July, 2005

  1. Updated planet

    July 27, 2005 by Eddie Gonzalez

    I updated the planet scripts. I hope this fixes the problems I have with old posts being marked as new.

    Update: Looks like it didn’t help at all.

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  2. New Laptop

    July 21, 2005 by Eddie Gonzalez

    I got my new laptop today, It took a while to do a network install but I’m happy to say that Ubuntu worked very well out of the box. The only problem is the sound, and suspend. I hate having to mess with ALSA, and kernel patches. I’ll have to try Breezy before I go to japan to see if it fixes anything. I’m going to check out the Breezy bugzilla tomorrow and see what I can do.

    Hardware-wize the computer is just barely on the slow side, especially when the battery is low. The keyboard has the compose key on the left of the spacebar, and shift + ` isn’t ~. I’m not sure what to do about that last one… ~ is a really important key, and I don’t know why it’s missing….

    I love how small it is, and how bright and sharp the screen is. I’ll post a couple of pictures up on my gallery later I guess.

    In other news I made some progress with my HTML and lyrics plugins for Quod Libet. Try them out and tell me what you think.

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  3. Unmotivated

    July 14, 2005 by Eddie Gonzalez

    Lately I’ve felt pretty unmotivated to do any programming. A couple of weeks ago I felt like I could code everything, and now I barely have the motivation to finish my Quod Libet plugins. I’ve also been thinking of what type of programming interests me the most. I’m not really sure, I guess web programming is the most interesting right now.

    Since I haven’t really been doing any programming I’ve tried to spend more time studying Kanji and brushing up on my Japanese. I really wish I could find someone to practice with over here in Puerto Rico. I heard long ago that the University of Puerto Rico has a Japanese club/class that meets once a week. I should ask Ms. Quesada where I can find them.

    I ordered my new laptop from Sharp yesterday, The Actius MM20. It’s really small (10.4″) and light, and I ordered the 9 hour battery too. It has a Transmeta processor at 1GHz and 512 MB of RAM, 20GB HD, and integrated wireless. A nice step-up from my current laptop (PII 300MHz, 288 MB RAM, 6GB HD.) Online I found that it’ll run just fine with a slightly modified kernel. I hope I can manage without a custom kernel because keeping track of kernel security fixes on one’s own is a pain. I’m still not sure what kind of Internet connection I can expect at my host family’s house. Doug is convinced every person in Japan has direct 1-10mbps connections to the Internet. I hear that in Japan you have to pay per minute no matter what call it is, even local so It’d make sense if everyone in Japan had DSL/Cable. Even if there’s no Internet in my host family’s house, there should be at the school.

    I recommend http://athome.nime.ac.jp/ to everyone going to do a home-stay in Japan. Especially part 3 with the journals. I hope I learn enough that I can avoid a couple of mistakes.

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  4. Purple hair

    July 7, 2005 by Eddie Gonzalez

    Bleaching my hair was a painful experience, but it was worth it. I like the subtleness of the purple. I might not even have to wear a hat at work.

    A couple of pictures can be found on my Gallery

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  5. IRC Quote

    July 5, 2005 by Eddie Gonzalez

    00:46 < wm_eddie> I need to become a cute Korean girl.

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