I’ve been low on money lately as well. I recently got the Paypal debit, so I’m hoping my little bits of money will transfer into it soon. I have to buy a lot of supplies for my senior graduation project product, I did the website, but I also want to include a model of a futuristic peaceful city on Mars, much like the city on Ergo Proxy.

So much has happened, but never really had the time to post it. I’ve been getting worried about college, I haven’t applied to many colleges at all because of my low money, college applications are so damn expensive! That’s why I’m hoping on getting an acceptance letter from UNCA on the 15th of this December, so I can stop applying to colleges, well that is if I don’t get accepted to NCState. I haven’t applied to a single college out of state, I simply won’t be able to afford it, not even with the money I get from the Marines, I really don’t care, UNCA offers a under-grad program in Mechatronics, and that’s what I want. It will set me up for Biomechatronics grad program at MIT.

Speaking of MIT, I submitted my project to MIT THINK 15 days ago. I’m excited, I hope I win. I’ve been thinking of Verdis so much, and I need a new computer to setup a repository on it. Not only that, but I’ve been thinking about working off FreeBSD…

Speaking of updates, I need to update my Wordpress, I don’t even know what version this is, but I know there is a version 2.6.5 out, I’m probably on 2.5, can’t remember, this was setup more than a year ago. ANIME, ANIME, ANIME… I love it, great story’s great stuff. I really like cyberpunk stuff, and short series anime’s. Like so far I’ve seen “Serial Experiments Lain,” which is my absolute favorite, not only is it cyberpunk, but it’s so psychologically disturbing! It’s a great anime, and it’s 13 episodes long. I also enjoyed “School Days,” which is a great love triangle anime, but get’s crazy at the end, very disturbing, but I loved it! My little brother is the one who told me about it, the anime makes me think about him a lot. My little brother has always been able to get girls, lucky him, he was born “cute” I guess. Me, I’m not so lucky, not so cute looking, rather rough, and I’m very shy to the girls I really like, ahahaha, well at least I won’t have to worry about that “School Days” situation. I LOVE WWW.CRUNCHYROLL.COM!

In Newspaper, I’ve been drawing more than usual. I think I can become “go to artist,” I’ve been increasing my skills, and self-style of drawing. I’ve also became a fan of a well-known artist.. Keith Thompson, of http://www.keiththompsonart.com/ – His art is insane! I love it, its great, his photoshop skills are excellent too, his artwork is superb! Someday I hope to be able to draw as good as him, and use photoshop as good as him. I mean, I can draw pretty well, and use Photoshop pretty well, just enough to impress my high school. OH, and at school I also decided to join the “Save Darfur NOW” club. I’m hoping on contributing what I can for the cause.

Like I said early, the ZocialNET. Well the “.ZocialNET/” which is coming out of the box more, unique interface and design, and “the system” I must say I think is better than Facebook, and MySpace. I also set it up to where you HAVE to be invited to join the system, that way the ZocialNET won’t accumulate a bunch of losers, and bots, and un-wanted people on the network. Other projects in the ZocialNET I’m working towards are the a social visualization system, based off the JIT ( Javascript Information Visualization Toolkit) which is superb! A system where you can visualize the social interaction between each user is what I’m aiming for an JIT has the tools to make it happen, but of course this will take several months of development before I can integrate it into the ZocialNET. I also built the ZocialNET with a CLI, and IDE, which I think are pretty neat and handy. The CLI provides news, an the IDE are for people who want to get involved. I also ended up making a small, sweet looking home base interface for the ZocialNET. I thin it looks, and works great! Now I just have to fix the eyeOS…

hmmm… soo much has happened, and so much is about to happen. I’ve watched “A Victim of the Brain” a docu-drama on Google videos, which was great, and very interesting, it’s about cognitive science and the brain. I learned more about the conscious of the brain, and how WE ARE victims of the brain, because some things are just pre-defined, which define our choices. I learned there is NO free-will, but there is desires. I think it’s really interesting and that everyone should take a look at it. More about a victim of the brain: a 1988 film by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos, loosely based on The Mind’s I, a compilation of texts and stories on the philosophy of mind and self, co-edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The film weaves interviews with Hofstadter with adaptations of several works in the book: Dennett’s Where am I?, The Soul of the Mark III Beast by Terrel Miedaner, and also the short story The Seventh Sally by Stanis?aw Lem. The film was shown several times on television in Holland in the late eighties…. WHERE TO WATCH: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8576072297424860224

I’m also getting ready to setup a new layout on the website one last time today. Hopefully everyone will like it, and it’ll be a surprise. It’s more personalized, and efficient.

