Today was pretty fun. A little before noon my boss brought Namon (I think?) over to upgrade both my and Manjot’s installs of Office 2000 to Office XP/2007/whatever. Works fine on her machine, she’s running XP. Seems to work fine on my NT machine, but.. I reboot like the installer wants me to and go [...]
28Jul08
I’m still a little shocked
Woot. Got Feldspar and Andy playing nicely via Synergy (a network based KVM). It’s like having two monitors, but it also gives me an extra 60GB harddrive, 2GB RAM (MORE THAN ANDY), and the ability to run programs on feldy instead of andy (like, say, my music client which will just connect to mpd on [...]
26Jul08
New computer!
Welcome Feldspar, a Taiwanese/Korean Sony VAIO Casey found in the trash on second grad! The install of WinXP was pretty borked so Casey put his XP on it and it seemed fine and now I’ve got Xubuntu on it. All it cost to me was twenty bucks for the extra RAM that Casey popped in [...]
23Jul08
In the middle of the night
In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep From the mountains of faith To the river so deep I must be lookin’ for something Something sacred I lost But the river is wide And it’s too hard to cross even though I know the river is wide I walk down every [...]
3Jul08
Project
So I think that my next real.. project of sorts will be to write an MPD client. MPD is a pretty neat music manager I found a few days ago. A fair amount of Linux programs and services run on the client/server idea, most notably X the graphical display server (what draws the pretty graphics [...]
