, I recently switched from Windows XP to Linux Full-Time.
Its been nice. I'll go through a quick list of pros and cons.
Pros:
I still have all my windows document accessable by linux, and its still there if I need to boot into it.
I also had a few problems getting the right configuraltion for my dual-screens, but it was nt that bad.
WINE was able to get all the Flash loaders for school applications I needed working, which is good.
Sound was horrible to configure for Wimba, which wasn't really made to work with linux that well... Had to force the default drivers to headphones instead of speakers, not bad... would have been easy without USB headphones.
I don't game or watch many videos on my computer, (work work work... Isn't that what DVD players and Wiis are for?)...
Support for APTANA (Code Editor for Websites) was great and I've had little or no problems since.
- Iain.
Yes, I'm still alive and well... Much better than this blog is.
However, I'll be reviving this blog if I have readers and a reason to... Anyways, I'm just about to move to a new, bigger, better blog.
I'm going to write about my experance with Linux Today.
Now, for those of you who don't know, I recently switched from Windows XP to Linux Full-Time.
Its been nice. I'll go through a quick list of pros and cons.
Pros:
- Faster
- Better- Looking (compiz effects and gnome)
- More applications
- Cost Less
- Firefox all the way!
- Open Office is Great
- No Crashes Anymore!
- UI is great!
- No Viruses - Root Permissions
- You need to troubleshoot to get some stuff working like:
- Sound, Dual Screen, Sleep.
- Command Line - Either Love it or not, although most things can be configured without it, it makes many things a lot easier if you get used to it.
- Limited Proprietary Application Support... (same for macs too)
- No Photoshop :(
I still have all my windows document accessable by linux, and its still there if I need to boot into it.
I also had a few problems getting the right configuraltion for my dual-screens, but it was nt that bad.
WINE was able to get all the Flash loaders for school applications I needed working, which is good.
Sound was horrible to configure for Wimba, which wasn't really made to work with linux that well... Had to force the default drivers to headphones instead of speakers, not bad... would have been easy without USB headphones.
I don't game or watch many videos on my computer, (work work work... Isn't that what DVD players and Wiis are for?)...
Support for APTANA (Code Editor for Websites) was great and I've had little or no problems since.
- Iain.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
42nd Post
It doesn't seem like it, although this is, indeed, my 42nd post. Yippe!. However, I am glad that it is warming up here and I am getting outside playing - working in the yard!
However, I have a new project to advertise from beta.codejoust.com and that is the Moodle Stylizer, which styles Moodle to a nice blue color. Tell me what you think, any color scheme changes, or anything else that might be of consequence.
TaTaForNow!
~finis
However, I have a new project to advertise from beta.codejoust.com and that is the Moodle Stylizer, which styles Moodle to a nice blue color. Tell me what you think, any color scheme changes, or anything else that might be of consequence.
TaTaForNow!
~finis
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Possibility for 1 Page Reference Dictionary
I might be making a program this weekend that will pull information from
1. Wikipedia 2. Bible Gateway 3. Webster Dictionary.
After this, you have the possibility to select information, then copy and paste that information and citations.
Tell me what you think in the comments.
1. Wikipedia 2. Bible Gateway 3. Webster Dictionary.
After this, you have the possibility to select information, then copy and paste that information and citations.
Tell me what you think in the comments.
Monday, January 19, 2009
HTML Text Generator for Wimba Classrooms
A new, working, and revised version of the HTML Text Generator can be found at beta.codejosut.com.
Tell me what you think about it.
Tell me what you think about it.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Comp. II Assigment - Movie Review : Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
In the fourth movie of the Indiana Jones series, Harrison Ford once again stars as Indiana Jones. This movie has high expectations due to the excellent reputation of the previous Indianan Jones movies. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is directed by Steven Spielberg and its script is written by George Lucas. Set in the 1950's, the movie opens in the Nevada dessert. Soviet agents force Indiana Jones into a heavily guarded US hangar. They were trying to find an artifact with seemingly great powers. Then both the Soviets and Indiana Jones escape. Indiana Jones then starts his journey around the world in a wild goose chase looking for a crystal skull of great power in competition with the Soviets. In the beginning of his journey, he meets “Mutt Williams”, acted by Shia LaBeouf. He a feisty character who helps him in his chase to find the Crystal Skull.
