Posted on Monday, December 28, 2009 at
For posterity, I will now record my actions that resulted in the installation of Windows 7 to my hard drive. Listen closely, for it is a sad, sad tale.
Maybe not so sad: the XP install I had was showing it’s age as boots took minutes and things were just generally slow. And since Windows 7 was discounted to 30-ish dollars for students, I figured I might as well get a modern OS and refresh everything in one kick (I figured trying to wrangle a copy of Windows from MSNDNAA through my university would be a pain, and more trouble than it was worth.
Posted on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at
So, I installed Windows 7 this morning. Or was it yesterday night? Or yesterday morning? At any rate, one thing led to another and I finally got here, where I have a working windows 7 and kind of working ubuntu. Unfortunately, I learned about cp -aR too late, and now I have a whole installation of ubuntu that has screwed up permissions. It is almost not worth the effort I put into trying to save it.
Posted on Sunday, December 13, 2009 at
I’ve just added the choice to build a pdf with either pdftex or vanilla latex and dvipdf. Although they’re pretty similar, sometimes you want one over the other (pdftex doesn’t work with pst-circ, for example, or pdftex can take png images). Note: I have not overhauled the image system to deal with this yet. This might mean I’ll have to convert on demand, or something, which might be for the best, since having more images than necessary might be detrimental to my hard drive space.