What a disappointment...the frickin hurricane that was suppose to passby was too wimpy and died all over South Florida like a little depression or something. I demand my moderate wind levels. How else am I suppose to use this garbage-bag parachute to fly? GOSH!
I'm fine and you?
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Wireless
Goodness gracious, I must have the worst luck with Linux-friendly Ubuntu devices. Lemme do a run-down aight?
Some days ago my dad bought this little guy from Newegg. I told him to go ahead, because according to the Ubuntu compatibility list, this card worked fine (scroll down to see SMCWPCI-G). But what do you know, although I have the same card, turns out that this one has a whole different chipset.
Now let me explain something here. All wireless cards have a certain "chipset". It's the special hardware inside that does what it does. Now different companies use different chipsets. There are some chipsets (made by other companies) used by multiple companies that make the wireless cards. For instance, there are chipsets known as Atheros, Prism, Broadcom, etc. The companies, like SMC, Netgear, Toshiba use a certain chipset (in this case Atheros) in their wireless cards. Got it? Ok. Well, this card was suppose to use the Atheros chipset, which is a very compatible chipset with Linux. (You see, the companies that make the CHIPSET sometimes don't give out the specific details (once in code, this is known as a driver) on how to actually use their chipsets with other Operating Systems besides Windows. So some hackers make their own, but they never work as well as the official drivers. PHEW! A lot of parenthesis...) Anyway, it suppose to be Atheros, but it turned out to be one by Realtek, an RTL8185.
So what happens? The drivers for the chipset (both by the official company, and the ones made by those kind programmers) suck! It freezes the computer on boot, or while conencting, so they are worthless...and now I can't use that card in Linux.
Before, that machine (by the way, it's my mom's PC I'm talking about) used this wireless adapter. (Yes, another SMC product. Last time I buy from them) After some extreme headaches and hax I somehow got those things to work quite well in Linux. But after messing around so much trying to get the other card to work, I somehow disabled that stupid wireless key, and now neither of them work. >_<
And so now, I've bought this guy and await his arrival eagerly. It's supposedly another Linux-friendly adapter, we'll see about that. :P But for now, my mom is booting into Windows (which has the proper drivers, and has that wireless card working fine) and doing her internet surfing there.
Darn drivers...and Windows...and companies...
Some days ago my dad bought this little guy from Newegg. I told him to go ahead, because according to the Ubuntu compatibility list, this card worked fine (scroll down to see SMCWPCI-G). But what do you know, although I have the same card, turns out that this one has a whole different chipset.
Now let me explain something here. All wireless cards have a certain "chipset". It's the special hardware inside that does what it does. Now different companies use different chipsets. There are some chipsets (made by other companies) used by multiple companies that make the wireless cards. For instance, there are chipsets known as Atheros, Prism, Broadcom, etc. The companies, like SMC, Netgear, Toshiba use a certain chipset (in this case Atheros) in their wireless cards. Got it? Ok. Well, this card was suppose to use the Atheros chipset, which is a very compatible chipset with Linux. (You see, the companies that make the CHIPSET sometimes don't give out the specific details (once in code, this is known as a driver) on how to actually use their chipsets with other Operating Systems besides Windows. So some hackers make their own, but they never work as well as the official drivers. PHEW! A lot of parenthesis...) Anyway, it suppose to be Atheros, but it turned out to be one by Realtek, an RTL8185.
So what happens? The drivers for the chipset (both by the official company, and the ones made by those kind programmers) suck! It freezes the computer on boot, or while conencting, so they are worthless...and now I can't use that card in Linux.
Before, that machine (by the way, it's my mom's PC I'm talking about) used this wireless adapter. (Yes, another SMC product. Last time I buy from them) After some extreme headaches and hax I somehow got those things to work quite well in Linux. But after messing around so much trying to get the other card to work, I somehow disabled that stupid wireless key, and now neither of them work. >_<
And so now, I've bought this guy and await his arrival eagerly. It's supposedly another Linux-friendly adapter, we'll see about that. :P But for now, my mom is booting into Windows (which has the proper drivers, and has that wireless card working fine) and doing her internet surfing there.
