Updates

   So first of all, an apology. I'm sooo sorry but I've just had so much stuff going on right now. School exams, family stuff and more but I'm back now.

   So first of all, OS. I've gone from the Debian  beta distro back to Fedora 13.
Learning about networking and stuff like that at the minute and I finally made a start on image programming with C++ using SDL. LazyFoo is the best resource going for learning SDL in my opinion!

   Making a Perl IRC bot for part of a competition *spoiler!!!* but I can't really say anything about that at the moment... Needless to say, it's something you'll hear more about in the future!

   I've also started on some free-lance work using vWorker. Seems good but I don't like having to under-bid on everything to gain some rep...

   Anyways, I have a few ideas coming up for the future. It involves  bit of game programming with C++ and SDL, a bit of AI in Perl *spoiler!!!* and who knows what else ;P

   I'll be back soon!
      NotMyFault

Perl IRC Bot

    So I've decided to learn Perl. It seems like a good language to learn as it's what is usually used for small hacks and quick and dirty scripts. So after the usual small, useless projects (Calculator, Guess my Number, etc) I decided to make an IRC bot.
    I spend most of my day on IRC channels. Mostly #HBH on hellboundhackers.org! I decided to make a bot to log everything while I'm away at school (Which starts tomorrow :() I've made good progress and all I have to do is make it connect via ssl and it'll be ready to go! Some of it's functionality is giving/taking ops, saving all conversations to a file, greeting and saying goodbye to people and sleeping and waking.
    Anywhoo, that's all with me! If anyone knows about connecting via ssl in perl, the comments are open.
       NotMyFault

My Venture to Linux

    So, I got a new laptop about a month ago. Previously, I was using my Dad's laptop or the family desktop. I had a _big_ accident with the family computer but that's all covered in another post ;D Now that I had my own laptop, I wasn't scared of destroying something I didn't own!

    Now, due to some influence and advice on my favourite irc channel, #hbh on hellboundhackers.org, I decided Debian 5.0.5 was the distro for me. I downloaded an iso then burned it to a CD and tried to boot. Couldn't read from the CD-ROM was the error. Kinda stupid because it was reading from the CD-ROM when it booted... I was talking to some guys and they said it might have been because Debian doesn't get updated too often, that Lenny mightn't have been updated recently and since my laptop is new, the CD-ROM mightn't have been recognised!

    Annoying, but nothing I could do about it. I then moved on to my second favourite distro, Fedora. Fedora 13 Gnome downloaded to a Live USB and I'm away. I partition, la di da di da. Then when I have it installed I realised that it was _slow_! It would take at least 20 seconds to open up a web page in FF. I then inquired on #hbh and was told the problem could have been because I was using 32-bit Fedora on a 64-bit lappy. Even more annoying.

    By now, I had made a nice file system and everything formatted nicely. Now when I installed fedora, and subsequently formatted that partition I un-intentionally left GRUB installed. This caused some _serious_ problems when I tried to boot back into windows to make a new live-cd! Basically, I could boot nothing. Luckily, I had a live cd of Xubuntu so I could boot into that. Then I had to install Xubuntu and use that version of GRUB so I could boot into windows (Thanks to #hbh!) Made a live USB of a 64-bit Fedora and then installed that. Problems solved! (finally)

    Now that I'm happily in Linux, I want to get onto Debian. #hbh recommended netbootin and I'm trying out that now :D So two mottos, find people you can trust (Most of #hbh) and then, more importantly, trust them! Shout out right here to all my friends at #hbh, especially Spyware, Ynori7, Drewid[rogue], Moshbat (sometimes trustable ;P) and yhrei_43 who frequents occasionally!
       NotMyFault

Back Again!

    So I'm back again! I haven't posted in a _long_ time so sorry guys! Lots has happened in the last couple of weeks so I might as well tell everybody.

    Well I found out about hackerspaces. They are class and to make things even better, there's one in my area :D They're running a Linux workshop sometime soon so I think I'll make it my business to attend that.

    Speaking of Linux, my laptop is now dual-booted with Fedora 13 but my whole conversion to Linux deserves a post itself so watch this space!

    My house has also been completely re-done. Well, not completely but a decent portion of it. My parents decided it was bes to get it done before school comes back again which is in less than a week :) If you think I don't post often enough now, hopefully some routine will help me post more regularly, I doubt it though ;P

    Along with my goal that I set 3 weeks ago for myself which was to finish reading C++ Primer (Failed btw) I've also taken it upon myself to learn AJAX, Javascript and JQuery properly so I can finish that damn app on the sidebar <_> It's really starting to annoy me. What should have been a simple, week long project has turned into a month long drag of nothing getting done on it.