In school I’ve been reading “Dracula” good but not my style. Out of school I’ve been listening to the Audiobook of “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow! Which is excellent cyberpunk book, all about hacking and stuff. Reminds me of the good ol’ telnet days etc… when it was cool to be a super geek, well it still is too me! w1ld3833zt!!! lol Anyways, I say check out the book. I might upload the audiobook so everyone can download it. It’s been reviewed at cyberpunkreview.com here: http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/books/cyberpunk-books/little-brother/ – CHECK IT OUT!

I think i’ll opne up a downloads section where you can download things I like, and I’ll include hacking/ bypass software with tutorials. Not super-serious killing, stealing, and destroying hacking software, but things like $sys$Firefox lol, and things like that…

I think I’m going to close this post now, so much has happened, too much to blog about, and so much is getting ready to happen, that I will try to blog about.

-!RONALD A. RICHARDSON!

The Verdis Organization/ Technologies will offer free hosting of;

Free Hosting Services

* Blog Hosting (Wordpress)
* Email Hosting (name@verdis.org)
* Forum Hosting (IPB, vBulletin, phpBB)
* Image Hosting
* Sub-Domain Hosting (name.verdis.org)
* Web Hosting (5MB, Unlimited Bandwidth, 1 MySQL Database, Plesk, PHP/ Apache ASP)

you can find more information here: http://verdis.org/services/hosting/

Both ASP and PHP are languages used to build Dynamic Web sites that can interact with Databases and exchange information. ASP (Active Server Pages) is from Microsoft and is used with IIS (Internet Information Server) that runs on Microsoft Servers. PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is from Rasmus Lerdorf, who originally designed this parsing language which was later modified by different people. It runs on Unix and Linux servers and it also has an NT server version.

There are a lot of differences between ASP and PHP.

Cost

To run ASP programs one needs IIS installed on a Windows platform server, which is not free. PHP programs run on Linux, which is free. Even the connectivity of the database is expensive in the case of ASP as MS-SQL is a product of Microsoft that needs to be purchased. PHP generally uses MySQL, which is freely available.

Speed

If we compare the speed of ASP and PHP then PHP has an upper hand. PHP code runs faster than ASP. ASP is built on COM based architecture, which is an overhead for the server whereas PHP code runs in its own memory space.

Platform Compatibility

PHP programs can run on various platforms like Linux, Unix, Windows and Solaris whereas ASP is mainly associated with Windows platforms. However, ASP can run on a Linux platform with ASP-Apache installed on the server.

Additional Costs

Many of the tools used in PHP are free of cost and since PHP is open source a lot of code can be found in open source forums. PHP has inbuilt features like ftp, email from a web page or even encryption mechanisms but in ASP such features are not built in and some additional components are required. Therefore an additional cost is incurred for such components.

Base Language

PHP is based on C++ language and the syntax used in PHP is quite similar to C/C++. C/C++ is still considered the best programming language by many programmers and people who love this language would surely feel more comfortable with the syntax of PHP. ASP on the other hand has a more Visual Basic kind of syntax that again is closely related to only Microsoft products. So, it depends on a person-to-person which language he or she is comfortable

Database Connectivity

PHP, being extremely flexible, can connect to various databases, the most popular being MySQL. ASP mainly uses MS-SQL.

Conclusion

Both languages have their advantages specific to users. Some would argue that both the languages have their own importance and depending on the user’s requirements the language and the platform can be chosen. If we talk about developing a discussion board then ASP is equally capable but many feel the best discussion boards are developed in PHP. If a user is looking for some e-commerce application development then many would call ASP the ideal choice. This does not mean that PHP cannot provide e-commerce solutions, only that many people choose ASP.

From my perspective, PHP is an all around better choice than ASP.