The movie has many classic Indiana Jones themes. Yet, it does not compare with the original brilliance in the first three movies. For instance, there was only one snake scene. Yet, there were many encounters of spooky creatures. The special effects in the movie were well done. The special effects in the final climax were well done, making the unbelievable look believable. The unbelievability of many of the scenes made the movie even more exciting. The moving stone defenses and contraptions were brilliant. They added to the excitement, but they did not become the focus.
The good and the bad characters were well defined from the start. There were not many surprises regarding what side the characters were on. There was almost no conflict between the characters and no fatal dilemmas. The story and plot were very shallow in terms of character conflict, unlike the previous Indiana Jones movies. The plot mostly served as a buildup to the final, exciting climax, but not for a buildup of conflicts and ideas.
However, Harrison Ford's acting of Indiana Jones was well done. He was able to keep much of the contrast between his life as a professor and his life as a adventurous archaeologist. He also played the part as an older Indiana Jones quite well. He didn't overact the role of being an old Indiana Jones. However, the role of Mutt Williams was not well done. In the beginning of the movie, he was a young man in the city, then, as it progresses, he becomes much like Indiana Jones without any progression. However, Cate Blanchett’s acting the role of the evil Dr. Irina Spalko, was well done. In the movie, she accurately portrayed the traits of a ruthless, sharp, and determined stereotypical Soviet.
The editing and score of the movie added to the suspense. The classic Indiana Jones theme song showed up when he was victorious. The editing was not overdone, but the movie moved rather quickly. The scenes should have been longer and built up more conflict and ideas.
This movie has the typical Indiana Jones violence and scary scenes. The Soviets were ruthless, and they did not mind killing others. There were plenty of guns, handguns in the movie were used a tool for threatening, and the machine guns fired everywhere but rarely hit their target. There was a lot of fist fighting and fencing. As in all of the Indiana Jones movies, there were a plethora of scary scenes and creatures, and this movie is no exception.
Overall, the movie was a good continuation of the series, but there was nothing outstanding in regard to the story. It is worth seeing as a good adventurous follow up to the Indiana Jones series. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a great action adventure, however, I wish it would have had a better plot and conflict between characters.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Review
In the fourth movie of the Indiana Jones series, Harrison Ford once again stars as Indiana Jones. This movie has high expectations due to the excellent reputation of the previous Indianan Jones movies. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is directed by Steven Spielberg and its script is written by George Lucas. Set in the 1950's, the movie opens in the Nevada dessert. Soviet agents force Indiana Jones into a heavily guarded US hangar. They were trying to find an artifact with seemingly great powers. Then both the Soviets and Indiana Jones escape. Indiana Jones then starts his journey around the world in a wild goose chase looking for a crystal skull of great power in competition with the Soviets. In the beginning of his journey, he meets “Mutt Williams”, acted by Shia LaBeouf. He a feisty character who helps him in his chase to find the Crystal Skull.
The movie has many classic Indiana Jones themes. Yet, it does not compare with the original brilliance in the first three movies. For instance, there was only one snake scene. Yet, there were many encounters of spooky creatures. The special effects in the movie were well done. The special effects in the final climax were well done, making the unbelievable look believable. The unbelievability of many of the scenes made the movie even more exciting. The moving stone defenses and contraptions were brilliant. They added to the excitement, but they did not become the focus.
The good and the bad characters were well defined from the start. There were not many surprises regarding what side the characters were on. There was almost no conflict between the characters and no fatal dilemmas. The story and plot were very shallow in terms of character conflict, unlike the previous Indiana Jones movies. The plot mostly served as a buildup to the final, exciting climax, but not for a buildup of conflicts and ideas.
However, Harrison Ford's acting of Indiana Jones was well done. He was able to keep much of the contrast between his life as a professor and his life as a adventurous archaeologist. He also played the part as an older Indiana Jones quite well. He didn't overact the role of being an old Indiana Jones. However, the role of Mutt Williams was not well done. In the beginning of the movie, he was a young man in the city, then, as it progresses, he becomes much like Indiana Jones without any progression. However, Cate Blanchett’s acting the role of the evil Dr. Irina Spalko, was well done. In the movie, she accurately portrayed the traits of a ruthless, sharp, and determined stereotypical Soviet.
