‘Planet’ Category

  1. Ubuntu 06.10 Edgy Eft

    October 29, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    I’ve upgraded Chiaki to Ubuntu 06.10.  I did a clean install this time because my 06.6 installation was pretty old, and had a good number of custom packages installed.  Luckily for me I found out that a lot of people have been having problems doing dist-upgrades.   I think 90% of those problems are because of people using non-official packages.  Perhaps apt should be a little smarter about alien packages and ask the user to delete them before performing the upgrade.

    The installation went nearly flawlessly.  The only thing I had to do this time was install and configure 915resolution to get it to do widescreen.  The broadcom drivers work a little faster this time, but still have a sucky range.  That really sucks because I want to use WPA but my orinocco card driver doesn’t support it. Also the network manager applet wasn’t installed by default… I can’t remember if it was installed by default in 06.6.  It really should be.

    Of the upgraded programs I have to say Gaim 2.0 beta 3 is the worst.  Although 1.5.0 is old and buggy, but it’s way too early for Gaim 2.0 still.  I have to give the gaim developers some negative karma for not keeping their stable release usable.

    Firefox 2.0 is pretty good however, it boots up faster than 1.5 and pulls off it’s new theme while not looking out of place with the rest of the desktop.

    On a side note I’ve been looking for new music recently, and have been checking out Jamendo There’s some pretty good stuff there.  It’s really nice to see how big it is.  I love websites who use open-source software to do good (Bittorrent, eMule, Ogg vorbis).

    Also in other news I bought a rice-cooker today.  It was really expensive but it works great!

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  2. Google Office

    October 25, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    The main feature that google office has that sets it apart from all the other office suits is built in revision control.  I wish OpenOffice.org or Abiword could do that.

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  3. Live search is a joke

    October 6, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    After scanning rather quickly through my Aapache access.log I found a line that really stood out.

    69.114.242.22 – - [01/Oct/2006:15:05:04 -0400] “GET /rms.html HTTP/1.1″ 200 1390 “http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=buts&mkt=es-US&form=QBRE&go.x=9&go.y=14″ “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)” “-”

    The interesting part is the “q=buts” part. That means that the user searched for the word “buts” and was linked to my page about Richard Stallman’s talk that he gave in Pittsburgh. So I naturally went on to live.com and tried it myself. Lo and behold it was right there on the second page of the results. I wonder what horribly broken algorithms the Live team is using in their search engine.

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  4. Windows

    September 26, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    In a work related e-mail it seems that the word crash and unstability brings up a bunch of ads for “Fix & Install Windows Easy!” “Fix Windows DLL & Other PC Errors Instantly”. Seriously why do people use this shit, it amazes me every day.

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  5. Sukiyaki

    July 11, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    Today I went to the mall for lunch because I can only stand Subway for so long.  The mall in Carolina had a Little Tokyo restaurant in it.  The signs showed a really good looking Chicken Katsu and Sukiyaki combo, but when I went to order all they had was Chicken Teriyaki and other staple Chinese foods. :( I was so dissapointed!  I want sukiyaki…

    今日の昼にプラザ・カロリナに食べに行きました。　モールだからいろんな料理食べれるためにそこにしました。　 「Little Tokyo」という店あってすき焼きとかチキンカツがメニュに書いてあったんやけどすき焼きを注文した時に「そのメニュを気にしないで中国料理しかないんです。」と言われてめっちゃ不満足だった。　すき焼き食べたい気が残っちゃった。

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  6. Moving complete

    April 1, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    I’ve moved my website onto a new server.  This one is using VMware instead of User-Mode Linux.  The initial advantages are that I have control over my kernel.  Now to see if the LiveJournal plugin is working.

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  7. Compliments

    March 3, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    It’s no secret that people compliment your misrable attempts to speak their language all the time. Usually these compliments are straight forward, like “お上手ですね” (“Your Japanese is really good!”), which usually means more like “Hang in there!”. There’s also the surprise comment where you are better at their language than they expected these are usually “へえ、何でこんなにうまいの?” (“Wow, why are you so good [at Japanese]?”). Finally there’s the indirect compliments that really make you feel good. The one I get the most is “何年前に日本へきましたか” (“How many years have you been in Japan?”) because the other person assumed that your proficiency in Japanese could only be achived after living there for years. I love smiling and replying “Oh, I’ve only been here for 5 months.”.

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  8. Wobbly windows in Dapper

    February 18, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    There were a lot of upgrades today in Dapper. And it turns out compiz is one of them. So I installed it and xserver-xgl. Here’s how I got it running.

    First install the xserver-xgl and compiz packages using apt-get or synaptic

    (Originally taken from the instructions at http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Installxgl)

    Then edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom

    and make the empty [servers] section look like:

    [servers]

# Override display 0 to use Xgl.
0=Xgl

[server-Xgl]
name=Xgl server
command=/usr/bin/Xgl :0 -fullscreen -ac -accel xv -accel glx:pbuffer
flexible=true

    then add “compiz –replace gconf decoration minimize move place resize rotate scale switcher wobbly zoom cube” and “gnome-window-decorator” in sessions (under System>Preferences).

    Then ctrl+alt+backspace and pray! Only the basic things work for me. I can’t do the cool cube effect for example. But the windows sure do wobble, and the switcher work just fine.

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  9. Multi-input touch screens

    February 14, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    Multi-input touch screen demos (Flash required).  This is probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.  The more I watch it the more I want to make it work.  It definitely feels like that’s going to be the next generation in computers.
    I want one for my Desktop, and more importantly I want to make sure X supports it.  I wonder if my laptop’s synaptics touchpad could support this with some tweaking of the driver.  It could be interesting if I could make two finger movements different scrolling axeses/window management shortcuts.  (Two finger outwards movements stretch the current window, two finger parallel movements could move the window.)  I like how in my iBook two finger parralel movements is how to scroll.

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  10. Planet categories

    February 12, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez

    Well, mpop is back on the planet because he showed me how I can just subscribe to his technology category on his blog. I have since learned that wordpress is able to do this too. Ive been thinking about adding a Planet category that I can post everything I want to appear on the planet. I wonder if any of ther other WPLUG planeteros want to have only a specific category show up on the planet. If you do just let me know.

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