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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
So, just to follow up with my gripes about Ubuntu, it turns out that upgrading was the cause of my troubles. Doing a couple of clean installs (first to find corrupt libraries killing init within 3 seconds of boot, second to find I had installed x86 inadvertently, and the final one to get x86_64) got […]
So I’ve been having troubles with Ubuntu for the last few days: first, upgrading the desktop causes a cyclic restart after logging in: sound is broken again, as I remember putting good hours in making that work: and now I couldn’t find the command to upgrade without a gui. For someone concerned with gaining some […]
So, I woke up at 12:12 today. Which is bad, to say in the least. It speaks of my slovenliness, the sort of behavior which I want to avoid (sleeping 10 hours is too much. It might have been enough when I was younger, but I think, despite the fact that my development hasn’t dropped […]
So, I’ve just done what I always seem to end up doing every few fortnights or so, which is to tear through a science fiction novel as quickly as possible. I know it doesn’t do justice to a classic, but I seem to have a thing with picking up books and having to finish them. […]
To freak y’all out straight away, I have a crush on a cartoon character. Yes, yes, freaky, but maybe not so surprising. For the cartoon character in question, check out PHD the comic, and in particular the cover for the first book. Really, if there was a girl like that in my immediate vicinity (cute […]
Todo: Hack up a new style for wordpress. This default isn’t cutting it for me. Finish up EZLO. Write manifesto. Finish coilgun. Not necessarily in that order.
[Note: everything before this post was made on blogger.] I miss git. Specifically, I miss the commits at the end of the day, that sort of self-documentation and wrapping up the day, instead of forgetting about the struggles that have come before. Blah.