Actually before I start I would like to say that I don’t normally do these types of things because its something so many people do without really meaning to ever accomplish the things on the list and I didn’t want to be just another person creating some list I don’t plan to even bother to look at again after the new year starts. Here is my list and I fully intend to accomplish most if not all the things I put on this list (yeah yeah Marc thats what they all say).

#1) Replace my main source of liquid (pepsi) with water.
Yeah yeah a lot of people have things like this on their list and for good reason. I don’t plan to illuminate pepsi from my diet completely just trying to make water my main source of liquids. I’ve grown into some really unhealthy habits over the past few years and I plan to fix them 1 thing at a time.

#2) Organize my communication sources.
This means trying to get a standardized way of being contractible. I almost have this all accomplished using mostly Google services just need to refine it and make everything more efficient.

#3) Organize my work flow and create “work hours” and “play hours”.
This kind of merges with the previous one but I consider it a much larger and slightly different task. Right now I Sleep whenever, I eat whenever, I work whenever and I play whenever. It makes for a very hard environment to be productive. Don’t get me wrong at first it was awesome and I did get a lot accomplished but that was because it was new. But its getting old quick and I am less and less productive everyday. I have obligations that don’t really allow for such a lifestyle anymore and a slightly aging body that complain to me when I don’t treat it well

#4) Organize my finances and create a budget.
I think that this is going to be a major milestone in creating peace and harmony in my household and getting things on track. I’ve always been a person that has to have his code perfectly organized and efficient but my life has always been quite unorganized and this year it stops starting with budget

#5) Complete at least two of my unfinished projects at least to a releasible version.
I have quite a few small projects I’ve started over the years that are in a stale state of unfinished. I think that finished a few of them it will do a lot for my motivation and who knows they may even get me paid some extra cash or some new contacts!

#6) Get my company LLC’d finally!
I figure its about time I get SeilerCorp LLC officially started. This means registering the LLC and getting a tax person(ugh!).

#7) Perfect my knowledge in OO style programing and learn complete abstraction.
muahahahahaha! True OO is something I havent really attempted much because I have my own style of coding but I thing truly researching OO in its neutral sense and learning techniques not specific to certain languages will help me understand it better and give me a even cleaner way of writing code w00t!

#8) Stay on track with any methods I put into place for the goals above.
This is really a meta-goal to serve as a reference to keeping all the hard work put into the other goals worth it and mean something. if I can’t keep this goal all the others are just a waste of time.

I was really going for a list of 10 things but I fell short on it so this is good enough. I didn’t want to make some impossibly long list of things I wanted to accomplish anyways and I wanted to mostly list things that can have a status of “done” and “not done” and not fill it with a bunch of things that are on going and cant really be checked off per say. I do have the water one and the meta-goal for the others but thats really the only 2 on going goals. The others can be set as completed. Wether I keep doing whatever method I put into place for those other goals is another story and is covered under goal 8

I’m all for spreading the word about important things like breast cancer or raising money for some cause but reposting crap other people post to avoid some bad luck, a post of which I as a reposter probably didn’t even fully read or care to investigate is just not in my to-do list.

Now on another note I play some of the facebook apps and they can be a bit spammy I must admit and I struggle with that everyday as I play those games. I try to spam as little as possible(which apparently to other app players is a bad thing) while I’m playing those games and I avoid the ones that do things without asking. The only reason I really play those games is to have some fun with my family and to unwined a little so I don’t get burnt out on programming. The only justification I have for those apps is because people can block the spam they send and it no longer bothers them. Respost’s you cant block without explicitly blocking that friend. Which I can’t see being a good thing because even some of your bestest of friends repost some stupid cause or “do you love your friends” crap one time or another. It gets the best of em, even I have done it once. YES I DID I ADMIT IT! But I felt really bad afterwards and had really bad indigestion.

Moral of the story… STOP REPOSTING SPAMMY USELESS VIRUS CRAP!

Michael Bublé – Everything

You’re a falling star, you’re the get away car.
You’re the line in the sand when I go too far.
You’re the swimming pool, on an August day.
And you’re the perfect thing to say.

And you play it coy but it’s kinda cute.
Ah, when you smile at me you know exactly what you do.
Baby don’t pretend that you don’t know it’s true.
’cause you can see it when I look at you.

[Chorus:]
And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times
It’s you, it’s you, you make me sing.
You’re every line, you’re every word, you’re everything.

You’re a carousel, you’re a wishing well,
And you light me up, when you ring my bell.
You’re a mystery, you’re from outer space,
You’re every minute of my everyday.

And I can’t believe, uh that I’m your man,
And I get to kiss you baby just because I can.
Whatever comes our way, ah we’ll see it through,
And you know that’s what our love can do.

[Chorus]

So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

[Chorus:]
And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times
It’s you, it’s you, you make me sing.
You’re every line, you’re every word, you’re everything.
You’re every song, and I sing along.
‘Cause you’re my everything.
Yeah, yeah

So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

http://www.digitalfiz.com/hax/secondlife.php

Now normally a phisher would setup sub domains so you would see something like https://secure.secondlife.com.phishingsite.com/login.php or something similar to fool people who pay a little more attention. If you went to that site and tried to login you should have seen the page that told you when the information was stolen. Again I didnt log any information you may have put in that fake login page but I would hope you didnt use your real information anyways.

