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This is the first "blog" of any kind I've ever had, so it's probably not the greatest...

Just a little snippet about me:

I'd like to consider myself relatively tech-savvy; obviously I use Linux (Arch to be precise; K.I.S.S. FTW), and I enjoy learning new things about computers in general (both software and hardware-related).

This blog is mostly just for whenever I feel like telling the world about my experiences with computers/Linux (or just life in general), or just posting for the hell of it.

Re-installing...because of a MOUSE problem!

Posted 01-24-2011 at 05:55 PM by MrCode
Updated 01-24-2011 at 06:06 PM by MrCode

Tags linux

I decided to completely re-install Arch from scratch on my lappy (save for keeping the /home partition of course).

Why? Mouse issues. Specifically, the newest Synaptic touchpad driver that came with the update to Xorg 1.9. I've been having a hell of a time getting the sensitivity correct (first it was too slow, then too fast), and the pointer would also stutter on occasion (I even posted in the Linux - Desktop forum about this little issue; still hasn't received any replies)....

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Please tell me I'm not weird...

Posted 01-22-2011 at 06:02 AM by MrCode

Tags awkward, cartoons, weird

I don't know why I'm posting this...

I seriously feel like a creep. No, really.

Go ahead, laugh. ...or do whatever it is you do when you see someone post something so amazingly immature (e.g. eyebrow raise, head shake, sigh, any combination of the three, etc.).

I'm @#$%ing 19 years old and still have a soft spot for cartoons, particularly anthropomorphized animals...tell me that...

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Something to do if you're REALLY bored...

Posted 01-02-2011 at 11:30 PM by MrCode
Updated 01-02-2011 at 11:40 PM by MrCode

Tags boredom

I've come up with a little something you can do with dd and SoX if you're really bored and can't think of anything else to do:

Code:

$ dd if=<whatever file here> of=<whatever output file here> bs=<1024/512>k skip=<# of MiB to skip through the file (or in increments of 0.5 MiB if you supplied 512k as the block size)> count=<MiB of content (or in increments of 0.5 MiB)>
$ play -q -t raw -s -b 16 -v 0.03125 -c 2 -r 48k <output file from dd>

...

Attached Files

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Desktop wireless

Posted 12-22-2010 at 08:04 PM by MrCode
Updated 12-28-2010 at 08:27 PM by MrCode

Tags linux, wireless

Moving away from the general theme of depression and existential angst, I'd like to report a (however partial) small success: I'm posting this from my desktop computer, without the need for it to "piggy-back" on my laptop's wireless connection.

There's a slight catch, though: I'm having to do it roughly the same way I did it on Ubuntu: install ndiswrapper, set up the Windows driver for my Netgear WN111 USB wireless dongle through ndiswrapper, and hope for the best. It...

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Is ignorance really so bad?

Posted 12-11-2010 at 12:42 AM by MrCode
Updated 12-28-2010 at 08:23 PM by MrCode

Tags rant

...if it prevents you from going completely bat-sh*t insane?

I willfully avoid topics such as psychology and neuroscience. Why? Because if I actually studied them, they'd shred what last few bits of my worldview I desperately hold on to into tiny pieces. No, scratch that..they'd decimate them into proverbial subatomic particles.

Am I to be considered an "ignorant fool" because of this? Simply because I refuse to swallow the idea that nothing I do...

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