Category Archives: Life

Various spiels about my daily life.

Slight E-Mail Hiccup

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Peter

Having grown more than a little bit tired of how slow Evolution is at filtering emails, I decided to try the new Thunderbird. (I say “new” because I have not used it since it was version 1.5-ish.) Unfortunately, I accidentally … Continue reading →

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ThinkPad T500: Initial Fedora Report – Marvelous!

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Peter

Well, after receiving my ThinkPad T500, I set about tweaking the pre-installed Windows Vista, and spent most of the weekend attempting to get it dual-booting Vista and Fedora nicely. For better or worse, neither Fedora’s GRUB nor Windows’ BCD bootloader … Continue reading →

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My First Laptop: A ThinkPad

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Peter

Another summer has passed me by, and I still haven’t learned how to ride a bike nor how to swim properly. Alas, I suppose I’ll get to these eventually. I have kept one of my resolutions though. I finally splurged … Continue reading →

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Today’s Spanish Lesson, and Inquiry

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Peter

“Paying attention” is an English idiom which means “to focus one’s attention on” or “to be attentive to.” Like other idioms, it does not translate literally into other languages, especially Spanish. (That is to say, “pagar atención” – from pagar, … Continue reading →

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CSUs to Cut Spring 2010 Admissions

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Peter

This is absolutely crazy. Someone just posted it to our Facebook group: Lowering Enrollment: Budget Cuts Force California State University to Close 2010 Spring Admissions As part of an overall strategy to address an unprecedented budget reduction of $584 million … Continue reading →

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Backup Strategies

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Peter

With my primary hard drive (a three-year old WD Raptor WD740) having been on life support, so to speak, for the last 3 months, I’ve been a lot more diligent about keeping backup copies of my data. Every couple of … Continue reading →

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Recent Lack of Availability

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Peter

Err. If you’ve tried to get in contact with me over the past week or so (email, bug report, IRC ping, et al.), please excuse my complete lack of response. Having just finished final exams, I’d been very unproductively relaxing … Continue reading →

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I’m…geekin’ out!

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Peter

Right, so I just got back from seeing the premier showing of the recent Star Trek film at the GardenWalk IMAX with a bunch of friends, and I’m completely geeking out. Yes, there were some plot flaws in it (such … Continue reading →

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Offline After Nearly 7 Billion Rotations

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Peter

(That’s slightly more rotations than there people on Earth! ) With Spring Break giving me some much-needed time off from classes, I had some time to install and test the recently-released Fedora 11 Beta. While I do think there are … Continue reading →

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The ‘E’s in “College” are for “Extra” and “Enjoyment”.

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Peter

(I will try to make this more regular in the future, honestly!) In our previous College Survival Guide entry, we took a very brief look at the stark difference between life as a high school student and life as a … Continue reading →

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Accidental Fixes

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Peter

“If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” (Edsger W. Dijkstra) After fixing the notification-daemon bubbles (thanks, Martin!), I spent some time perusing through some of the other GConf settings … Continue reading →

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Not Impossible, just a bit Unlikely!

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Peter

Apparently I’ve become really bad at this whole “regularly blogging’ thing. *sigh* I posted, a few weeks ago, about the cool new notification bubbles, but after updating yesterday and rebooting my computer, the beauty has vanished, just as quickly as … Continue reading →

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Introduction to College

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Peter

I’m alive and well, I swear! Schoolwork and other life issues have swamped me quite efficiently over these past couple of weeks; but I’m okay! While searching for backpack recommendations on the Gentoo Off-The-Wall forums, I came to an interesting … Continue reading →

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A Semester of Fun

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Peter

Well, now that I’m nearly finished with the general-education requirements, this semester is shaping up to be quite a fun adventure. Aside from the slight tedium of taking General Chemistry, I’m also taking two math courses (“Advanced Topics in Linear … Continue reading →

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New Year, New Blog

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Peter

Well, wwwaaayyy back in October 2007 (!), one of the reasons I citied for moving away from a self-hosted blog setup in the first place was “integration with external services.” It’s been well over one year since that time and … Continue reading →

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