Ciuly's Blog - Reinventing the wheel http://blog.ciuly.com basically, the news regarding my online activity Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:21:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Responsibility for human trafficking http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/Rj0Vt8bX15E/ http://blog.ciuly.com/thinking-too-hard/responsibility-for-human-trafficking/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:21:23 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=743 Lately I see reading and seeing news about human traffic a bit more than before. This is both a good thing and a bad thing.
First, it’s good ad it appears that the phenomena is finally starting to be taken into control.
On the other hand, the issue is so old as this actually confirms its magnitude.
So who is really responsible for human trafficking, infantile pornography and so on?
The truth is that the real persons responsible for this are our friends and family. And in case of some readers, ourselves.
The truth is that if people wouldn’t *ask*, people wouldn’t provide. The bigger the demand is, the more people will provide.
It’s the same with beggars. If people would stop providing them with money, they will stop begging and only those that beg for food will remain.
It is astonishing to see how decayed the human race has become. Children raping children is the ultimate in decaying.
When what is thought to be innocent is no longer innocent, what can we expect from the adults? But obviously, this is just a mirror of ourselves.
People take bribe because we all offer it. How could they turn us down? Same goes here: if somebody asks for a 3 year old child for his/her sexual pleasures, how could a “bad guy” turn him down?
The morality of the human race is at its lower limits. We can go lower than this. I’m actually pretty sure there are quite some persons out there that are already a lot more lower than the race. And I know this because there are people that are higher than the race and in order to have a balance, there must exist such evil.
But don’t even think the balance is at the level of bad and good. That is only in theory when the race itself has 0 badness and 0 goodness.
In reality however, the balance is at the level of the race, which unfortunately is a lot lower than level 0. We are not becoming more civilized with time passing. On the contrary. The vast majority is becoming more stupid, more under control, and more out of control.
And this happens on all levels of civilization, including, in this practical case, morality.
People, allegedly, are becoming more free of inhibitions. In reality, there are some people with lower moral that require that their low morale be closer to the races level so that if for whatever reason their dark secrets are uncovered, they won’t be that dark.
100 years ago, having sexual relations with the opposite sex was more of a tabu. Nowadays, people get married with the opposite sex. It became normal. In some states, teenage pornography above a certain age can be considered consensual and thus no longer a crime.
The lower we allow our personal morality to go, the lower the race will sink.

Solution? Treat the provider in the worst way possible. And the consumer worse than the provider.

I believe that if there was a genuine and strong possibility for a consumer to be burned alive, that person will most likely not ask to satisfy his/her “moralness”.
Some would say that it is barbaric, medieval to treat a person this way. I am asking those people: do you really believe such a person is a human being? Can a person that sexually exploits a 1 year old be called a human being? Are you more against such treatments because you yourself are close in morality to this level? Maybe you had forced yourself on somebody? Sure, there will be people that are genuinely against such treatments because they are too good and can’t bear the thought of another person, be that so low, of being treated this way.
But the majority? What is the excuse of the majority? Why aren’t you taking a stand? Those under aged children cannot protect themselves from these predators, from these animals.

But, of course, the rapist will always have more rights than his victims. It’s normal, these days.

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/thinking-too-hard/responsibility-for-human-trafficking/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/thinking-too-hard/responsibility-for-human-trafficking/ Pity http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/r4EnUGl9lwc/ http://blog.ciuly.com/uncategorized/pity/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:05:28 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=740 It is a pity how one person can become from a very important one, the person you totally forget about. Or willingly ignore. And do that in a relative short time.
Quite often, I had this feeling of being manipulated. And I don’t mean the subtle approach either, but the one that almost cries into your face: hey stupid, you’re an idiot.

But, all things come to an end, eventually. We just have to make peace with the outcome and move on.

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/uncategorized/pity/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/uncategorized/pity/ Greasemonkey (user) scripts in Chrome http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/Ixb5GE50do4/ http://blog.ciuly.com/programming/greasemonkey/greasemonkey-user-scripts-in-chrome/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:01:54 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=738 After a little digging around I found that most (all?) my greasemonkey scripts will work in google chrome just well provided you will be using the Tander Monkey extension.

So .. go get it, install and enjoy.

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/programming/greasemonkey/greasemonkey-user-scripts-in-chrome/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/programming/greasemonkey/greasemonkey-user-scripts-in-chrome/ Minor upgrade to server stuff http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/vhC7pJQx5P8/ http://blog.ciuly.com/my-server/minor-upgrade-to-server-stuff/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:20:21 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=735 I just bought a new UPS, a mustek powermust 800 with LCD as my old apollo 1000f died. I also bought an PC protectnet but I still have to connect it to the main power lines grounding.

After about 3 days of no internet and a previous week of online/offline due to who knows what, I finally managed to get the service back on a stable ground. At least I hope so.

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/my-server/minor-upgrade-to-server-stuff/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/my-server/minor-upgrade-to-server-stuff/ Google Adsense breakthrough http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/kcrjFRqFXtY/ http://blog.ciuly.com/website/google-adsense-breakthrough/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:48:01 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=732 I received an email a few days ago from google saying “You’re eligible to receive an AdSense payment later this month”
Woohoo!
I finally hit the aprox $100/71 eur limit. Took me almost 4 years and 6 months.

Damn. And to think that this sum covers the internet connection (a professional one, I have to add) which costs 50 eur per month and the electric power, which is around 5-7 eur for the server per month; all this covers the basic needs of the server for a month and about a week.
And there’s the domains I have to pay about $40 per year…

I’m getting rich…

Well, next cheque in 5 years.

