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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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Jul
30
Orioles Photos Part 2
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The exciting conclusion to my pictures from the Orioles game:
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Jun
29
Happy Birthday!
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You know who you are. I just didn’t want to give identity theives more info.
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May
25
Congrats Danny!
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On graduation from Cornell!
Although, since you’ve done a summer job every summer, like me, you probably won’t notice that you’ve graduated until winter comes around and you don’t get a winter break.
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May
23
5000 Views!
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I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that 5000 people have seen this one picture of mine. It’s nuts!
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May
13
Fedora 9 Release Story
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Fedora usually has a wacky little story to go along with each release. Here’s the one for Fedora 9:
An ancient text prophesised this day would come, detailing the fate of
all who are willing to accept what is offered to them:http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/index.html
And that day has come: the Computer said “I will convert these
unbelievers, and now that I have Sulphur it will be easy.” At that,
the heavens opened and burning Sulphur descended upon all the world,
taking on many different forms.First to hit were the live USB keys. The heathens cried out for mercy,
but were powerless to resist. The sticks were damn persistent and
non-destructively formatted - non-destructively! They showed up
everywhere, casting out demons from computers infected by the dark one
of the interwebs and rescuing lost data from the influence of the evil
crackers.Then, when they thought it couldn’t get any worse, the whole world was
cast into shadow. Lit only by the dim light from their computer
screens, they discovered a mysterious message scrolling across: “K K K
K K K K K 4 4 4 4 4 4″. The screens flickered, and the light flooded
out so that the shadow was lifted. After their eyes had adjusted they
saw something so beautiful, teeming with so much potential that they
began to break down. KDE 4 was on their desktops!The descent gathered pace; next to hit the ground was FreeIPA. At
first this puzzled what remained of the heathens, but then they
realized…they realized that it was going to make system
administrators lives a lot easier! A web interface and command line
tools, interacting with Windows domains and Active Directories? It was
all getting too much for them. Conversions were happening faster and
faster, only aided by mobile broadband, static IP addresses, and much
much more in NetworkManager.Now, only a few doubters remained and what pushed them over the edge?
The community, stupid! Tirelessly working to push out great code,
great documentation and great artwork, inviting everyone to join where
ever they were in the name of freedom.And the Computer, seeing that his work was accomplished and it was
good, decided to rest. Pointing his browser at the Fedora mirrors, he
switched off his monitor and waited for his Sulphur to return to him
through the internet tubes, ready to enjoy another great release from
the Fedora Project.
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May
1
Absolute First Impression of Ubuntu 8.04
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Last weekend, it had been a few days since the latest Ubuntu hit the net and I hadn’t heard of any major upgrade SNAFUs so I decided to upgrade. I wanted to record my absolute first impressions without doing much, just to see how I felt. The upgrade went by without anything bad happening. My wireless connection still works and nothing major seems to have gone wrong. I went through each of the things I’d heard hyped about in Ubuntu and checked to see how they had changed.
Here’s the desktop I had before the upgrade. It was in the selection of desktops that came standard with Ubuntu.
I was curious whether it would automatically change to the new background when I updated. It did NOT change automatically, so I went ahead and changed it myself.
I really like the look of this desktop. It’s almost the perfect background. It’s not as spartan as the previous Ubuntu default of shades of brown. Yet it’s not too flashy or busy. It seems to strike the right balance and I could see some non-Linux people asking me where I got that cool background from. I really like it even more as I look at it.
Another interesting thing that changed is that the Warcraft III CD now has the same icon on the desktop as it would have in a Windows desktop. I think it’s neat - especially as that’s what the creators of the CD would want. However, in terms of the Human Interface Guide (HIG), I’m not sure it’s good because people may be looking for the CD icon and may not want to hunt for a new icon each time. After all, while I do have some clutter on the desktop, I’ve seen people with so many icons on the desktop you can’t even see the background.
Another thing that EVERYONE has been talking about on the Net is the new Gnome 2.22 calendar applet. Here’s how it looked in Ubuntu 7.10:
Nothing special, just a little calendar. Much better than Windows where you need to pretend to be changing the date to see the calendar. Here’s the new Ubuntu 8.04 (Gnome 2.22) applet:
You can see that I was up really early making the screenshot. I was woken up by a rude person who decided to share his car stereo with everyone at 0300. So the neat thing with the calendar is this little screen that shows where in the world it is sunlit. Also, you can add in time zones that you want to keep track of. So if you have a friend, family member, lover, etc in another time zone, you can see at a glance whether or not they’d appreciate a call from you.
Another thing everyone kept talking about was Firefox. Ubuntu 8.04 comes with Firefox 3 beta 5. Firefox 3 is a huge change over from 2 in that they are moving from bookmark files to a bookmark relational database - complete with tagging. They were also supposed to be changing the them to match better in Gnome.
I didn’t see any difference. I don’t know if this is because they’re waiting for the final release version to add that in or if Ubuntu had mucked with the theme.
Now, they did have a new startup page which was pretty good at providing a decent amount of information. Fedora used to have something like this before abandoning it for a very sparse startup page that doesn’t give much info. As you can see, the themes on Firefox look the same, but look at the differences in the bookmark editor - basically, you can see the tags folder. First 7.10:
Now 8.04:
Another big change in Gnome 2.22, and thus for Ubuntu 8.04, was with Totem. Specifically it gained some new plugins. Here’s 7.10:
For 8.04 there are two new plugins - YouTube and MythTv. I was able to get the Youtube plugin to work extremely easily, but I couldn’t figure out how to make the MythTv plugin show anything.
Above you can see the results of the Youtube search for Mario Kart Wii. The video played flawlessly. Unfortunately, GIMP’s screenshot wouldn’t capture the video playing in Totem so all I have is a black screen in this screenshot, but it actually works.
Finally, there was a little surprise for me in the form of tracker. It was intalled by default when I upgraded and quickly went to work indexing my files. It seemed to do this a LOT faster than Beagle. I wonder if that was removed automatically or if I was left with two competing search programs. One good potential feature of tracker is the ability to add tags to files to help it find those files in the future. Good job taking some advice from the semantic web. I don’t know how useful it will be unless you can apply tags in Nautilus, but it might be pretty awesome. All these changes make me anxious to see how well it is implemented in Feodra 9 in a couple of weeks. Here are some shots of tracker:
Overall, this upgrade left a very good impression of Ubuntu 8.04. It seems they really tried hard to make sure that everything worked, a good thing since this is a Long Term Support (LTS) release. My upgrade went off without a hitch and I can recommend it to anyone who wants a good, easy to use Linux distro.
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Apr
25
It’s AWESOME! Check out the video in this post from Andrew’s blog. If you ever played the original Nintendo, you’ll go nuts.
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Feb
7
Happy Lunar New Year!
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It’s the year of the rat!
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Nov
3
Second Pass at Nov 11 Sec Club
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Just a little more left on the lil guy, then lip sync and final touchups!
11 Second Club - Nov 2007 - second pass from djotaku on Vimeo.
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Mar
1
Royal Mess?
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England is, well, England
Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales
United Kingdom is England, Scotland, Wales, and South Ireland.
The British Isles are England, Scotland, wales, South Ireland, North Ireland, and some other little islands.
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Apr
2
Spring Forward!
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Don’t forget to set your clocks1 hr ahead at 2am Sunday!
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