Flash has a nice tendency to not load stuff properly. This is because I’m so used to linear processing, as opposed to parallel taskes to be done at the same time.
With this in mind, flash causes start/finish issues. Flash will try to use an object that hasn’t been completely loaded yet. So checks all these checks have to be put in place.
The alternative to checks, is to preload that objects. Which, if you know nothing about actionscript is a little daughting.
I’m in the middle of writing a modular preloader for dynamic content in actionscript 2. At least the dynamic content’s size can be calculated.
This really shouldn’t be that hard, except the fact that I don’t know the scruture of actionscript. Perhaps this will be the new thing I’m going to learn…
MUST have extensions:
noscript denies Java, and JavaScripts from running, unless whitelisted.
adblock – Just as it sounds, blocks ads.
a large list for adblocking – a community list for adblock
Disable Targets For Downloads – Prevents sites spawning blank windows when clicking binary downloads.
Tabbrowser Preferences
gmail notifier – little notice icon when new mail arrives to your gmail account.
- Allow user to login/register.
- Select what days they are free to do this project.
- Colate Dates which are good.
- Different shades from Red to Green, where the more green something is, more people can show.
User: ID / Login / Password / email / IM contact
Event: ID / Description /Map / Date Start / Date Finish / Notes (Unique rows)
Event_User: Event.ID / User.ID (Unique rows)
Attendence: User.ID / Attending_bool / Note
Populate Calender:
Given: Event.ID
Select * from attendence, Event_User where Event.ID = $EventID
VPN via SSH and putty.. Kind of says it all.
This is for a flash action script 2.0 file.
requires: http://laco.wz.cz/tween/to be installed to function
Note some aspects of this code:
- dynamically loads a directory full of images (jpgs specifically)
- fade aspects are definable.
- recursive function for looping through images.
- just a setInterval for the master loop. Read more…
Yesterday was such a beautiful day.
I accomplished so much in the span of the day.
Had good food, panzerroties from the local pizzeria and grilled chicken on a greek salad.
Sat in the sun, smoked a good cuban cigar, having some fine jamacian rum and vanilla coke while read a book by Philip K Dick – The Minority Report.
The Minority Report, is just one of the short stories that are in that book. It’s a compilation of serveral short stories.
After all that lounging I decided to wash my car and driveway.
That got me in a productive mood, so sat down and nearly finished writing the adminsitration backend for my client. Just need to tweak a few things, and all should be good.
All in all, a very productive day. Hope the rest of summer can be like this.
GAH!!!!!!!!
After a few days of not being able to connect my HP Apple iPod 20gig 4th gen. I got feed up.
I tried my iPod on Alice’s firewire port, and it worked fine. But not USB. I couldn’t get the stupid iPod to work on Alice’s iBook, Mags computer, my computer, or my laptop. My conclusion, iPod’s USB dock thing, broken.
Works perfectly fine on 1394/1394a/firewire. Stupid iPod.
Now to rant on Microsoft. GAH!!! Why can’t they release a proper driver. My VIA VT6306 chipset Firewire card, wouldn’t work out of the box with Windows XP SP2 installed. I had to go in a round about way to get it to install.
STUPID VIA and stupid MS for not releasing PROPER Drivers. Alright, I shouldn’t expect miracles from MS or VIA, to work out of the box. But damn it! Release some drivers that work!
Instead I had to download some shady drivers from somewhere on the net to get the damn 1394 card to work. Now I just need to remember to backup those drivers, otherwise I’ll have to go through hell again and back to get the IEEE 1394 card to work again.
Here’s hoping that my iPod will REMAIN working with the firewire.
Lisp function logic
Store as “CubeSize”, “CylinderSize”, “ShrinkBy”, “Count”
prompt “What dimension do you want for the cube?”
prompt “What dimension do you want for the cylinder?”
condition: Cylinder diameter must be smaller than cube
prompt “What factor do you want to shrink each cube by??”
prompt “Total Number of cubes in the end”
MasterCube = {
Draw cube, with it’s centre at 0,0,0
Draw THREE cylinders, along each exists, with it’s length intersectin along an axis in the cube.
subtract the three cylinders from the cube.
}
for (i=0; i
copy
0,0,0 @ // creates new object
shrink previous object by ShrinkBy
}
find out what the cylinder hole size is for smallest cube.
LL – Gallery version 0.5. here
Modifications:
- created some CSS
- changed colors
- borders around stuff
- added checking for a single textfile name “folder.info” which is HTML safe. So I can give a description of the folder, and contents.
I look at the large capacity ( > 5 gigs ) players, such as the Zen, and iPod (mini, and original), and the prices are all over $290CDN + taxes
Where the iPod 60 gig is cresting around $800CDN today. Read more…