Darn drivers...and Windows...and companies...
Monday, August 21, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
Monkey
Miss Eileen (A friend I met at this conference, teacher's assistant, who it seems I still can't call by just her name :P) recently blogged about a trip to the zoo. Which reminded me of my last trip to the zoo in Colombia. In the monkey exhibit, specifically the spider monkeys, it turned out one of them had gotten loose. He was actually hanging out in the trees hanging above the cage of his fellow...family and/or friends. It was quite amusing (and slightly troubling) to see he was not caged, but I really can't see whose gonna catch that thing. :P And speaking of monkeys, that reminds me of this video of a silly gibbon messing with 2 tiger cubs. Yea...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Projects
Geez man! I'm not doing school and I still have a bunch of work coming at me. Atleast, this will actually help me for future events, and is more enjoyable. ;)
Lately, it seems I've been needing to get a little more organized. I'm forgetting to do a lot of things (one of which is reading my Bible in the mornings, which sucks because I had a nice habit going before we moved :P), I got a nice amount of requests that I just can't seem to start working on, and besides all that, I have to actually go to work. :P So my solutions so far:
Well, for work, I have to work. But I plan on resigning at the end of September. I'd like a nice month of nothing, perhaps do some final hangouts with my friends before I leave to Colombia in the following month.
Post-it-Notes! I downloaded a little program that sticks em right on my desktop! Very useful, except, they are very annoying (I guess that's the point) and so they hover over all my windows and stuff, and sometimes I need to move/hide them to close my programs. Problem is, if I use the "hide all" feature, they're gone, and I won't remember to turn them back on. X-)
Bible, I don't know what I did before...I would like to read my Bible for real, as in, not briefly read a chapter, pray, and continue. I'd like something a little more deep but don't know how to go about doing it. Or maybe I do but I don't take time out of the day to do it. I guess I need to find an alarm or something to kick me off the comp and tell me to go read it or something...
Anyway, what might I be so busy with you ask? Well...
- I got a logo request for a friend's team
- I have to finish an animation for my comic's 300th strip.
- I was suppose to do a comic page for my tournament's new campaign
- I need to send Jose my flash file again
- I also need to draw a banner for our division's servers (see www.swaw.us for the last one I made)
and probably a couple other things I have forgotten...
WOOOOOOO!!!
Lately, it seems I've been needing to get a little more organized. I'm forgetting to do a lot of things (one of which is reading my Bible in the mornings, which sucks because I had a nice habit going before we moved :P), I got a nice amount of requests that I just can't seem to start working on, and besides all that, I have to actually go to work. :P So my solutions so far:
Well, for work, I have to work. But I plan on resigning at the end of September. I'd like a nice month of nothing, perhaps do some final hangouts with my friends before I leave to Colombia in the following month.
Post-it-Notes! I downloaded a little program that sticks em right on my desktop! Very useful, except, they are very annoying (I guess that's the point) and so they hover over all my windows and stuff, and sometimes I need to move/hide them to close my programs. Problem is, if I use the "hide all" feature, they're gone, and I won't remember to turn them back on. X-)
Bible, I don't know what I did before...I would like to read my Bible for real, as in, not briefly read a chapter, pray, and continue. I'd like something a little more deep but don't know how to go about doing it. Or maybe I do but I don't take time out of the day to do it. I guess I need to find an alarm or something to kick me off the comp and tell me to go read it or something...
Anyway, what might I be so busy with you ask? Well...
- I got a logo request for a friend's team
- I have to finish an animation for my comic's 300th strip.
- I was suppose to do a comic page for my tournament's new campaign
- I need to send Jose my flash file again
- I also need to draw a banner for our division's servers (see www.swaw.us for the last one I made)
and probably a couple other things I have forgotten...
WOOOOOOO!!!
