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Might end up getting a new mac mini, and upgrading the ram myself. I upgraded my old one without a putty knife, though I damaged the case by doing it the way I did it. So maybe I’ll have to buy a putty knife if I do it myself.

Update
Maybe I won’t get a new mac, as my current mac mini just froze again. Seems to freeze to often, more then I remember my PC with ubuntu crashing. I might decide to try ubuntu on the aspire one I ordered before sending it back, maybe I’ll keep it, if it doesn’t freeze as much as mac.

Nice. Wonder if Microsoft will buy me one of those head covers, I’d rather have the money too, but it looks like it makes a good head cover.

I recommended a LinkStation Live 500GB, because my uncle has an older module that works fine, and he’s had it for a long time. Well when we tried to set it up, it was dead out of the box, six beeps means the device can’t find the internal drive. He returned it and got a Western Digital MyBook, not sure if it works yet or not. He still hasn’t set it up.

Update
He tried to set the WD thing up, and it was dead. So he returned it and exchanged it for the buffalo once again, getting a different one, that works. He’s going to finish configuring it tonight. He also read more info about the WD, and he doesn’t like some of the features it has. Such as not being able to share mp3’s or music remotely. Also the first buffalo linkstation he got, he said it looked like it was used before, or refurbished or something. The WD had finger prints on it, so it was probably used or something too.

Don’t ask when or if it will be released, because I don’t know when or if it will be.

This is some simple javascript for use with the Adobe Air SDK. The below code will show the progress of the download too.

var fileName;
var swfArg = [];
 
// Get the file name.
 
function getVInfo(url) {
		var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
               req.onreadystatechange = function() {
                    if (req.readyState == 4) {
                        var str = req.responseText;
			var stra = str.split("\n");
			var n = 0;
			var n2 = 0;
			var n3 = 0;
			while (n < stra.length) {
			if (stra[n].indexOf("title") != -1 && n2 == 0) {
				n2 = n;
				if (n3 != 0) {
				n = stra.length;
			}
			}
			if (stra[n].indexOf("swfArgs") != -1 && n3 == 0) {
			n3 = n;
			if (n2 != 0) {
			n = stra.length;
			}
			}
			n = n + 1;
			}
			swfArg = stra[n3].split(',');
			fileName = stra[n2];
			fileName = fileName.replace("<title>", "");
			fileName = fileName.replace("</title>", "");
			fileName = "YouTube Downloader/" + fileName.replace("YouTube - ", "") + ".flv";
			fileName = fileName.replace("	", "");
			downVideo(document.getElementById("yurl").value);
                    }
                };
                req.open('GET', url, true);
                req.send(null);
 
			}
	function downVideo(url){
		var n = url.indexOf('v=');
		var n2 = url.indexOf('&', n);
		var len;
		if (n2 != -1) {
		len = n2 - 1;
		}
		else {
			len = url.length;
		}
		var vid = url.substr(n + 2, len);
		la = swfArg[3].split(': ');
		l = la[1].replace("\"", "");
		ska = swfArg[4].split(': ');
		sk = ska[1].replace("\"", "");
		ta = swfArg[5].split(': ');
		t = ta[1].replace("\"", "");
		ha = swfArg[6].split(': ');
		hl = ha[1].replace("\"", "");
		pa = swfArg[7].split(': ');
		plid = pa[1].replace("\"", "");
		var url = 'http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=' + vid + '&l=' + l + '&sk=' + sk + '&t=' + t + '&hl=' + hl + '&plid=' + plid;
		var request = new air.URLRequest(url);
		var urlStream = new air.URLStream();
		var fileData = new air.ByteArray();
		urlStream.addEventListener( air.ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, doProgress );
		urlStream.addEventListener(air.Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
		try {
			urlStream.load(request);
		}
		catch (error) {
			air.trace("Unable to load URL: " + error);
		}
 
	function completeHandler(event){
	urlStream.readBytes(fileData, 0, urlStream.bytesAvailable);
	var file = air.File.documentsDirectory;
	var fileStream = new air.FileStream();
        file = file.resolvePath(fileName);
	fileStream.open(file, air.FileMode.WRITE);
	fileStream.writeBytes(fileData, 0, fileData.length);
	fileStream.close();
	document.getElementById("crap").innerHTML = "Done downloading " + fileName.replace("YouTube Downloader/", "");
				}
			}
function doProgress( e )
{
	var loaded = e.bytesLoaded;
	var total = e.bytesTotal;
	var pct = Math.ceil( ( loaded / total ) * 100 );
 
	document.getElementById( 'crap' ).innerText = 'Downloading... ' + pct.toString() + '%';
}

Call the function getVInfo(url), which will call the other function. Below is an example of a button that calls that function.

