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- just started playing WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos. http://raptr.com/djotaku
- video did NOT kill the radio star. Radio is still around. MTV, on the other hand, no longer plays music videos. RIP TRL.
- Yay MD for the $170 electric bill credit!
- @harajukuroxy that stinks. My mom used to get a lot of migraines.
- My latest computer animation: http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/dtbp/node/48
- My latest computer animation:
- Nearly done with my latest animation
- @minimoniotaku: the old momma joke was hilarious
- Using akmod-nvidia, built the latest drivers for nvidia and 3D works again! w00t w00t! Blender here I come!
- Dagnabbit. Nvidia doesn't support Xorg7.4pre so no Blender for me for a while
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Mar
29
Wordpress 2.5 has been released
Category: wordpress | 
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It’s really funny because my brother just asked me to create a blog for him on my server and I was thinking, “Man, if Wordpress 2.5 is coming out soon. I’d hate for him to learn the 2.3 interface and then have 2.5 come out right away.” But I set him up with a 2.3 blog yesterday and went on my merry way. Well, today I login to my blog and don’t see any changes. Then I went to Wordpress Planet and I saw this blog post followed by this one and this one. (That last one is especially comprehensive of all the changes)
Here’s the 2.3 dashboard:
And here’s the 2.5 dashboard:
and here’s how the post writing part looked in 2.5:
and in 2.5:
and for managing posts in 2.3:
and in 2.5:
and even the upload page has been greatly improved - 2.3:
and 2.5 - you can see that it’s now easy to set the permalinks for others to easily access your uploaded items:
for the comments page, the changes were more cosmetic than functional as you can see basically they’ve just moved the actions from beneath each comment to the right.
2.3:
and 2.5:
Widget usage has really been improved as you can see here. 2.3:
and in 2.5:
I’m so excited about these changes. In some parts, such as widgets they have truly improved things. In other ways they’ve just improved the GUI to make things slightly easier to find. And there are quite a few backend updates that can’t be noticed from screenshots. If you haven’t updated, do it now!
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Mar
18
When Random isn’t so Random
Category: Linux | 3 Comments
I’ve noticed for some time now (yet, despite what I thought, have not blogged about) that when I listen to all my music on random, it doesn’t appear to really be random. It’s mostly random, but not random enough as I noticed some songs coming up more often than they should. At first I chalked this up to the fact that humans are horrible at figuring out stats and how often things should occur. But then I had somewhat concrete proof, I had some artists with lots of songs and those artists were being played less than artists with just a few songs. Recently I found the culprit - when Rhythmbox plays random songs, it weights the songs you like heavier so they appear more often.
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Mar
10
Fox News Pr0n
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Today I was reading an article about protecting kids from seeing bad things on the Internet. The author pointed out that there’s bad enough stuff on Conservative Fox News and pointed to this link.
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Mar
5
On a recent business flight I took, I noticed that my tray table had become an advertisement for cough drops
Also, a plane ticket, which I, regrettably, did not photograph, had an advertisement for Papa Johns Pizza. Has it come to this? Are the airlines so desperate for cash that they have resorted to selling ad space on their tray tables and tickets. Flying used to be a refined affair that people got dressed up for. Now we have the same airlines that charged us so much money without giving us any food to eat, advertising on the tray tables.
I think if they were clever they’d be advertising food since that’ll make you hungry and more likely to buy that crappy food they’re peddling now that you don’t even get a snack on most domestic flights. I’ve even heard that one airline is allowing food companies to offer product samples. Again, brilliant, if slightly disturbing. After all, you’re hungry and you can’t do anywhere. Why not try this free sample of product X.
I think our lives are become more and more bombarded by advertisements, both stealth and blatant. It’ll be interesting to see if this becomes and industry-wide standard.
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Mar
4
When I first started playing with Linux I had a very crappy old computer; I think it was a 286. It was painful to try and do anything in Gnome or KDE, but it ended up making a pretty good server as it was the server that ran this site until late 2005 or early 2006 (I can’t remember). Then I moved onto another machine which was slightly better, a Pentium II 400 Mhz, 128 MB RAM computer. That computer ran a little better in Gnome or KDE, but I became a huge fan of Fluxbox as it ran best and I was able to use it as my almost-primary computer. It is now Luigi, my file/print server.
I got Mario in 2005. It’s an eMachine with 512 MB RAM and A 2 Ghz AMD Sempron. It functions as my main computer and I do nearly everything on it. Gnome with Compiz runs well on it with 512 MB of RAM, but not spectacularly. That, coupled with the fact that some of my Blender files became too massive to do on Mario, convinced me to buy another GB of RAM for Mario. So it now has 1.5 GB of RAM.
Programs load only slightly faster, but that’s what I expected. Afterall, until you have a lot of programs open and you have to start moving stuff onto and off of the swap, RAM doesn’t have much to do with how fast programs load. However, I noticed that the Gnome menus, which had been painfully slow before were now usable. I also noticed that Compiz seems to run more smoothly and the effects don’t take quite as long.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with my purchase. It only cost me $50 and I seem to be having a much better experience. If things don’t turn out that way, I’ll be sure to mention it in the comments.
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Mar
2
More Flickr Hacking
Category: Geek Love, Internet, Photography, python | 1 Comment
Over the last two days, between playing Portal and Age of Empires III (both of which are…awesome!), I’ve been doing a little more flickr hacking. This is very closely related to my previous Flickr program where I checked if my pictures were ready to be moved into the next views groups.
This time I wanted to see which of my photos were not in any groups. So in the case that I’ve missed putting a photo into the 25 views groups because it’s a few pages back and I really don’t have time to go back through all of my photos to find the pictures to put into the groups. I tried that once and it was excrutiatingly slow - even slower than figuring out if it was time to graduate my pictures out of the views groups. So here’s the output of my current program:
It’s not looking through all of my stream just yet, I wanted to try it with just 200 pictures, to make sure I had things working well. I have over 2000 photos, so it will take a while to run when I have it fully working.
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