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Just a little snippet about me:

I'd like to consider myself relatively tech-savvy; obviously I use Linux (Arch to be precise; K.I.S.S. FTW), and I enjoy learning new things about computers in general (both software and hardware-related).

This blog is mostly just for whenever I feel like telling the world about my experiences with computers/Linux (or just life in general), or just posting for the hell of it.

gtsh: how to use Google Translate without touching a web browser

Posted 08-09-2011 at 05:49 PM by MrCode
Updated 08-09-2011 at 05:49 PM by MrCode ("Transhlate"? WTF? :p)

Tags google, linux, programming

I present "gtsh" (Google Translate for the SHell), a tiny(!) shell script that acts as a frontend to Google Translate:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
if test -z $3; then
	echo "Usage: $0 \"<str>\" <lang1> <lang2>"
	echo "Translates string \"<str>\" from <lang1> to <lang2>"
	echo "(CLI frontend to Google Translate)"
else
	wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-$3}"

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A little "fractal" I discovered…

Posted 07-20-2011 at 02:45 PM by MrCode
Updated 07-25-2011 at 03:56 AM by MrCode (tinypic dumped one of my images; replaced :D)

Tags programming, sdl

…while I was still learning the Windows API.

I was experimenting with (very slow) procedural image generation with SetPixel(), when I did something like this for each pixel in the image:

Code:

SetPixel(x,y,RGB((x ^ y) * (cr.right - cr.left) * 0.025,
                 (x ^ y) * (cr.right - cr.left) * 0.025,
                 (x & y) * (cr.right - cr.left) * 0.025));

…or something like that (I don't remember all the arguments...

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My first (real) experimentation with SDL

Posted 04-20-2011 at 10:55 AM by MrCode
Updated 04-20-2011 at 02:00 PM by MrCode (stdlib.h include was unnecessary)

Tags programming, sdl

It's been a while since I've done any serious programming (if little demo/learning programs can be considered serious

), but I finally got around to doing some little SDL apps.

The code here is basically for learning purposes; it's not like I'm keeping hold of it with an iron grip…IOW, go ahead and use parts of it (or the whole of it) to learn from/use in your own programs/whatever. It's not like there's much here anyway.

The one whose source I'll...

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no

Posted 03-14-2011 at 10:52 PM by MrCode
Updated 04-02-2011 at 03:28 PM by MrCode (Major program revision)

Tags programming

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <malloc.h>

int main(int argc,char** argv)
{
    char* str = malloc(1);
	
    if(argc >= 2)
    {
        int i;
        for(i = 1; i < argc; i++)
        {
            strcat(str," ");
            strcat(str,argv[i]);
        }
        
        int len = strlen(str);

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My first "FOSS hack"

Posted 02-04-2011 at 03:16 AM by MrCode
Updated 02-04-2011 at 03:17 AM by MrCode

Tags programming

I was mildly annoyed at the fact that LTris only lets you choose between 50, 100, 200, and no limit (as many frames as the system can render at a time) as FPS options, so I took the liberty of changing:

Code:

switch ( config.fps ) {
    case 1: fps_delay = 20; break;
    case 2: fps_delay = 10; break;
    case 3: fps_delay = 5; break;
}

to:

Code:

switch ( config.fps ) {
    case 1: fps_delay = 17; break;

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