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After more than a year of silence I’m glad to say that mahtar.net is not dead yet.
For a short hello again let me introduce new friend Tony:

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Danke

I was quite bored during the storm (it’s usually like this, right?) so played a bit with the camera and here we go.
The stop and motion animation has been done using built in option in Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30 camera. Video was edited on Ubuntu Linux with Kdenlive program.

Hello boys and girls, this is Rockford speaking. Today I’m gonna tell you about music genre called power metal. Don’t let my clothes fool you, I’m definitaly not a power metal fan. It’s just to show you how power metal fan might look like.
Let’s begin then. First thing you have to remember:
power metal is bad but it’s not bad like devil,
it’s rather bad like old cheese.
Second thing is simple: you don’t want to listen to
power metal. Well there are some exceptions. For example, you may like few power metal songs. But only few, the more the worst. You may have one or two friends who like only or mostly power metal, but make sure you can speak to them about something else than music. From time to time you may listen to power metal songs with your friends, just to make some jokes about it.
Next thing I would like to speak about it’s a global plan that aims to eliminate power metal from showbusiness. There is very good theory that says all the vocalists from power metal bands should be moved to operas and all the musicans to local folk bands, preferably to small comunities who live next to the mountains.
You may ask now: “But why don’t you want me to like power metal?”. Let me tell you why, can’t you hear that 90% of power metal tunes
are made by manipulating pop songs. They take for example Enrique Iglesias or Shakira tune, speed the whole thing up 4 times , then applay distrtion effect to some instruments. This is simply not fair

That’s it for now, hope you got the message right.

Just in case here is link to 202 Power Metal Rules,
so you will know what not to do.

For those sensitive out there: I do not hate people who like
power metal, I do not beat them, I do not spit on them,
I am not a racist and I do like to listen to Manowar from time
to time ;)

And now special, magic,
power metal style,
Power Rockford poster!
Enjoy!

Here are few pictures i’ve taken during my stay in London.

I wrote an application, niiiiice But of course we write application not just for ourselves, so I wanted to try it on few other machines. I’ve copied the executable and started it but instead of my application i saw error message: “This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect”. I spent “excelent” time searching the internet for solution and finally found two ways to fix the problem that actually worked.

First by Nikola Dudar (link to the article) explaining how to create .msi file with needed VC++ libraries. According to the given steps I’ve created an .msi file and after copying it and running on another machine, my VC++ application was up and running! Of course there were some problems, I couldn’t find uuidgen.exe tool needed to generate universally unique identifiers… and I didn’t feel like installing Platform SDK where the tool suppose to be… but luckily there were some online generators (kruithof.xs4all.nl/uuid/uuidgen, www.somacon.com/p113.php).

Second way to fix the error is by Ted. (link to the article - scroll down to the ” Answer Re:…” post written by Ted). With this one you don’t have to run any files, just copy folder with 4 files where your executable is.
Note: Be careful with library version when copying files and creating manifest file. I had three different “x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT…” folders in my WinSxS directory, each one different version number, I’ve chosen the highest one and put same number in XML manifest file.

Yes, our Rockford is the one and only. With or without ice cream he’s the best and we can’t change it. For all of you who love Rockford like we do here are two wallpapers:

Please let me introduce this great man here. His name is Rockford. We have known each other for a quite long time. Rockford has lots of other friends and he would like you to be his friend as well!
Rockford is waiting for your comments! For the best fans we’ve got special wallpapers with Rockford!

Welcome to mahtar.net, all and nothing in one place. Please be aware that Genius is available only from time to time so there is no guarantee to avoid rubbish on this webpage. Anyway, enjoy being here and hope you will find it useful. Peace out.