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I am a developer with several years of experience in programming, mostly Java an Windows (Visual Studio, DevC++, PHP MySql, etc) environments. Although I know how to program in C, C++ I have never had interaction with any of the GNU tool chains for maintaining used code in many Open Source software (such as Makefiles, autotools, cmake). I know the basic usage of those (what are they for and how to create one) from some online tutorials I have looked.

Some days ago, I decided to engage in helping a specific (not very big) SourceForge C++ project to practice my C++ skills, however, after downloading the SVN code I was presented with an overwhelming source tree which used either autotools or cmake for the generation of the project. I tried to setup either Eclipse CDT and KDevelop to work in the project and also tried adding a simple class (.h and .cpp) manually but I could not make it compile successfully (did not know what files to modify for the autotools or cmake!).

Therefore I would like to know if there is any place or books (other than the typical Manuals which are not very didactic) which could guide me at the "logic" used when participating in projects using such toolsets.

There you go, a proof of concept method to skip those pesky ad-blocking programs and deliver the ads to the lusers.

I do not know if this is innovative or if it has been already implemented, but I came up with it in the last half hour... if it becomes wildly used, then you saw it first here.

Oh, and the CEO-like mumbo jumbo is courtesy of myself...

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A technique to enforce ad delivery in Web (HTML) based applications.

The following is the description of a technique which enforces the deployment of web based advertisment preventing the client applications from removing them automatically using extensions such as Adblock (Firefox), AdMuncher (Internet Explorer), etc.

The typical ad-blocker will allow the removal of certain elements in a web page that match certain predefined filters. Thus for example, if an ad blocking program is instructed to filter out elements containing the text "www.adcompany.com/*" in the URL, then when the web client is downloading a web page and the ad blocking component finds the web page that matches the filter it will remove the corresponding element from the HTML.

In order to avoid such behaviour a method to mix the content with the ads is proposed. This method prevents the use of pre-defined filters to remove automatically ad blocking elements in web pages enforcing the web client to display the page as it was designed by the content provider.

To achieve this, the method consists on three steps.

First the web server (i.e. www.mycontent.com ) creates a random URL which will contain the actual web page content (www.mycontent.com/LKFSPEKW ) and redirects the client browser to such page, which perform the second step for every ad to display.

Secondly an ad-server is setup which provides the predefined ads for the web page. This ad-server communicates with the web serverthat displays the content via server-side scripting language (as PHP, Python, etc) to provide the corresponding add to display. The web server then creates a local copy of the ad creating a random based URL (which still has as base the www.mycontent.com web page) creating a virtual directory (www.mycontent.com/XCKLA132D).

Finally, the web server proceeds to insert the ad links in the displayed web page containing the information to be accessed. It is important to note that the URL containing the content of the page must be of a similar nature (random characters, with numbers, etc) than the adds being served in order to prevent automatic filtering.
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Some of you might have heard about it, some don't. Holophony is, as stated in the Wikipedia:

The results obtained from holophonic recording should be listened to be understood. One of the main breakthroughs is the ability to play audio which is real 3D in contrast with current market techniques like DTS, Dolby Surround, etc. Although These techniques claim to produce tridimensional sound, the audio signal listened lacks of the vertical component. An example would be, in a typical THX introduction video where the robot seems to go around fixing the logo, you can listen the sounds at your front, side and back; however, these sounds lay in the same plane, there is difference in the vertical (i.e. there is *no* way to listen sound at the top of your head).

For some time, I have been looking hard on any information available on Internet that would allow me to create this kind of sound. I am a hobbyst game programmer and I believe this kind of sound has a lot of potential in game development. Specially on these days when portable gaming has became mainstream (and that the consoles are powerful enough to create 3D worlds).

Unfortunately, there is very little information about the process of recording holophonic audio. Some people claim that it is just a type of binaural recording but, you can listen, from samples available at both Wikipedia pages that the binaural recording lacks the depth of dimensionality achieved with Holophony.

As stated on the Wikipedia page, Holophonic sound was invented by an Argentinian named Hugo Zucarelli near the 1980s. It was because of the date of the invention that I was really puzzled why nobody hasnt exploited the inventions; and moreover, why isn't there information on how to achieve this type of audio.

Sometime this year, I started looking *again* for information about Holophony, but now, one obvious thing that I have always missed hit me, this is, if the author is from Argentina then maybe, just maybe there is some information in Spanish (which luckily is my mother tongue).

Although I could not found *how* to record using holophony, to my surprise I found some forums where (it seems) the same Hugo Zucarelli posted what I think is very interesting information which explains why Holophonics is not as widespread as other more accepted sounds.

Unfortunately, the story of this inventor is sad and from what he wrote, it seems some companies from the not-very-liked record industry assossiation of america have once again tried to abuse from the inventor.

I took the task to translate the forum posts made *by* the person who claims to be Hugo zucarelli. On the first forum thread the person claiming to be Mr. Zucarelli uses the nickname Hugi. The translation of the text is as follows:

It is on the next post (#216 ) where the interesting bits start:

As you can read from the above post, Zuccarelli explains a bit of the theory behind Holophony and the gives some hint about the problems he had to stand against the "Yankis" (peyorative for Americans) and Britons.

This is the first part of the story. I will continue it as I have some time.

So, as I stated I am going to list every stupid comment that states that "OpenOffice is compatible with MS Office", that is bullshit at least by OO 2.0 which is by NO MEANS even 80% compatible. This is the first comment I'll annotate:

First bullshit

Ok, this is the deal. I am being clear as I do not like being scammed or the pyramid schemes.

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And that is it, no hidden tricks and anything, of course if you have any question feel free to mail me (you can see my mail up there).

Thank you!