{"id":101,"date":"2006-03-06T02:21:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T10:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/101"},"modified":"2007-11-28T23:21:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T06:21:34","slug":"101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/101","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that was a long time between posts.  I&#8217;ve been&#8230; busy (killing time).  I haven&#8217;t felt so motivated to bother doing the alt-tab mouse input thing in Metacity (the <span style=\"font-style: italic\">official<\/span> window manager for GNOME), as other things which seem to eclipse it are being developed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Give ME!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beatniksoftware.com\/gimmie\/\">Gimmie<\/a> (which looks awesome!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Accelerated Indirect GL X\" href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/RenderingProject\/aiglx\">AIGLX<\/a> (Redhat)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"X GL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/linux\/xglrelease\/\">XGL<\/a> (Novel) (<a title=\"very nice demo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freedesktop.org\/~davidr\/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi\">very nice demo<\/a> | <a title=\"I got this link from....\" href=\"http:\/\/pubcrawler.org\/2006\/02\/23\/jaw-dropping-xgl-demo\/\">src<\/a> )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3D is on it&#8217;s way to the Linux desktop.  3D cards &#8211; This has always bothered me.  Put aside the fact that the drivers are not open.  ATI cards always looked nice, to me, and they&#8217;re a Canadian company, so I would choose to support them given a choice of NVidia or ATI.  However, ATI clearly does not offer competent drivers for Linux to support their nice cards.  If I want any kind of performance, there&#8217;s no choice, really: NVidia.  Since I&#8217;m not playing intensive games all the time, however (I did enjoy the Doom3 demo, though), I would be willing to go with a card that is backed by an OSS supporting company.  Not sure what my options would be then.<\/p>\n<p>The USB flash card reader I got is working awesome.  Yes, it&#8217;s pretty small w\/a short cable for using on your PC, but it&#8217;s got GREAT portability.  Doesn&#8217;t need any extra drivers for Linux or Windows (the reader is cross platform!)  heh.  I&#8217;m ecstatic with it for $9.  I almost bought a second when I saw them on sale again at NCIX.<\/p>\n<p>Google Page Creator got slashdotted, so I didn&#8217;t get a chance to try it.  Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>And after watching a wicked sweet <a title=\"video.google.com link\" href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198\">30 minute gameplay video<\/a> (140MB) of <a title=\"OMG! SPORE!! OMG!\" href=\"http:\/\/spore.ea.com\/\">Spore<\/a>, I&#8217;m not sure if I can resist setting up a windows box that can run it.  I mean&#8230; Oh My God.  Best game evah!~<\/p>\n<p>I should upload some pix.  So behind on pix it&#8217;s ridiculous.  I thought about flickr&#8230; but i&#8217;m convinced there is a better personal solution, if I don&#8217;t care about the communities (that much).  Maybe take a look at <a title=\"Wordpress Gallery2\" href=\"http:\/\/wpg2.ozgreg.com\/\">WordPress Gallery2<\/a> when I have time.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah&#8230; I was working on a new blog design (like I said I would) and things were going ok.  Then I stopped for a while (a week?) and wanted to work on it again after.  But.. I couldn&#8217;t find it!!  I thought I had accidentally deleted it in my clensing!  I was pretty irritated with myself.  Luckily, I only moved it&#8230; and I found it just today.<\/p>\n<p>Oh man, stupid-me number two (far outdoes the first):  I was keeping my laptop on the floor of my bedroom, near my bed.  You know, for easy access to porn&#8230; on my bed.  Anyways, when I stepped closer to my mirror to examine a couple odd hairs on my head (what else?), I felt something bend under my foot, and looked down.  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">FUCK!<\/span>  My wireless card that was poking out of the pcmcia slot in my laptop!  :'(  I now present it dead.  RIP 1000yen wireless card.  Anyone know where I can get a cheap wireless card?  Laptop&#8217;s pretty useless without it.  And a cheap CF wireless card, for that matter&#8230; would be nice for my zaurus.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>On second inspection, the PCMCIA slots are totally shot.  One doesn&#8217;t work at all, and the other never successfully registers a card&#8230; (BEEP beep).  I&#8217;ve tried both my wireless card and a regular CF adapter.  So possibly in addition to my 1000yen wireless card, I have to do something about my $2000 laptop.  <span style=\"font-style: italic\">*sigh*<\/span>  Guess I&#8217;ll be heading to Futureshop again&#8230; I hope they don&#8217;t remember me.  \ud83d\ude10  Damnit, this sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that was a long time between posts. I&#8217;ve been&#8230; busy (killing time). I haven&#8217;t felt so motivated to bother doing the alt-tab mouse input thing in Metacity (the official window manager for GNOME), as other things which seem to eclipse it are being developed: Gimmie (which looks awesome!) 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