Laurabelle's Blog

I'm getting really fed up with AOL. Last week I missed out on a lot of potential productivity because I couldn't keep a connection for more than 5 minutes. This doesn't mean logon, get disconnected, log back on. That wouldn't be so bad. No, this means logon, get disconnected, wait five minutes, then log back [...]

Audio's working now. First I enabled kernel drivers for the wrong soundcard. I noticed that and fixed it even before I tried to produce any sound on Debian. The driver loaded on boot, and all was good. Yesterday I installed Loki Games' Linux port of Alpha Centauri. It ran splendidly, and the graphics were fast [...]

So my USB wheel mouse is now working. I don't exactly know why. I had configured USB support into the kernel, and yesterday I copied some mouse config from this guy's XF86Config-4 file in the hope that it was all I needed. Nope. Luckily my touchpad still worked, but I kept reaching for the mouse [...]

Woohoo, I am now posting from Debian! I finally managed to get netenv working, by virtue of the config files I borrowed from this guy. I didn't even have to upgrade netenv. (In fact, I couldn't upgrade netenv because that would break dependencies.) Next step: XFree86 configuration. My blog is readable in lynx, but updating [...]

I've been tinkering some more with Debian today, but I haven't accomplished much of anything. Here are a few notes: I have to remember to compile the nVidia modules every time I compile a new kernel. Not a big deal, but I forgot once. I can't recompile a kernel using fakeroot after compiling it as [...]

I now have a basically functioning (if not fully featured or configured) Debian system running the latest stable release, woody. I congratulate myself.

No more new styles for a little while; I'm starting a new procrastination project: installing Debian! I'm going to do it at the iSchool so that I have a 'net connection (for security and other updates, doncha know). Hopefully, tomorrow I will have a spiffy new system to play with. This is my second attempt [...]

A couple of weeks ago I promised an answer to the problem of open-source projects trying to address many libraries' diverse requirements for an integrated library system. What I had in mind was an open set of communication standards that would allow different tools to communicate with each other, but the more I think about [...]

The other day, when I was fiddling around with my templates and style sheets, one of the things I did was to separate out colors and layout into different files. This is very convenient because it means that I can add color stylesheets without having to duplicate the layout. Of course, if I change any [...]

Last night Jeff and I watched Das Experiment, a German film about the Stanford Prison Experiment gone horribly wrong. (Okay, the SPE gone even more horribly wrong.) Twenty men volunteer to participate in a two-week simulated prison experiment. Eight of them are randomly selected to be guards; the remaining twelve are prisoners. At first it's [...]