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Little Jimmy always wanted to see a real life alien. He had drawings, paintings, and writings about them visiting Earth and being really nice and sweet. Jimmy was also 7, so all this art really sucked. In any event, on the night of December 14th, 2006 his life changed forever. He was sleeping in his bed and heard loud noises outside. He had just begun falling asleep but instantly woke up and jumped out of bed at all the noise. He ran to the window and looked out. He saw the usual things he saw outside of his window: a few trees, grass, and the city lights. But this time it was a bit different, there were fires in the city, providing a warm yellow glow on his room. He could feel the heat even through the window. Then he saw it, an alien ship, right above his window. "Wow" he said and was soon engulfed in a brilliant red light. He had a smile on his face in the red glow just as his mom ran in, insane with confusion. He saw her horrid face and then nothing but black. He felt and saw nothing. He didn’t think or breath. He was dead. Stupid little Jimmy, stay out of red lights.

Well it seems that my psx-dude.net website is also getting quite a bit of comment spam as well as what looks like an injection method. I believe I’ve stopped the injection method, but I may have to extend it a bit so some code doesn’t get executed that isn’t supposed to. I’ve also thought of an interesting way of beating comment spam. Instead of having everything labeled nicely with name, e-mail, website, and post in the html. Mix it up a bit and have some hidden elements for those to fool spammers. If someone fills out a field that shouldn’t be filled out, ignore the post entirely. Most users (I.E. All except 3) will never fill out hidden fields. Its just a thought.

Oh and I got so pissed off that I forgot to write a Tab -> 3 space program so I can use Tab when I program and convert them to 3 spaces later that I wrote it today. It didn’t take long at all, and it’ll prevent me from losing a point on future programming assignments. I may or may not post the cool program I just completed, I can’t get it to fit in a website but I can make it downloadable and probably runable if someone has Java installed. 

I’m still trying to install a Linux distribution on my laptop for school since it is much better for programming, but I always seem to run into problems. I had Slamd64 setup and sort of working and tonight I just installed Fedora Core 4 (both for x86_64/amd64) which is working rather well. The only problem I always seem to run into is that the built-in wireless card and also the touchpad never seem to work properly. The touchpad this time is making my browser go nuts when I use it. So, I am considering just installing regular ole’ Slackware since it is something I know and drivers work well for it. But then what’s the point of having a 64-bit processor? Well there is none at the moment, the drivers and programs never seem to work properly for it. And cutting-edge isn’t so great because manufacturers refuse to provide drivers that work in linux by either making them open source or supplying multi-architecture ones.

 That’s what makes me angry with Microsoft and their stranglehold on the Desktop Computer market. We’re all stuck with the x86 architecture since all the programs are compiled and run on it. And until recently have we begun to switch. But what if we want to switch in the future? Its going to take lots of hours and hard work to port all the code over, which just won’t happen, so we’re all stuck. What we need in the computer industry is some software that can keep the sourcecode recompilable on the user end and safe for companies to release this to the world. Which again, probably will never happen. </rant>

So. I like computers