Not this time. sorry

Добре, бях решил да се опитам да ползвам блогър отново, като блог платформа де. Е, не става.. прекалено им е смотан WYSIWYG редактора, съжалявам. Това е положението. Просто LJ се правят по-добре и толкова. Така се Sayonara Blogger, до година до друга може пак. Аз като гледам така, някъде на две години правя вяли опити да сменя нещо в работния си процес ама...
Адресът си остава както обкновено http://malwkgad.livejournal.com

camouflage/камуфлаж

Аз напоследък рядко чета художествена литература, основната причина е разбира се компютъра. Основният проблем с него е, че не се ползва удобно в хоризонтално положение, а аз обичам да си лежа (вероятно защото и стола ползван за компютъра е твърде нисък или масата твърде ниска или не знам... абе не е удобно) и в него вариант ми е по-лесно да чета.

Купих си "на фантазия" новото от Бард - Joe Haldeman - Camouflage. Оказа се доста добра, На един дъх я прочетох (почти, почнах я вчера на работа, днес я довърших). Чете се много лесно и е структурирана на три пласта, което я прави дори още по привлекателна. Препоръчвам я на всички почитатели на фантастиката (най-вече sci-fi). Романът е печелил Небюла за 2005 година и може да бъде закупен от Amazon или от Бард.

Междувременно ако някой е пропуснал спечелилия тази година кратък разказ Хюго веднага да го направи.

boobees

Actually I was about to talk about two films I saw today:



Space chimps - pretty stupid one, really no one should ever see this if older than 3.



Boy A - UK. This should say enough. I mean, the British accent is really really bothering me, most of the time I was completely unable to understand what the f*ck are they talking about. They even say f*ck differently - like fock or something. The R is completely missing (but of cou*se, this is b*itish English). Being said that the film is based on the novel of Jonathan Trigell (also named Boy A) I expected it to be interesting. And it was, it made much more sense than 99 percent of the US productions. But compared to "No night is too long" it was not such a brilliant work. Meaning, without having read the book, I believe the scenario translation of the novel was not that good. Still the movie is a good one (except the already mentioned flaw, namely the British accent).
If you are questioning yourself about the title of this post, it was a reminder of me for the wonderful boobees of a friend of mine, which I haven't seen recently (I know, it is a shame). The girl in the film have had such nice ones. Like this friend of mine... hum.. wondering what is she doing now. Probably sharing them with her husband. Again, such a pity.

know your meme

There is this meme virus in the Gnome planet, so I was infected. Now, I am no a planet member, but still I was infected. Sorry... Here it is:

Meme attack by planet.gnome.org!
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Here is mine:
Mr. Burn was fully sympathetic.

Learn to fight with a Jedi

Strange enough to see some people in the park fighting with jedi swords, it can actually be fun. I would give it a shot, if I see some Jedis around our park!





link to rocketboom's page for this video

link to this video in better format (meaning not 100% CPU consuming flash)

Mac OSX vs. Windows 7

This made my day

Два кардинални въпроса

Въпрос номер 1:

Ако някой бъде отвлечен от майка си и бъде държан заложник, през което време се влюби в нея, това като едипов комплекс ли се счита или като стокхолмски синдром?

Въпрос номер 2:

Ако някой, който страда от шизофрения и в него живеят няколко личности заплаши да се самоубие, това може ли да се счита като ситуация със заложници?

Welcome back message

I have decided to re-join the blogger community. Not that I am not satisfied with live journal, I am. It is just that I like diversity. I guess... So I will give it a shot.



