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Yeah, I haven’t posted in quite a bit, and ive got a few reasons. Lately ive been reworking on a concept of CSEngine, which is a bit complicated and randomly worked on when im not playing World of Warcraft (Yeah heh…). The new model is a complex web that will be difficult for me to create, but hey, it will rock some badass sites when its done. The kernel interfacing is being written at the moment and it currently contains IPC (Inter-Process Communcation) protocol support. The kernel will be a completely independant component of CSEngine and can be used with any project that sees fit to use it. This is also the most crucical of the three layers, which are Kernel->Engine->API. The kernel will be the lowest level of functions available and only developers or smarties should use it. The engine is the core of the web frontend, and it parses everything that goes out to the browser, thus being an engine. The engine is technically speaking, more powerful than the kernel itself, being it only uses the core functions of the kernel. The API is the last and final layer and it will be available to anyone freely and it will be almost as well-kept as the kernel. The API is the direct scripting interface to the Engine, and designed for being friendly and suitable for the average widget/add-on developer. As usual, I probably won’t finish this project, but if it indeed is finished, it will be FLOSS’ed with GPL and published somewhere for anyone to play around with. 

Im pretty certain that lots of other people have gone through the same thing, over and over again. What distro should I choose, Fedora is nice but Gentoo is a pain in the ass… You’ve probably seen it and if you haven’t, you’re probably a mediocre ubuntu user. I currently use Arch linux, and am fairly happy with it. But as time moves on, Arch becomes more hellish and not user-friendly (as far as package compatibility goes). I understand the concept of rolling release, but popping a compiler that you know will screw with lots of applications to be compiled, then why isn’t it in unstable or unsupported? Its like taking the user’s feelings and shoving them in a blender. I use Hairy Hardon (If you don’t get the joke, Hardy Heron/Ubuntu) on my laptop and im fairly ok with it. It hasn’t given me near as many problems as Arch did when I first put it on this laptop. The problems wern’t the come-and-go ones either, they kept coming with each upgrade, seeming endless. So I got fed up and put Ubuntu on it. Arch has been my first distrobution since I laid hands on Linux, and is still dear to me. Although the Arch I used to know and love is long dead now, and it seems its never coming back. This saddens me because when I first started getting into linux, i didn’t want it as a ‘OMG THIS IS GONNA MAKE ME 133T HAXOR’ path, but I wanted to learn about it because it was interesting. Time consuming, but mostly interesting. I took notes. I did research. Then after a year I decided it was time to put it on a box. I still remember the box it was on, an AOpen custom 400MHz PC I got from Katrina salvage. I was estatic. Sadly, those feelings are lost, and died a good while ago. Now its still a decent distro, but like all people, you never stay with one distro. Never. You always move at some point. So now im wondering if I should take the leap and use Ubuntu, because from what I hear, Arch isn’t getting any better, and only going downhill. I don’t nessisarily LOVE Ubuntu as I once loved Arch, but ive lived with linux enough to tolerate it. If you’re a user, you don’t count. I still hate you ;). So once again begins my trek into the dilema of the distro wars.

After recent discoveries in PHP and whatnot, ive finnally decided to continue with kblog’s object conversion into a blog API. The new layout won’t use mysql as the data storage method, but XML. Using XML for the normal data storage will be easier to manipulate, restore, and backup. It has also proven to be more reliable than MySQL and does not need further setup to use. So, sit back and wait for the first 2.0 beta tarball. The beta will only contain the API’s but 2.1rc1 will contain test scripts that use the API.

Today the trial of Hans Reiser, the alledged Linux programmer who designed and coded the Open-Source filesystem Reiserfs, began. He is being charged with the murder of his 31-year-old ex-wife, Nina Reiser. After finding trace amounts of Nina’s blood in Reiser’s car they immediately locked him up in a nice concrete cell. His company, Namesys, is being sold by him to pay for legal costs (yay ebay!). This is quite an interesting trial, ive heard rumors but didn’t acually think they were true. (The original rumor was that his wife said Reiserfs sucked and he chopped her into peices). Anyway, thats it for now, Peace out ;)

 Odamex, a evergrowing Doom port, has reached the 0.3 milestone and the game wad file (odamex.wad) is now completely free. 0.3 features tons of glorious bug fixes, features, and other cool stuff. Did I mention its all open source? :P. Im also the maintainer of both the Odamex PKGBUILD and the Odamex-SVN PKGBUILD in AUR (Archlinux User Repository). The links can be found below. Happy fraggin.

Odamex

Odamex-SVN

Happy halloween! :P im going to try my best tonight to fill up my 25-30 gallon seabag full of candy :D. But ive got a treat for some Palm OS lovers who are too poor or stubborn to upgrade to a new one. When I feel like it, im going to sort 7mb (roughly my entire RAM) and upload it here for you guys to prod at. Will post a link and a list of software/installation instructions. Happy tricking :D