Youtube has issues, they need to handle their problems…

If your a frequent user of Youtube, then no doubt, youv’e noticed how often you get “internal server errors” or the infamous, “a team of highly trained monkeys has been dispached to handle your issue”. Sending internal emails via Youtube is almost hopeless, I think I have about 40 messages that I cannot respond to, and it makes me feel bad, since they are questions pertaining to help on certain topics.

As far as issues, I am a little dissapointed about how much non American content is on there. Tons of shit in Japanese, or some asiatic language, that have nothing to do with video blogging. Japanimation is all over it as well, and I don’t feel that it should be allowed on there, since it has to be original creators content…and I highly doubt that the artist who drew the animation is the same person posting it.

Youtube has come a long way in a very short amount of time, and it has amazing potential of being a conglamerate in the cyber world, but most likely it will follow the 2k+ trend of selling out, by allowing advertisers to spam and eventually have popups. It already started the annoying Macromedia flash player adds, that flash and have stupid marketing like “shoot the duck for a free ipod”! Really!? Cmon there isn’t really somebody out there that stupid (or at least I’d like to believe).

If Youtube is to succeed, keep the content rich, and plentiful, and definately original. Keep Hollywood, and movie previews and advertisers out. Trim down the banner adds to non abrasive advertisements, since I do know that they are neccessary to generate revenue, but at least let us use adblock to block the space, instead of using flashblock, or noscript exstensions (were all using firefox now right? heh ), so stop with the macromedia player please, and a lot more people will be much happier.

Hot potatoe…

I love politics, but rarely do I touch the subject, since it spurs immediate heat and arguments , but recently, all over the television, and internet, I see complete morons. Yes that’s correct, complete idiots, stupidity beyond explanation. Either our education system is failing us, or we as Americans have way to much time on our hands. On Youtube there is this video  which shows a young teen with a sign that says “FUCK BUSH” on a street corner getting arrested. Majority of the comments, well, are from complete idiots, who claim that he’s being arrested for his “freedom of speech”. Another video shows a 17 year old teen getting arrested for smoking 1 marijuana joint, and again, complete morons chopping it up again.

Have you personally fought for our freedom of speech? Because I have. I spent three years in the middle east, defending our country, another 2 years in other parts of the world. I’ve actually served my country…and you know what disgusts me the most? People that don’t do shit but complain about how much freedom they don’t have…or how their rights are being violated. The stupid kid is being arrested because the sign is vulgar, not because of his opinion. Walk into the nearest gas station and start yelling “fuck fuck fuck” over and over, and if you get arrested, are you being arrested for speech? No your being arrested for being a obnoxious asshole.

America completely puzzles me these days. We have teens in college that sympathize with Al queda, and other terrorist groups, actually calling them “organized religious groups”, and that we as Americans are harassing them as that is the cause of their violence. We have Americans that sit around and throw cheap slander and stupid comments about our President. For those un-educated people, realize this..that you are doing more damage to your country than you realize. You don’t get sympathy from other countries, you just make our country look like shit as a whole. Sure our president isn’t the smartest cookie, but he’s our president, like it or not, the “American” thing to do is to support him. We’ve got college students, who have NEVER LEFT THE GODDAMN COUNTRY, who snatch up some completely stupid idea, that they have the slightest idea of whats going on in other countries. Kids and people, that have this huge oral desire to fix problems in America, but are to chicken shit to actually do anything about it.

Now the kid with the pot… our media glorifies weed, in music, television, movies… it makes me sick. It’s a drug, that Americans have learned to tolerate, due to it’s over exposure….so this, in some way, makes it “ok”. Pot heads love to rave about how it’s all natural, it grows from the earth. So does, cocaine, peyote, opium, and shrooms to name a few. Then druggies retort, ” but it’s not processed”….really? Some of the best marijuana, medical grade I mean, is grown in hydroponic stations, where there is no soil that the plant sits in, but chemicals (yes some are vitamins) that make the weed grow stronger and more potent. Drugs are Drugs, like sins are sins, a lie is a lie, and the kid should receive the same punishment that he would have received, if he was carrying $20 of heroin.

