Important things from the Lunpa
Posted Thursday, Nov 20, '08 at 10:39:39
Lunpa says ...
I have no idea what happened to the first 39 tries, but I have to say that WD-40 is the most amazing elbow-grease replacement EVAR.
Lunpa says ...
I have no idea what happened to the first 39 tries, but I have to say that WD-40 is the most amazing elbow-grease replacement EVAR.
Posted Saturday, Oct 18, '08 at 10:39:30
Lunpa says ...
Yeah, so someone broke into my car (granted, it must not have been hard, given the door was unlocked) last night, and attempted to steal my cd player in the following manner:
1) unsuccessfully attempt to pry off the unremovable face plate
2) break off an unrelated portion of the dash board
3) get scared
4) leave
I just wish they would have inserted the fallowing step:
3.5) put dash board back together again
or maybe even this step:
5) feel guilty, come back the next day, and leave a card under the wiper that reads something like so:
"I'm really sorry for breaking into your car, and shaking your faith in humanity.
ps: I'm going to turn my life around now, and do something productive for the community."
The card has a picture of a sad kitten on the front of it.
God damn it.
Lunpa says ...
Yeah, so someone broke into my car (granted, it must not have been hard, given the door was unlocked) last night, and attempted to steal my cd player in the following manner:
1) unsuccessfully attempt to pry off the unremovable face plate
2) break off an unrelated portion of the dash board
3) get scared
4) leave
I just wish they would have inserted the fallowing step:
3.5) put dash board back together again
or maybe even this step:
5) feel guilty, come back the next day, and leave a card under the wiper that reads something like so:
"I'm really sorry for breaking into your car, and shaking your faith in humanity.
ps: I'm going to turn my life around now, and do something productive for the community."
The card has a picture of a sad kitten on the front of it.
God damn it.
Posted Friday, Oct 03, '08 at 18:26:30
Lunpa says ...
So at dinner today, I had an epiphany; which is that the commons provides both free vanilla ice cream AND root beer.
Root beer floats whenever I want them.
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(it took me three years to figure this out -_-)
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:D :D :D
Lunpa says ...
So at dinner today, I had an epiphany; which is that the commons provides both free vanilla ice cream AND root beer.
Root beer floats whenever I want them.
...
(it took me three years to figure this out -_-)
...
:D :D :D
Posted Thursday, Oct 02, '08 at 14:43:34
Lunpa says ...
Damn Small Linux is good for you. And my old 300mhz laptop.
Gonna use python in my math class, rather than my old Ti83 :D
Lunpa says ...
Damn Small Linux is good for you. And my old 300mhz laptop.
Gonna use python in my math class, rather than my old Ti83 :D
Posted Thursday, Sep 18, '08 at 05:46:30
Lunpa says ...
A few weeks ago, I was griping to my friend Chris and some other guy at ChiPy about dual booting on a 40gb hard drive, and my failed attempt to compile exes of python programs under wine; Chris suggested that I just virtualize windows inside of Linux to at least save time, and space that would otherwise be redundant programs. I was a bit adverse to this idea until recently, and I don't really remember why I changed my mind, but this weekend (and much of this week), I've been experimenting with the different options, to see what I could pull off for free. I've used vmware before, but I didn't want to pirate anything, nor did I have the money to buy vmware, but one can use qemu to make new vmware machines, and then you can boot an install disk of your choice under their free program "vmplayer". I figured I'd take this idea in a different direction, due to the lack of an install disk, and instead copy my windows partition into a vmware partition, using qemu to boot into a gparted live cd, seeing both the real drive and the vmware fake drive at the same time.
Sort of worked, except that windows wouldn't boot for a variety of reasons, as windows is prone onto doing when you change out all of the hardware it was running on with new hardware (virtual hardware! :O)
So, fuck. Long story short, you can apparently make a new windows install disk if you have a c:/i386 folder still on your machine, which my xp partition did, so I did that. But I lacked a cd burner, so I just built an iso of the install disk, but that was good enough. Also, I decided to use virtualbox instead of vmplayer, since virtualbox is opensource, and can do everything I wanted that vmware can do, but without any hacks, piracy, or whatever else.
Going from there, I'm thinking I want to make a revision control system for my python projects, because I want to find a good way to automate compiling the windows exes for programs, so I don't have to do it by hand each time. I was thinking some kind of server daemon can run on Weaver, and then some kind of client program can connect to it for each machine (or virtual machine) that is to be building the code. The projects themselves would then have some kind of python script to say how I want it built for each platform (windows, linux, etc), and then return the binaries, tarballs, zips, error messages, or whatever to the server itself, and then that can either be put into a download directory, and it should be able to sort between stable and nightly builds.
