So there’s a GPG signing party here soon, so I decided to whip up a LaTeX file that creates a PDF with a bunch of slips of paper with the important information on it to hand out at the party. Instructions are included in the file.
GPG signing party slips
September 25th, 2009WordPress stuff
July 26th, 2009Dear lazyweb,
I tried fixing up tags and categories, but things seem to be a bit wonky (books tag and Books category seem to affect each other so that the case is the same on both) and causes me to have to put that off until another time. Anyone else having such issues with WordPress? IUf so, how did you fix them (if you were able to)?
In other news, I’ve updated some stuff around here. WordPress is now the latest version and the comment validation plugin has been modified be more confusing to bots that try to post here (but not to humans).
I’m on identi.ca now
June 18th, 2009I got an account on identi.ca and pinned Choqok to my desktop right beside Konversation. I’ll probably post stuff as I read books or stories, play games, hack on things, and other stuff that probably wouldn’t make up a blog post. I’m a green at the whole microblogging thing and stuff associated with it. I’m guessing that ‘!’ points to groups (of which I already joined Fedora’s and KDE’s), ‘@’ is towards a single person. Anything I’m missing? Oh, the important part. Wouldn’t want to forget that.
Netbooks? Ugh
June 15th, 2009Despite what the title may have you think, I do want one. However, everything on the market right now is basically crap in one way or another to a point that I can’t convince myself that it’s a worthwhile investment. I love my T61, but it’s a bit bulky, gets hot in one corner, and the one battery is crap now (probably due to heat; 9-cell with 1-2 hours depending on the mood of my cat it seems).
* One thing that I’ve always hated was the touchpad. It’s too finicky and usually just gets in my way. However, I’d like to have one on whatever I get next since I use it for scrolling (everything else is disabled: tapping, movement, buttons, the works). I don’t think I’d be able to work with one (especially if the buttons were on the side) since I’ve gotten so used to the trackpoint. I thought at first that I would be doomed to live with a trackpad until I saw the Sony Vaio P. It has a trackpoint and all three mouse buttons. Unfortunately, it is overpriced and only comes with software I’d rather not give money to.
* I also would like at least 8 hours of battery life. I can get 4-5 hours from the good battery for the T61 and on powersave, so I don’t think this is too outrageous for a netbook.
* It has to come with Linux (or nothing). Even if I’m wiping it for Fedora, I’m not giving money to companies that don’t deserve the money.
* The Insert/Delete/Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys must exist on their own. Having the latter 4 be modified arrow keypresses is not excusable for me since I use them so often (this kills the Asus machines). It’d be preferable to have them in the standard 2×3 arrangement, but it’s excusable if it means fitting on the machine (laptops don’t have an excuse).
* It has to be less than a kilogram. This is pretty common, but the larger ones tend to approach this limit.
* Sleep and hibernate should work. This is a no brainer, but it currently fails on the T61. It’s not really that much of a problem since boot time is low and the thing isn’t exactly agile either.
* Solid state drive. I have a desktop to tether it to, so 20G would be good, but I could probably work with a 12GB, 8G would be cutting it close. My current installs work on 10G and 15G / partition sizes (/home is the only one that’s separate) and are usually more than half free depending on the debuginfo and mock setup at the time, both of which won’t be happening on the netbook.
* Ethernet port on it. You’d think this would be a given, but the Vaio P is too slim for it and has some weird adapter that’s probably overpriced and defeats the purpose of the thing being so small.
* A webcam would be nice, but it’s not a showstopper.
* It would be nice to have 2G of RAM, but 1G should do it; currently I’m using on 650MB on the laptop and a little over a gig on the desktop with lots of extra stuff running.
Unfortunately, I think it may be a few years until I can find anything on the market that meets these requirements. Even laptops have trouble making them (except for the weight thing which I’d waive for them). Unless there’s one I’m not aware of. Thoughts?