We as Americans, should learn to be a little more appreciative, most Americans have no concept of what freedom we have. Sitting down with your family, having dinner, is a privilege that you should appreciate , it’s a luxury that some kids and some fathers and mothers do not have in other countries, and since a good 70% of Americans have never left America, they have no concept of this, but they sure as shit love to talk as if they did…

Pretty Exciting, but pretty scary as well!

Click Here, and you can read about the clinical trials being conducted in China, that is, AIDS infection trials. Seems like we have a really good vaccine on our hands, to completely stop AIDS from spreading, but the only way to test if it’s effective in humans, is well…to test it on humans. The first trial is 100% effective, meaning that all patients that were injected with the vaccine, were completely immune to the AIDS virus 15 days later. How they figured out to wait 15 days sort of puzzles me, but hey it’s a start!

Back on Track!

So after a full 9 days of no internet access from home, or the office, I’m finally back on track, the house had fiber ran, so my downtime should be next to nill, and at the office, we replaced some faulty equipment. I’ve fallen behind about a week in articles, reviews, and how to’s, and am doing my best to get them all up ASAFP.

PornoTube (think Adult YouTube)

Yah so we go into a “shady” topic, well depending on your social views, it may not be that shady at all, but we’ll leave the politics out of this. Anyways, you can check out http://www.pornotube.com/ , while it’s first few weeks out was very gay, literally, it was saturated with homosexual content, so for us straight shooters, I steered clear or the queer. The backbone speed of PornoTube is nowhere near Youtube, and they probably still have a shitty caching setup. Like anything adult, its usually slow, bad quality, and has a lot of downtime. The reason I even chose to mention this topic, is actually for the advertising marketing that can be utilized on a site like this. Give it a few weeks (I wouldn’t put my money on months) and this will be a pop-up haven. Great for those in the adult industry products (dvd, toys, etc) but as always, bad for the dood that just wants to watch some adult entertainment. Keep an eye on this topic, I guarentee this will air on headlines very shortly, if it hasn’t already…and watch the flood gates open.

Transparent Windows in WinXP (All versions)

Little App found HERE , called “Chaos Crystal” allows the user to change the transparency of each window, I downloaded this and played with it a bit in the office, and it works just fine on a lower end system (our terminals are Sempron systems with integrated Video, and 512mb ram) and it runs it fine. I do think though, that it could be revised a little, and set so that all you have to do is hold down the ‘windows’ key and scroll the mouse wheel up and down to change the transparency, because at the moment you have to select each individual window and THEN change the transparency, so it’s not for the fast multi-tasker at all. Give it a try, and tell me what you think…

-Exempt

Split Time :)

Ive been splitting my time between two offices now, my main office in Irvine, and now as a Director of Operations in a Rancho office, so Ive been a little swamped and haven’t had much time to ujpdate my blog, my apologies!!!!~~!! Also I have been having so many problems with my internet at home, so I have decided to upgrade to a full fiber line, 5mbps down and up! It’s offered at the same price as my current two lines, so there is no difference there.

Edit to SuSe 10.1 xgl Nvidia install

I performed several types of SuSe 10.1 installs recently, on numerous systems. If by chance you haven’t installed yet, there is a much easier method on installing the Nvidia drivers, instructions straight from Nvidia:

YaST -> Software -> Change installation Source -> Add

Protocol: FTP
  Server Name: : download.nvidia.com
  Directory on Server: novell

to add the NVIDIA ftp server as additional installation source.
Now use

YaST -> Software -> Install and Delete Software

to install the NVIDIA driver. Select the following packages:

x11-video-nvidia
  nvidia-gfx-kmp-"kernel-flavor"

"kernel-flavor" depends on your installed kernel. Check with
"uname -r" for installed default/smp/bigsmp kernel. Use "sax2 -r"
for X.Org configuration.

I didn’t add the “kernel-flavor” to the search, you may or may not have to…..and there you have it, just reboot, and voila! 3d acceleration is enabled (it always is whenever the driver is running). Now I had a problem for some reason on certain installs, where the YAST and certain menu fonts were ridiculously TINY, I couldn’t read them for the life of me, so I found out that the pixel for font size was set to 56, when it should have been 96-99, and thats located in your Control Center.