*deep breath*
But I don't have time for that now, unfortunately, and now that I got the virtual machine, I feel like working on other things. Like a simple 3d physics engine; I got some ideas for one today! Or I could continue working on "pocket watch", my 3d library I wrote in python that uses opengl and implements a neat scene graph datatype.
Or I can Finish that paper due tomorrow. Bah...
Oh, speaking of art, I got myself a new printer last week. It is a color inkjet printer (I had a black and white laser printer)! I've been tinkering with it, experimenting with what fun new things I can do with it. Photo printing is a fine novelty! Being able to print papers (sigh) is wonderful convenience.
But what I'm most excited about with this is the idea of making terrain for miniatures, for use with table top roll playing games. Back in my youth, I bought a cd of pdfs at Gen Con; this cd was called "dirt cheap dungeons". Essentially you print out your walls on card stock; cut them, fold and glue the tabs, and TADA paper cubes with wall textures on them! I long since lost the cd, but I can do the same stuff in inkscape or adobe illustrator with no problem, so I'm in the process of making collections of urban terrain for use in WoD games.
'Neways, paper time...
Lunpa says ...
A few weeks ago, I was griping to my friend Chris and some other guy at ChiPy about dual booting on a 40gb hard drive, and my failed attempt to compile exes of python programs under wine; Chris suggested that I just virtualize windows inside of Linux to at least save time, and space that would otherwise be redundant programs. I was a bit adverse to this idea until recently, and I don't really remember why I changed my mind, but this weekend (and much of this week), I've been experimenting with the different options, to see what I could pull off for free. I've used vmware before, but I didn't want to pirate anything, nor did I have the money to buy vmware, but one can use qemu to make new vmware machines, and then you can boot an install disk of your choice under their free program "vmplayer". I figured I'd take this idea in a different direction, due to the lack of an install disk, and instead copy my windows partition into a vmware partition, using qemu to boot into a gparted live cd, seeing both the real drive and the vmware fake drive at the same time.
Sort of worked, except that windows wouldn't boot for a variety of reasons, as windows is prone onto doing when you change out all of the hardware it was running on with new hardware (virtual hardware! :O)
So, fuck. Long story short, you can apparently make a new windows install disk if you have a c:/i386 folder still on your machine, which my xp partition did, so I did that. But I lacked a cd burner, so I just built an iso of the install disk, but that was good enough. Also, I decided to use virtualbox instead of vmplayer, since virtualbox is opensource, and can do everything I wanted that vmware can do, but without any hacks, piracy, or whatever else.
Going from there, I'm thinking I want to make a revision control system for my python projects, because I want to find a good way to automate compiling the windows exes for programs, so I don't have to do it by hand each time. I was thinking some kind of server daemon can run on Weaver, and then some kind of client program can connect to it for each machine (or virtual machine) that is to be building the code. The projects themselves would then have some kind of python script to say how I want it built for each platform (windows, linux, etc), and then return the binaries, tarballs, zips, error messages, or whatever to the server itself, and then that can either be put into a download directory, and it should be able to sort between stable and nightly builds.
*deep breath*
But I don't have time for that now, unfortunately, and now that I got the virtual machine, I feel like working on other things. Like a simple 3d physics engine; I got some ideas for one today! Or I could continue working on "pocket watch", my 3d library I wrote in python that uses opengl and implements a neat scene graph datatype.
Or I can Finish that paper due tomorrow. Bah...
Oh, speaking of art, I got myself a new printer last week. It is a color inkjet printer (I had a black and white laser printer)! I've been tinkering with it, experimenting with what fun new things I can do with it. Photo printing is a fine novelty! Being able to print papers (sigh) is wonderful convenience.
But what I'm most excited about with this is the idea of making terrain for miniatures, for use with table top roll playing games. Back in my youth, I bought a cd of pdfs at Gen Con; this cd was called "dirt cheap dungeons". Essentially you print out your walls on card stock; cut them, fold and glue the tabs, and TADA paper cubes with wall textures on them! I long since lost the cd, but I can do the same stuff in inkscape or adobe illustrator with no problem, so I'm in the process of making collections of urban terrain for use in WoD games.
'Neways, paper time...
