魔法少女リリカルなのは/Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Well, looks like I’m few years behind on this series.

I started watching it yesterday on YouTube and immediately fell for it.

And… Nanoha x Fate!!!! :D

Status update

I have been a little quiet lately. This is due to me trying to get Aegisub to work under Linux.

Unfortunately, both libASA and Aegisub proved to have wacky configure scripts. In case of libasa, there’s probably little work regarding NLS. In case of Aegisub…. I think a complete rewrite is the best thing. Preferably without using Autotools. (a.k.a. WTF-IS-THAT-DIRECTORY-STRUCTURE!?)

During that, I had to recompile a big amount of code, thanks to libasa requesting libexpat >=2.0.0 (which after that proved to be fake – it’s required by fontconfig which libasa uses. And which was already installed and working in valid version with the old libexpat -_-”).

Another thing is that I started to translate Sola from Japanese/English to Polish (THX to sola redist. package from Doremi – Thank you guys!). However you could say that this project is mainly to gather know-how and experience in fansubbing — don’t expect me making quick releases…. :>

Testing blogging apps, take 2: The Revenge of Emacs ;-)

Today, I stumbled about info for weblogger.el on
Emacs Wiki: WebloggerMode.

It seems that there is a change needed to fix the weird if: Wrong number of arguments: cdr, 2
error, and there’s another one in case where blog’s XML-RPC
interface supports more than is supported by weblogger.el.

Anyway, it’s nice to be able to post from Emacs… now I only need to find
how to set categories on this….

EDIT: For the time being, categories and editing existing posts doesn’t seem to work, but I’ll tinker with it… maybe I’ll make it work (Although Elisp can be scary :D)

Are all Windows firewalls retarded!?

Yes, I’ve got pissed by another piece of windows shi^Wsoftware.

This time, it was outpost firewall. In fact, I’ve been pissed by it a long time ago, and it’s getting worse. Since it’s installed on someone else’s computer, I can’t kick it out, I have to live with it.

Imagine a firewall that can’t understand that IPv4 hosts support something called forwarding, and that DNS replies aren’t portscans. Imagine software that automatically sits on every possible connection, aggresively blocking anything that doesn’t look *right* to it, without asking you about it. Why? Because it works silently in the background, and until you force it to show itself, you won’t even know it’s still working.

The last time it pissed me was when we were setting up my uncle’s newly-bought PDA. For over 2 hours we were looking WTF was wrong with ActiveSync connection. Until it dawned on me that it’s either Outpost Firewall or somebody put APIPA address range into PeerGuardian block list…. I forced Outpost to admit that connection with PDA was “trusted LAN” and it worked.

If it put any info that it blocked something we might have not lost so much time about it….

Anyway, it looks like the only firewall that I’m still willing to try is NT built-in packet filter, which in Vista Ultimate (at least, I’m not sure about other) finally has a good settings manager, which kicks ass out of that old windows firewall thing in XP.

And one last word:

No, Firewalls are not about asking you if “this and that can access internet”. A good firewall sits on every packet and checks it for validity, with the former thing being handled by Acess Authorization routines in OS (or some kind of add-on module).

I should start a page about shitty soft………

Gaijin in Japanese Parliament

After Tokyo by Night (in Polish):

Marutei Tsurunen is the first westerner in japanese parliament, since 2002. Since this blog is in English, instead of quoting his profile page, I’ll just give you a link: Marutei Tsurunen profile .

I have to say, that I consider this guy awesome to reach such a position. And it looks like he is more sensible than most of polish politicians, although this may not be true – After all, I don’t know too much about him…

What happens when you are bored?

In my case, I do quizzes/tests :-)

Which File Extension are You?

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Geek Code:
—–BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK—–
Version: 3.1
GU/O d-@s: !a C++(++++)>$ U++>++++$ P+(P—) L++>++++$ E W++(–) N+ o! K! w V>+++$ PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+@
5++ X- R !tv b+(++++) DI+ D+ G e>++++ h! !r z–(*)
——END GEEK CODE BLOCK——

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bye-bye XEmacs, welcome back, Emacs

After a long time, I switched back from XEmacs to Emacs, with the main reason behind me using XEmacs disappearing and Emacs having bigger library of elisp files. You could say that main impulse for it was Emacs-on-Rails set, which I yet have to master (as well as finally master more of Emacs keybindings).

I also remapped my keyboard under X11 so that Caps Lock and CTRL are swapped. Nice thing, but it takes time to get used. Especially when you are too lazy to remap it under console too ;-)

When I have time I’ll finish few little projects of my own and maybe start putting info about a little bigger one ;-)

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Testing blogging apps

Lately I started testing blogging apps, to be exact weblogger.el and ScribeFire

Unfortunately, only ScribeFire worked and it isn’t exactly what I’m searching for (after using Page Tools it’s hard to make it behave….).

And weblogger, while a very interesting solution, has troubles under emacs-23……

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Looks like we’ve got ourselves 梅雨 (rainy season) in Poland…

Last week was, with the exception of one day, basically constant rain here in Elbląg. So I couldn’t even finish my required ten “social hours” so I could finally begin flying in this season.

You could say that this is getting depressing and I have heard comments that this might continue for the whole July.

Peer Guardian woes

I am coming to conclusion that PeerGuardian is a shitty piece of software which does more bad than good.

First of all, Who the hell came with the idea that blocking whole ranges of IPs is a good protection method anyway? And to block them completely, instead of filtering only the important ports?

Anyway, sensible method to block traffic is to only block certain IPs (for example ones that your IDS found to be the source of attack) and to block traffic by content. Hell, for better performance one could use PG’s lists to choose which traffic to monitor, so firewall would eat less CPU….

Anyway, I’m now stuck behind Windoze box used as a Firewall, with PeerGuardian installed. Thanks god that sneaked in and disabled 2 lists so I can at least access my school’s server as well as this blog. Yes, it had even “educational” listed to block!!

So now I have to go through Tor&Privoxy tandem for example to connect with TopCoder…