Well, Saturday came and went. I need some more work ethic, or something, because I didn’t get anything done at all.
Jackie Chan is really funny when he swears. It doesn’t quite sound normal though, since he’s always the nice, respectful guy.
steve :: Sep.29.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
This week just plain sucks. No questions, no doubts about it. Thankfully it’s almost over. Only one more night of homework doing, then I don’t have to think anymore (for about one day). The problem is that I have a test on Monday which I need to do a lot of homework to prepare for (but I think I can do it) and a test on Tuesday in the class for which I need to do lots of homework tonight. I’m totally screwed in that class, because the professor doesn’t make sense, the book makes less sense, and I don’t care anyway. On top of that I haven’t got much sleep at all this week because of all the things I needed to get done.
On the triumphant side, I finally managed to check my iastate email with a mail client rather than telnet or webmail. That might not sound like much, but it was a challenge and then some. Kerberos is not very easy to understand, and I would like to thank the good people who wrote a great help file detailing exactly how to set it up.
steve :: Sep.25.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
Yeah, they were worth the money. So much nicer sound than the little guys I had.
steve :: Sep.22.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
OK, so the program I was using to edit this page crashed right before I was done with my update. Now I have to write everything all over again.
Here goes…
It’s finally Saturday. This week was long and sucky, and I’m glad it’s over. I had my first test of the year on Wednesday. I spent all of Monday and Tuesday night studying for it, and when test time came I felt pretty much ready. I got the test, and realized that I knew how to do all the stuff he wanted us to do. Unfortunately, we had 50 minutes to take the test, and I needed about 70. I don’t know if anyone finished it though, and he said he grades on a curve. I guess we’ll see how I did. At least I know I didn’t fail that test.
steve :: Sep.21.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
You all need to follow this link.
steve :: Sep.17.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
I want to show you how much of a difference having quality fonts makes. I took two screenshots of OpenOffice.org’s word processor. The first is what it looked like before I fixed my fonts. As you can see, it’s almost unuseable it’s so ugly. The second shot is from after I figured out what the problem was (bad font files, read the archive for more). I encourage you to click on the thumbnails to see what it really looked like. Although OpenOffice.org tends to squish letters together onscreen when you type, it’s a pretty good Word replacement, and prints just fine.
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This is so ugly I want to cry
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This is a whole damn lot better
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steve :: Sep.13.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
Well, that was exciting. I found out that even though I had great-looking antialiased truetype fonts in QT3 and GTK2 applications (ones that used the Xft render instructions natively) I couldn’t even use truetype fonts in a lot of applications that are based off of GTK+ 1.2. I had the same problems with standard X applications such as xfontsel as well. It turns out that the problems were caused by badly encoded font files. Once I figured this out it only took me about 3 hours to figure out which fonts were the problem ones.
Oh well, it works now, and that’s what really matters. I think I can get antialiasing to work in almost any application that uses GTK+, and maybe even older, dumber applications. Of course, this was way harder than it should have been to set up. (It actually would be extremely easy if not for bad fonts, but that’s the point. I shouldn’t have to spend almost two days looking for a solution.)
steve :: Sep.13.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
I’m happy to report that I have now been more successful with Linux than ever before. I am now running KDE 3 with pretty damn nice text antialiasing (plus I copied all my good truetype fonts over from Windows). It’s fairly fast, at least as fast as Windows, and it doesn’t have the always-swap-to-the-hard-drive-even-when-I-have-350-megs-of-RAM-free problem Windows seems to have. There are still some things I need to work out, however. For one, the special extra keys on my keyboard don’t work, and I really really like those keys. I also need to get the permissions set properly on my FAT32 drive so that I can edit my files without running programs as root. What I’m really proud about is that I got both my crappy HP Deskjet 712C printer and Olympus D-520 Zoom digital camera to work. The reason this is such a big accomplishment is that both of these peripherals are not really designed with anything but Windows (or in the camera’s case Windows and MacOS) in mind.
I played with Gnome 2 a little bit, but I was really disappointed. It seemed far crappier than Gnome 1.4. Anyone with experience want to tell me what I’m missing?
steve :: Sep.11.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
The weather has been far, far too hot recently.
I have my first quiz tomorrow. I wonder how it will go.
steve :: Sep.08.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
Fuck all that we’ve got to get on with these
(fuck all that, fuck all that)
Got to compete with the wily Japanese
There’s too many homefires burning and not enough trees
(fuck all that)
So fuck all that we’ve got to get on with these
Not Now John, by Pink Floyd
steve :: Sep.06.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
