I need to revamp my Pulse feeds. I’m also considering giving Google Currents a whirl. Back to Pulse.
I believe that Pulse allows 5 tabs with 12 feeds each, totaling 60 feeds. 60 feeds seems like a lot. I’ve maxed it out in a few seconds; I imagine that this is the case for many people. For categories, I’m considering Locals (people I know), Tech, Games, Business, World. I would really like an Art tab but, I don’t know what to scrap.
According to my text (978-1-4496-0006-8), Big Endian ISAs is better suited for handling bitmapped graphics than Little Endian ISAs. Intel always uses Big Endian and Motorola always uses Little Endian. PowerPCs were Motorola units. Windows machines were traditionally Intel based. Apple was traditionally Motorola based. This might mean that Windows systems were more capable of handling bitmapped graphics than Apple machines.
Of course this is somewhat shocking to me since the Mac has been touted as being the choice machine of graphic designers. This could mean that the value is held elsewhere. One potential reason being that not all image files are use bitmapping.
Apparently the Windows BMP format was developed on a LE machine; it therefore needs to be converted in order to be read/viewed on a BE machines. Other formats are below:
To be continued…
This week semester has been insane. I started the semester by needing to rapidly recover the functionality of a failed computer lab setup as well as hunting a great deal of license information for various software packages. The labs were eventually functional. Unfortunately, this resulted in a very sparse study allotments. Computer Science being a heavy topic means that only a little studying results in a deficient understanding. I imagine that the grades of both of my midterms this week suffered horribly at my hand.
In other news, I am trying to figure out how to generate a password file for VisualSVN; I may have just found my answer. I had to generate md5 passwords earlier during the semester for another tool; this current need is very different. This research was quickly interrupted.
I somehow managed to forget to install a Windows Live Movie Maker in one of the labs. I’ve spent a good portion of this week muddling through manually installing the software via a series of *.msi files. This was very messy and though it installed the main program, several prerequisites were skipped which prevented the actual program from running. Windows Live Movie Maker is also dependent on Photo Library which would also not run without the dependencies. I eventually found info about a full installer for Windows Live Essentials which accepted switches that can be used to modify installation parameters from the command-line. In the words of Mayfield, “where do you learn that?” He is essentially inquiring as to where the info is initially publicized.
My command-line parameters for Movie Maker:
wlsetup-all.exe/AppSelect:MovieMaker/q/log:c:\admin\logs\MovieMaker.log /noHomepage /noSearch
The next thing is to update the hardware in one of the labs. I have a student tomorrow so we are going to rock off with new tech. Mayfield has volunteered to help me to get the systems setup on Sunday, we’ll see what happens.
One of the relatives called over the weekend about some malware on her system. These buggers are getting slick with the settings that they modify. IT folk gone rogue. This set modified the registry to hide nearly every user file and application. Some settings had to be manually reconfigured after the removal of the malware. One the the guys at my job reported a similar problem.
While that was scanning, I watched Tron: Legacy for the nth time. I noticed during the scene when Sam was looking for Zeus that Sam was mocked and attacked for being the son of the creator. Upon realizing this I recalled a conversation with The Pants about this movie being a metaphor for the coming of Jesus Christ. I initially didn’t think that it was. I still don’t think so for that matter. However, that depends on how knowledgable the filmmakers were on the topic. Jesus wasn’t targeted merely because he was the son of God. He was targeted because he caused a lot of noise (via people favoring and following him and such) in his era.
While I was writing this I should have been doing one of two other pertinent things. I need to prepare a lesson on Microsoft Access for Saturday and I need to read my chapters for school so that I don’t have a repeat performance of my midterms during finals week.
EOP
I registered for a course titled Computer Organization and Assembly Language. This course is designed for non-CS/CIS bachelor degree recipients. Because of my coursework I was exempted from the course. I registered primarily for the assembly language content.
I learned two things upon entering the course:
The new cool (to be purchased in the given order):
I am considering the purchase of a new hard drive for the mobile unit. My choices are currently the Seagate Momentus XT (500GB+ 4GB SSD hybrid w/32MB cache) or the Seagate Momentus (750GB w/ 16MB cache).
いらっしやいませ
The iPhone OS 4, now apparently renamed iOS 4 has been released and is available via iTunes. The iPhone and iPod Touch can be updated using this release. The iPad is not supported in this release; however, the iPad update is scheduled for later this year.
Adapted from
http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/04/06/how-to-install-adobe-air-on-ubuntu/
*This isn’t a formal post; it is merely public notes for semi-private matters.
I am installing Koha on Ubuntu. This post should serve as breadcrumbs.
First things first, Koha is designed to run on Linux platforms. I started with Ubuntu 9.04 [ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso]. I’ve seen odd complaints from 9.10. Koha needs apache2 and mysql (4.1 minimum). I installed version 2.2.11-2ubuntu2.5 of apache and 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.3 of mysql. Note: There is an old (version 2.2.9) Windows port that can be found around the internet.
I want to be able to work directly with the database if needed so I’m installing phpmyadmin as well.
This install order came from:
http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2009/05/howto-inatall-php-and-mysql-in-ubuntu.html$ sudo apt-get install apache2 ( If you have already installed apache Omit this line)
$ sudo apt-get install php5
$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
$ sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
The next step is to install Koha. I think.
Actually, I need to make sure that apache and mysql are configured to use UTF-8 before starting the installation of Koha. I’m using sudo gedit /path/filename to open the files with write access. According to this I need to insert two lines into my Apache2/httpd.conf file. Since I’m using Ubuntu, I’ll need to enter these lines in apache2.conf instead. Both files are found in /etc/apache2/. These are the lines that I ended to the end of apache2.conf
# Include UTF-8 handling for Koha
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
I also need to make some changes to my my.cnf file in the [mysqld] section. The default location of my.cnf is /etc/mysql/.
init-connect = 'SET NAMES utf8'
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_general_ci
character_set_client=utf8
Now according to the instructions I need to check the variables for mysql using a non-root user. To do so, I’ll use mysql –user=username –password=password where the italicized are changed according to the specific username and password.