Quick CSS edit to make links appear dark green and underlined only when they occur within a blog post. Harder than it should have been to find out how Blogger classes the blog post body, but mission accomplished - links now appear as links!
G'night.
-Adam
Monday, 28 March 2011
Oh, and just as an aside...
Why is every blog I get when I hit "Next Blog" on the Blogger banner a Christian blog? Seriously, am I missing? Did I file this blog under a category without realising it? I've clicking it ten times and had one blog that wasn't about Christianity, but even that had a piece of scripture quoted in the top right. What is going on here?
The H Stands for Highwaymen
HMV's pricing is cockdickulous (credit to Steve Chapman for the phrase). I was having a look at headphones in there yesterday and found they had a good selection of Sennheiser products. Given how much I love Sennheiser's addiction to bass, I had a good look, phoned a friend for advice, and received two key phrases - the first: Sennheiser CX 300.
Sure enough, HMV were selling them, and sure enough they were £40. The second key phrase: they'll have them for around £40, but see if anywhere else has them cheaper. I whipped out the future and had a look on Amazon. £15. Just had a look now and there's some on there for less than £9. All new (who would buy used in-ear headphones??), so what's the deal with these prices HMV?
No sooner had I seen them on Amazon for that amount, I beelined for the door. Not only were they cheaper on Amazon, they were just as easy to buy - I was done before I had even left.
-Adam
Install failed
The Fedora installer failed to resize my drive. Tomorrow: do it myself and install to the space I create. Child's play.
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Installing....
Installation under way. Had to figure out, from the limited information the Fedora installer gives, which of my drives was my Windows drive. Shrinking that partition down and fitting Linux into the 91GB remaining.
Living with Linux
Today I have a new experiment. I'm going to install Linux as a second operating system, and use it as my primary OS for as long as possible. I don't know how long this will last, which I guess is the whole point.
I've used Linux many times before, but never for an extended period of time. At uni I used it to check cross-platform functionality, and there was a lab on it at one point, but I steered clear of using it for any real period of time because, well, it ain't Windows. I can't game on it and I can't sync an iPod to it. Nowadays, I don't really game on the PC, and I no longer have an iPod/iPhone, having ditched my iPod when I got my iPhone, and ditched my iPhone when I got my HTC Desire HD.
To me, Linux is an awesome idea, but going from Windows to Linux is like going from an Xbox 360 to a SNES - you're definitely reducing functionality. The point of this endeavour is the question...
Is the reduced functionality of Linux, worth escaping from the commercial software model?
Switching to Linux comes with a number of question, the main one being "Which distro do I use?" Linux comes in many distributions, which is a direct result of the Linux kernel being free and open source - anyone can start up their own Linux distro. Some are good, and become famous, the rest aren't, and become nothing. Top of the pile right now are Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuSE, and LinuxMint. I ruled out openSuSE due to the Microsoft-Novell deal, and LinuxMint after their page on distrowatch indicated stability issues. I've used Ubuntu and Fedora before, and decided to go with Fedora, for now, for no other reason than whenever I install Ubuntu on a laptop at work, I have to waste a lot of time trying to get WiFi drivers -_-
Currently, Fedora's install DVD is downloading. When that's done, it's install time.
New Blog
My last blog was something of an abortive effort. At some point, I lost whatever was reminding me to blog, and thus I stopped blogging.
This time, I have no heightened impetus to blog, but I do have a lot more time where I'm JCing without anything specific being done.
So, what's new? No longer a software engineering student, but neither am I a software engineer. Took a temp job in retail in August 2008, decided I liked it, and stuck at it. I've been Assistant Manager of my store since July last year and am looking to have my own store Soon(TM). The great thing about managing retail is seeing the results of most of your decisions by the time the day is out, rather than a few weeks further into a development life cycle. What I don't love is not getting paid a wage that reflects the hours and effort I put in. But that's a carefully-written post of its own.
Posting again shortly on a new topic.
On the flipside, folk.
-D.
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