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September 30, 2007

I gave in.

Filed under: Linux — sherl0k @ 11:14 pm

Finally decided to put Linux on my spare PC, it’s been running Windows for who knows how long. I was hesitant because it’s the one I use for watching movies, so it’s got a 5.1 speaker setup and TV output. Thankfully, it wasn’t *too* difficult for me to get those working under the beta of Ubuntu 7.10.

Speaking of, 7.10 beta is a joke. Compiz doesn’t even work right. Emerald wouldn’t load, and I couldn’t find ANY preferences for compiz at all to mess with the plugins. I’ll take Beryl any day, thanks. Ditched GNOME and started looking at other GUIs. Blackbox had no menu configuration app. Fluxbox wouldn’t let me right-click. and Openbox was missing its panel. GG Canonical. Don’t tell me to use KDE, either. I won’t go near that. And my main box runs XFCE, I didn’t feel like using it again here. So right now I’m running a ghetto setup of OpenBox and fbpanel, which is a pretty decent panel I just need to configure a bit more. I say it’s ghetto because I don’t have anything on autorun yet so I need to open up and keep the terminal loaded for it. I’ll fix it soon enough.

What I do like though, is that my movies on the TV look so much more crisp and clear than they would’ve on Windows. I don’t know why, but I can just tell the difference. Black actually LOOKS black, not some off-shade that’s a bit brighter.

If bugs don’t get fixed by the time the release comes around, I may just switch to Debian with all its IceWeasel loving fans.

September 28, 2007

TGIF.

Filed under: Life,Work — sherl0k @ 9:22 pm

I’m so glad it’s the weekend. It’s been a really long week for me, and for some reason I haven’t been able to get a good night’s sleep since I came back from FL. Not sure if it’s me sleeping in a different room (I’m back in the basement again), having an actual 9-5 desk job, or remnants of personal stuff I’ve had to deal with.

Last night after I got out of work, I literally came home, ate dinner, and passed out until morning. And I still didn’t wake up feeling really refreshed. Not sure what’s going on with my body, but I hope I can get used to this schedule soon. At least I’m waking up to eat breakfast in the morning, haven’t done that since, oh, elementary school?

Thankfully, today we were out in the field doing work, much more interesting than sitting at the office doing phone support and entering data into a spreadsheet. Boss is out of town all next week too, so it’ll be interesting to see how everything plays out. One of the projects we have is that we get to shoot a 50 megabit fiber connection 10-20 miles via radio towers. That’s going to be an interesting project.

Don’t really have any plans for the weekend. Not really complaining, I’ve been dying to finish beating Earthbound (apparently I’m pretty close) and I’ll probably spend some time at the arcade. I miss playing DDR for hours on end.

Current audio crack:

September 22, 2007

HDR Photography, Take two.

Filed under: Photography — sherl0k @ 4:40 pm


I love how the colors came out on this. So vivid. (med, high)


This was just cool to do. it’s so unrealistic but I think that’s what makes it so awesome. (med, high)


Most flower pictures focus on the petals, but I think the bright greens in the stems is what stands out here. (med, high)

September 21, 2007

Yay more photos.

Filed under: Photography — sherl0k @ 8:13 pm


HDR photography is fun. though it works best with non-bright areas, hence the loss of color on the rocks.

also available in medium resolution (768×1024) or its original resolution (1920×2560).


this campfire came out nice though.

also has a medium resolution (1024×768) and an original resolution (2560×1920).

September 20, 2007

Photos from Cali.

Filed under: Life — sherl0k @ 2:51 pm

HPIM1327
Big waste of time, there’s nothing good there. Stupid tourist traps…

I like pandas.
HPIM1383

HPIM1432

HPIM1439

I took lots more but nothing really I feel like posting right now.

September 19, 2007

Once again.

Filed under: Uncategorized — sherl0k @ 10:46 pm

My life as of recent has been blood, sweat, and tears.

Within a week I’ve gone from walking on the Pacific coast, to walking on the Atlantic coast.

I have bruised hands, and a bruised heart.

This is now the third time (in a row, pretty much) that something like this has happened to me. This may sound selfish, but it’s completely unfair to me. And I deserve better.

September 4, 2007

Itinerary changes of sorts.

Filed under: Uncategorized — sherl0k @ 5:12 pm

Scratch Vegas off the list, unfortunately. Instead I’ll be flying into San Diego and driving around there, and also into Los Angeles. My job for the week? Visiting 11 Denny’s restaurants in the area and installing wireless access points. Score.

First day of work was pretty awesome. Had to prep all the access points, VNC into some client computers and run adware removal software, and set up a new HP PC by blowing away the preinstalled Vista and putting XP on. Then comes the fun of finding drivers, HP doesn’t like supplying XP drivers anymore so I had to look elsewhere for everything. Ah well, everything was accomplished. Even had enough downtime to grab a couple slices of pizza.

I’m pretty stoked about this new job, I left there feeling pretty good and I have nothing but excitement for my next week out across the country with El Presidente. By the way, my flight comes back Wednesday the 12th at like 11pm, and my flight leaving for Tampa the next morning is at 6am. Crazy I tell you.

September 2, 2007

Room transformation, part one.

Filed under: Life — sherl0k @ 5:59 pm

Since I won’t be home for the next two weeks, I have to prepare the basement as my own beforehand. I don’t have everything I need down there yet (the most essential thing being a bed) but I’ve gotten places with moving some of my stuff down there. Most of the work involves clearing out the stuff that’s already down there, and with that out of the way I can move my things in their place. This is pretty much all I’ve been doing all weekend, and my allergies are definitely taking a hit from the dust buildup. Thankfully I have non-drowsy medicine, and lots of it.

basement1
My collection of technical reading material. Everything from Windows XP to (ew) Fedora/RHEL, XHTML, Server 2003, Visual Basic.NET, CCNA, Network+, A+… quality reading for the whole family. Can’t forget the Sudoku book and the decks of cards – anyone up for Uno in the dark again?

basement2
Check it out guys, I has a record player. I now know everything there is to know about music genres and audio quality. Be on the lookout for my noise album soon. (sup setzer, lol)

basement3
Of course I needed a place for all my penguin plushes. They’re like one big happy family.

I also moved some other stuff down there not worth taking photos of (like items on my dresser). Soon enough I’ll have both computers down there, with the Linux box having 2 NICs with a crossover going to the Windows box so both have internet and can share files. I don’t know if I can run both LAN cables from the router down there yet, I’ll figure that in a couple weeks when my dad has the time to help me. That seems a bit excessive anyway, if I can avoid doing that I will.

Other than that, I really don’t have much else to move down there. I live a pretty simple life at home, I guess that means it won’t be much trouble for me when I finally decide to move out.

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