tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30374811774837237762011-11-28T02:08:37.810+02:00Occasional ramblings of a Linux Software Developer, who administers a MUD, plays poker online and abuses services like this to vent the positive and negative things in life somewhere..Tuminoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16864277379485836283noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037481177483723776.post-75332455581709860882009-05-13T12:38:00.003+03:002009-05-13T12:40:42.811+03:00

I'm not the blogging type of people it seems and I certainly don't have that much to say to the great public. While I like to post on topic, like on Vakiomestarin jorinoita blog, thats pretty much it.So, sayonara, the affairs have been officially closed. Definately no one will be sad to see this blog go.

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OpenOffice 3.0 has been released and as of speaking, their website is swamped, serving only error about users not being allowed to access a servlet for content:ForbiddenYou don't have permission to access /servlets/ContentHelmNoodle on this server.Apache Server at download.openoffice.org Port 80Hopefully this means they are more popular than ever and MS Office takes a dive in sales. One can

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Trolltech has released Qt 4.4.0. I installed it and monkeyd around with it a bit, watched the demos (they're still impressive). Qt Graphics View and XQuery look very promising to me. More about them later.If you are looking for a decent toolkit to build both Linux and Windows GUI applications, take a look at Qt. Especially as of late I've been developing a Windows GUI application, the WinAPI is

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Today I've released the sources of my once-famous BatMUD-game support web site. Sources are released under GPL v2 at the GoogleCode, here:BatMUD Tools by Tumi.Its been year and a half when I retired from BatMUD, where I had been playing since 1997, on and off. First character ended up as maintainer, a "wizard" there, called Tumi.Second character was playing for fun only, and while playing, did

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I'm set to learn Qt. I stumbled upon it while searching new perspective to my Netflix Prize solution. I found Icefox's Framework, which is coded with Qt.I got interested in it. The simple makefiles, quick build process and, for now at least, decent looking framework in general. Works both in Windows and Linux apparently, neat. I've worked with GTK+ earlier, and while I liked it, I also hated it.

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Perhaps not being a prime example of K.I.S.S, but I made my own Atom parser for the Blogspot feeds in Perl. Having my website under a webhotel, I do not have proper rights to install perl modules directly to Perl module repository, I often find myself fighting over an installation of CPAN module - despite the fact I have a "private" module repository myself. Most of the stuff install there pretty

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While cleaning up my temporary bookmarks, I found this old link: Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test, Memory Test being this game. I scored constantly around 30, and was disappointed I couldn't go higher than 34 in few tries :(

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The Darwin Awards 2007 has been announced! Knock yourself out by reading the most stupid things humans can attempt.

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My old site made with PHP3 got a bit broken when my web hotel upgraded its servers to the latest software, including PHP5. It resulted in very broken website where even navigation got busted. I admit that my old code from 2001 was crappy, and the site was due to be recoded for about six years already.Being left with a broken site was finally the incentive to do something about it. I took an open

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Merry Xmas to everyone and happy holidays!

Tuminoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16864277379485836283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037481177483723776.post-66502851113717404902007-11-28T18:48:00.000+02:002007-11-28T19:08:43.222+02:00

I probably don't have any readers for this blog, as I haven't announced it anywhere (well, maybe the Facebook notes auto-import thingie counts as an announce?), so there is no-one waiting for my updates on this blog. Its been well over a month now, and I try to sum it up now.Lets start with the Facebook. Since I joined it, I spent half a day finding my friends (more or less successfully) and

Tuminoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16864277379485836283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037481177483723776.post-59965585465104897182007-10-16T08:42:00.001+03:002007-10-16T08:43:17.301+03:00

I joined Facebook today. I've heard so much stories and things about it that I had to try it myself. We'll see if it turns out to be "too Web 2.0" for me or not :)this is Tuomo's profile

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I've been a student in the Helsinki University of Technology for nine years now. As you might already guess, my studies haven't advanced as they should've - I would've graduated a long time ago, if they had. However, having worked full- or part-time all of the that time has brought me such an experience a "normal", goody-two-shoe student will not gather for a long time, even after his/her

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Nothing out of ordinary lately. EU3 has been running a lot lately, so not so much free time left.I'd like to share my favourite feeds, in case someone doesn't already read these:The n00b comic: Excellent comic about the WoW generation gaming etc. Lots of fun about online roleplaying games (MMORPGs), lately it has gone down a notch, but mostly because the start is so HILARIOUS its hard to top

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If you like turn based strategy, you must try out Paradox Interactives Europa Universalis. It has evolved to version III already over the years. Couple of days ago, they published an extension for it called Napoleons Ambition.As you can guess, Im going to praise the extension. Adding a lot of things to a already superior game isn't easy thing to do, but they've done it. The game offers even more

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I got a pair of N800's related to my next assignment. Quite a toy! I was part of N770 development team, and we cussed about a lot of things in it, the lack fo memory and flash capacity as our prime targets. 64mb for memory and another 64mb for storage was way too little for a embedded Debian.N800 does it different: double the memory and quaruple the storage, and another flash card slot for even

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Hoo-fucking-ray, all I can say about this incident. Just a less than a month ago, I went thru the pain of re-installing both my OSs, Ubuntu (upgraded it to Feisty Fawn from scratch) and Windows (from XP to Vista). Now, the HD that hosts both of those OSs chose to stop working!It was my oldest drive, which I mainly used for OSs simply because earlier Ubuntus and XP didn't know their way into

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Oh dear, Sid Meier has done it again! The original Civ4 was a total success, which revamped the whole system to a totally new level. The Warlords expansion to Civ4 was a failure in my eyes, but the Beyond the Sword expansion adds worthy content. Corporations, colonies, new civilizations and leaders, new techs etcetc, check the massive list here. The most addictive game is a tad more addictive

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This is the first post to my new blog, which I chose to call 'The Tuminoid Affairs'. It doesn't mean anything special, I just suck at making up titles :)So bear with me, I will be rambling here now and then, don't expect anything and you will not be disappointed either.

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