Monday, March 31, 2008

Simple Bash infinite loop

Sometimes , when I'm in despair and desparate mode , I like to hear the songs from various online radio streaming from Shoucast or Icecast , VLC video stream .

I'm not really a great music listener but it helps to reduce the tension i felt for the past few weeks.

I usually use the cli mplayer as my choice of client but due to some reasons sometimes your connection to the server will go down or in other words timed out. What annoys me most that the cli mplayer won't reconnect back. (Yeah i know we there are other clients like xmms,exaile,blax3 but so far only mplayer is the only client where i can use it on screen).

I found this to be very annoying and note down a simple infinite loop bash script.

while [ 1 ]
do
mplayer http://some.streamsite.com:8080/
done


And now i don't need to reconnect manually anymore. The infinite loop is also useful to maintain a non reliable ssh connection etcx3.

Friday, March 28, 2008

A piece of me

I'm quite sad to see many of my favourites anime have come to an end. (Kimikiss Pure Rouge, Rental Magika, Kekkaishi, Clannad etc). But well life goes on and here we are in the spring season. My updates?

1. Last week we held our first UTP OSS meetup for this semester. Despite all the pressure on using the Open Source software in our campus . The community have grown strong. I give my usual talks on open source and yeah KageSenshi tell us a tale on his internship experience in the FOSS world.

2. IanWeller just finish editing all the nesscary artwork for Fedora 9. You can check the artwork wiki at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Waves/Round3Final

3. On the rubiks competition. There will be a Asian Rubik Championship which will be held in Hong Kong. I'll provide the sufficent details later on.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Makehuman.. aids towards quick human modelling.

After watching Apple Sead Ex Machina , I'm totally captured by the greatness of the CGI and 3d effects in the film. However 3d is not my thing and I doubt I have time to spare on learning one.

But if you are interesting oon creating a human model, there's a quick tool call makehuman. ( you can just yum install makehuman)

From what i experienced, you can say makehuman is a simplified blender aim for creating human models with extensive details! It's a must for artistic creatures and possibly forensic experts.

The panel may look a little difficult in the first place but you get hang out of it. Requirement? a graphic card that support 3d rendering i guess .


Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Delay is bad!!

Well here is my first post after the Malaysian 12 GE. I've met lot of people talking bout the stuff (chatters,bloggers,homeless,taxi drivers, kedai mamak, rockstar , bus driver, tok imam, ). Some are happy, some are sad, some are worried.
Either way it shows that the Malaysian had finally treats political issue seriously and no longer "ibarat lalang ditiup angin".


First of all I would like to apologise about the Fedora Shirts , ( I told you guys I will settle bout the matter on the weekends , truth is i did settle it on the weekends) but there are lot of stuff that hinders me from uploading the latest infos. I will start out all the infos on the Fedora shirts at http://fedora.foss.org.my. I 'm not sure if the thread on the shirt is updated yet I'm gonna check on it later on tonight .

And yeah if any of you guys are interested in the arts of solving rubiks cube. You can join us at http://www.malaysiancube.com/forum/ . It's relatively new , thanks to our m-yo for sponsering the site and domain. There are lots of cube players in Malaysia and if you are one of them please join us. We just had our road show last week on Saturday afternoon and yeah it was fun. ( I nearly lost my PSP and we got kicked out by the Mak Gad).


See that 7 years old kid over there ? His name is Oliver and he's from Finland. As expected from a Finnish , quite a fast learner.
(I asked him about Linus and he doesn't have a clue who the is that guy oh well.)

And news on Fedora? Well mo have created a new theme for the grub image loader. I think the water ripple effects looks nice.


That's all for now, to the new formed government, honour your words.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Bringing out the chain together.

Yep the fate of my beloved University Network have been sealed.

http://rafb.net/p/hOPKls59.html

Well I think Kagesenshi will do something about it. I should give them credits for turning out my prophecy into reality.


Well I'm not going to ramble about it too much since I'm sure my other colleagues will go on rampage and berserk. My advice think before you act.


So once again here I'm just finished up my latest design for the Fedora Keychain!!! Yeah. I don't plan on putting it on the market yet but if anyone interest on it check out my wiki since I'll host the SVG file over there and maybe on the Market Colloberate. Here i proudly presents to you the keychain designs..



What do you guys think about it?

**Update**

We finally got the green lights from the Fedora to proceed with the T-shirts I will updated the price, sizes availabality by the end of this week :)

Monday, March 3, 2008

Fedora shirts anyone?

Well starting today, I am officially become a part of the Fedora Ambassador team. Does it makes me a hardcore programmer, leet or a master of the universe? No but it gives me some driving force on promoting Fedora across the country.

As always , ambasaddor likes to brag about their product so here I am with some quick messy job inkscape hack. I present unto you my Fedora Shirts design for the local community .





So I'm planning on selling those shirts for the sake of fedora community in Bolehland. I'm not so sure about the cost and etcx3 if someone willing to assist me on the marketing side. I' ll be glad.

Last but not least:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ShahrimanSamsudin

Cheers

***Updated****

Those who are interested in obtaining the shirts. You can mail at:

yondie [a][t] fedoraproject dot org with Subject Title: Fedora-my Shirts

Please include your name and contact details with sizes. I'll confirm the price Insha-Allah at the end of this week. (Still waiting about pricing strategy from mo).