The ffmpeg installation script version 2.0.1 released with the following improvements.
• Mencoder bug fixed
• flvtool2 bug fixed
• generic servers script bugs fixed

download link > http://ffmpeginstall.sourceforge.net/

–It’s simple and easy to install. Here’s a basic summary on how to use the script.

You need root access to the server to do the following:
1) Download the script source
2) Untar the script source
3) Chen the file INSTALL ,it will give full instructions.
4) But you need basic unix working knowledge
Thank you

ENJOY THE SCRIPT!

Recently I downloaded the ubuntu source for linux2.6.24-18.32, which is 8.04 latest. I need the i386 modules in ABI to finish the compile for Verdis, there there but there not the right ones. I often lose place of myself in the Linux Terminal when it comes to things like this. I need /linux2.6.24/debian/abi/2.6.24-18.32(verdis)6/i386/386.modules – but instead I only have abi/2.6.24-17.36/ – whats up with that? Right now I just found another package of linux source code labeled 2.6.24-18.32, hopefully it will have the correct modules. If anyone recognizes what I’m doing wrong, please assist me. It’s probably minor. Once I get Verdis compiled I think I will open a repo host of the latest linux source codes in order on one simple download page, so no-one else has to go through things like this. I personally think ubuntu is doing a good job, but it’s a bit jumbled and out of order for me.

• click here to download 1600×1200
• click here to download 1280×1024

My compile of Verdis crashed with some ABI modules in the linux 2.6 kernel i was compiling, I fixed it though. Found out that I didn’t have the i386 modules in place. So I got that sorted out, at the reate of this compile I should have results for the next compile tomorrow morning.

Anyways that’s not what I wanted to write about, I’ve started out some new website projects on my server that you will see up and running within the next week or so. I’ve been working on these projects for a while. The majority came from open source projects, but they had a lot of bugs, so I fixed them and wen’t on modifying the codes to what I need. They are a number of web services and applications. The following projects are all licensed with the MIT License, some are under Creative Commons…

First off, I am starting an online magazine called “Green Society Magazine”; it’s going to be a magazine about almost everything from culture to technology to music to fashion to politics, and a lot of other things…

My second project is called “Spacegeist,” it’s really for my senior exit project but it will be another personal website of mines with a bunch of stuff on it. Not much of a service but people can register and join in on the fun. The cool part is, is that it’s an evolving website that will do what it wants… more genetic algorithms… lol

My third project is “My Green Budget,” it is an online budget/ finance management system. Its user friendly and has a lot of nice features to it. It came to me when I was reading this month’s GQ issue about the down fall on the economy, and the authors testimonial to the effects it’s been having, and how we should be looking forward to recession. The economy is not looking it’s best, so I decided for me to get ahead is to manage my spending habits and the little money I have. This will also be useful when college comes around next year… if I can afford it!!! LOL (I’m seriously thinking of joining the military to pay for college, there benefits are looking really good!!!)

My fourth project is called “FlickStreamr,” it will be a simple Wordpress blog that allows people to stream movies on it. Of course, from 3rd party sources. The blog will only post the best movie sources and screening, no bootlegs etc…

My fith project will be “the universal eye,” which is sort of like Flickr, where it allows photographers, and any body else to post photos online, it’s really simple. Sign-up, upload, and share… The coolest features of the website will be in the community part and the “grand collage.” The grand collage will be a collage of random users photos smashed and jumbled together on a web page. Hopefully it will be a application that features higher rating photos in the collage.

My sixth minor project, which is port 28 of the ZocialNET, it has came out so nice I decided it deserves it’s own domain. “ZocialOS.com” – Port 28 is an online web browse desktop environment operating system that features a kernel, and lots of cool applications. Anyone can sign up and get an account on the system. It even has an ftp, and documents etc… It’s like taking your desktop everywhere on the road.

My seventh project, “Jabber Board,” is a online chat system that will allows people to come in and chat, create rooms, and channels, pm, all that, it’s basically an online chat client and message board together. The board is phpbb3.

Those are my near future projects, so they will be a great addition to the network. Also Huntersville’s new website is almost complete and I can’t wait to have it 100% ready for them!