January 2010
1 post
May 2009
4 posts
UEFA Champion's League 2009
Barcelona 2 - Manchester Utd. 0
Hardly surprising. Neither side performed remarkably, but Barcelona definitely topped Man U this time. I’m in agreement with all of the referee’s calls, and I find that to be a rare case.
The only sad thing is, I chose to watch this online rather than going to the nearest Mamak joint with a big screen projector. Luckily, there were no exquisite goals I...
My math is rusty
I’m having a tough time figuring this out.
I want to generate a list of say, 100 random (electrical) current values. And the distribution is given by:
P(I) = (1 + (I/31)^2.6)^-1
where I = current (duh) in kA
and P(I) is the probability of current exceeding its magnitude
So as a simple example there is 95% chance the current can exceed 10kA and 1% chance the current can exceed...
Jaunty Jackalope
pulseaudio is still retarded, but since moving to the latest release of Ubuntu, things have been ok. I say ok, because Ubuntu could take a few cues from Arch Linux.
Yes, I have become an Arch Linux fanboy. Some people they are more obnoxious than other Linux fanboys.
p.s. ur distro sux! arch roolz!!! /s
Arch Linux knows no defaults
Coming from a mainly Debian based background (Ubuntu is also part of this), not having sane defaults in Arch Linux really takes getting used to. Sometimes, I even have to create config files myself! Fair price to pay for such an easily maintanable system.
April 2009
7 posts
The Jaunty Jump: Dissatisfaction
I realize that this is a release candidate, but they said it should be fine for non-production environments!
The Jaunty Jump: Wireless
Upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 completely broke my wireless. It doesn’t show under ifconfig. I can’t bring the interface up either. Cos it’s not there at all. I tried looking in System>Administration>Hardware Drivers but there was no entry for wireless there either. I could try reinstalling the proprietary drivers. Maybe the kernel change broke the link to hardware. But...
The Jaunty Jump: CPU Frequency Scaling
I could swear that there are some bugs with the new kernel because the most severe problems lay at very low level interfaces with hardware. For instance, my processor suddenly no longer supports cpu frequency scaling. That’s weird, because it does with <i>every other</i> distro. There were also changes within /dev as if my hardware changed. I can’t afford to let my CPU run...
The Jaunty Jump: Startup
After manually reconfiguring menu.lst, I booted with the new kernel in place. I was very surprised to discover that my boot time greatly increased. Especially after so many articles claiming a speed boost with Jaunty. Even after the initial boot process, logging in to Gnome took much longer than it ever did for me. Overall, I was disappointed at the performance.
However, it could have been a...
The Jaunty Jump: menu.lst
I must have selected the wrong option for updating the grub startup list, because there were no new entries for 9.04 or the new kernel (entirely my fault). But even when I configured the list manually, nothing fixed itself. In fact, things got worse (covered later). I tried to dpkg-reconfigure the new kernel image but to no avail.
The Jaunty Jump: What Went Wrong?
Ubuntu’s 9.04 release candidate was announced not too long ago. I got wind of it through my Google Reader feeds. Yesterday, for some odd reason I decided to make the jump.
Run:
update-manager -d
An hour or so later everything was done and I took it for a spin. Immediately, numerous problems were evident. I’ll post each one individually for sake of readability.
Wiser with age?
This is a few days late, but reasonably so because any real person goes out and celebrates their birthday, not sit at home and blog.
The whole 21 thing is a big deal for me. I can now vote. I can also get married. All that stuff scares me.
All i can do is dive in head first.
Wish me luck!
March 2009
3 posts
Water Creatures
A couple of friends asked me to go fishing last night. Fishing is supposedly not allowed around these parts, but we ran into no trouble. There were only 3 rods, so I had to use a line and hook to fish. That proved a bit of a hassle as there was no easy way to reel the line back in. After the first hour I got lazy, and resorted to pulling the line in without winding it which resulted in tangles of...
Going through all these again. Hilarious http://bash.org/?top
Avoiding Problems
It’s a cross between procrastination and pure ignorance. It stresses me out, so I don’t want to deal with it. Yet until I don’t deal with it it will keep haunting me. I hate this kind of situation. Still looking for a good time to strengthen my resolve and conclude this matter once and for all.