too fast for love
My life is too damn interesting to keep writing about. No, seriously.
In the past 12 months I went from being a system administrator at a prominent SF open source incubator to a raw vegan chef at a cafe to a line producer for a series of short documentary films to being Producer of a new production company by the name of Little Moving Pictures (Ltd).
In the meantime, I’ve had tons of ideas, which I write down on paper, and I still don’t have an efficient way of transferring these ideas into blog, journal, digital notebook, or whatever format. It’s really a big problem. Maybe I’ll start using OCR or something. I dunno. Has to be Linux based.
In a fit of sheer reckless glee, I obliterated all traces of Windows on this Dell Latitude D830 (intel duo w/ Nvidia Quadro NVS) and slapped a fresh Ubuntu on it. And I’m super impressed! The only hitches in the install were that I needed to boot in “recovery mode” a couple times to get the video working, because with the stock software it kept booting with a blank screen as it tried to load Xorg, and also the sound didn’t work until I grabbed and compiled the very latest alsa drivers. I had to apt-get “nvidia-glx-new” and then change my xorg.conf to use the “nvidia” instead of the “nv” driver. After I got that going, I used the nvidia config panel in X to set up a dual-head configuration. So I am now using two screens (Twin View) both at 1680×1050. W00t! Never been able to get that kind of display going in Linux before (mostly due to ineffective economy-priced hardware).
Oh, and I actually giggled and shed a tear of bliss when I loaded up Firefox to check out the latest sbemail, knowing full well I didn’t have Flash installed, and found that ubuntu’s firefox modifications not only made it a cinch to install Flash automatically, but it gave me options! Nifty. Granted, the open source SWF player I took the chance on installing didn’t actually work too well, and I had to uninstall it and go with Adobe Flash Player. But still, pretty neat improvement.
Ugh!! THIS is why I don’t blog. Too much crud in my noodle. I either have to blog more or be craftier about picking topics. I suppose twitter is an option…
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