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/website/google-adsense-breakthrough/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/website/google-adsense-breakthrough/ Siemens SK 65 Original Media (ringtones, wallpapers, GIFs, etc) http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/7mXYaptttcw/ http://blog.ciuly.com/general/siemens-sk-65-original-media-ringtones-wallpapers-gifs-etc/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:38:19 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=728 My Siemens SK65 died about 2 months ago and ever since that time, I was trying to get my hands on the backup file contents.
I couldn’t get the original siemens mobile phone manager to read the backup (as I didn’t have an SK65 to do a restore). I obviously managed to get my contacts out since everything is in clear text in the backup file.
The sad thing is I can’t get the notes as for whatever stupid reason they decided notes are not important to backup/save (either that, or they are encrypted/mangled in some way).
The next thing I wanted were the ringtones. Man, I searched everywhere, and I found a lot of ringtones from other siemens models but not the ones on SK65. I then posted on some siemens forums to no avail.
And today, I got an email from GOTD (Giveaway Of The Day) about AllMedia Grabber. So I figured I’d give it a shot and what do you know. It got me out most of the media files and all the ringtones which were in midi or wave format.

So, long story short, find the original media files for Siemens SK65 here (3.5 MB).
Keep in mind that the contents of this zip hold original copyright notices held by Siemens or whomever and are intend for other siemens SK65 users that ended in my situation.

Call me old fashioned or whatever, but I’m now going to put those ringtones on my new HTC :D

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/general/siemens-sk-65-original-media-ringtones-wallpapers-gifs-etc/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/general/siemens-sk-65-original-media-ringtones-wallpapers-gifs-etc/ file X from install of Y conflicts with file from package Z http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/EeuX-O3G7LY/ http://blog.ciuly.com/my-server/file-x-from-install-of-y-conflicts-with-file-from-package-z/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:59:51 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=725 Late time for a new update of my linux server.

This time, yum update got me these errors:

file /usr/bin/shasum from install of perl-Digest-SHA-5.50-1.el5.rf.i386 conflicts with file from package perl-Digest-SHA-PurePerl-5.48-1.el5.rf.noarch
file /usr/share/man/man1/shasum.1.gz from install of perl-Digest-SHA-5.50-1.el5.rf.i386 conflicts with file from package perl-Digest-SHA-PurePerl-5.48-1.el5.rf.noarch

You will notice that there are 2 distinct packages:
perl-Digest-SHA-5.50-1.el5.rf.i386
and
perl-Digest-SHA-PurePerl-5.48-1.el5.rf.noarch

I went with removing the oldest one because the new one was being marked for installation:
yum erase perl-Digest-SHA-PurePerl-5.48-1.el5.rf.noarch

and problem solved. This one was way too easy. Why I posted? Well, google search only yielded 1 spanish result. One. Well, this will make it 2 :) And in english.

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If time permits it, I’ll be starting a new one after I set everything up and gather months worth of ideas :)

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so … last week my HDD crashed. Yesterday my phone died. I’m guessing it’s the memory since it lights up and then just freezes there.
What next? :(

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Did I tell you about my hdd crash?

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/my-comic/oups-comic-4/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/my-comic/oups-comic-4/ Memento (comic #3) http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/8TL-e1Iqmag/ http://blog.ciuly.com/my-comic/memento-comic-3/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:49:10 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=711 I had a very busy weekend out of town, with no internet connection. So this one comes one day late. Sorry for that :P

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/my-comic/going-home-comic-2/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/my-comic/going-home-comic-2/ MS Office COM/OLE objects to Open Office http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/DW0vXnAW_o4/ http://blog.ciuly.com/general/ms-office-comole-objects-to-open-office/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:06:37 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=705 I have some applications written to use MS office COM. Specifically Excel. Everything was working nice and dandy until today. Because some time ago I decided to permanently move to open office and hence uninstalled MS Office. And today I had to use an application that was using the ms office OLE objects.

A little search found the solution. Transparent and without needing to rewrite/re-compile your applications:

AutomateIt:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/automateit/

Just install and you’re ready to OLE.

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/general/ms-office-comole-objects-to-open-office/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/general/ms-office-comole-objects-to-open-office/ I think I crashed pixton… http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/psj3fm_3z54/ http://blog.ciuly.com/my-comic/i-think-i-crashed-pixton/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:24:19 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=703 I was working on my second comic (ahead of time, to be on the safe side) and I went for a 3 panels directly (instead of the 1+any as in the first case) and after I finished the first panel I just clicked on the second one directly, without saving or anything. Aaaaand everything went dead. I mean the entire server is dead. It’s not just me, downornot.com also reports it down (well, actually, it doesn’t report it up. It just freezes there as well).

But, I like to think of it as a mere coincidence. No way I did this…

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]]> http://blog.ciuly.com/my-comic/i-think-i-crashed-pixton/feed/ 0 http://blog.ciuly.com/my-comic/i-think-i-crashed-pixton/ My first online comic http://feeds.ciuly.com/~r/CiulysBlog-ReinventingTheWheel/~3/3RWt5EepwMk/ http://blog.ciuly.com/my-comic/my-first-online-comic/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:06:47 +0000 ciuly http://blog.ciuly.com/?p=698 It’s not really a comic per se, as in it’s not really funny. Ok, so it’s not funny at all, but still, it might bring some smiles to one or two people. Maybe one. Think positive.

As I’m using a 3rd party online software to “create” it. It is supposed to be a weekly comic, so hopefully, I won’t forget to update it weekly.

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