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| New Classes pt.II |
| Sun January 25th, 2009 at 8:10 PM PST |
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Two weeks are now in the books, and things are looking good. The other classes I didn't mention in the last entry: CS 422: User Interface Design and Programming. I'm definitely liking this class a lot. Partly because it's actually teaching me something useful that I'm not very good at and don't have a lot of practice with, and partly because most of my CS buddies are in this class, and partly because the prof is pretty attractive. Phase 1 of this class is about learning how to use Qt 4.4 to do useful things. Phase 2 is about designing good interfaces, something I really have no experience with and badly need to learn. Phase 3 is about "non-desktop UIs", and I think that is where we will learn Flash / ActionScript and maybe do a cellphone app. Very exciting stuff. HIST 177: Middle Eastern Civilization. This, I think, will be a very enlightening and interesting class. Seeing as how more and more the U.S. is becoming involved in the Middle East, it's good to know stuff like this. We started out learning about the basics of Islam, since that's what everything there is based on, and then we'll continue from there into early Middle-Eastern history, and up to the modern age. _WRF |
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| New Classes pt.I |
| Tue January 13th, 2009 at 11:20 AM PST |
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I had my first taste of some of my new classes yesterday. POLS 101: Introduction to American Government and Politics. This class is probably going to be extremely boring. But hey, it gets me through a humanities requirement, so it's okay. Interesting thing though, the prof wants us to read an entire textbook in 2 weeks. That's going to be tough. However, on the plus side, that means I can read the textbook and return it to the bookstore before their return deadline, which is great, because the book cost 120 bucks. GER 219: Vikings and Wizards: Northern Myth and Fairy Tales in Western Culture. This class is going to be extremely interesting, I think. This semester it is mostly focusing on fairy tales. Back in German class in high school, we did some translating of traditional German fairy tales and analyzing them, and that was pretty interesting. Some of those fairy tales are pretty screwed up. I remember one called Daumenlutscher, which was about a boy who wouldn't stop sucking his thumb, so a tailor leaps through his window and cuts off his thumb with his scissors! CHEM 114: General College Chemistry II. I'm probably going to drop this class, because it's taught by Prof. Balch and she's a horrible professor. She doesn't care about her students at all, and routinely fails large swaths of her classes. I had her for CHEM 112 and hated every moment of it, so I'm just going to keep re-registering for this class until I don't get her as the prof. Which should work okay, since I have 3 more semesters here at least. I might continue coming to the lectures anyway, though, just to get a feel for the material so it isn't so hard when I do take it for real. It's a pretty tough course, so I might need it. Today I get to see my other two classes, and I'm in the computer lab waiting for one of them to start, so I'll finish this later. _WRF |
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| KDE4 Makes Me RAGE |
| Fri January 9th, 2009 at 12:13 AM PST |
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Alright. Now that I've got KDE 4.1 running, I've decided to keep a running list of all the things that are wrong with it, in particular, all the things that are a step backwards from KDE 3.5. I'm going to try to keep this organized by app. If you think I'm wrong on any of these, or they get corrected, or you think anything needs to be added, please comment on this post.
I'll add to this list as more things frustrate me. _WRF. |
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| This Time for Real |
| Thu January 8th, 2009 at 4:38 AM PST |
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OK. This time I'm going to really update this thing. Promise. Xmas was good. Saw the family. Got sweet gifts:
So now I'm back in Chicago, wasting time until Monday when classes start again. Oh boy. So to waste more time, I installed FreeBSD 7.1 on Element, my AMD64 desktop system, which has been in limbo since I took Gentoo off it. I previously tried openSUSE 11.1, which sucked due to KDE 4.1 suckage, and some other OSes, and none of that really worked. FreeBSD didn't really work either, but only because the NVIDIA drivers for FreeBSD are horrible and crash any time I do anything fancy. Sure, I'm using a GeForce FX 5900, which is technically "legacy" hardware now, but the legacy drivers aren't working. All I get is a crashed xorg and cryptic errors starting with "Xid" in my syslog. A bugreport has been filed with NVIDIA, but I doubt they'll do anything. I think they have all of a single employee working on FreeBSD issues, and frankly I don't blame them. I'll probably be leaving FreeBSD soon anyways. But I like FreeBSD a lot anyways. The biggest reason is its package repository. The Ports system has a HUGE advantage over the Gentoo Portage system: FreeBSD actually makes binaries of most of its packages! That means installation takes hours, not DAYS. Oh, and if you do want the bleeding edge software, you can still compile from source and be happy. Gentoo really needs a build system like pointyhat. So as I write this, openSUSE 11.1 is installing on Element AGAIN, this time I'll probably just stick with KDE 3.5, assuming they haven't broken that too. :( In other random plans, Delta-Zero has been really sketchy hardware-wise lately, so I think I should work on making a replacement for it, possibly out of Element. It would be good to have all of Delta-Zero's server stuff replicated on Element so that in the event of some major failure, I can swap some cables and everything can keep on chugging. Another good reason is that terabyte drive I got. It's SATA. Delta-Zero doesn't have SATA. So it goes in Element. So I have boatloads of space available there, so why not? |
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| Shoutbox |
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Anonymous:
lonely shoutbox :( Mon April 7th, 2008 at 5:09 PM PDT |
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Anonymous:
hello Mon April 7th, 2008 at 5:12 PM PDT |
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Anonymous:
o hai Mon April 28th, 2008 at 12:31 PM PDT |
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CHIZUBAGA:
I CAN HAZ CHIZUBAGA!!!!!!! Wed January 20th, 2010 at 12:58 PM PST |
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Not Jeremy:
o hai remember when i threw hot sauz in yer eye. lulz Thu January 28th, 2010 at 11:28 AM PST |
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JEREMY:
MOAR NAPKINS DURR HURR Thu February 11th, 2010 at 9:33 AM PST |
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Shoutbox:
I wuz on a DAtZ.. haffing chizubaga!! Om nom nom nom!! Wed May 26th, 2010 at 1:04 PM PDT |
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Totally not anyone you know:
Problem? Thu June 3rd, 2010 at 2:09 PM PDT |
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Random Randomstein:
Shitpickle. Fri June 11th, 2010 at 6:04 PM PDT |