The editing and score of the movie added to the suspense. The classic Indiana Jones theme song showed up when he was victorious. The editing was not overdone, but the movie moved rather quickly. The scenes should have been longer and built up more conflict and ideas.
This movie has the typical Indiana Jones violence and scary scenes. The Soviets were ruthless, and they did not mind killing others. There were plenty of guns, handguns in the movie were used a tool for threatening, and the machine guns fired everywhere but rarely hit their target. There was a lot of fist fighting and fencing. As in all of the Indiana Jones movies, there were a plethora of scary scenes and creatures, and this movie is no exception.
Overall, the movie was a good continuation of the series, but there was nothing outstanding in regard to the story. It is worth seeing as a good adventurous follow up to the Indiana Jones series. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a great action adventure, however, I wish it would have had a better plot and conflict between characters.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Green Blog Day
For all 0f those wondering why I'm growing grass up my blog.
(if you need grass and/or code I'll be glad to provide to save the planet!)Go Polar Bears! Go Hybrids! Go Ethanol! Go Solar!(that was just a joke)
The reason it that it is green blog day- Correction, I did it for thankfulness of God's creation, and nature, so I thought that grass would fit right in.
Any more questions? Just comment.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Web Animation
Here is a proof-of-concept for an animated webpage using jQuery to animate an html page.
You can look at it here (warning, it only works in Firefox, as so far) Animation Test
You can look at it here (warning, it only works in Firefox, as so far) Animation Test
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Tagged!!! Again!
I was tagged again my Abster... so here is the quiz:
1. YOUR REAL NAME:
You know, I'm not really feeling like telling you right now, so deal with it. :)
1. YOUR REAL NAME:
You know, I'm not really feeling like telling you right now, so deal with it. :)
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus "izzle")
Ianizzle
3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color and favorite animal)
bluepanther
4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and the street you live on)
Patirck Tabrunrry
5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 2 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)
Nain
6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (color of your shirt, favorite candy or chocolate)
greenhersheys
7. YOUR JAPANESE NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, first 2 letters of your middle name, last 2 letters of your first name)
i personally feel that this is making fun of Japanese names, so i'm purposely skipping it. :) - I'm siding with Abster on this one
I'll skip the last two.
8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (both parents middle names)
Lee Anna
9. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black and the name of one of your pets)
this is just nonsense....
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Application Ideas
Does anyone have an idea for an computer application they would like?
I am getting into programming for both desktop computers and the internet, and I have enough resources, but not enough ideas...
I am getting into programming for both desktop computers and the internet, and I have enough resources, but not enough ideas...
Tagged!!!
I've been tagged by Abster!
So, here's the game :
* Go to your sixth picture folder then pick your sixth picture.
* Pray that you remember the details.
* Post it on your blog.
* Tag 5 others, leave a comment to let them know they’ve been tagged.
And I'm going to tag THEO @ http://theosphotoblog.blogspot.com
Oh, and my picture is
A poor Picture of the moon... I took it playing around with the camera.
So, here's the game :
* Go to your sixth picture folder then pick your sixth picture.
* Pray that you remember the details.
* Post it on your blog.
* Tag 5 others, leave a comment to let them know they’ve been tagged.
And I'm going to tag THEO @ http://theosphotoblog.blogspot.com
Oh, and my picture is
Monday, November 17, 2008
A Little Silly Program
Here's a little random joke applet I wrote. I hope you like it!
--CORRECTION---
You can run or download the program from this link
Java Application - JokeRoom - Iain
(it should just run... Its based on a java file, not a typical .exe)
- Iain
--CORRECTION---
You can run or download the program from this link
Java Application - JokeRoom - Iain
(it should just run... Its based on a java file, not a typical .exe)
- Iain
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Google,
What a name it is today.
They started out small as a search company and grew... and grew... and grew..., The rest is history
Recently, they have branched out from their internet search business and added some new tools. I will outline some of these tools, their benefits, and why to use then versus other tools.
The first is Gmail.
Gmail is the best webmail client in my opinion, It allows for you to access your mail using another client (outlook, thunderbird) or online, I've never received ONE piece of spam using it, and it has chat to put the cherry on top.
