SimpleIRC Progress
As some of you know, I've been working on a rewrite of SimpleIRC. SimpleIRC is a framework of sorts for IRC client connections. The core of it is finished and can be used, but I'm also working on a bot for it that will replace the current code used for my bot on irc.freenode.net, miniE. I also plan on extending work to include actual clients that include curses, gtk, qt3 and qt4.
Right now I've had some success in getting the bot to connect and respond to commands. All I need to get done at this point is to finalize command handling and access levels, then I can continue to develop any modules needed. I'll probably bring the new code online as miniE once I get some of the neccisary commands that some of the channels he is in require. One module that I will complete before bringing the new code online is the factoids module. I will change some of the factoids functionality by enabling commands to be called throught he factoids module if no factoid exists under the specified text. This will enable people to start "talking to" the bot.
I'm also looking for reccomendations of new modules to add to miniE. I'm alread planning on supporting the current list (join #php-oop on freenode and use the command `help to see all commands) and a few new ones already planned. One of them is a bartender module, another will be a current weather lookup by area code. So if any of you have any suggestions, just leave them here or e-mail me and I'll take it into consideration!
My Weekend
Well, as usual, I had a busy weekend. This weekend we went to a festival around here that was pretty fun. We got to see a couple shows on stage, and did a lot of shopping at the flea markets and garage sales. I managed to pick up a steering wheel for my computer. It's a Thrustmaster NASCAR Pro Digital racing wheel. I'm excited since I found it for $5 at a garage sale. I also found a Playstation (yes, the first one) with a couple controllers, memory cards, and games for pretty cheap too.
Overall it was a great weekend. I only wish I had more time here at home to do a few things here, but I still had a lot of fun. Sunday the girlfriend and I went to a waterless waterfall... figure that one out. 
I've been down there before, but this time there was just no water since it hasn't rained in a while. I'll post some pictures later from there. Well, that's all for now.
My 3 Year Anniversarry
Hey all. What a weekend. Yesterday was September 7th, and for those of you who don't know, that's the day that I asked Kelsey to be my girlfriend three years ago! It really has been the best time of my life because she is everything to me!! I'm so lucky to have her, I really do feel like the luckiest guy ever!
Yesterday and the night before we went to Champaign just to celebrate, it was great. The first night we went out to eat at Applebees. The food was okay, but not horrible. We just had a great time talking and eating. Then we went to the movies and saw the new Halloween movie. That movie is awesome! I jumped a few times, haha. Next we went out and went shopping for a bit, before finishing our night up with a visit to I-Hop. Last night, we went to the mall and did some shopping. I found a couple of great t-shirts that I wanted, and we got a new light that looks like a beer mug that's constantly pouring. We then went and ate at this resturaunt we've never been at before. It's called Texas Roadhouse. The food and service was spectacular. I ordered the full slab of ribs, and they are probably the best tasting ribs I've ever had.
Overall it was a great weekend. I'm so happy that we could cellebrate our three years together! I love you Kelsey, with all my heart and soul. You mean the world to me! I LOVE YOU!!
ATI … My little horror story
Well, lately I've been having a little fun with my laptop that I got not long ago. It's served me well, and has allowed me to work from it very nicely. The video card in it is ATI, and if you know me, you know I HATE ATI. Let me just give you a general idea of how much I hate them now after having this laptop.
If I wanted to run Beryl or Compiz from Linux... I might as well forget it. Between issues with my video card drivers and their lack of OpenGL support and the pure slowness of this video card, it's nearly impossible. I had a bit of a hack going once using XGL and Beryl, but then I couldn't use two monitors (LCD & External). So it was either a single monitor and sweet effects, or two monitors and no effects. *sigh* I also had Compiz working through Xgl, but wow... it was so slow I felt like I was back on a Windows 3.1 machine waiting for notepad to open.
Now lets jump into Windows... works great, until of course I actually want to play any kind of a game. Take for example, Call of Duty. Let me just list off the requirements by the game first...
- 3D video card with 32MB of RAM
OK, great, this one has 128MB of onboard (not shared) memory, no problem, right? - 700MHz processor
Right... 2.4GHz ok? I'd hope so. - 128MB of RAM
1GB in this system, good to go.
So, everything major looks good to go, install the game, start it up... LAG. It starts up at 800x600 by default, and the game is already so choppy, I want to give up. Instead, I got online and found a couple tweaks so it was at least bearable to play... still laggy though. Apparently in Windows they didn't complete OpenGL support for this video card in their drivers either. Now I've run into another problem... trying to play my Nascar Season 2003 game... for some *weird* reason it runs "fast". Very hard to explain, but the timer counts anywhere from 1.5-3 seconds every second. When playing the game, it's like playing in fast forward... wtf?! I can't find anyone with the same issue, I can't seem to do anything to solve it. I give up.
I'm offically signing off this laptop for any use beyond travel and other neccisary use. ATI, you *suck*. You can't just make a video card, then fail to support it. The whole rundown with the linux drivers is, ATI doesn't support the full capability of the video card, so OpenGL is useless. The open source drivers don't know how to support it, so they're just as useless. In Windows, well, I can only guess how that could possibly work. Anyway, I guess my reccomendation to you would be, if you're looking for any kind of a video card (laptop or PC) ... check out nVidia. Save yourself tons of headaches, driver wise and especially performance wise... BLARGH!
I’m baaaccckkk!!
That's right bitches... I'm back! I just setup wordpress to help contridict the horrible comment/trackback spam I've been getting. I still plan on implementing my own design, and in the future, maintaining my own blog software, but right now it just isn't possible.
Anyway, just though I'd update everyone, and hopefully I'll be posting here soon!
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