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Software Worldly Matters

One of those things that annoy the hell out of you

This thing has always been annoying me for several years now. Ever since Yahoo! or MSN started their Indian portals, the most prominent ads that were ever showed on these portals were almost always related to matrimony. It’s as if the the target-audience – Indians – are desperately looking for wives wherever they go, even on the internet. There are little or no ads which go “looking for an adult tonight? ;)” but only traditionally clothed brides smiling “marry me, darling”. Just look at this:

Such ads are an insult!
Such ads are an insult!

First, it’s not even an Indian website. Just because my IP is Indian doesn’t mean I should be bombarded with such crap. Ugh, talking about Indian IPs, things such as Yahoo! videos or Pandora (that music-related Web 2.0 thing) don’t work.

Second, just look at the screen real-estate it uses. Orange, fugly ads on my technocrat website.

Third, I haven’t been noticing this nonsense for two years and guess why? All thanks to this highly recommended addon for Firefox called Adblock-Plus (and I haven’t installed it yet on this workstation). And yes, the reason I don’t use Opera is because their adblock thing comes nowhere close to ABP. If I get a comment such as this for this post – I won’t even bother replying to it.

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Interaction Design Software

Of IRC clients and GUI toolkits.

Seriously guys, I don’t understand how some of you out there love mIRC. I couldn’t figure out how to *read* the /topic without having to rejoin the channel =.=

I’ve been using irssi for a long time now (along with its best buddy, screen), for some reason, I’ve had to use mIRC for a couple of days and I’d never want to use it ever again.

Well, thought I’d try one of my first IRC clients that ever worked with HTTP proxy firewalls (such as Squid) – XChat. I downloaded the free version for windows (google “xchat silverex download”) and was up and felt nostalgic in few minutes. No more fail with Japanese encoding and glitch-free copy-paste in Unicode.

But then, I wanted to tweak around with the fonts and sizes a little:

Notice that there are no “units” for the font-sizes. 12 what? Rupees? >_>
Also, notice the placement of the “OK” “Cancel” buttons in the frontmost window and its parent window.
That’s what I call fail.

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College Life Entertainment Linux/BSD Personal

Updates as of 1st September, ’08

Been out of the blogging scene for a few months now.

Lot of things have happened so far. I’ve got into the fansubbing scene and I’m part of a group a bunch of us started. I do a little bit of translation and video encoding.

Just saw episode 21 of Code Geass R2 and Soul Eater. Very thought-provoking. It’s great how anime in general can satisfy all kind of audiences. I mentioned this to a friend of mine who replied saying, “but most of them suck”, to which I replied without even thinking, “that’s because those don’t satisfy you ^^”

Hoping to see more people appreciate anime, especially those in my campus. And, yeah, hoping that I stop getting those “Jesus loves you” spam.

G’nite.

P.S.: I’m tired of running Linux/BSD on my laptop. I’ve moved onto Vista now. I’ll leave Linux/BSD where it belongs – in the CC server room.

P.P.S: So many tags and categories to deal with, it’s getting random now.