Okay, I’m really sorry about my complete lack of posting. I have no real excuse other than I spend every waking moment doing something else. Sorry.
Anyway, I have update my page devoted to Vim on this site. My vimrc had some errors in it and my published my gvimrc as well. So now you all can revel in the rc glory. Good luck. And I have not forgotten, my post about my new MacBook is coming. I’m lazy, so sue me.
Enjoy the Penguins!
This is going to be a teaser post for now. I don’t really have the time, or the desire, at the moment to give a full run down of the ups and downs but all that matters is I have my MacBook, I have my iPod nano, and they are both working seamlessly together. Individually things aren’t always so grand. The whole, “It just works” claim that people always feed me about macs is what the British people on TV refer to as “rubbish.” After two days with my Mac though all I can say is that despite being better coded than Windows I still prefer Linux to OS X. Its not the greatest operating system of all time. Thats rubbish too.
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The longer my blog is around the less interesting I find my own content. Thats sort of sad isn’t it? Either way though someone must find me interesting because every now and then I stumble across a link to myself on someone else’s blog. I got rolled. So when that happens I roll them as well. If you rolled me, do tell. I’ll return the favor. So far I’m up to two, w00t!
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Other than a rather large distaste for the language because its named after a bean I find JavaScript annoying. Its awkward I wish I were C but I’m stuck being Java syntax bothers me. Lest we not forget that some of my code renders in IE some doesn’t. Some of it renders in Firefox, some doesn’t. At this rate who would want to make web pages for a living? It isn’t worth the heartache. The worst for me though is… whatever they call it when variables declare their own data type. I hate that. If I want an integer I will make an integer. Even Visual Basic gives you that much. Who honestly thought that was a good idea? On the other hand though, I find Ruby’s handling of variables sexy with three x’s. Do have a peek if your not familiar with it.
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I’m taking a class where we’re doing primarily JavaScript. I know nothing about JavaScript and very little about HTML but if you want to look at my wonderful webpage you can find it here
http://bscit.net/2008spring/Steven.Oliver/
Curiously it doesn’t render at all in Internet Explorer. I don’t really care to try and fix it. It works in Firefox, I assume it probably works in Opera. It passes W3C validation for HTML and CSS so I’m going to blame this one on IE and not me. Enjoy.
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It looks like Arch Linux got a new website. Which may have happened months ago, I don’t visit that often, either way perhaps Gentoo should look into that.
The worst part about this is talk of redoing the website has passed around on more than one occasion and nothing ever seems to come of it. I just taught myself how to do classes in CSS, if you need some help call me.
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I need Windows for class. I don’t want Windows back to be honest, but I don’t really have much choice. It Windows or an F at this point. So I broke out my only legitimate copy of Windows XP Pro. I popped it in my drive and rebooted. Everything was going smooth. It loaded the CD on boot, began loading various drivers for things I don’t have in my computer then asked me what I wanted. Not really a bad install process per say but Microsoft could definitely learn something from the open source world about installers.
Anyway, I selected to install and boom, I can’t. No surprise here. I had forgotten that the XP install disk (at least my version of it) does not support SATA hard drives. So I went through the trouble of pulling out my old IDE hard drive. I put her in my box and booted up again. To my immediate surprise nothing happened. My BIOS claimed there was nothing to boot. In my infinite wisdom I had set my disks up as either master or slave instead of cable select and had put the hard drive on the wrong connector on the cable. This all compounded by forgetting to get the install CD out of the drive and having to pull it out with a paper clip.
Finally, after taking my computer apart for the third time and losing my paper clip twice, I had the hardware setup and ready to go. I reboot, I actually get XP installed this time, and it, in its infinite wisdom reboots without warning while I’m not looking. Thanks Microsoft I appreciate that.
Well, it attempts to boot the CD again but it freezes instead. Okay, no biggie I thought, I’ll get the CD out and try again. Fail. I reboot, change some BIOS options and try again. Fail. I reboot and try more BIOS options. Fail. It kept failing at the “Updating DMI pool data…” or something like that. Meaning it hadn’t even had a chance to boot off of any device before it would fail. This would indicate a motherboard problem in my opinion, so scared, I put everything (my hardware) back the way it was before I started this fiasco and rebooted. Not only does it boot, but I log back into Linux as if nothing had ever happened.
I can’t explain it, other than the XP install blows. Thats what you get for not using open source and thoroughly demonstrates the need for regular releases of all software not just Word and PowerPoint. Again, thanks Microsoft.
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