I am a raging workaholic and a working ragaholic
Recursive but not redundant, like and engineer, like an ant
Expressions, progressions or modifications, these are my obsessions
Encrypted, decrypted my vision is sometimes faded
Nullified truncated, I hope with this girl I won’t be negated.
just something to get my mind off of something…
I mysel, am fund of downloading torrents. They just make our lives easier and better. But what will you do if you’re in another pc , and you don’t have your favorite client software installed? Here’s a solution to that …. “Bitlet”. This is a java applet, which acts as a client to download torrents. As of not it is still on a young age, but I’ve got a feeling that it will be famouse soon. This will be a great help specially for people who transfer from one machine to another, from time to time.
Whoa !! Dell is pushing better linux drivers. This means that Linux users will hopefully have better drivers for their video cards, sound cards, and other hardwares. I am also thankfull to read this news myself. I hope my ATI Radeon X1550 will be on the list. I just want my XGL back.
To read more about the details, follow this link http://stripslashes.atwebpages.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=1
Linux featured on an avenger’s comic. This one clearly showed GRUB bootloader, and a couple of kernels to choose from. The funny thing is that they got this weird “ACCESS DENIED” error that you won’t get from grub. Here’s a pic…
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I just checked on us.php.net, and I found this weird thing on top of their site. I saw this while using firefox, on a mac. I tried using safari, but it didn’t show. Anyway, here’s what I saw.
It’s getting late now, and I just wanna lounge and not do work. Usually, I blog or tinker with anything,but lately I’ve been spending some time on how to get my video card to work properly on my linux. Right now I am using ATI RADEON X1550 on a mandriva 2007.1 OS.
Before I had this, I used to have an nvidia 7100GS, which worked properly. This means that I was able to get the 3D enabled, and have beryl installed. Now I am pretty much used to using beryl on my desktop, and I am comfortable with it. Sad to say, I am not able to do that on this ati card. This one works well on my windows, and even performs better. But thats the thing, my windows OS is just for games, so I don’t use it that much. What I’d really want is to enable 3D acceleration on my mandriva. I found out that the cause of this was actually a bug. I have participated on various forums regarding this, and am lucky enough that mandirva already knows about the problem.
So, I realized that there’s nothing I can do yet, but to wait for a bug fix, since I didn’t find any tweaks. Just this night, while I was checking on dig, I found an article, and was quite surprised. It seemed that there are more people who have problems similar to mine. Like what they say “Let’s convince ATi to make quality drivers or open-source them! For all of you who suffer from lack of desktop effects or compositioning!”
Now, I would definitely agree to this line. Although I’m not loosing hope on my card, but if I knew that this could happen, I could have just bought an nvidia card. Well, I not only that this was charged from my pocket, I can also charge this to experience. I hope this problem will be solved soon.
Here’s the dig article : http://jaiku.com/channel/twit/presence/6638800
From the title of this post, it is clear enough that this is somewhat related to migrating from one OS, SUSE in this case, to another. I did switch from my suse to mandriva with no particular reason.
One of the main things that made a difference was the kde’s menu. the default kicker menu on mandriva didn’t have that search box which would direct you to where the shortcut is directed, and I felt that it was something that I should have. So I decided to install kickoff, a replacement for the default kicker which was originally for suse. I used this before, and I was comfortable with.
The first thing you need to get this up in running on mandriva is you need to install kickoff-qt. But in order to do this you will need to install liblazy. The fastest and the most comfortable way of doing this is to install using urpm. I advice adding urpm sources to your installation source list first, so you wont have a problem on where you could download the stuffs. To do this, go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/, and just follow the directions on the site. Of course, pic mandriva as your distro. After installing these installation sources, you can now install liblazy and kickoff-qt using rpmdrake. Note: I happen to install kickoff-mandriva-0.1.655773-4mud2007.1 , and liblazy-0.1-1mud2007.1.
After installing the two packages, it will be best to test if kickoff qt is running. to do this, you need to kill your kicker process. You can do this by simply checking on the process manager, or typing “ps -aux | grep -i kicker” on your CLI, and kill the process using “kill <process number>” now that you’ve killed kicker, you can now start running kickoff but using this command “/opt/kickoff-mandriva/bin/kicker“. By now, you should have kickoff up and running. When you need to revert back, just do “dcop kicker kicker restart“.
Now, all these will surely run your kickoff menu, but this will not run it automatically on boot. To enable this you will need to edit this file “/usr/share/autostart/panel.desktop“. Look for the line that has Exec=kicker, and replace it with the absolute path of your kickoff binary. It will look like this “Exec=/opt/kickoff-mandriva/bin/kicker“. After doing this, reboot, and you’ll have kickoff-qt running.
May I also point out that this one works only on kde. (well that is what I know about it).
So I just watched the movie, and literally stunned by the awesome presentation.
I’ve always had a fad on CG movies, and have been doing 3d modeling myself. Every time I encounter a good movie, I aways look for how it was made, or how the animation and modeling came into being. Right now I also work for a company that makes movies, and do 3d graphics as well, but I’m not one of those guys. I just do 3D for fun, and can’t quite achieve what I want ’cause I don’t have the machine for it.
