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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
As I am a big proponent of the SETI@Home project as well as a Linux user, discovering that optimized SETI applications existed and how to use them was important. It took quite some time to figure this all out by myself since there are hardly any (from what I could ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I actually wrote this little application quite a few weeks ago, I was just contemplating whether it was worth posting or not. I had just finished building my new PC and was starting to do a lot of overclocking and tweaking. Frustrated by the fact that there weren't any Linux ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
This took a bit longer to get out than I had originally expected but here it is. As a precursor to my previous post, I wanted to make a new "plugin" for pidgin that would update my music status from Banshee because as of the development versions of 1.0, they ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Ever since the DBUS API change (more like overhaul) during the development of Banshee 1.0 and developers haven't yet started supporting it in their plugins so I decided that I would play around with it. From what I have seen, it seems that the perception is that DBus is hard ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Back when I wrote ProxyBot, I was frustrated by the fact that there was a lack of maintained and documented third party libraries for the IRC client protocol. So I essentially wrote my own implementation of the IRC client protocol for use with the bots that I write. Well I ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Ever since I have been getting back into the swing of Web Development, working on one of my projects, I really took notice to something. Whenever you see a PHP application out there that is free to download and you start looking through how they did things. You start to ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
So there were some things that were in need of tweaking in the last version, so I have now released version 0.7. Due to popular demand I have implemented support for MySQL in addition to Postgres. I tried getting SQLite to work but it isn't thread safe and would require ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Although I was finished with this about a month ago, I just haven't gotten around to it until now. So here it is. Its the first stable release of ProxyBot, my port scanning IRC bot, version 0.6. As far as usage goes, its pretty self explanatory, simply download the tarball ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Recently, some of my friends had inspired me to start looking into how to make IRC bots. Well I did, and honestly I was fascinated by it. So anyway, I made my own implementation of the IRC specification as well as my first bot in python within a day or ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Yea, well I've decided that I wanted to move to a new blogging system as well as having the ability to use my own domain. So I've moved the blog and all of its previous posts over to my website at www.madsoft.org running (of course) wordpress. At the moment its ...
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