<input type="button" id="downb"  onclick='getVInfo(document.getElementById("yurl").value);' value='Download'/>

There is also a text input box with the id of yurl.

But there is already a new operating system called android, made by google, for mobile phones. I already downloaded the sdk, which includes a emulator. Haven’t done anything useful yet. The code is pretty simple, I’m just not use to java.

There’s the low quality on youtube, you can find download links for the 720p version here, they also have an iPhone version there too.

Remember there is no release date, you can read that here. If your friend says they know, they are full of shit, because they know nothing.

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Cool comcast made uploading better, now I don’t have to limit the upload speed, they cancel the upload for me, then it comes back, and then cancels again. My uncle might not like this, but I don’t use bittorrent very often, so I don’t care.

Comcast Tries To Sterilize, Decapitate BitTorrent

Youtube blows “Rejected (length of video is too long)”. Probably because its an ogg video.

“All videos uploaded to YouTube have a 100MB file size limit. The longer the video is, the more compression will be required to fit it into that size. For that reason, most videos on YouTube are under five minutes long and there is a 10-minute length limit for all videos.”

The video is around 2 minutes, youtube is a dumbass, they can’t determine the length of the video.

Solution use tinypic.

Update
Changed port, might work now.

I knew those laptops would be a bad idea. Well no I didn’t really think this would happen. I didn’t watch the whole video, not my kind of video. Some sicko might like it.

10 year old from Uruguay uses One Laptop Per Child project laptop to post cow birth to YouTube

Planshift is a free game, not sure why I still haven’t downloaded it. I’ve known about it. Probably shouldn’t download it, linux is low on space. Wonder if you can choose where to install it, don’t want to download or install it on my linux partition. Hmmm I don’t think azarus opens anymore, rather have the 64bit client then the 32bit client, they don’t have any direct downloads of the 64bit version. Don’t really want to create an account either.

Edit
Azarus does open now, probably didn’t before, because of the space problem. Downloading from 1 peer out of 3 peers and 0 seeds. Have some connection error too. “Connection Error: NullPointerException:null)” The tracker url is just http:, getting around 1 KB a second. Hmm no seeds, and none of the peers have a 100%, so I won’t ever get the full download. Either azarus is screwed up, or nobody downloads it or shares it.

Update
Found direct download here. Wonder if the torrent on there is different. Yep its a working bittorrent file. More people peers and seeds, and the tracker works. If the bittorrent download doesn’t speed up, I’ll just download directly from the mirror. Looking at the requirements my laptop wouldn’t be able to play it. They don’t say the cpu speed, but my video card is older then a geforce 3. My desktop should be able to handle it just fine.

Update
Nice I got the game, was almost done making my character and then the server is offline, and the game crashed. Its back on according to the server’s site.

Just watched the video and it was sweet, and now I want the game. And that was only a demo, and it already looks bad ass. It’ll be cool if online play has video support, so when you see the enemy’s face talking to you, you can have your face there, so you can talk shit to the enemy. Hmm but I don’t like rebooting into windows, and plus if I’m in windows all the time I won’t be able to record tv, with mythtv. Wait won’t need to by then, because zap2it’s service is being discontinued. But still I like keeping my computer in linux. Its coming out in 2008, so maybe by then I’ll have a mac. To the post before this, it looks like I’ll have to get a mac with an intel processor, since you don’t have a choice, I don’t have anything against intel. I just don’t like it when people laugh and say AMD’s new processor’s will be slower, as you have no proof what so ever. Other then being an intel fan boy. Don’t want a laptop with vista on it either, also rather have a macbook. I won’t be getting a mac desktop, it would be a laptop. Even know I’m already getting a laptop, thats just to hold me off until I have enough for a mac book, plus if I get a macbook and it breaks, and its under warranty, then I’ll have to get it fixed. Probably need a windows laptop too, just not vista, vista is a resource hog. And microsoft has to many versions of vista.

