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Posted by Chris Fri 9 Jun 15:45 Misc 194 Views

OK, firstly here's those pics I meant to upload with the last post. I keep meaning to put up more pictures with posts but they are such a pain to do. First you have to get them of your camera, then resize them and create a thumbnail then upload them and finally create the BBcode for them. I'm lazy by nature and this is too much like hard work. I definitely need a shell script to do this for me. Perhaps that shall be my next project Cheeky

I have now finished all my exams for my first year of uni, got the last one out of the way yesterday. It was a Java exam and altough programming is a hobby of mine this was less of programming and more of theory, which certainly isn't a hobby of mine. I think I have passed but not with a good grade.

Two other things I wanted to mention. The programming section now has a Javascript binary clock for download because I got bored and I may as well mention the site's recent "tweak". Namely the change of background image and header image. I finally took a picture that suited the site (had to wait for a nice day and for the grass to grow) so now I can say every last bit of the site design is truely mine Smileing

The background image was changed because the site was too green, I felt it needed a contrasting colour, also the background used to be fixed. i.e. it didn't move when you scrolled down the page. I noticed this caused lag on both firefox (though not noticable without monitoring your CPU usage) and lag on my Nokia 770's browser (very noticlable on a slow CPU lol) so that's now gone and the problem resolved.
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Summer projects, I have decided to do a little hacking over the summer. I'm currently working on my own Linux distribution for purely educational reasons. Aside from that I plan to add some more things to the programming page, not entirely sure what just yet and of course there's always LF to do. I'm also thinking of redoing my smilies which I have grown to hate.

Dapper's here, just thought I would quickly mention that Ubuntu Dapper Drake has once again surpassed itself. I have had a good amount of time to test it and it's by far the best Linux distro I have tried to date. So if you tried Ubuntu before and it wasn't quite good enough for you perhaps dapper will be. Besure to check out Ubuntu.com for more info.

A little note for anyone running Ubuntu Dapper, I shall be putting any DEB's I create for Dapper available for public download. At the moment I have compiled the latest pre-version of Muine music player to work with gStreamer 0.10 to save you having to install gStreamer 0.8 (as the version of Muine in the dapper repo depends on it) also there is the Rezlooks GTK engine an example of which can be seen on gnome-looks.org. The DEB's are located here on my server.

UPDATE: I have just upgraded the blog to the latest dev version of LogicFury, this fixes a most anoying bug where cookie based logins were not remembered. So now you should not have to continually login Cool