Jun 19 2009
Have you ever noticed that you can be having a wonderful day, and then all it takes is one person to say one thing to ruin your mood? Sometimes it makes me wonder if it is just me, or if everyone is that heavily influenced by the comments, feelings, or actions of others. I just don’t like it when I get circumvented without anyone else considering my feelings or my wants.
Okay, rant over. I shall now attempt to return to my happy place.
|:| Zach |:|
May 15 2009
Just in case there is someone out there that I haven’t told about the graduate school situation, I thought I would finally complete the chart:
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Apr 27 2009
As a quick update, I am writing this entry from my Samsung NC10. After many months of fiddling with various things, I have finally gotten a working Gentoo installation using Openbox as my window manager. I really enjoy this minimalistic environment, especially on this netbook given that it only has a 1024×600 native resolution. Thus, maximising screen real estate is a primary concern. As Openbox is only a window manager, I don’t have to worry about all those other components of a larger desktop environment, like a panel at the bottom. 😉
Anyway, there are many things left to be done before I am completely satisfied with the installation. I need to go through and set up more intricate ACPI rules for governing power management, map the function keys that I can (backlight control, volume up/down/mute, et cetera), and aesthetic elements like fonts, GTK themes, and icons.
That’s all for now. 🙂
|:| Zach |:|
