- Benad

I'm not saying this for nothing: I know that out there, something is way better, while Free and Open Source. It's Tigris' Subversion.

Everything you hate about CVS? It's not there. Everything you like about CVS? Almost all of it is there? The only downsides are that it's too new, so almost nothing is "integrated" with it (Emacs, NetBeans...).

Don't beleive me? Read this: "Subversion: The Definitive Guide". Isn't that nice? A branch: a "copy" command (you copy the damn directory!). A tag: a "copy" command (but you don't really need that). That ".cvsignore" file: now in the directory's metadata.

The design is good because it is conceptually simple. CVS is a hack of RCS (and it shows), and most VCS out there are just... well... a world in their own.

The only problems, as I said, is that it is new, and still in active development, thus not "stable" (the API is not fixed, but it doesn't have lots of bugs). And installing it can be difficult, as you need to install it on top of Apache and Berkeley DB 4. But apart from these, there's no reason whatsoever for you not to switch to subversion. It's that great.

Anyways, enough with that sales pitch.

- Benad

I'm having a "musical crush" on The Thrillseekers, especially since I just found for free the radio edit of Synaesthesia for free on amazon.com here. Still trying to get "Dreaming Of You", though...

To be honest, this may be the only dance music I can handle. No, this is not trance...

- Benad

There is a starting consensus that E3 was good, but without surprises. Predictable sequels (MGS3, GTA4, GT4, Doom3, all the same...), remakes (MGS1, FFT, Seiken Densetsu 1), and what's new is not terribly original. The next Sam & Max will be for PC (likelihood of a Mac port: ~50%), and I still think this game would be perfect for consoles.

And The Matrix is cool, but like the previous one. I haven't seen it yet, as I wait for the IMAX version.

I'm still in shock of seing Amadeus for the first time in 5 years. And even at 3 hours (it's the "Director's Cut"), it seems really short.

Anyways, you get the idea... Oh wait, there's nothing to understand here...

- Benad

Also, any AI the credit card company should use to detect fraud should freak out right now with my credit card: I just ordered from amazon.com, amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk in the same day...

- Benad

- Benad

Actually, the following months will be boringly predictable. Strange, if we consider that I'm "free" of school from now on. Freedom my a**...

This week was strangely eerie. My sister was moving, my company was moving from downtown to the "Cité du Multimédia" (Montreal's Old Port), it's the end of school... Yes, Mozart's Requiem was the perfect music for this week.

- Benad

Let's say I have a shitload of cash and I want to host Massinova myself. 64kbps, 50 users average, 24/7. That's 1TB bandwidth usage per month, upstream.

One f***ing Tera byte per month. OK, so I'd really like to help, but damn...

They should partner with Amazon or something, considering the amount of CDs they could help selling (made my buy 2 CDs BTW). Or maybe they could simply have a PayPal button so that I can give them money!

Anyways, this might be the last time I can listen to this radio station, so I'll stay on it another 30 minutes and then I'll go study for my "Engineering Law" exam (yuck).

teknosys, I dedicate this post to you, for creating the best MP3 radio station ever.

- Benad

According to a SpeechWorks spokeswoman, an integration team made up of members from both companies estimated about 130 employees will be shed in the merger, but that figure may be adjusted closer to the deal's closing date. Also, it isn't yet clear how many of those employees will be let go from each company.

I can't wait to talk to my manager next Wednesday: "What's going on with the move of the office to the Old Port? ...And that ScanSoft thing?" The chaos will be so entertaining...

- Benad

Well, it still doesn't make that much sense. But hey, it's a start. Which helps when you've just lost all trace of inspiration.

What was that word again? Oh yes, "spleen".

- Benad

I played "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker", a bit too much actually.

I watched "The Nightmare Before Christmas" again (The signing voice of Jack is actually done by Danny Elfman himself! Another reason to waste valuable time listening to DVD commentary tracks...).

And I played Zelda again.

And I watched "Ghost Busters" on DVD.

That's it. Exciting, isn't it? (That was sarcastic.)

I still have some songs from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" in my head. Well, alongside those hundreds of musics and songs I now know by hearth. Sometimes, I'm just tired of having music in my head alongside my thoughts and actions at the same time... Maybe I would be less mentally tired without that. Or maybe I'd know more things by hearth for my exams, or simply to remember people's names, if I didn't knew those hours of songs in great detail.

- Benad

I'll be really busy at work tomorrow, so I'm trying to get Mac OS X 10.2.5 and the Matrix trailer tonight.

Apart from that, it's the usual.

- Benad

On another note, massinova.com (my favorite online radio) is down since Friday. I like XTC.RADIO.LONDON, but at 160kbps it's eating my bandwidth, like I used to do with Philosomatika...

Today I had some "fun" installing PopFile, a Bayesian filter for POP email accounts to filter spam (à la Mail.app and Mozilla). For once I would have preferred to be at the university working on a research I have to do, but that's another story...

- Benad

Last week was weird. I spent my time working or studying, because I had to, and because there's nothing else I could do. Solitude is the best thing to help you study, after this stupid competitiveness most study freaks have, obviously (because the only people that are as good as me in class are either as smart as me, which is rare, or obsessed competitive perfectionists, which I'm not).

On friday I met for the first time in months/years two people that I somewhat, a little, changed their lives. At least for them to remember my name, and to say hi. Back then, I was strange, err, stranger. I had this "inspiration" to be totally altruistic with anyone half-nice. I changed some lives around me. No, many lives.

I still have this "inspiration", but not much. Sadly, it should be definitively gone within two or three months. The past two years have been a bit parenthesis, and soon I'll be back where I was in January 2001.

By the way, the resellers had the expected reaction regarding the iPod, so I'm not getting it for my birthday (next saturday). I don't care. You don't neither. And in time, I won't care much about anything, anyways...

- Benad

On Sunday I had fun hacking around GAIM's code for a university project. It's far less complex and big than what I'm used to reverse-engineer, so I was able to do it in about 3 hours or so. Obviously, the guy that "helped" me was terribly confused by what I did, so his reactions were usually along the lines of "uhhh..." and "ok...".

Otherwise I'm just exhausted, for the usual reasons.

- Benad