Stuff that fries your potatoes with olive oil of HAPPY.

[Spectere]

I made my first truly fun step chart in quite a while, heh.  Just kind of took a nice, calm 105 bpm song and made reasonable steps.  It's kind of a nice switch from doing pad charts to Venetian Snares songs (and half of my other Mungyodance charts, ugh...I can't even come close to passing half of my own charts).

[TimJing]

I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off for the first time Saturday night. It was a great movie.

[LunarKeys]

I got my performance evaluation at work today. Managed to snag an outstanding employee overall award, the first ever in the department. Got the raise I had been waiting for, to boot.

The same sneaky government teacher built up the tension when he handed back our research papers. He stared me in the eye for what must've been five seconds before handing me my paper with a 'very nice work'. A+. You bastard, you scared me half to death. XD

This is gonna be a lucrative semester! (my parents are bribing me to do well - every B will be $200, every A, $500. They figured that since I'm going to a cheap community college instead of one of the numerous expensive universities, they could afford to spend some bonus money on me. =p)

[Jupi]

Good going, Pepe!  xD

[Bobbias]

Christ, nice bribes!

[TimJing]

Two-dollar bills. And kit kats.

[Spectere]

I'm writing a VB.NET program to control foobar2000 via foo_controlserver and it's coming along very nicely.

I ran into a major hurdle when I first started because I made the mistake of trying to use someone else's telnet library to do the work, but I wound up having a ton of problems because of the way it handled its read buffer.  I stripped it out altogether and started working on my own system using System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient and quickly brought the program up to its previous state.

End result?  This is the entire net code of the program, sans the single line required to actually connect to the server:

Code: [Select]

Private Function netRead() As String
    Dim length As Integer = client.Available
    Dim encoding As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding()

    ' this will hang if the length is zero
    If length > 0 Then
        stream.Read(readBuffer, 0, client.Available)
        Return encoding.GetString(readBuffer)
    Else
        Return Nothing
    End If
End Function

Private Sub netSend(ByVal message As String)
    Dim encoding As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding()

    ' add a newline to the string
    message += vbNewLine

    stream.Write(encoding.GetBytes(message), 0, message.Length)
End Sub
So. Damn. Easy.  And nice and clean to boot.

Now all I have to do is finish up my fooControl class and then I can work on the actual UI.

[Jupi]

My potatoes are gonna be fried by my potential class schedule for next term.

My dad's potatoes are gonna be peelin' though.  xD

[Bobbias]

Yeah spec, telnet is really unnecessary for really basic stuff like that, lol. I've noticed that some people have a tendency to use libraries even for really simple solutions that they don't really need the library for, lol.

[Spectere]

Yeah spec, telnet is really unnecessary for really basic stuff like that, lol.

It was more to save time than anything else.  No sense reinventing the wheel, after all, especially considering I never did any raw networking with .NET before.

Of course, if I'd known it were easier than VB6 (I wrote a crappy telnet client in VB6 way back when...it was a royal pain in the ass) I would have just went for it.  No big deal either way.

[Bobbias]

Understandable, but I haven't done any networking in .net yet, but from what I have seen it's pretty simple.

[annon]

I have an 8GB mem stick for my PSP now. This should last me a while.

[MortifiedocAlot]

Had a long day today. First off, I went to my Grandparents house in town and helped clean their kitchen After that my Grandma gave me 50 bucks (which I wasn't expecting, but is really awesome). So after that, I found some supplies for my school project that's due next week. Then I went to get some gas, and in my hurry to leave I left my gas tank on the top of my car, which I then promptly lost. Thank god I'm white trash and I can use the gas cap on the broken down jeep in my back yard. After all that noise, I found out that my right headlight is broken, but all in all it was a progressive day. Now I just have to slap my project together and hope it sticks.

[Jupi]

New month!  Happy November!!!

[Sneaky]

That I got invited and am now a functioning member of sows