    More happened but I'll tell everyone about this later. Glad to be back!
       NotMyFault

Widget Update

    I've been away for the last few weeks and only now am I getting some time to do some more work on this widget! You will see a form input and a blank box above it at the moment and if you do decide to press the submit button all you're getting is an alert box saying "success". It's lying. It's not a success yet. For now, I only have 2 small problems I need to work on. The first is displaying 2 .txt files using jquery or Javascript and the second is to use AJAX to submit the form instead of the page needing to reload. Then my widget will be up and running at last!

    I wonder what I'll do when I finish this... I'm working on a console game of Snake in C++ at the moment and I'm also looking at making a CMS. My last CMS worked but the layout was horrible and the code was a right mess so maybe I make a new one with my new-found talent in AJAX and Jquery ;P

    Ok, so that's about all that's happened since last time I posted apart from Apple making it legal to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iTouch :D I'd ask you again, not to submit the form in the sidebar because I don't want anything weird happening!

    NotMyFault

New Widget Being Developed!

    So I've started developing a new widget for this blog! It's going to use Javascript, JQuery and AJAX and PHP as the back-end. As you can't use PHP on blogger, the PHP will be hosted on an old site of mine. The AJAX will mean there shouldn't be any re-loads when you submit the form but it will also mean that if you don't have javascript enabled, you won't be able to use this Widget! I'm working on a workaround for it now but if on the off-chance that you see some weird looking widget under the My Music Library heading in the sidebar, don't use it! I'm not really sure what'll happen if you do but most likely you'll be re-directed to a page full of PHP errors!
    Also, when this widget goes live, don't try to hack it! It will be authenticated server-side so nothing will get through and you're just making it hard work for me! I'm requesting comments for this post too by the way! If anyone has any workarounds for writing to a .txt file in blogger using javascript, jquery or ajax I'm all ears! Same goes for implementing some sort of spam prevention too. At some stage, depending on how well it goes on this blog, I would like to bring this mainstream and open this out to other people who want to use it. So watch this space!
       NotMyFault

Weird Looking Widgets

    Just letting everyone know that if you see any weird looking Widgets/Gadgets in my sidebar over the next couple of weeks that I'm making different ones to practice and hopefully make something useful! If you have any ideas on what would make a good widget please leave a comment as I'm stuck for ideas at the moment!
    As well as that, I'm starting to make some apps in C and C++ to help me learn and to make my life a bit easier! So if anyone wants to make any suggestions, I'm open to them!
    I also have 2 new sites in my sidebar links. www.zoleet.com and www.goluhaque.comoj.com. These are two cool sites and I'd strongly advise you to check them out! That's all for now.
       NotMyFault

New Laptop!

    I finally got my first laptop! I'm delighted with it :D (Yes, you are going to see a lot of smilies and exclamation marks this post ;P ) It's a Gateway NV54. With Windows 7 64-bit on it. (I'm working on putting Debian on it but something got messed up in the iso so I'm going to have to download it again ): ) Here's the specs:

4GB RAM;
320GB HDD;
Intel Pentium Processor T4400. Dual core and 2.20GHz;
15.6" HD LED LCD;
Integrated Webcam and mic;

    In my opinion, a decent laptop! I got some anti-virus software on it too but it's nearly as bad as Norton or MacAfee :( Not like I was going to keep it anyways ;P

    So I guess that's about it!
       NotMyFault

My Phone

    I have a mobile-phone. It's probarbly the cheapest, worst-looking, basic phone you can buy but I love it. Wanna know why? Because I can do practically anything to it! I can kick it off stairs, throw it in a bin, drop it on granite, throw it onto concrete, from a second floor I can throw it into a wall, etc, etc.
    Don't believe me? Watch the videos! Also, if you have anything you want me to do with my phone just comment and I'll see what I can do!

Kicked Down Stairs

Thrown Out of Window

Thrown Onto Granite

Thrown 12ft Into a Bin

Thrown Down 2 Stories At A Wall

    These videos are 100% real by the way!
       NotMyFault

NotMyFault

    Hey, I'm NotMyFault and this is my blog about hacking, programming and whatever else takes my fancy :D
    I suppose I should make something useful out of this site but really it's just here to try make a little bit of money for me on the side with the AdSense ads (Sorry if they end up being big images) that are on the bottom of every blog post. It's also here as a document of me learning about computers in general so there'll be a huge mix of topics on here.

    That's that then, first post down!
       NotMyFault