In comparison, Yahoo! mail only allows you to access it in your browser and their interface is rather slow and clunky compared to Gmail's lightweight and fast webmail client.
Another service is Picasa Web albums, it is a great, simple, and fast service to share photos, you do not need Picasa to use it, but having Picasa is great also. It is a simple, quick, free and efficient photo organizer.
Finally, They also have Google Reader, a browser based RSS (news feed) reader.
For this, I prefer to use My Yahoo for its superior content, but google is quickly catching up with iGoogle.
Oh, and I nearly forgot about Google Docs, an online based office alternative.
It is great for lightweight and free document work, although I do not wish to trust it with all my stuff, preferring to use Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.
I like to use it for quick email editing, web publishing (the code it exports is clean and simple) along with group document sharing. I think there are better alternatives to it though, but like most of Google's offerings, its easy, quick, and simple. (not to mention integrated with Gmail.)
They also made a good decision allowing for one google sign in to be used everywhere.
This makes it easy and fast to sign into many services, while not sharing it with other companies (I think that was one of Microsoft's Paramount mistakes with windows live id)
Oh, and I forgot to mention blogger, but I'll save that for a later date.
P.S., Chrome looks promising, but isn't anywhere near a polished brower of Firefox.
What a name it is today.
They started out small as a search company and grew... and grew... and grew..., The rest is history
Recently, they have branched out from their internet search business and added some new tools. I will outline some of these tools, their benefits, and why to use then versus other tools.
The first is Gmail.
Gmail is the best webmail client in my opinion, It allows for you to access your mail using another client (outlook, thunderbird) or online, I've never received ONE piece of spam using it, and it has chat to put the cherry on top.
In comparison, Yahoo! mail only allows you to access it in your browser and their interface is rather slow and clunky compared to Gmail's lightweight and fast webmail client.
Another service is Picasa Web albums, it is a great, simple, and fast service to share photos, you do not need Picasa to use it, but having Picasa is great also. It is a simple, quick, free and efficient photo organizer.
Finally, They also have Google Reader, a browser based RSS (news feed) reader.
For this, I prefer to use My Yahoo for its superior content, but google is quickly catching up with iGoogle.
Oh, and I nearly forgot about Google Docs, an online based office alternative.
It is great for lightweight and free document work, although I do not wish to trust it with all my stuff, preferring to use Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.
I like to use it for quick email editing, web publishing (the code it exports is clean and simple) along with group document sharing. I think there are better alternatives to it though, but like most of Google's offerings, its easy, quick, and simple. (not to mention integrated with Gmail.)
They also made a good decision allowing for one google sign in to be used everywhere.
This makes it easy and fast to sign into many services, while not sharing it with other companies (I think that was one of Microsoft's Paramount mistakes with windows live id)
Oh, and I forgot to mention blogger, but I'll save that for a later date.
P.S., Chrome looks promising, but isn't anywhere near a polished brower of Firefox.
~finis -
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Background Changer
This is not about the election, Promise!....
I've used this excellent piece of software to keep new desktop backgrounds up... mac style, but with a lot of improvements.
You can check it out at http://www.johnsadventures.com/software/backgroundswitcher/
Some of my favorite backgrounds can be downloaded in this zip file (they are from a vista photoshoot and are amazing) http://www.hamaddarwish.com/vista.html
~end
I've used this excellent piece of software to keep new desktop backgrounds up... mac style, but with a lot of improvements.
You can check it out at http://www.johnsadventures.com/software/backgroundswitcher/
Some of my favorite backgrounds can be downloaded in this zip file (they are from a vista photoshoot and are amazing) http://www.hamaddarwish.com/vista.html
~end
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The Leaves...
Redistrubtion of Wealth #1
This is not my comic, but I saw it and thought it was really funny. So I'm posting it here.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Lit RC Car
I just wired my brother's RC car with some LEDs, and I thought those of you who like RC Cars and/or LEDs may like this... Enjoy!
Monday, October 27, 2008
Favorite Lookup Site
This web service has served as my dictionary, encylopdia, thesaurus, and anything along those lines for about 3 years. This site is http://answers.com/ It aggregates Wikipedia, Webster's Dictionary, Encylopedia Brittanica, Wordnet, Thompson Gale, and many other sources into one page so you don't have to go to numerous sites to find information.
Tis' all~
Tis' all~
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