Monday, August 14, 2006
-.-
Uggh...I've been feeling nauseous for some 2 weeks now. Not terribly bad, but it seemed odd that I had it everyday, be it a little or a lot. But today, geez...I stood next to the toilet and sink for about half-an-hour waiting to blow. I've been more anxious than a chihuahua in a thunderstorm...I hate it. I hate feeling nauseous. It's one of the only "major" fears I actually have, I don't know why. But ever since I was a little kid, being nauseous made me crazy. I was one of those little kids that loved schools. But even with my love for it, after lunch I always started feeling nauseous and me thinking it was a stomach ache, I was always at the clinic. So much so, that they knew me by name over there. My teacher talked to my mom, knowing that it wasn't some method of skipping school as I wouldn't do that, and it turned out that the jam I was eating, had way too much sugar, and was not going good on me, hence causing the nausea.
And yet, to this day, I still can't get over it. I become very finicky, start walking around my house, become aggitated very easily, and go through these battles in my head telling myself that I'm not gonna barf. Gosh...and I don't understand why. Yea, no one likes to barf, but why do I get such an immense stress out when this happens. And mind you, its not just when I'm "a little nauseous". I only get like this when I actually think I'm gonna blow. So here I am, not at work, writing about my biggest fear on my blog. Is it helping? I suppose, as long as I keep my mind off of it, then I have nothing to worry about.
Another thing I don't like is the appetite aspect of it. Today, I've eaten a total of about...9 crackers, some spoons of rice, 2 cups of water, and 2 bags of baby carrots (One of the few foods I seem to be able to jam down no matter what). What kinda crap is that!? I would think that by eating, I can fill my stomach with food, instead of gas, which is probably causing my nausea right now, but no. Everytime I start putting stuff in my mouth, it comes back. GARRRAHRH!! And I've burped plenty today, and sure it's a nice relief...for a few seconds. I don't get it. I'm hungry, and feel weak, and I can't get rid of this nausea...so yea...can you just add me to your prayer list? :P I know it seems like such a trivial thing, but it's really stressing me out. i have not felt my heart beat so hard in my life (nausea makes me nervous, and when I'm nervous I get nauseous, so its an evil loop that happens and you can literally see my body tremble and pump to my heartbeat. Or even a pillow, or bed, if I'm in it, shake a bit)...
:,(
And yet, to this day, I still can't get over it. I become very finicky, start walking around my house, become aggitated very easily, and go through these battles in my head telling myself that I'm not gonna barf. Gosh...and I don't understand why. Yea, no one likes to barf, but why do I get such an immense stress out when this happens. And mind you, its not just when I'm "a little nauseous". I only get like this when I actually think I'm gonna blow. So here I am, not at work, writing about my biggest fear on my blog. Is it helping? I suppose, as long as I keep my mind off of it, then I have nothing to worry about.
Another thing I don't like is the appetite aspect of it. Today, I've eaten a total of about...9 crackers, some spoons of rice, 2 cups of water, and 2 bags of baby carrots (One of the few foods I seem to be able to jam down no matter what). What kinda crap is that!? I would think that by eating, I can fill my stomach with food, instead of gas, which is probably causing my nausea right now, but no. Everytime I start putting stuff in my mouth, it comes back. GARRRAHRH!! And I've burped plenty today, and sure it's a nice relief...for a few seconds. I don't get it. I'm hungry, and feel weak, and I can't get rid of this nausea...so yea...can you just add me to your prayer list? :P I know it seems like such a trivial thing, but it's really stressing me out. i have not felt my heart beat so hard in my life (nausea makes me nervous, and when I'm nervous I get nauseous, so its an evil loop that happens and you can literally see my body tremble and pump to my heartbeat. Or even a pillow, or bed, if I'm in it, shake a bit)...
