I spent a few hours installing Visual Studio 2008 today, but got into a weird situation when one of the install components hung. When I killed it, I left my system in a weird state, and after a bunch of reinstalling, I could get VS2008 to start, but I couldn’t create an outlook 2007 add-in […]
Had family in town so we went to Golden Gate Park. Managed to snag a few photos that turned out pretty good. Click to see the entire set.
The continuous onward march of technology benefits everyone right? Well, I thought so too, but recently I’ve run into a counter-example: wide-gamut monitors. First let me tell you about why wide-gamut monitors suck. For ages now, except in high-end scenarios, the color response of your desktop monitor has been assumed be effectively represented by the […]
If there’s something I’ve learned from work, it’s to start small. At the beginning, use pieces that are available to you already. Build quick prototypes, and only work on the hard parts as you really need them. I’ve spend a considerable amount of time working on blog systems, but in the exactly opposite manner. I […]
Had a stupid problem with logging into Windows on my laptop for a while now. As soon as I finish entering my password and hit enter, the machine gets stuck at “Loading Personal Settings” for over a minute, with very little disk activity. I finally decided to try to fix it. The most helpful bit […]
I had another surge of motivation to switch back to FVWM, so I’m hacking away at my .fvwm2rc again. One particularly useful trick I’ve come up with is to be able to map key combinations to focus specific application windows. This works even if I’m looking at a different desk. As I tend to only […]
Finally got around to building Qian a PC of her own. Cobbled together pieces of my old P4 box (case, power supply), my newer desktop (my older monitor, 2GB of RAM [of which 1GB was inaccessible to 32-bit XP anyways]), and some peripherals she had for her laptop (keyboard / mouse), et voila, a $250 […]
Still tinkering away with Ubuntu Hardy Heron on the Thinkpad X60. Since my last posting, Ubuntu updated their kernel to 2.6.24-16, and the corresponding modules package has a newer iwl3945 driver (version 1.2.0, though compat-wireless has 1.2.23). The wireless on this machine appears to work out of the box now. I suspended and resumed a […]
I’ve reported my experiences on running previous versions of Ubuntu on the Thinkpad X60. Here are the notable updates with Hardy Heron: Wireless: Ubuntu dropped the closed source ipw3945 driver from their restricted packages repository, instead, opting to use the iwl3945 driver that’s included in upstream kernel sources. Unfortunately, the version that gets shipped with […]
Yep, that’s right. Three releases in one day. And a new page for it to boot. I now have a dedicated page for this side project . I haven’t decided for sure yet, but I’ll probably make it some open source license. I discovered how to do Outlook COM add-in’s using pure python with win32 […]