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September 28, 2006

Linux Projects

Filed under: Tech — jimX @ 12:39 am

Well,

I was planning on working with MySpace Gopher to port it to Linux, but it seems that the author is having trouble keeping it working on Windows. To top that, it seems like it now uses a the flash player, which I know many people don’t install on Linux– weather it’s because of it’s licence or the fact that it’s only on IA32 at the moment.

Anyways, in a recent digg story, a fellow linux semi-newbie, who’s gmail account identifies him as Jordan, answered my request for help with developing a script (or series of scripts) that will automatically install eyecandy into a fresh debian system. I hope to have a semi-presentable product to turn loose within a week or so of the Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) official release. This is so that the Linux Gods that be can have a 2-click, 4-keystroke response to Microshaft’s Vista Interface.

I’m downloading Debian now (I lost my CDs and the ISOs are too big to keep around) and will start in a couple days… I’m not feeling my best atm.

If anyone else has advice or some serious knowledge of Linux eyecandy, email me.

-jX out.

September 25, 2006

It’s 11:03…

Filed under: Uncategorized — jimX @ 11:24 pm

and I will write a short blog post.

I know I have told many people that dropping out of high school is one of the worst decisions one can make. However, I have discovered that it could also be one of the best. Perhaps, I’m deluded in my newfound view of dropping out, but I’m not sure. My new view is that for some, dropping out is a stupid idea, i.e. for those wishing to work in so called “blue collar” positions. For others, who have demonstraded an independant will to learn and have found that school interrupts their education, dropping out and moving directly to some form of independant study via an accredited organisation could be benificial to one’s self in the long run.

It is now 11:13, and I have to do menial homework for my menial classes.

School can be summerised like this: The administrators are holding a piece of paper with your name on it thats worth countless thousands of dollars, and it’s rightfully yours. You reach for the paper and find that you’re close, but short by an inch. You jump. You land on your feet and look at what’s in your hand. Nothing. You look back up at the administrator, who seems a bit taller now. He smirks and says “why don’t you have another go?” You jump again, and come closer this time, as you have grown by a bit. You still have nothing.

You look up, and see that smirk again, and it drives you to jump a third time. You still have nothing to show for your efforts. The administrator laughs, and suggests that you try jumping again. You sit there and contemplate for a moment as to what your course of action should be. Should you jump again and entertain this madman? Should you kick him in the shins? Should you get a ladder to help? or just walk away and do without the paper?

He waves the paper, and asks you “Well? Aren’t you going to jump again?”

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September 12, 2006

Intel’s Core 2 Quadro Kentsfield: Four Cores on a Rampage

Filed under: From Digg — jimX @ 3:54 pm

“As we’ve seen, Core 2 Quadro represents a significant step ahead, which AMD cannot counter until its 65 nm quad core processors will be available in H2/2007. AMD needs 4×4 now.”

Generally, same gaming performance, amazing ~80% gains in threaded software like video encoding or HD rendering.

read more | digg story

Personally, I’ll wait for an AMD solution with 4 Cores on 1 Chip, a huge ass cache, smaller processes, and an uncapped multiplier.

Maybe the FX-64?

September 11, 2006

Sep 11

Filed under: Uncategorized — jimX @ 9:10 pm

September 11th is usually a somber event, as it should be. But something I noticed today on a Wired Blog Post made me think differenty… just for a second.

This is a photoshop rendition of what ground zero will look like in 2011. When I look at this picture, it makes me want to find the nearest terrorist, grab him by the turban, and shout in his face “Look what we can do. We made it better than it was before. You Cunts just can’t accept that America is sucessful. Well look, it will be sucessful and there’s nothing you can do about it. Ever since your little fun with planes, our economy has flourished while those of terrorist nations have either been distroyed or are festering wounds on the stomach of world society. If you can’t accept it, go kill yourself.”

-jX

Oh… on this subject… my Social Studies teacher had us do a writing prompt today concerning us if we had been president during the attacks. I realised something while writing that… I’m downright draconian.

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