Unfinished business.
December 30, 2009 - 11:13 pm
Having tough time getting ‘gaming’ out of my system. Unable to decide myself I go around asking what people (only acquaintances) what they think of computer games – most of them mutter something about some game from their time in college or school, mention of new would be rewarded with change of topic, yawning and other interesting responses.
Its a fact that computer games are far from main-stream ‘entertainment’ in my country (probably its the same everywhere). What I am worried is that by the time it becomes ‘important’ enough something drastic might happen across the world that would make ‘gaming’ take a turn for worse, like, say the whole idea of virtual world being shunned due to some silly accident or something. Or perhaps we run out of ‘producers’ for games and the only ones left alive independent games (which sounds good when heard through a narrow pipe). These two events mark a time window which would have to coincide with my lifes ‘interesting’ years. I cant imagine playing FPSs or high-reflex+button-mashing “Prince of Persia: a grain of sands of time that was leftover under that vase” games at 40+.
All that makes me want to upgrade to a core i7 rig. But I cant get any ‘peer’ or ‘family’ support for the insanely costly rig (ranging from 60-75k 
). At mere mention of the upgrade it gets attributed to the ‘crazy camera business’ (my buying D80 in ‘white’ market) and communication with home base breaks down.
Speaking of games, The obligatory game update:
Just finished, Prince of Persia: Two thrones (yeah – I’m 4 years behind the times).
Started following The escapist magazine (please dont start off now looking at the name of the mag). Games that I am dying to play/try out: Farcry 2, Mirrors Edge, PoP:Prodigy.
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Active directory LDAP
- 10:07 pm
Did you know that connecting to port 3268 for LDAP gets you the Global directory of an organisation and spares you the pain of hopping across the directory servers of different domains in the organisation searching for stuff.
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Darren for common cold
November 7, 2009 - 10:48 pm
Darren Aronofsky stuff gives a high when you have a cold and delirium. Just watched ‘The wrestler‘. Last year I saw ‘Requiem for a dream‘ when I had cold. My favourite sequences from “The wrestler” are, the autograph/photograph session where another fellow wrestler has a urine catheter showing near his shoe and the final leap + blackout.
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Kernel upgrade brownout #2
August 17, 2009 - 10:50 pm
Continuation of the previous one.
The “M$ occassionally we make usefulstuff” keyboard is working fine after foolishly attempt looking at xev output and modifying /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev to map what I thought was the correct codes. The wrong codes were due to my mixing the kbd driver and evdev driver (for extended events aka fancy buttons). You get both if you comment the kbd driver out (in xorg.conf) and add two evdev keyboards (for me the event devices are event5 and event6). X not getting the device from HAL automagically has something to do with the GDM kinda session creation. I login to console and ’startx’ – more digging later.
The Caps to Control map that did not work in console (mentioned in earlier post) was due to change in approach to doing it – Now you set X-like option (XKBOPTIONS=”ctrl:nocaps”) in /etc/default/console-setup.
I stumbled on another bug – apparently related to evdev driver or xorg – the left arrown, down arrow and the ‘end’ key lose their ‘repeat’ capability – Using the work around mentioned here.
Compiz was crashing with :
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
what(): basic_string: :_S_construct NULL not valid
Googling indicated someone had gotten past the error by setting the LANG variable – tried it and it worked (LANG=en_US.utf-8 for me.)
Still broken:
Mplayer playback acts funny – every 30 seconds to one minute it apparently realizes it was slow and does a quick ‘catching’ up. No clue on this one yet – VLC also acted in similar manner a couple of times.
My “TyTN II – OpenSync – synce” setup is blown mostly by the python upgrade. This is going to take quite some time to get back.
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Il grande uno
July 16, 2009 - 12:44 pm
Found an old friend on orkut. Although its one of the official purposes of orkut, some friend findings cause more ripples than others. This one is a biggie.
Kishore is my friend from high school, uber geek material who chose to join seminary. He had a head that carried and processed orders of magnitude more content than me and me peers. So, both of being at kinda mid-life now, its really scary to think of getting into a philosophy discussion with him.
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