general · science –
I haven’t been able to write because I always end up extremely tired from work. Since I’m moving to the CISI next week, it looks like everyone needs me. I managed to study a bit, then I had to help a couple people with a protocol, then work on the firewall/router migration (we’re restructuring our Intranet once I move a few computers there) then help with a software, etc.
And tomorrow looks the same. Guess I’ll have to bear with it.
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s.t.e.a.l. · science –
Today I thought I was going to move from my current location (LITA building, University of Milano ) to the new one, the CISI. However I didn’t think up that some stuff (including the arrival of 3 new people at our laboratory, Sarah, Guya and Alessandra) would have held me back. I won’t relocate till next Monday. In the mean time I spent the day testing out some procedures and creating a draft proposal for the new laboratory’s network structure, and getting the equipment to put that in place.
I’ve had an overload of information and I’m really tired, for having just done my first day of work after the holidays. And it looks like I’ll be wanted by many people this week…
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linux –
Yesterday I tried to run an electronic Italian-English dictionary I own. As I write my novel using LaTeX and I have an environment on Linux, I thought it would good to use WINE to read it. I was wrong. Wine has progressed immensely and the commercial offerings (for example CodeWeavers) are even capable of running Office in its latest incarnation: however they are totally useless in front of the extremely bad quality of those dictionaries (from a programming point of view). They only work in Windows because the underlying (crappy) environment can compensate for an equally crappy program.
For now I’ll use an online dictionary I found. At least that only requires a browser.
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general · s.t.e.a.l. –
Some things strike me as being really odd. Regarding the commission post I made: it’s not the first time I try doing this. After I realized that asking for free was not really going to help (because many people don’t have time, or the will to do such a project) I already tried in the past about offering money. And in the past I didn’t get any responses. Perhaps I chose the wrong channel of communication? I’m not sure. Perhaps people were too busy? A simple “no” would have been better.
But I think it all boils down to the bad habits of people on the Internet. And having read around about Mark Shuttleworth (of Ubuntu fame) offering money to help the GIMP project and then being forced to withdraw it, perhaps I shouldn’t be so surprised.
Nevertheless, I’ll keep on trying.
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anime · s.t.e.a.l. –
The few people who know me may have heard of one of my pet projects, S.T.E.A.L., whose draft PDF is available here. I’ve been trying for ages to get an illustrator to do some b/w art for it (a la Slayers), but always with bad results. I’ll be trying to commission it, now that I can afford it, let’s hope I can get some results done at least with money…
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linux –
I’ve just wasted an expensive DVD+R dual layer thanks to some bugs in the burning program. My laptop could handle the burning fine (hopefully) but I couldn’t read the source DVD because of the crappy quality of the DVD reader inside (I had the same exact problem with my old laptop), and on my desktop (MDV 2006.0) k3b refuses to burn, and growisofs borks mid-way with a generic error, in any case the DVD is wasted, bah.
Next time I’ll just move the ISO over to my laptop….
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general · linux –
The two items in the title aren’t really related but they sum up today’s entry. My cat had to be visited by the vet, that diagnoesed renal insufficiency and strong dehydration. Something to be worry about, but it will be at lest kept under control soon.
The second part of the entry deals with the fact that I’m trying to find a decent finance program that works under Linux (no thanks to any program on Windows, sorry): I tried KMyMoney but aside the fact that it doesn’t have any Italian template, it’s a little confusing. I’ll keep on looking for something similar that works under KDE.
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