Well, lets hope it will be as much fun as this clip!
Link to the video in YouTube

Kiba beryl and macmenu

Well well well... here we go. Finally I managed to understand why kiba was not working - some stupid things happens with it's schema files, someone has to learn how to use gconf! After days of experimenting with the settings of beryl and kiba finally I got where I wanted to be, the perfect desktop (IMHO).
Here are some screen shots.
Pictures 1 and 2: Bean-up (windows create)





Pic 3: Burn (window close)



Pic 4: Magic lamp (window minimize/maximize)



Unfortunately there is no slowdown option for the animations in kiba-dock but basically I set the physics as follows:
Elasticity: 0,17
Friction: 1850
Inertia: 1,28
K (what is this?): 2,13
Throw gravity: 2,00
Gravity Multiplier: 840,00
Launchers type: dock
Mouseover effect pulse with zoom factor of 1.26 and exec pulse option set to on.
This results in icons not bouncing around like insane and still pretty good effects with good responsibility on user interaction. The icons slightly pulse on mouse over and the do not move on click, instead the on click a bigger pulse is emitted. I don't really like bouncing that much especially when I work.
So, the next thing is a big one.... getting to fedora core 6 with all the custom packages I use and.... the Drag and Drop functionality working with beryl in scale/show desktop mode.....

I hope for it I pray for it I can't wait !!!!

Beryl and the eye-candy factory

It feels almost unnatural when you see on the screen live and for real the effect you have just read about a few days ago that someone dreams to make come true.
Well, today I decided to give beryl a try. I use Fedora Core 5 and as probably everybody knows it supports AIGLX and compiz trough a dedicated repository (link here).
First of all - compiz as packed in that repository does not have the scale plug-in. This issue has been addressed in earlier post on this blog. As of Fedora Core 6 the AIGLX and compiz packages are part of the core. This mean you can have them without any effort. The scale plug-in is back (as of the change log, I did not test this as I am still with core 5) What makes me anxious is that it comes with the default window decorator (gnome-window-decorator) and some minor patches to allow key bindings to act like in metacity.

• -no way to theme this


• -no way to move the buttons of the window decorator from the right to the left corner, and still this is possible in metacity! this means step back!

In previous post I have made an example how do get cgwd and install it on f

edora core 5. As it has some issues with the newer version (being not compatible with compiz vanilla thus no plug-in works except the legacy one) it was not the best out there but still allowed greater flexibility in themes.
This was all good until there were newer and greater plug-ins out there. In the previous post on my blog some links were pasted - all of theme pointing to different resources for the beautification of the desktop.
Today I used svn to download the beryl source tree and compile it: here are the steps

svn co svn://svn.beryl-project.org/beryl/trunk/ beryl

On Fedora Core 5 you will need newer intltool to compile the components. A source RPM package from FC6 can be used. Just download it and recompile it (rpmbuild -bb intltool.spec) and then update the rpm. If you want to keep the compiz around just in case you do not like the beryl offer use some prefix different from /usr

./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/beryl && make

You will need to compile and install (as root) beryl-core, beryl-settings, beryl-plugins, beryl-manager, emerald and emerald-themes to get the basic functionality. Additionally beryl-dbus, emerald-themes-repo and others can be used (sorry, still not sure what they are used for)
You will need to ass the /opt/beryl prefix to your $PATH and to include the beryl lib path to ldconfig. For some reason the /opt/beryl/lib subfolders are not used by ld so you'll need to include /opt/beryl/lib/beryl also if beryl does not start.
The configuration panel of beryl is so big it took me over 1/2 hour to read all the options. Real round edges are now working correctly. lots of new and really interesting plug-ins are available. The most interesting for me was that now you can type in the windows while scale/zoom are activated! Also it is possible to assign different effects to different types of windows. The Blur plug-in is working slow on my 855GM card but I assume it is faster on Nvigia/Ati. The water plug-in is not working at all (again - the old hardware). Emerald (the window decorator) can use the cgwd themes without any changes so it is compatible. I will try to make a RPM for this but until then this can be used in order to try the latest and greatest from the desktop eye-candy.
Bdock can be used for docking some applications if beryl is used in a bare desktop environment - it is probably useless in Gnome/KDE.
The Mac lovers will greatly awe the magic lamp animation. The burn and the beam up animation effects are probably the most interesting but are too slow on my hardware.

So - it is a great piece of software. Give a try! Now the only thing we are waiting for is a really intriguing GTK engine to mimic the Aqua look and we are there where the Mac owners pretend they are for years now in the UI. What will be next? I do not know....but I'll keep pray for the best!