:,(
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Comments
Wow, it appeared I had comment moderation on and I actually had some comments on this blog! Altough most of them, to no surprise, were just people trying to refute stuff in my earlier "bible lesson". Oh well. :P Now you can see them too.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Reality
Wow, I just heard the awesomest sermon ever. It confirmed a whole lot of things in my mind, and I'd sure like everyone I know to hear it. Here's the link. Definitely a strong message for everyone out there who calls themself Christian.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Weekend
Ooh was this weekend a blast (specifically Saturday :P). Paula had a birthday party and it was immenese fun. Mainly a pool party, we also did some slip'n slide'n, water gunnin', volleball'n, Gamecube'n! Well, during the slip'n slide we also played with shaving cream, and I got a faceful of it...twice, in my face. Cream up your nose is quite uncomfortable, lemme tell you. Luckily, my long hair seemed to have blocked most of the cream from getting in my ears! X-)
UNfortunately, during the pool time, I saw the downside of long hair, as it likes to smack my face a lot (ya know, eyes, forhead, my hair is not THAT long :P). We also had an unfinished game of Chinese Checkers, I owned at Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey. Another unfortunate thing was that one of the CDs we gave her had already been given to her the day before by someone else.
Oh well, we still stuck in another one, and 2 burned ones that (from what it seemed) she did not have. And if anything, I had already given her a 1000 cents gift card for Starbucks (yes, that was the price I put on it) along with this hand-made card. I shoulda just bought one, as apparently my grammar/cursive was not the best, as she seemed to have had trouble while reading my poem. :P But either way, the party was overallally awesome. I wish we coulda hang out more, but she will start school again soon, and my afternoons are destroyed by work. And to make it all worse, I have only have 3 months left in Florida before we move to Colombia. -.-
Oh well...and Sunday, Michael stood me up on a bowling game. :P I think he was scared I would wipe the alley with him, too bad.
UNfortunately, during the pool time, I saw the downside of long hair, as it likes to smack my face a lot (ya know, eyes, forhead, my hair is not THAT long :P). We also had an unfinished game of Chinese Checkers, I owned at Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey. Another unfortunate thing was that one of the CDs we gave her had already been given to her the day before by someone else.
Oh well, we still stuck in another one, and 2 burned ones that (from what it seemed) she did not have. And if anything, I had already given her a 1000 cents gift card for Starbucks (yes, that was the price I put on it) along with this hand-made card. I shoulda just bought one, as apparently my grammar/cursive was not the best, as she seemed to have had trouble while reading my poem. :P But either way, the party was overallally awesome. I wish we coulda hang out more, but she will start school again soon, and my afternoons are destroyed by work. And to make it all worse, I have only have 3 months left in Florida before we move to Colombia. -.-
Oh well...and Sunday, Michael stood me up on a bowling game. :P I think he was scared I would wipe the alley with him, too bad.
Friday, August 04, 2006
Sigs
Check it out, I finally finished after 2 weeks! Now to finish mine. :P
In other news, I was handed my insurance thingy last night. Nothin' special, as I tihnk I mentioned it before...but oh well. I also bought a new program called Pixel. It's a cross-platform (i.e. can run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and more) Photoshop-clone. Looks pretty interesting, hopefully I can get used to this so I can stop using the "shared" version of Photoshop I have. ^_^ Anyway...uhm...have a nice day!
In other news, I was handed my insurance thingy last night. Nothin' special, as I tihnk I mentioned it before...but oh well. I also bought a new program called Pixel. It's a cross-platform (i.e. can run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and more) Photoshop-clone. Looks pretty interesting, hopefully I can get used to this so I can stop using the "shared" version of Photoshop I have. ^_^ Anyway...uhm...have a nice day!
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Memory
Snap, I come back from work. Another boring day staring at a screen for 4 hours. I was thinking about something that I was gonna blog on...and now I forgot it! You gotta love it...
Let's see, what's happened since Monday? Hmm...nothing really. Tomorrow my insurance is finalized or whatever and I can actually drive by myself. Uh...I still have 2 more sigs to finish, I need to shave my goatee tomorrow cuz its getting messy. I also need to finish an animation for a friend, and I need to find out what the heck is causing the Soldat poly bug in WINE! BUSY BUSY!
Let's see, what's happened since Monday? Hmm...nothing really. Tomorrow my insurance is finalized or whatever and I can actually drive by myself. Uh...I still have 2 more sigs to finish, I need to shave my goatee tomorrow cuz its getting messy. I also need to finish an animation for a friend, and I need to find out what the heck is causing the Soldat poly bug in WINE! BUSY BUSY!
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