Monthly Archives: June 2005

Offline..AGAIN!

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So iiNet have once again had an iiBungle and some how managed to screw my dsl up. I’ve been getting Physical Line Errors since 6:30AM Wednesday (A day when telstra techs were doing work at my exchange) and now i must “wait patiently” while the problem is resolved by SOMEONE.

I’d like to take this moment to say a few things on ii, while being WA’s biggest ISP that doesn’t neccessarily make them the best. I signed up with ii just under a year ago because i’d been using them with Mum and Dad’s net account for many years with few problems that couldnt be easily resolved. However, since i got my own account i’ve had nothing but trouble.

Moving house resulted in a 3 week downtime of my DSL thanks to both Telstra & ii (ii were quicker, telstra piss-farted about). Now, after only having my net on for about 4 weeks at my new place, everythings gone to shambles. I only hope they can fix it soon so i can have my Internet back.

Icons.. Icons.. ICONS!

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I’ve been searching for days now for a decent icon set that covers everything i require (note: this isnt that much). I’ve checked out the open-office.org icon set, i’ve checked out the eclipse icon set, kde, gnome.. u name it i’ve checked it. Now im not seeing these icon sets dont cut it, because they do.. they’re quite good actually, but well.. I just cant bare to look at my application knowing it could look ten times better if only i could justify $150US to buy some of the awesome sets that are out there.

So anyway.. I think im going to attempt to make my own icons, i cant justify the $$$’s these people are asking for their icons, even if it is kind of a reasonable price, i just dont have that kind of money.

If anyone could point me in the direction of something i’ve missed in icon land it’d be appreciated. I’m deffinately feeling the sets from glyFX, a perth based company, but i dont wanna shell out for those packs.

Interesting Bug Maybe..

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Came across something interesting today while setting look and feels in my Java Application in Windows.

Basically i was trying to set the JGoodies Look & Feels and noticed a few weird things happening. I have 2 JFrames in my application, one is the login screen, the other is the main app screen. After setting the look and feel correctly in the main class in my app, i then initialised the two JFrames and setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true); Then upon launching the look and feel decorated the 2nd window (app), but not the first (main), so i switched the code around and initialised the main app frame first and the login second.. and now it was decorating the login screen but not the main app.

This is actually the first time i’ve seen this happen before, but it’s kind of also the first time I’ve played with another look and feel that’s not native to the computer the app is running on. Anyway, this little problem was resolved by performing a setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true); on the JFrame class BEFORE intialising all my JFrames, now everything looks normal.

A bit of a weird one…

Calyx – Doa Mix

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Drum N Bass heavyweight Calyx had kindly done a new Mix for the people at DogsOnAcid, damn awesome tune selection from the man and i for one can’t wait to catch him at Heat this month on June 24th.

Check The Mix Here

Happy Birthday To Me..

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Well it’s my birthday today, and the celebrations have already been. I have quite a sore head from the weekend, but it’s ok cos i’m slowly recovering.

Just gonna head out tonight with my parents for dinner and then come home and relax. Hopefully the weather will fine up, it’s been raining like all hell here this morning.

Welcome (Follow the Curves) Performance Increase

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You can webstart or download source.
Source requires JGoodies Forms.

Have changed some things again, and once again thanks to Romain for pointing me in the direction i needed to go.

The drawCurve function now works by using a general path to create the curve, rather than the way romain was previously using (basically..creating a cubic curve and then subtracting from the area created to get the bottom curve). What does this mean? it means i’ve turned the Rendering Hints back on to high quality, because the crappy 500mhz PII’s i’m targetting this small project for are finally able to handle it alot better.

This CurvesPanel is getting around 15% to 20% CPU Usage on my celeron 2Ghz.. most of the non-cheapass(read non-celeron) CPU’s seem to handle it quite well, starting around the same and dropping to 0%-5% pretty quickly (it did this on my P4 3.0E at home and the AMD Sempron 2400 at work) and on the 500Mhz PII’s here it’s pulling about 50% of the CPU.