linux –
The title comes from some random thoughts I had while reading aseigo’s latest entry on Plasma. I was thinking about the line “who uses KDE for his/her day job, and why?”, but related perhaps to people who don’t code for a living. Here I will illustrate my point of view on why I chose KDE as my day to day desktop environment.
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linux –
The reason for this post is the time I wasted this afternoon to enable DMA for a DVD burner in Windows, in order to burn a backup DVD at a decent speed. Apparently, the two optical drives are IDE while the HD is on a SATA controller. For no reason, DMA got turned off on the DVD burner (but not on the other drive).
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final fantasy xi –
The FFXI Encyclopedia has an interview with the Final Fantasy XI developers with regards to the upcoming expansion, Wings of the Goddess. Skimming through the lines, they give a lot of hints but no definitive answers. Sadly, there will be no barriers for missions, and no one asked about their length: Treasures of Aht Urghan had very short missions, often ridicolously easy, so I’d like a better challenge this time.
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science –
After giving in the summary of my thesis today, I also started writing the actual thing. Of course this is not something I will finish in a few days. It’s a long journey that will go on until I deliver it.
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linux –
Looks like my laptop doesn’t really want to keep its data in stable form. Like I have blogged previously, the bus-reset issue apparently trashed my root partition again. I do not know the cause as it seemed a normal shutdown… but the moment I rebooted I had lost a lot of files (thankfully not on /home: I’m glad I keep data separated from the rest).
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linux –
Recently, I had to do a few scans with my old but trusty BenQ 640BU. Given that I could not use any GUI due to a long-standing Feisty bug, I tried to settle for command line scanning with the scanimage command from SANE. The main problem is that scanimage only saves images in PNM or TIFF formats. I wanted to use JPEG or PNG, but apparently that looked impossible to do.
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