Surface got cancelled!
That was the best TV show ever. I've never seen a negative review, either. Only positive.
So, please. If you read my blog, please please please phone NBC begging them to bring it back. It worked for Monk...
Or, you can sign the petition at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/surface/
I think that NBC's phone number is (810)-687-1000.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Matrix/make check
I like The Matrix. I just finished watching the trilogy.
The Matrix was the best, closely followed by Revolutions, with Reloaded being without a doubt the worst.
In the end of Revolutions, Neo gets Xed (If you don't get this, read "A Wrinkle in Time". It bears a similarity)
By the way, I made an error in my last post. To compile software, type:
./configure
make
make check [optional; Only needed by a few libraries]
[Login as root]
make install
The Matrix was the best, closely followed by Revolutions, with Reloaded being without a doubt the worst.
In the end of Revolutions, Neo gets Xed (If you don't get this, read "A Wrinkle in Time". It bears a similarity)
By the way, I made an error in my last post. To compile software, type:
./configure
make
make check [optional; Only needed by a few libraries]
[Login as root]
make install
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Slackware/Compiling
Ok ok, I admit it. Slackware is cool. That goes for easys, too.
I have to be fair, and I am going to update my last post. easys is easier to use then slackware. Very much so.
easys taught me to no longer fear compiling programs. For the first time, I finally found the pure joy of compiling software. If you havn't experenced the joy of this, I beg of you to download a simple program's source code, like ClamAV, and then do a good old "./configure", then a "make check", then, at last, "make install". Know that sometimes you can use "make uninstall" to remove a program.
No point in doing this all the time if you have access to YAST or yum or apt-get or something, but compiling can make the program highly optimized for your system, and can be quite rewarding.
Keep in mind that apt-get and such can give higher success rates.
Enjoy! Remeber the three steps (not counting unarchiving):
./configure
make check
make install
------------
-To uninstall:
make uninstall
I have to be fair, and I am going to update my last post. easys is easier to use then slackware. Very much so.
easys taught me to no longer fear compiling programs. For the first time, I finally found the pure joy of compiling software. If you havn't experenced the joy of this, I beg of you to download a simple program's source code, like ClamAV, and then do a good old "./configure", then a "make check", then, at last, "make install". Know that sometimes you can use "make uninstall" to remove a program.
No point in doing this all the time if you have access to YAST or yum or apt-get or something, but compiling can make the program highly optimized for your system, and can be quite rewarding.
Keep in mind that apt-get and such can give higher success rates.
Enjoy! Remeber the three steps (not counting unarchiving):
./configure
make check
make install
------------
-To uninstall:
make uninstall
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
easys Linux (formally Pocket Linux) Review
I have recently tried easys, and found it usable, but lacking in ways.
easys is meant to be light weight, simple to use, and unconfusing with a policy of one application per task. Does it succeed? Well, maybe.
It is light-weight while still looking attractive with a custom KDE Light desktop (Openbox instead od kwin, etc.), and I must complement them on having only one application per task. But the terminal choice makes no sense (qt based, Konsole is installed, but they use aterm?!), the menu is impossible to edit without going all 1337, and they don't have enough tasks. For example, easys comes with networking preconfigured, but no dialup program, and it has xchat for connecting to chat servers, but no IM program like GAIM.
Software installation is a pain with slackware's slackpkg (although I grant that the update function worked like a dream), which involves either 1) Using the tiny slackware repository, 2)downloading packages at linuxpackages.net, or 3) Compiling programs yourself. Considering that slackpkg doesn't handle dependencies, non of these options are very user-friendly, even if the desired program is in the slackware repository.
Configuration is a nightmare in easys. Well, a nightmare if you aren't a huge geek. The installer is decent enough, but it didn't let me add a user, so I spent the next ten minutes fumbling around looking for the GUI tool that wasn't there. Finally I just looked up the command line tool, adduser, which worked fine. Also, the sound never did work. It did find my sound card, but no sound would ever be played. Finally, it used VESA on me. I had a GeForce 2 video card, which should work fine with nv, but no. It used VESA.
I can't say it was all bad, however. It was lightweight, slick, and professional. The theme was quite presentable, and Firefox would actually download plugins by itself, which is something that was broken in Xubuntu 6.06 and SUSE 10.0. I also have to say that the login screen was nice and matched the theme nicely (unlike KateOS).
All in all, this is a nice alternative to Slackware (Easier to use), but I wouldn't want to use it if I was a newbie, or if I wanted it to just work without fiddling. Yet somehow, despite all of it's flaws, I can't help but like it.
Ease-of-use: 3/5
Hardware detection: 1/5
appearance: 4/5
Stability: -Still testing- 3.5/5
Tilt: 5/5
Overall: 3/5
easys is meant to be light weight, simple to use, and unconfusing with a policy of one application per task. Does it succeed? Well, maybe.
It is light-weight while still looking attractive with a custom KDE Light desktop (Openbox instead od kwin, etc.), and I must complement them on having only one application per task. But the terminal choice makes no sense (qt based, Konsole is installed, but they use aterm?!), the menu is impossible to edit without going all 1337, and they don't have enough tasks. For example, easys comes with networking preconfigured, but no dialup program, and it has xchat for connecting to chat servers, but no IM program like GAIM.
Software installation is a pain with slackware's slackpkg (although I grant that the update function worked like a dream), which involves either 1) Using the tiny slackware repository, 2)downloading packages at linuxpackages.net, or 3) Compiling programs yourself. Considering that slackpkg doesn't handle dependencies, non of these options are very user-friendly, even if the desired program is in the slackware repository.
Configuration is a nightmare in easys. Well, a nightmare if you aren't a huge geek. The installer is decent enough, but it didn't let me add a user, so I spent the next ten minutes fumbling around looking for the GUI tool that wasn't there. Finally I just looked up the command line tool, adduser, which worked fine. Also, the sound never did work. It did find my sound card, but no sound would ever be played. Finally, it used VESA on me. I had a GeForce 2 video card, which should work fine with nv, but no. It used VESA.
I can't say it was all bad, however. It was lightweight, slick, and professional. The theme was quite presentable, and Firefox would actually download plugins by itself, which is something that was broken in Xubuntu 6.06 and SUSE 10.0. I also have to say that the login screen was nice and matched the theme nicely (unlike KateOS).
All in all, this is a nice alternative to Slackware (Easier to use), but I wouldn't want to use it if I was a newbie, or if I wanted it to just work without fiddling. Yet somehow, despite all of it's flaws, I can't help but like it.
Ease-of-use: 3/5
Hardware detection: 1/5
appearance: 4/5
Stability: -Still testing- 3.5/5
Tilt: 5/5
Overall: 3/5
What do you mean "evil" is two syllables?!
After re-reading that last post, I realized that the first line has too many syllables. One too many. Oh well. This is a blog. What can you expect?
Just pretend that the first line says "Darkness shrouds music". Not the same I know, but good enough.
Just pretend that the first line says "Darkness shrouds music". Not the same I know, but good enough.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
mp3 Haiku
mp3 is evil
ogg is always good and kind
The evil must fall
Ok ok, mp3 isn't evil, but evil seemed to fit into my Haiku nicely.
ogg is always good and kind
The evil must fall
Ok ok, mp3 isn't evil, but evil seemed to fit into my Haiku nicely.
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