Evolution likes to use Gnome’s setting for the default web browser. To edit Gnome’s default web browser, you use this command:
gnome-default-applications-properties
In order to get this app to work in a KDE only environment, the following package is needed:
control-center
The most beautiful built in feature ever.
mount -o loop disk1.iso /mnt/disk
Mounts an ISO to the specified directory.
My grades are alright… Bs all around. Except for one class, World Civilizations, which I don’t really care for. I’m maintaining a C in that class. Which I find acceptable. My GPA is around 4.1, a number I’m told is pretty good. That’s acceptable to me. My parents seem to think that this is about the worst thing in the world. I get lectures almost every night about how I’m not going to be able to make it into any good schools, and how I have to start working harder to keep my grades up. Dinner has become a time to yell at Hayden because of his poor grades.
These grades are not poor! They are acceptable!
I know of many other kids in school who are happy with Cs in all of their classes. They don’t seem to be having any trouble when you look at them. I’m working plenty hard to maintain my Bs, and if there’s one class in the world that I’m not so good at, so be it. I’m not good at it. A C is acceptable for a class that you’re not good at.
I agree that my studying habits could be improved… but do they need to? I don’t want the kind of lifestyle where school is one’s only focus in life. That’s no fun, and fun is what makes life worth living.
With my NIS server and my OpenSuse clients, I’ve been having some problems getting 3D acceleration working.
Luckily, I’ve found a simple solution. Because I’m unable to assign the NIS users to the video group (which is what Nvidia’s permissions are set to), I must set the Nvidia device file to allow access for everyone.
Just edit /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia and replace 660 with 666. All done!
On another note, Doom 3 will only run at 24 bit depth. Make sure the xorg.conf file is set to that!
This is ridiculous.
Windows will not stop nagging me to restart my computer. Ever. It interrupts games, and is just plain annoying. Fortunately, I’ve found a way to disable it.
Now, to get rid of it:
Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations
Pretty nifty.
Apparently, adding &fmt=18 to the end of any YouTube URL will present you with a higher quality version of the video. Interesting…
To keep the login screen from starting too early, before NIS is initialized and NFS shares are mounted, I used this command under OpenSuSE 10.3:
insserv -r earlyxdm
I got this command from the following thread:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2007-10/msg01660.html
It was somewhat embarrassing, and very confusing.
My teacher was giving us a homework assignment that consisted of putting together a comic strip. He pointed out an example on the wall, and I got up to look at it. As I walked toward it, my vision started fading to black around the corners until I couldn’t see at all. This happened very fast. I heard the faint sound of scraping chairs on the ground, and opened my eyes, staring at the floor underneath me. My chest had landed on a chair next to my own desk, I was just kind of slumped on top of it horizontally. It felt like I just woken up from a very long nap. My teacher was leaning over next to me, asking if I was alright. I was feeling no pain, just a very dull numb feeling in parts of my body. He asked what happened, and I took a second to think about it. Then he asked if I had fainted. “I guess,” I said, looking at all of the students just staring at me.
The whole situation was explained to me by one of my classmates. Apparently I just started swaying, and fell right into the chair. My teacher commented that I was only out for maybe two or so seconds.
“If you weren’t unconscious, that would’ve hurt like hell,” said my classmate. Well, good.
So I spent the last ten minutes of class in the nurse’s office, getting my blood pressure checked. It was higher than normal, so I was advised to come and get it tested again tomorrow. I will.
Tribes is my absolute favorite series of games out there. Probably the game I’ve played most in my entire life. The series seemed sort of dead until recently. Garage Games (the developers behind Tribes 2) are currently developing an “unofficial” Tribes game. It looks pretty good, too!
I’ve been asked back to the middle school this year to help with the Sound crew for this year’s play, Grease.
Due to iTunes giving me problems last time around, I’ve begun developing a live performance sound playing program I’ve named Tonality. It’s turning out very well, hopefully it will prove useful over the next month.