The best most secure way to make sure you never fall victim to a phishing site is to go to the site directly. Like if your logging into secondlife go to secondlife.com and login then try the page you clicked on again. If its the correct and safe site it will notice you logged in elsewere and redirect accordingly. You should NEVER EVER put your information into a page that comes up from a link given to you by anyone or anything. It is easy to spoof urls in emails and messengers and make you think its the right site when its not. Also you can check the sites security certificate to validate that its actually secondlife or whatever place your trying to login to. Like if you go to https://secure-web20.secondlife.com/my/account/login.php you should see a lock either in the bottom right corner or up but the url bar you can click on to see the security certificate and who it belongs to. Also make sure that the url in the url bar starts with https:// if it doesn’t then its more then likely a fake site. I don’ know many sites anymore that dont make you login via a secure connection.

One thing I would like to point out about friendships and security. You have to remember that just because a link in an email or messenger or any other type of message from a friend ISN’T safe. You always have to think “what if they have been hacked already” because thats how these things spread. People think oh its from johnny he is my best friend its safe and BAM they are a victim too and it spreads like wild fire. Thats why I said never login to pages you clicked from anyone or anything. Always ALWAYS go to the site directly and login first. I would also suggest reading my older post about lazy passwords to learn more about sand boxing incidents and protecting yourself from to much damage. I wrote something on checking the URL awhile back too I would recommend reading its a long the same lines as this.

Now I have been thinking about how amazon isnt the only “cloud” service out there and I do plan on making some tools that work with others too just have to research the more popular ones. Looking very for to microsofts new azure system and I think it might be the next step into big things “cloud”wise

This does not fix sound for streaming media. That is a separate issue with gstreamer and should only be a problem for 64bit users.

Ok, well I will say that the fix was not easy to find but it is easy to do…. go figure. First off the distributions of secondlife even the newest beta versions and all other variants like Emerald(which I use) and CoolViewer come with an older version of libopenal.1. That also goes for Ubuntu even the newest 9.10(Karmic). I didn’t really research which version they came with I just know its older then the one required for being able to use openal with pulseaudio. Direct pulseaudio support didnt come into openal until 1.10 so up until this point you could possibly get openal to use alsa which pulseaudio has a plugin for. The only problem with the alsa plugin is its unstable and for some reason openal seems to make it scream. Maybe its the load it puts on it or something I don’t know. I do know that VLC using the alsa plugin for pulseaudio studders a little bit but works ok. So the solution to no audio for secondlife in Ubuntu 64bit and really 32bit is to compile a newer version of libopenal which is simple enough. Now for the 32bit version its a little bit easier because you just compile it like normal and move the libopenal.1.11.753 to the lib folder of secondlife and continue from there. Here is the step by step instructions to do so:

• Step 1 – get essentials

  First we need to make sure you have all the essential build material installed like gcc and cmake so liked go ahead and install that stuff:

  # sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libpulse-dev
  for 64bit you need to also install multilib support so that you can compile the 32bit version:
  # sudo apt-get install gcc-4.4-multilib gcc-multilib libc6-dev-i386

• Step 2 – get openal and open it up

  Then we must download the latest openal which at the time of this artical is 1.10.622:

  # wget http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal-releases/openal-soft-1.11.753.tar.bz2
  # tar -jxvf openal-soft-1.10.622.tar.bz2
  # cd openal-soft-1.10.622/build

• Step 3 – compile openal

  This will also be done 2 different ways depending on if your on 32bit or 64bit ubuntu first we show 32bit:

  # cmake ..
  For 64bit version you have to do this:
  # CFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS=-m32 cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DLIB_SUFFIX=32
  If you see something like so then it compiled in pulseaudio support:
  – Building OpenAL with support for the following backends:
  –      ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio, WaveFile
  Then we compile(both 32bit and 64bit)
  # make

• Step 4 – back up the old libopenal and copy the new one

  First we need to back up the old libopenal.so.1 just encase this one is messed up. I know, I know it didnt work anyways but still always backing up is a good practice

  # mv /path/to/your/secondlife/lib/libopenal.so.1 /path/to/your/secondlife/lib/libopenal.so.1.old
  Then we copy the new one over like so:
  # cp libopenal.so.1.10.622 /path/to/your/secondlife/lib/libopenal.so.1

• Step 5 – making sure openal knows to use pulse as its audio source

  Now because openal defaults to alsa which pulse has a buggy plugin for we must override that with the user config file. The following command assumes you have nothing in the .alsoftrc yet because you really havent messed with it. If you have a .alsoftrc and have settings in it just simply set the drivers to pulse and now anything you may already have using openal will use pulse The only warning I have for this is that if you have other programs that come bundled with libopenal.1 may not have the newest version that supports pulse but you should be able to do the same for that program as you did with secondlife. If it breaks anything just change it back and look for another route or ask the providers of the other software too provide an update.

  # echo “drivers=pulse” > ~/.alsoftrc

Now you should have sound for secondlife You might want to restart your computer to make sure no sort of caching is going on. Remember this does not fix sound for streaming media I am still working on that. I will post and link from this one to the streaming media fix if/when I get one firgured out.