Download StarCraft 2 video

To download it you have to use some blizzard download program, which works fine in wine, there’s also a mac version. If you look under preferences, you’ll notice the option to disable peer to peer downloading. They could just put a torrent file up or both, as I guess some people aren’t smart enough to know what program to use with a torrent file. But I guess its easier for them to just have one program. But then people who can’t use peer to peer program’s couldn’t download it, if there was only a bittorrent. The download was fast though, so I don’t care. But for those without wine, I guess they’ll have to search around for the video. I can’t upload the video, as I don’t have enough bandwidth, and I don’t want to get sued. Guess you might be able to find it on youtube, but the quality won’t be as good as the download.

I verified that ubuntu and wine are a valid windows system, according to microsoft anyways.

Download video (xvid required)
ie4linux

Call of Duty 3 is addicting, I like to play in war mode online. Not sure if I’ll buy Call of Duty 4, might not need to.

Its a copyright violation. Wonder if it is, if you own the game, I guess the emulator must be illegal. Wonder how they knew I didn’t buy bomberman. Going to re upload the movie rip stupid videos, and other one blogmusik. Going to remove the music, so I don’t get my account deleted. Screw re uploading them, I deleted them instead. Hmm I wonder if my nds browser videos are illegal too. Can’t decide if I should delete em to be safe, or wait and see, and risk the chance of my account being deleted. Guess I’ll email opera directly, and ask them, if they are, I’ll delete them. Hmm opera doesn’t have a email, unless you want to pay. The only email they have, isn’t related to my question. I don’t think it is a violation, but if it is oh well.

Dear Member:

This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by The Entertainment Software Association Members claiming that this material is infringing:

Playing bomberman ds in linux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9PSqDA3CdU

Please Note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account. In order to avoid future strikes against your account, please delete any videos to which you do not own the rights, and refrain from uploading additional videos that infringe on the copyrights of others. For more information about YouTube’s copyright policy, please read the Copyright Tips guide.

If you elect to send us a counter notice, please go to our Help Center to access the instructions.
Be aware that there may be adverse legal consequences in your country if you make a false or bad faith allegation of copyright infringement by using this process.

Sincerely,
YouTube, Inc.

Made a new video, so you can actually see what I’m doing.

Well it appears as though ubuntu with IE4Linux and wine, you can validate your system as windows. Thats good news for pirates.

Link
Download ogg video

They used reKordmydesktop to record the video, which is a kommander script/frontend for recordmydesktop, I like how it looks compared to gtk-recordmydesktop.

Guess what? You already have the flv file in your cache. Here’s an easy how to rip off stupidvideos.com, they are stupid as you can see by their name.

What you need:
Firefox
Cache viewer extension

Now to rip the fuck tard’s off.

After you install cache viewer, go to the video on stupidvideos.com.

I’m going to get this video.

After its done loading go click Tools | CacheViewer.

Now search cache viewer for flv, and then click Last fetched two times. If you scroll over in the text box, you can see the extension of the file, click each file, until you find the latest one with a flv extension.

Then right click the video and save it.

This method will help with downloading music from blogmusik too, just search for mp3, or actually it might not have an extension, so search for blogmusik. To play the file in windows you need flv player or something. I’m not using windows, so I can’t help you there. For me I can play it in the media player that came with ubuntu, I can also convert it with ffmpeg. Mplayer might be able to play it too.

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Thanks to cacheviewer for firefox, you can now borrow music from blogmusik. Yes you can use about:cache, but I like cacheviewer. Hmm about:cache, already has it ordered by the date by default. The video on youtube sucks, as it resized it, and made it so you can’t see anything.

$99 for cleaning cloths? I wish somebody would pay me $99 to do their laundry.

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