general · linux –
Today I’ve been trying to set up suspend to RAM and suspend to disk (also known as hibernate) on my laptop using Kubuntu 6.06 LTS. Both tries failed miserably, sadly. The machine would suspend and also wake up, but I’d get only a garbled screen. This means that the video driver failed to wake up properly: this is the well known fglrx driver, the binary only driver that ATI made for Linux.
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general · linux –
Finally, the new version of Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) is out! Not that I noticed many differences since I kept it constantly dist-upgraded since I put the beta on the desktop and the RC on the laptop. I really like it so far (save minor nags with 3D acceleration that I solved by issuing a couple of shell commands). Also, KDE 3.5.3 packages are already available from 3rd-party repositories. I will be upgrading them soon.
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final fantasy xi · general · linux –
Yesterday I updated my laptop to Kubuntu Dapper RC. Overall the (long) process was quite smooth save a couple of problems (the use of NetworkManager for exaple, that caused me headaches to make wireless work) including the fact that the ATI drivers were looking in the wrong location (/usr/X11/lib/modules/dri instead of /usr/lib/dri) so 3D acceleration wasn’t working.
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general · science –
Today I obtained a trial license of a data analysis program. I plan on using it for the next two weeks to see if it could improve the analysis workflow in our laboratory. I noticed this software uses the Tk widget set to achieve cross-platform capability (in fact, it can run on Linux, which is a big plus for me). However, in my opinion, Tk widgets look rather ugly. I wonder why the company didn’t consider using Trolltech’s Qt widgets. Mind, I don’t have any ties with TT but I appreciate their toolkit (licensed either under the GNU GPL or a commercial license) in the KDE desktop environment.
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final fantasy xi –
I’ve been spending a bit of my time last week to do several FFXI-related events. The most important are related to Assault, as me and my group (Eithin, Mercredi, Sechs and Billyism) managed to win all the level 1 Assaults, and therefore we got promoted to Private First Class (PFC), which sounds a little better than the lame Private Second Class. Here are also some random images from the new areas:
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general –
Today I found out that my own ISP’s (Fastweb) mailserver got into a spam blacklist. I can understand how it happened, since Fastweb has a limited pool of public IPs and everything is behind a massive NAT. I checked the web page of the organization that blacklisted the IP and noticed they want you to pay a fine of $50 to get removed. I can understand that perhaps this is due to spammers being on a rampage around, but those guys just blacklisted an entire ISP’s mail server because they didn’t bother to check. And now you have to pay also to remove yourself? Bah.
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general · science –
This has been a rather stressful period work-wise. Things are looking extremely confusing on the (upcoming) paper we need to write and even a small doubt can cause huge time losses (I spent the whole morning checking to see if my analysis was correct or not while in fact it was correct in the first place). I’ve been shown a new software for microarray analysis, well, at least some brochures. I’m going to inquire about pricing (the most important part) and platform availability (I’d love if it could run on Linux). I’ll also ask for a demonstration if possible.
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