Just some opinions; simple, technical, musical, emotional
Well one of the updates destroyed all the posts! Before that, every update, for years, just worked! No posts deleted or lost. Then somehwere some auto update just lost all the posts. And one day – the blog just started showing empty!
Bam! Thanks auto-update!
Update: fixed! It was a twitter plugin. WordPress is working fine!
Rain, everyday for a whole week. This spring is starting feel like winter. Well, I’m hoping that the rain will stop and we can enjoy the nice spring days before the temperatures reach 100 degrees and we all start wishing for winter.
So I think my computer desk is just not big enough. It’s a simple desk with side drawer, cabinet, and a keyboard drawer. When I need space for writing or drawing I have to use another desk or basically use tables like coffee tables or dinner tables. And all the computer gadgets like my music controller, drawing tablet, musical keyboard have no place. This makes a big mess around the computer area. Think I’d like an L shaped desk where the dual monitor setup, along with all the extra gadgets can have enough space. Oh, I forgot to mention two laptops, joystick, near field monitors, phone charging stuff, etc.
Maybe time to setup a home office!! It could act as home office during the day and recording studio at night. It could even be the game room for playing video games. I mean it’s not like I would play ping pong!
That would be fun.
So reading some article on linkedin, I came across a term, “Internet of Things”. Really? Is that what we’re stooping to now? Are we out of acronyms? Are we out of buzzwords and catchphrases? Is the synergy gone? Is the Web 2.0 old now. Is cloud computing (since when has an internet based application been anything else?) and Internet of Things the future?
I understand that each year so many grad students need to get published and so many PhD students need to get published. All these students need to have original research and they need to contribute something unique and new, but it’s as if people have stopped even trying. It was meh enough that some guy created rules for how the internet was already working and called it REST. Now all of a sudden 14 years later it’s all the rage. Where were all these RESTful API authors in 2000? That’s right, they just didn’t pay attention until some professional software designer (read professional author) decided he needed a new chapter in his/her latest book.
Ok, then! Internet of Things committed to memory. I’ll be sure to mention this in my next interview along with RESTful API, agile methodologies, sprint, huddle master, cloud computing, and others.
So long Web 2.0, even tho you were about really big buttons, we have Internet of Things now.
P.S. I’m not saying RESTful API isn’t a helpful architecture, or that agile methodologies should be ignored. I’m just saying that using these technical terms pointlessly is just a waste of time and a counter productive effort. In addition, creation of new terms that re-describe what already exists isn’t helpful.
Let’s see how long it takes to drive to LA.
So, I have a layover in Phoenix. Last time I was here I was driving thru. It was a different feel. Not as rushed and not as restricted as flying.but not as fast either.
I have an hour to kill before boarding the next flight. People watching is not as much fun when you’re sleepy and just want to get there.
Winter is gone, sun is out, spring is here, wonderful feeling.
It’s so nice to see the sun and drive around. It’s nice to not have to wear layers.
Soon summer will be here. Then it will be 100 degrees and people will say that it’s too hot. Until then, nice sunny weather is very enjoyable.
A while ago I blogged about sound problem on Gentoo in VMWare. You can read about it here – Gentoo Problems with Sound.
As it turns out, it was an issue with the in-kernel sound driver for the soundcard that vmplayer emulates. If you’re using kernel 2.6.30-r6 or older, it should work fine. But if you update to a later kernel, it will plays the audio messed up. Solution? Well you could do:
For compiling kernel without sound driver, it will be a bit of work to find which driver it uses for emulated vmplayer soundcard. lspci on my vmplayer 3 reports:
00:12.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 02)
If you can find in the kernel the modules and disable it and then either find the driver binary for your distro or find the source, then you can roll back to a version that works. Keep in mind that it could be some kernel setting that is causing the audio to be played badly. Some realtime or clock settings.
For #2, most distros are on old kernels so it should be fine. By the time more distros move to the newer kernel, it could get fixed in the kernel or a better solution may be blogged about.
Until then, enjoy your linux distro.
What? Friday means boring? It means boring.
Fridays means end of the week. The work week is over. It’s time to chill out. It’s time to hang out with friends. With family. With relatives. With other people whose company you enjoy. Two days of downtime, rest and recreation. Sunday is going to be another good day with a start in the church. Then you’re ready for another week.
But if you find not much to do on a Friday night. Saturday will be the same. Then what? You find yourself thinking, “Thank God, the week is over, I don’t have to work for 2 days.” Then you think, “Oh the weekend is here, I have nothing to do.” You’re bored and hoping for Monday just in the big hope of having something to do again.
The party animals and the “happening” people will probably not understand this point. But those sitting home thinking where’s my stash of Star Trek understand this point good enough.
I say someday, I’ll break out of the rut. And I mean it. In the meantime, I’m starting to break out of it and starting the journey to break out of the rut.
Happy new year to all readers. May the new year bring a lot of good things, and fullfillment of long held dreams.
In this new year, I have decided to spend more time going to church, hanging out with church friends, and to find a band. I have been looking for a band for a long time but never actually searched. I have been in looking mode.
In this new year, I would also like to take more chances to be adventurous and to have more fun. Too often we let work and other small things take so much of our time that we don’t get to appreciate the present. We don’t get to sit down and relax for a moment. We don’t really get to take a deep breath and thank God for all the great things around us. Many of us live in the future. We think when this happens or when that happens, then I’ll do the next step. Or then I’ll really enjoy. But we’re not guaranteed tomorrow. This, the present, is all we have. So I thank God for it. And I pray this new year will be a great year of blessings.