I finally got around to setting up blosxom on my UW account. Now I'm starting to customise the standard setup. So right now, for the next week or two, you may see some dramatic changes to the site's layout and appearance. I'll settle on something I like soon enough.
-- QED!

I'm testing out ftp in Python. (Haven't done any Python programming before tonight) Trying to extend BloGTK to support simple ftp (and therefore simple Blosxom bloggin).

Changing BloGTK wasn't going to be as simple as I had thought. So, for now, it's the ssh-vim combination. In the next week I'll see if I can just rewrite it, not bother with much actual coding and make it specifically for what I do. Oh, and Ignore the songs for now, soon Blosxom will recognize it and format it properly.
I also need a better name for this blog, as all it is is QED! converted to ASCII, and then to hexadecimal. I may make the numbers the theme of this page. Then it would fit.
And for all of those who read Unconventional Conformity I'm working on converting it's back-end to Blosxom too, because its just so nice.

Computer links and news time.
First, Fedora Linux's first release (Core 1) came out in the last week. Personally I'm not incredibly eager to try it out. I have Debian. Currently it seems as though Debian is everything Fedora Linux is meant to be, but it's just beginning, is backed by Redhat and with my next piece of news, is good for the community, and I'm sure it will be a top notch distro in no time.
So as a segue, being the GNOME user I am, I'm happy that Novell has recently purchased both Ximian and SuSE. This is another big step toward linux on more desktops. You may soon have a commercially supported distro, that has all of it's aspects (desktop environment, system configuration, install, etc) tied together nicely and complete.This is great news. Also, look to KDE news sites to see what this means for KDE as well. I'm sure KDE will live on just as strong too, though.
Next on my list: the recent attempt from a black hat to insert a back-door into the Linux kernel. There's not much to say that hasn't already been said. (see linux weekly news article) It would have been a locally exploitable back-door to allow any user gain access to root privileges. The attempt, also wasn't to put it in the official source, it was to try to put the exploit into an unofficial source. Interesting, but caught same day anyway.
Here's a nice piece of news that if it matters to you, then you probably already know already. Keith Packard (a big X Free developer) has some nice details (and screenshots) on his new X Extensions, Damage and Composite. When will these hit the main XFree again?
And lastly a bit of humour.
Apparently there is space for Klingon in Unicode. Chances are you already have a Klingon character set on your computer. Wow. Just wow.
psDooM. What is there to say. Who doesn't want to play a classic video game? Who wishes they could actually kill processes. Enter: psDooM. Finally you can kill that damn runaway process...with knives! (to the death!) Basically, in a nutshell, its a game of DooM where some of the demons have process ID's associated with them. Kill the demon, kill the process. Hurt the demons, renice the processes. System load too high? Injure a few demons. Angry at your computer? BFG a room of processes as root and watch all running programs die. Just awesome.

Well, it was a good night. Dean et all (Caitlin, Chris, Branden, and the Meek) ccame down to my place and Settlers and video games were played by all. It was good. (Well, they'll writeback if it wasn't) After CTRL-A they all came back. It was Dean's 19th. It was good. For all I hope. Oh well.

Yesterday, Saturday the 22nd, (Sunday didn't exist this week as I slept through it) the GNOME Foundation started their Bounty Hunt.
This bounty hunt is pretty neat. They're giving little cash prizes to those who fix interoperability bugs in the GNOME Desktop. Those that do, (and get their changes accepted by the projects) can fill out a form and collect their bounty. The cash prizes total somewhere around 000 (USD). Most bounties are around -400. I feel as though I should fix some of these things to earn a couple bucks for school. I've wanted to rewrite the address book support in GNOME for a while, and thats one of the tasks.
So this may be the kick I've needed to do some development to help out some of the software I use everyday. At the worst time possible. Exams start in a week or so.

I finally automated my blogging procedure. Now I don't have to leave the comfort of my own Desktop Environment.
How sweet it is.

Well, third time this term, yes third, a fire alarm went off during a midterm. Really, I mean it's not funny. As it is the end of classes, we just went back in once the building was cleared, and wrote the test. So we got an extra hour to write it. I was still done in the original two hours anyway. Two guys said they couldn't write past 9, due to "religious obligations" so they left to work something else out with the prof.
I mise those "magic minutes" in high school though. A minute where we could just shout whatever answers we wanted at each other. Ah...St James.
With a bit of humor, the TA sent around the sign in sheet. On it were two columns, Name and Favourite Colour. Geektastic, I opted for 0x00ffff. Hexidecimal RGB values; cyan.
Oh, and CISC computers (I know the last C stands for computer, but what else am a going to say?) are rather interesting.

Well, the term is finally over. The kur5hin fiction contest is also over. Nobody won. None of the fiction was even sectionalized. There were some pretty good pieces as well, but I guess not.
The Machine was also down for the weekend. Magic, Changeling, and Super Mario 3 were played and good times to be had.
Finally, like the title says, the term is over. Exams start in a week. So, there's a fair amount of time beforehand of nothingness. We'll see what happens.

Well, I messed that last post up. People did win the First Unofficial Kuro5hin Fiction Contest. (I even had a typo in 'kuro5hin'...sigh) CheeseburgerBrown won 1st with a rather good story, Two Moments of Invention. I personally thought transient0's story should have won, even though it couldn't (as he was running the contest) and right now its not posted anywhere on the net to link for you. It was the most interesting to me. (But I like the Cyberpunk literature, had an added kick for putting it in Toronto). You can read the contest summary for more information.
As an aside, I'm also working more on this blog. The "writeback" pages are kinda screwed up right now. My CSS sucks.