On Tuesdays, I have a 3 hour night class, in which all the outlets don’t work, so I’m only running on battery. Two weeks ago, I hardly had enough battery for 3 hours on a full charge; today I came with 80% charge, which lasted the entire class, and still had some to spare. Looks like those intel patches are starting to pay off for battery life.
Gutsy includes Firefox 3 (gran paradiso) in universe. While I have noticed some strange rendering in places, and some strange crashes, it uses less memory, and starts in 2 seconds instead of 15.
Today I was using Valknut, a Linux Direct Connect client, but noticing some issues with downloads. I went to look for another client, and found that DC++ (for those unaware, the best windows DC client there is) was ported to Linux and in universe.
Lo and behold, works and works great (including those pesky downloads)
As for what I’m doing besides slacking off, I wrote a little script to solve sudoku (still needs a little work), I’m working on the approval application for NJ, I’ll be at CHLUG on Friday, and hopefully I’ll nail down plans for a release party very soon!
Update:
As markrian pointed out, the sudoku script had a parse error! Shortly after my post, I fixed an sql injection problem, and accidentally introduced a parse error. Fixed.
Fabian asked what the heck Direct Connect and Valknut were. Good point! Direct Connect is a file sharing protocol. It’s really popular at universities, as it’s very easy to set up local Direct Connect servers for the University LAN. DC++ is the most popular client for Direct Connect on Windows; Valknut is based off the linux project dc_gui, but never really worked well.
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markrian | 03-Oct-07 at 7:05 am | Permalink
Going to //www.joeterranova.net/sudoku/ returns the following:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/.microfilm/joe_cot/joeterranova.net/sudoku/index.php on line 178
Fabian Rodriguez | 03-Oct-07 at 8:25 am | Permalink
WTH are DirectConnect and Valknut ?
joe | 03-Oct-07 at 8:29 am | Permalink
@markrian:
*thunk* fixed.
David A. Harding | 03-Oct-07 at 5:11 pm | Permalink
If you say Gutsy, you should say Gibbon; or at least you should make a pun based on it. For example, here’s a good punnish title: Gutsy Continues to Gib. (Jargon File: gib /jib/ 1. vi. To destroy utterly. Like {frag}, but much more violent and final. “There’s no trace left. You definitely gibbed that bug”.)
-Dave