/prog/ 2012 challenge

Brothers and sisters,

As the end of the year comes closer, and we reflect on what has happened on /prog/ this last year, we have to admit that we did not accomplish very much. Perhaps in our private lives, yes, but here on /prog/ we have spent the majority of the year trolling, meta-trolling, complaining about it and going nowhere in particular. If we look at our community I'm going to say we have very little to be proud of: /prog/ kinda sucks.

I say we change all that. I say in 2012 we band together and prove that /prog/ is better than it has ever been before just by making it so. That we can come to /prog/ with an expectation of lulz and wisdom. I'm willing to make the effort, who's with me?

ITT post your new years resolutions for /prog/, I'll start:

* If I have nothing substantial to say I will sage it.

We should create a fork of MINIX called MANIX which will be a far manlier version.

Oh, something people will use... uhhh... how about a true multimedia player? On Linux I use banshee but the Windows version doesn't work (even though it's written in C# for Mono :/). Also, banshee only really works with music; it can play videos but IIRC you can't seek or anything. You also can't really view images with it. It'd be great if there was a portable multimedia player that could play music, videos and browse images. It'd also be nice if it zoomed on images like a Firefox or Chrome (and presumably other browsers) do, rather than how most image viewers do it (open up a large image in your browser, and then open up the same image in an image viewer to see what I mean). We could then add features from other media players -- offer information like the Wikipedia page; for music,  you would also offer an artist bio, song lyrics, a video on Youtube, suggestions from Last.fm, Last.fm page; for videos you could offer an IMDb page if one exists; for photos you could search TinEye. You would have a pane at the bottom of the screen that displays that information. Look at banshee for what I mean.