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Monthly Archives: June 2004
new hardware
A firewire card for my desktop (because my Asus P4P800 Deluxe motherboard’s connectors DO NOT WORK, but this shintaro one does), a TV tuner card (now i need an ariel), and a new wireless card for my laptop (802.11g, not that i have a g access point, but this one actually supports 128bit wep.).
Plus, it has open source linux drivers (that work on ppc).
Also some CDs and DVDs.
american talk shows
Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake and whatever else is on has this wonderful effect of no matter how crap your life is, no matter how screwed up you feel, they let you know that there’s always a country with a ready supply of people more screwed up.
mess
everybody’s mess is okay but mine.
Inkscape
Just did my first illustration using Inkscape (www.inkscape.org). It’s pretty cool. Open Source Vector illustrator (produces SVG graphics and has good bitmap export).
i.e. select what you want, File->Export Bitmap (and it’s already gone to the “export selection” thing, choose the res of the image, where it is, and click export.
Funky!
Slashdot | Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Examined
Slashdot | Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Examined
More press (references a research paper in the Australian Parliamentary Library) about the negative impacts of the Intellectual Property sections of the AU-US “Free” Trade Agreement.
bottom 100 films
rss feeds
starting to think everyone should have them… they’re cool :)
well, okay – useful for keeping track of friends.
okay – maybe we should just like, actually meet up and spend some time out in the real world – but sometimes it’s just not possible :(
exciting new world of comments
comments are back! well, until the spam is unmanagable, and then i’ll have to go and moderate everything. At least it’s better than MT though, where it just accepts everything and you have to go hunting for bad things.
I like WordPress!
I’ve started to use Straw again, a cool News aggregator for GNOME (written in Python from memory). Basically to try and keep up with various blogs/dev blogs around the place.
The Chaser News – IOC finds Al Qaeda more prepared for Olympics than Athens
The Chaser News
Pretty funny and worryingly quite possibly true.
Moving to WordPress
Wow, here I am, and so far pretty impressed by wordpress. yeah, the MT import has happenned for me, now to update Giz.
and find out why my last two entries aren’t displaying….
FTA testimony up
http://www.linux.org.au/fta/testimony/
Rusty presented to the Senate Select committee (with slides!) and did a really good job. This is compulsory reading – it explains the issues using easy-to-understand language.
Spatial Nautilus
Okay, so debian finally caught up to the rest of the world and unstable has GNOME 2.6 packages. So, everything has settled down, and i’ve dist-upgraded my laptop.
After a logout/login cycle (unfortunately, everything doesn’t "just happen" when you upgrade, I’m now onto GNOME 2.6 and spatial nautilus.
Yes, this whole idea where "the window IS the folder" idea that has made computers usable since the first Mac is back. And, Guess what? That’s right, it’s GOOD! There’s the browser interface also, so you can go and do things how you used to.
my mother has been using this for a bit (since we put Fedora Core 2 on here machine, well, actually, one of the test releases).
i’m also gathering up the strength to go and install FC2 on my desktop…. as long as I can get DVD stuff going, i’ll be okay :)
and then there’s the whole bootloader thing… gah. i fucking hate the way partitioning and bootloading works. generally, not just the extremely bad way that PCs do it.
reminds me… gotta test my yaboot patches for sparse files on XFS.
and move away from movable type.