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So you all know about my new laptop I assume. Else see my previous posts. Anyway I was thinking about making my new laptop more of a graphical thing.

Now the first thing i wanted was hardware acceleration. However it seems my Ati Xpress 200M is not well supported by the opensource drivers. Now I hear you think why not switch to the propiotry drivers? Well because then I need to compile gcc-3. I mean what is that about. So I will stay with the opensource drivers and wait till hardware acceleration is fully supported. Wich I believe won’t take to long because the Xpress 200M is shipped in a lot of laptops these days.

So I spend today to compile X and KDE. Which well went very smooth. Currently it I’m writing this from a fresh compiled konqueror. Kmail is done. Akregator. So the basics for my daily needs (I already compiled VI). I now also boot from kdm. I figured that I start X for 99% of the times. And altough it looks much cooler to be outside X when you are on te terras drinking a beer this is actually more confortable.

Speaking of comfort. I also compiled knetworkmanger. To arrange all my network stuf from inside kde. I must say it works great. I could connect to my WPA2 network with 2 clicks.

So far so good. Lets hope it stays that way.

So at the moment I’m over at my girlfriend parents to I have access to the internet by a nice wire. However once I get home again it will be wireless. So I had to get my wireless fixed before I got there. Now I figured that would be a real bitch since I was used to broadcom. However in the end it started to work properly. Anyway I figured that was where I would spend my morning with configuring that.

However once again it seems my gift to see the future is not fully active in the morning since I’m done withing an hour. Compiled madwifi-ng, loaded a bunch of modules. Compiled wpa_supplicant. And bang. It worked. Must be a new record.

New laptop was delivered today. This is the first time I ever own a Laptop that never played the windows tune. Which well feels good. So after inserting the amd64 live CD I figured crap it is core duo not core 2 duo. Which means no 64bit. Now I love my 64bit machines. However now I can run flash

But before the time is there to run flash I need to compile my whole system. So that means at the moment I’m running the stage1 install. AH well so far everything is working and best of all no broadcom card!

So the laptop is on its way to me. Which is both good and bad… It is of course good because I want to play with my new Laptop. Get gentoo on it. Ah well you all know what I mean right? But the bad thing is that I have some homework to do this weekend.. In other words it now all is a matter of planning.

Now something else. The laptop is send with TNT, the post service in Holland. Now they have a nice track and trace system which allows me to enter the barcode and the postal code and well I know “where” the package is. However for some reason they do not have an rss feed on that. That would be something which it is perfect for. Ah well… I’m not sending packages that often… but still

A few days ago I came across this. It shows god in his shell creating the world. I showed it to some friends and they really liked it so I figured I’d share it with you all. Maybe you already know it, Maybe you don’t.

–Enjoy

So as I wrote before the time has come to get a new laptop. I will still be using this one from time to time of course.

It is an ASUS X51R-AP026C. So I hope it gets deliverd soon. I’ll keep you posted.

I think the time has come to take extra care for my laptop. She (of course she is a she!) is getting old. Over two years it has been since I purchased her on-line. I remember it like it was yesterday she was delivered to me. She was ill then too. However I was able to cure her from the evil ‘Windows’-virus, the linux-antibiotic did the trick :). However her battery is not what it used to be. And the power connector of the adapter somehow stop when the battery is filled… So i have to reconnect it to get power again…

I talked a lot with her and she agreed that is was time to move on. As long as I would not forget her (of course not! how could I?). We decided together that when I find myself a new one that I will use her as testing box…

So I’ll be looking for new laptops soon. However it has to be as linux compatible as it can be… I’ll keep you informed.

So I’m back at the university. Nice to see all the people again. So not that bad. Now we got a course Natural Language Processing and I was told it was best to do it in python. I never coded in python before so did not really know what to expect. I started coding and it was actually quite easy. It works nice and is surprisingly fast. However (and I know I am not the only one) why am I not allowed to use my friends { and }…. I like them. Now I know I have to indent etc. I already do that. But I like to use them just in case…

Ah well I think I can learn to live with it. But still… Would be nice if they gave me the choice to use it…

So I was at work 2 hour ago and me and a friend needed to print sometime. So we press the nice icon and expect the printer to do his thing. Normally it does so why not today. But it turns out that it is a special day today. The paper was jammed. But not 1 piece of paper. O no. like 5 pieces of paper. Janking it didn’t do the trick. I torn the paper apart but that didn’t fix the jam. After looking at the printer for like 3 minutes we came to the conclusion that the only way to get the paper out was to open the printer.

But as it isn’t supposed to get jammed we had to get the screwdriver out. So after taking almost every screw out of the printer we finally got the part where the paper was jammed. A lot of poking and torning later all the paper was gone and we could put the printer back together. Now the whole point of this story is…

A printer always finds a way to get the paper jammed.

So today I had my first matlab experience. The exercise was not complete so it was a blast… I can’t say I like it much so far. I mean matrix computation are easier than I have ever seen. But common. If I have 1 space to after a ; it all goes wrong. Ah well I’m currently compiling octave and koctave so I can work also on it at home. But all of a sudden I had to recompile GCC… with fortran support. The first time I’ll ever use that… Ah well. Lets hope after this no more suprises in relation to matlab.