8 posts tagged “geekiness”

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You know the whole fanlisting world is collapsing when someone makes a fanlisting about you...

(Only joking Jem. :P Thank you very much :D )

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Further to my last entry where I mentioned not being able to get my wireless adapter working in Kubuntu, I have now successfully managed to do it :D YAY ME! *Bounces around*

/geeky excitement

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Woo, it's 2007 here in the so here are some new year greetings.

In other news, I have finally succumbed to geek pressure and installed Kubuntu Linux (as opposed to the popular Ubuntu, because the former has a prettier look to it :P ). I am so rubbish with it though, I am getting errors all over the place and can't get my wireless working at all :\ Never mind :P

Oh yeah, and I have conjunctivitis again. Grrr.

Um, that will be all. Happy new year when your timezone gets round to it. :)

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The boyfriend bought a new computer today (sales ftw!) and I am jealous :(

His laptop (3 years old, like mine) started playing up ages ago and he really wanted to play graphic-intensive games and as any hardcore gamer (i.e. not me) knows, you need the latest graphics card for that. Something that a three-year-old laptop will not have. Anyway, we ordered it yesterday and picked it up today... And it is drool-worthy. It's a Packard Bell (we didn't go based on brands. As long as it works, we're happy) that comes with the following goodies:

• 19 inch widescreen flat panel monitor
• 2.8GHz processor (same as the old laptop’s…) with 800 MHz Front Side Bus and 2MB cache
• 1GB RAM
• 512MB nVidia GeForce 7300LE graphics
• DVD writer, 200GB hard drive, build in 8-in-1 media card reader, etc. etc. etc.

So much better than my poor old laptop… 14.1″ monitor (not widescreen), 64MB Intel something-or-other graphics, 30GB hard drive, blah blah blah. The old laptop has now become our print server, though we’re hoping to do away with having a computer as a print server soon enough. That laptop can’t stay on all the time (it’s noisy, it overheats like mad [and yes, we did clean it and the fans were working properly], etc.) so another solution will be needed.

All this comes after I got a DVD writer for Christmas… Now we have two of them, heh.

I want that computer. Hmph.

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That's right, Amelie has a job. :D Nothing exciting, just a little bit of temporary work over Christmas to help with present funding. But yeah, I start tomorrow (it would have been today, but I have lectures on Mondays so I can't work then). ARGH TOMORROW. I have no idea what I'll be doing, who I should report to and where... This whole job was organised in a rush on Thursday and I had a very brief induction on Saturday. I'm in at the deep end tomorrow morning at 9am sharp. O_O EEP!

In other news, I met Jem, her partner Karl and Katy yesterday :D Decided at the last minute that while Katy was there admiring their new flat, I might as well go down and see what all the fuss was about (and meet everyone all at once, woo) as well. Dragged the boyfriend with me, since I can't drive and navigate at the same time, and he ended up driving. We then got lost because Jem lives in the middle of nowhere the directions we got off some travel site shoved us down a tiny narrow road that was closed instead of down the much easier (and more open) main road. Heh. Anyway, that was fun. :)

Now I can go back to fretting about jobliness tomorrow. ARGH I START IN 12 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES ARGH

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...you dream about your script getting its own LiveJournal community. >.<

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In case you haven't noticed, I've tried to make this site more accessible since the revamp last week. I had got everything to AAA/priority 3 standards about a year ago, but I got lazy and started using silly things like "click here" as link text and forgetting my accesskeys.

So, I put the accesskeys back in for this layout. When I went to test them, nothing happened. I know they work, since I was able to use them in IE, but in Firefox and Opera every time I tried the key combinations, a menu would popup, an extension shortcut would get activated, etc. etc. etc. (or in the case of Opera, nothing happened. Eh?) Of course, a solution to this is to do what many others have done and use numbers as accesskeys - but I disagree with doing this. Why? Because it's not symbolic enough (to me, at least), and ... I don't know, I just don't like it. I prefer to use letters if at all possible. Besides, the number thing doesn't solve the shortcut problem - I like to use accesskeys on others' sites because I'm lazy and prefer to use keyboard shortcuts than the mouse, but when I went to press ALT + 0 to go back home (or whatever it was), I was once again presented with some options for an extension. Hmph. Seeing as I never use the keyboard shortcuts for those extensions, I tried disabling them, but apparently that's not possible.

Having said that, the site should conform to priority 3/AAA accessibility levels now. The automatic checker at WebXact doesn't seem to like my previous/next page links though, and tells me they don't make sense out of context... I think they do, but I tried changing them to such things as "View more blog posts" and even more detailed sentences but it didn't like those either. I've manually checked everything else and to me it seems fine, but of course many of the accessibility checkpoints are to do with personal preference and/or opinion. I may think those links make sense out of context (they don't have a context anyway... They're pretty much standalone as it is) but that doesn't mean everyone will.

Just a small layout note: I know about the slow/jerky scrolling - this is caused by the transparent PNG background. I will try and change that, but when I tried a solid background, it didn't really work :\ Likewise, I also know about the fact that this centre column looks odd in high resolution/widescreen monitors, since it is fixed width and the rest of the layout is not. Again, I'll try and fix this when I have a moment.

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This post is mainly to test my Vox integration, but will also serve as an update since I haven't written anything for a week.

So yes, Vox. I got an account a while ago to catch up with some friends, but other than doing the question of the day, I haven't been using it much. I'm not a huge fan of its dodgy WYSIWYG interface and the fact that it's full of AJAX and JavaScript means it's really slow to load (but really fast once it has!). Also, you can't customise the way it looks and that annoys me a lot. At least with LiveJournal you can change the colours and even make new layouts if you know how to use the overrides or have a paid account. With Vox, you can't even change the colours. Meh. I appreciate that it's still in beta, but it's being officially launched sometime next week (29th I think?) so I don't think they're planning too many changes. :\

Right then, I have a dissertation draft thing to finish before Wednesday morning and I have barely started it. Better go and do that, I think...