lyrics on the fly!

Another great tool for all music fans, this time its a tool that looks for lyrics in such an efficient way! This one’s called lyricsfly and is a search engine dedicated to look for lyrics online!

First of all, i love the interface! Its damn sleek and simple without any complications or jazzy stuff all around, check it out below here…

The best part is that you can look for lyrics by song, artist, album or just put a part of the lyrics.. whats more? the results are so well displayed to give you complete info! You can even correct some lyrics that you find wrong… Plus, a link to the video on youtube! I think this is a great search engine that just gives you what you need without a sidebar full of porno ads or free smileys!

Eclipse

This poem is called “Eclipse”. Most of us like to signify light at the end of tunnel as a positive sign. How about an opposite take on believed notions, how about an argument against symbols of optimism…

Are you blind when you close your eyes

Or is it when you believe in lies

Are you blind when you don’t wish to see?

Or is it when you don’t agree

Are you blind,

Am I blind…

Is it only thoughts that aren’t defined…

Do you choose on how far you can see

Do you believe you can peek into mystery?

Is that the beam of light,

Fighting out from the lantern hold?

Or is it the darkness all around it

Waiting to unfold

What is it that I need now?

What is it that’ll make me glad?

Should I be happy to see the bright end of the tunnel?

But the blurred brightness only makes me sad…

Is it as dark to you as it is to me?

May be we should open our eyes and care to see.

musicmesh.net- a great way to know your music

here i am, with yet another cool site i found. I came across this site called http://www.musicmesh.net/ today. Its a great way to know your music, very interactive, well organized and blah blah blah!

Musicmesh nicely includes youtube into its interface and allows us to first select a band of our choice. Once you select it, it gives a neat graphic display of the band and its albums… like this…

then we just need to click on the album and it displays all the songs for that album… what next?

Click… Listen… Watch… Enjoy!

Linking C++ to C code using gcc

I encountered a strange problem recently. I had a C++ file which used certain custom system calls. The system calls had a few initialization functions to be performed before their usage. It was obvious that i needed a library for this. I made a static library which performed the initialization functions and which had to be linked with any C (or C++ until recently) file.

If you are not with me, here is an example:

1. syscalls.h -> the header file with all the system calls/structures etc . this would of course be in /include or /include/linux directories
2. using-syscalls.cpp -> a cpp file using the system calls in syscalls.h
3. mylib.c ->the library file which had the necessary system call declarations of the form :

syscallN(....)

and some other initialization functions which need to be frequently called

4. mylib.h -> a header file consisting of the function declaration used in mylib.c

Now the idea was to have using-syscalls.cpp link to a library created by mylib.c here’s how you can proceed.

• obviously using-syscalls.cpp will have the includes of syscalls.h and mylib.h
• yet when you create a static library say, you may get “implicit declarations……” of your custom system calls
• It is necessary to create the library also with g++. Remember to use g++ only. the c++ compiler is more strict than the c compiler
• so first create the library:

#g++ -Wall -c mylib.c
#ar -cvq libtest.a mylib.o

• now for the linking. in your cpp file you must have an extern “C” declaration despite of all the includes. Surprisingly they do not conflict with the header files.So now in our cpp file we have :

extern "C"{
syscallN(....)
syscallN(....)
.......
}

• once this is done, do the compiling and linking in one command (rather than creating the object file of the cpp first)

#g++ -o progname syscalls.cpp -L. -ltest

There…some Not-so-FAQ!

how does it feel to be loved…

Nothing needs to be said about this poem other than the fact that one or the other day, each one of you will feel the same way…

I sit back and wonder now and then,

Is there a void in me somewhere…

Is there a hand waiting to take me?

Are there eyes that want to stare…

Am I a part of somebody’s dreams?

I ask you, can you care…

How does it feel to be loved?

How does it feel to be craved?

I shut my eyes to see the face…

I see the love, I see the grace…

I feel you and your gentle ways…

I see everything but not your face…

Strange as it is, strange as is it has been,

Strange is the sight that I have seen.

I see the love but where are the eyes.

I feel the warmth but I see no hands,

You’re touching me and still not around…

You’re whispering to me, I hear the sound.

And a torrent is hitting me inside…

With gushing desperation I’m looking for you…

Aimlessly, without a guide,

Unfold, reveal, I’m craving for you.

Unfold, I’m tired of being so blind…

Unfold, coz now ‘m losing my mind…