Anyway, as for this technology is concerned, I would say that transformers is the best animated movie I’ve ever seen. I was impressed by how the ships were made for troy, how color correction and way 300 handle depth of field, the smoothness of cars, the genius of ghost ia shell, and many more others. But nothing , not one of them topped the experience I’ve got with transformers. The movie was basically complete, with humor, action , a story line ( that you would expect from cartoon and robots), and a cast that just fit to their role. But most importantly, I loved the 3d animation.
Bumblebee was a funny character for transformers. Behind the humor and action , there is perfect artistry and technicality combined. He is composed of a 4-month-long f/x process that required more than 60,000 virtual parts and 34,000 texture maps. 5,500 rendering processors, and 280 terabytes of disk space. This is where ILM did it’s magic. Rendering consumed 38 hours per frame, which is one heavy rendering tasks. Heres more details to it.
With this amount of work, It definitely put the movie on top of my list. It is already the best movie I’ve seen for 2007, and of course I wanna see it again. The movie somehow makes me feel like I wanna get back to 3D modeling, and it sucks that I can’t right now.
Like the famous line in the movie, the bots are definitely more than meets the eye.
I just realized that I just had a life changing 3 weeks of my life. For people who knows me, they understand how I lived. My usual daily routine was to go to work, and when I get home,I surf the net, do some tech stuffs, tweak something, chat , or research on something (oh , downloading stuffs too). But for the past 3 weeks, I have been playin video games. I got to get online for a couple of hours on internet cafe, but that doesn’t count as being totally online due to the cafe’s limitations. During this three weeks , I became a full pledge gamer. I admin, I am currently addicted to the new tiberium wars. This really seem pretty unlikely for me.
Today, I finally got a chance to write something for my blog, surf for whatever, and check out some sites that I used to visit. I found out new things, and in fact some of them were stunning and unexpected. But this feels really great . I feel like I’ve been in prison for a week, and today, I bailed out.
I’m just glad to be back online, even for a couple of hours. But I have to get home in a while to be offline and play with video games. I wonder how this would affect me.
I am a linux advocate and have been using different linux OS for serveral years now. I am comfortable with linux and basically all open source software. But this time, I am required to use mac for work. So, because of this I was intorduced to mac and attended training sessions for it .
What I would say is that both mac and linux is that both are great softwares, and I kinda love them both now. To share some, here a list of things that I like about linux, but that mac doesn’t have , and vice versa. This comparison is plainly based on OS X, and nothing about hardware is discussed. I guess the reason for this is pretty obvious.
1. Keyboard shorcuts: I am pretty much used to keyboard shortcuts on a linux system, but mac lacks some of it. One big example is that opening a folder on a desktop using only the keyboard. You can’t use that on a mac, since pressing return will rename the file or folder.
2. 3D Desktop: Mac only rotates it’s “cube” when you switch users, linux even has 4 (be default) desktops per user , that you can rotate anytime you want.
3. Installing / Uninstalling Applications: This is easiest to do on a mac. You don’t have dependency problems , and you can easily click and drag an application from it’s installation folder to the trash if you want to uninstall it. Another thing, a mac app runs on any folder. However, linux also have tools like apt or urpm to manage that easily as well. Not as easy as mac though
4. Updates: Updating the OS is better on linux since you are able to choose or better yet add as much repositories as you want. On a mac, you have only one. Both work on the same manner, but linux has advantages since you can get repos from anywhere.
5. Installing open source softwares: well this is easiest on linux but you can do this on a mac since you can use X11, and it has this Fink tool to install open source apps on it. So , both are equal on this.
6. Compiling from source: On a linux system, this can be tricky sometimes. On a mac, it might be, but I haven’t encountered a problem compiling something on a mac yet.
7. Network file sharing: Both OS use samba, so they are equal on that. But because of mac’s easy to use interface, things are quite easier on that environment.
8. GUI: Both have eye candies, and KDE is as easy to use as mac desktop.
9. Printer sharing: This have to go on mac. It just works easily on a mac. Typically on a linux system, you’ll have to configure your samba to do this, on a mac you can just type in the IP and there it is. May it be a network printer, a printer shared form a linux machine or a windows machine, it’s easily accessible.
10. Networking : well, here’s something in common. But because of Appletalk, things became easier for a mac.
11. Office tools: I have tried using MS Office on a mac, and the only plus that I’ve seen is the PDF feature, which is an embeded feature on a mac system itself. Openoffice runs on both, but it’s a bit of a hassle on a mac since you will have to run X11 to use it. Linux would be my first choice when it comes to this.
12. Software Updates: Mac software updates are kinda outdated. Like java for example, I just ran a freshly installed mac osx , and the java update that it got was 1.4. On my linux, I have a choice for both, but I usually go fot 1.5.
13. Command line: Both are unix based, but on a mac, you can’t “scramble” the parameters. LIke for example doing a command and inserting “-v” at the end part. This one works on linux, but on a mac, it has to be after the command itself.
14. Video Editing and multimedia: Mac , no doubt about that.
15. Web browsing: Firefox is still the best. Safari doesn’t have javascript console by default, so I don’t like it that much.
16. Search : Mac has finder, and linux has beagle.
Ok this will be it for now, ’cause I’m out of time. All in all, I would say that mac is definitely an impressive Operating system, but it is not enough to take me out of linux.
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