Archive for February, 2006
bike ride
Went for a bike ride today… Havnet rode a bike in forever so i decided to bring my bike from home up here to the apartment because there is a nice bike trail that runs right past the apartment… i believe it is called the huckleberry trail.. I believe it will take you all the way into christiansburg to the mall but i am not sure… Havent rode the whole trail yet… today i just rode down to 460 and back… It was a nice ride… when i got back and got off and started walking again my thighs felt like they were going to give out on me… Im going to try and ride more often and maybe take the whole trail sometime…
In other news… Its about that time again… Test week that is… I have 4 testing coming up…
- Circuits on friday
- Multivariable Calculus on Tuesday
- Discrete Math on Wednesday
- Computer Org and Architecture on Thursday
I feel pretty confident about the tests… All will require a fair amount of studying but i do not think they will be that hard… *knocks on wood*
Well i am going to go figure out whats for dinner, later…
–Jason
blog update to 2.0.1
I just upgraded the blog software from 2.0 to 2.01… so let me know if you experience any problems… I have updated all the changes from previous versions so everything should be just like it was…
One change that i made was to the digg portion of the sidebar… instead of showing the top 15 stories on digg you now see the stories that i have dugg… so you can see what ive been digging lately…
Also added a new category called ubuntu… Basically its a section for changes that i have made to my laptop configuration and want to document for future use… And the changes that i made may also be benficial to others having similar problems…
As far as the weekend… didnt do to much… just hung out, 420 crew came over and hung out as well as the usual people (erin, katherine, freno) and we watched tv and played some xbox 360…
Well i think i am going to start working on some homework… maybe upgrade my beyondTV server software…
later
–Jason
Chat + Email = Crazy Delicious
Google has added google talk logging through gmail… So, if enabled, all of your chats on google talk will be logged to your gmail account where you can search through them…
You can read the official google blog post here which is a play of off Lazy Sundays rap about the Chronicles of Narninia…
Delicious.
–Jason
Speed up Ubuntu boot up w/ mobile laptop
When I would take my laptop to class or somewhere there would be a long delay, about a minute, for it to realize that it was not going to get an IP address from the ethernet jack because no cable was plugged in… So after some googling I found a slight work around… You need to edit your /etc/network/interfaces file… You need to comment out a few lines such as mapping hotplug, script grep, map eth0, and auto wlan0.. below is my interfaces file… In bold are the lines I commented out…
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
#mapping hotplug
# script grep
# map eth0
# The primary network interface
iface eth0 inet dhcp
#Wireless network card stuff...
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid (wireless SSID here)
wireless-key (Put your WEP Key here)
#auto wlan0
By commenting those lines out, there is no longer a networking delay when booting up… You do however have to enable which device what to use when you do boot up which is no big deal…
–Jason
How to get your Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer to work under Ubuntu 5.10
UPDATE: depreciated… much simpler method can be found here…
Since I use a microsoft intellimouse explorer mouse and there are no drivers for it in linux, obviously, i set out on a quest this morning to get it working correctly. The only buttons that did not work correctly were the forward and backward buttons on the side of the mouse which I used to use frequently in Windows. After a quick google, I found a guide that I had to make a few changes to in order to get it to work and I figured I should document it for future use by me and possibly others.
The first step is to edit your xorg.conf file located in /etc/X11/ . I replaced the original mouse section with the section below:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
#Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Resolution" "100"
EndSection
The next step is to install imwheel. I used synaptic package manager to install this by searching for imwheel.
After installing imwheel you need to edit the imwheelrc file located in /etc/X11/imwheel/ .
".*"
None, Up, Alt_L|Left
None, Down, Alt_L|Right
After setting up imwheel, I created a script to startup when X starts to enable the features of the mouse… I created a script called mouse and placed it in my home directory:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
imwheel -k -b "67"
Using the Sessions prefence menu in System>Preferences>Sessions, I added the mouse script to the startup tab so that when X starts, the script is ran…
After that you are good to go… You should be able to use the back and forward buttons now in nautilus and in firefox, and any other browswer probably…
Here is a link to the original article that I used to get my mouse working.
–Jason
Deans List, Fall 2005
Its out.. you can see it here…
–Jason
UPDATED: NTC is coming through…
Posted February 7, 2006 
Comments(6)
Comments(6) From Speakeasy’s Bandwidth test:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 1352 kbps (169 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1066 kbps (133.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Our bandwidth has pretty much effictively been doubled… sweet…? still sucks…
the bandwidth is back to its crappy norm again:
Download Speed: 685 kbps (85.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 325 kbps (40.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
, what a cruel tease…
Test your bandwidth here and let me know how much better or worse you do…
–Jason
PHP rocks!
html_build_query($array); is an AMAZING function…? It just saved me a bazillion hours…
the point is, if your trying to do something somewhat complicated/simple… check the PHP function list for a function that will do what you want… odds are there is one…
–Jason
Steelers Win!
Posted February 6, 2006 Comments(2)
Comments(2) Congratulations to the Steelers, Super Bowl Champions!
Well I finally got my car back…? Seems to be working quite well for right now atleast…
Even though i got my car back in working order, im looking to get a new used car…? So if anyone has some recommendations for a good used car let me know…
well i have a few things to do before class, later…
–Jason
