Well, happy new year to everyone! My year's been off to a hectic start with university, and my upcoming exams, so blogging has fallen a bit to the wayside. However, I'll be starting my semester break in a couple of weeks, and plan to work on a few little projects of mine during my time off. I plan to work on a few c++ programs from my (admittedly long) list of ideas, while getting comfortable with creating makefiles/installing C++ programs in Linux. From there I may choose an open-source project to develop for, but that depends entirely on how long it takes me to get comfortable with it all. I'm also toying with the idea of maybe playing around with some circuitry (something like Arduino boards, just without the enormous shipping costs from the US to Germany!). If anyone has a company/website they know of that has decent shipping costs, please post it below in the comments! Besides that, I plan to expand my knowledge of VHDL and Assembly in preparation for my second semester. I will, hopefully, mix the Assembly with my C++ programming, in order to leave room for actual relaxing. If anyone has a good book, or website, detailing on how best to go about using Assembly in C++, feel free to leave a comment as well. I also plan to write a few more tutorials for my blog during my time off, so requests are welcome.
As for new stuff I'm intrigued about: Honeycomb (Android 3.0), Gnome 3.0, Motorola XOOM tablet, Mass Effect 3, and an Android 2.2 update that should eventually arrive for my Motorola Milestone. I'm also hoping to upgrade my PC to a core i5-2400 3.1GHz processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and (due to the new processor) a new USB 3.0-ready motherboard. I'm ideally looking to spend <400€, and if anyone has suggestions on motherboards, I'd be interested to hear them (the rest of the hardware I've pretty much already picked out). While I'm at it I may be replacing my computer's case. What I am curious about: Does anyone know how Windows 7 and ArchLinux handles massive hardware changes? I should assume Windows 7 will require a new activation, but Arch should just auto-detect the right drivers for most of the parts I'm planning on swapping out, right? Anything I should be on the look out for?
Also, if anyone has any suggestions as to projects I should look into, interesting snippets of code/news, or a book they recently read and enjoyed (or movie or TV show), feel free to leave me a comment, I'm always looking for new stuff to distract me from my work!
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Monday, October 11, 2010
A change is coming...to Command & Conquer
As many of you know (or maybe you don't), I write for the Full Circle Magazine. FCM is a free community e-magazine for Ubuntu and its' derivatives. I started writing for them in January, 2009 (21 issues ago!), filling in for Command & Conquer original author, Robert Clipsham. He felt he could no longer continue it for personal reasons and I sent him an email (as he suggested anyone interested should in C&C), and lo-and-behold, here I am. Last month (Issue #41) included a link to a survey. Based on said survey results, a large percentage of our readers are more inclined to use the GUI (no real surprise there), but a large number of readers expressed a liking to my article series (some even suggested we have more like it). In an attempt to appeal to a wider audience, I will henceforth (as of Issue #43) be including both GUI and CLI applications, tips, tricks, and general know-how in Command & Conquer (and may result in a name change if I think of something catchy). This fulfils a request by readers for a larger "tips and tricks" section, while possibly giving everyone something to read in C&C.
For those of you who love the CLI as much as I do - fret not! (musical pun unintended). I will be including CLI alternatives within any GUI article I write (as long as there is an alternative), and not every article will necessarily be GUI-based. I am mainly just removing the restriction on topic choice.
On a slightly different note, I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who reads C&C, and who posted positive comments in the survey! It really means a lot to me to know that there are plenty of people out there who find my articles useful. And to those readers who point out any mistakes I make within a few hours of the magazine being online, I thank you, it's always nice to face-palm just after you lose the ability to fix any mistakes! (I jest - I always figure I have a mistake or two). I'd also like to take a moment to suggest that a few of you may want to contact Ronnie about becoming proof-readers? That way your suggestions will result in correct articles, instead of "oops" sections in the following article. I'm not sure how many of my readers are actually aware of this blog, but to those who know, here you go.
For those of you who aren't readers but enjoy reading Linux-oriented magazines, check out FCM here: www.fullcirclemagazine.org
And to my regular blog readers: I apologize for the lack of updates. I'm not going to make any excuses, I'm just going to say this: I have ideas for more blogposts (a review of Ubuntu 10.10 - either the LiveCD or the actual installed version, an article on LaTeX, a "how to google efficiently" article that may or may not be useful to you, and a few others that haven't been fully developed). I'm starting university and as such I can't promise regular updates, but I felt you should be made aware of the fact that I have things in the works, and they will arrive sooner rather than later.
Also, for those musically inclined readers of mine, I have updated my Guitar post from May with my new electric guitar (no pictures of the other acoustic, sorry!).
For those of you who love the CLI as much as I do - fret not! (musical pun unintended). I will be including CLI alternatives within any GUI article I write (as long as there is an alternative), and not every article will necessarily be GUI-based. I am mainly just removing the restriction on topic choice.
On a slightly different note, I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who reads C&C, and who posted positive comments in the survey! It really means a lot to me to know that there are plenty of people out there who find my articles useful. And to those readers who point out any mistakes I make within a few hours of the magazine being online, I thank you, it's always nice to face-palm just after you lose the ability to fix any mistakes! (I jest - I always figure I have a mistake or two). I'd also like to take a moment to suggest that a few of you may want to contact Ronnie about becoming proof-readers? That way your suggestions will result in correct articles, instead of "oops" sections in the following article. I'm not sure how many of my readers are actually aware of this blog, but to those who know, here you go.
For those of you who aren't readers but enjoy reading Linux-oriented magazines, check out FCM here: www.fullcirclemagazine.org
And to my regular blog readers: I apologize for the lack of updates. I'm not going to make any excuses, I'm just going to say this: I have ideas for more blogposts (a review of Ubuntu 10.10 - either the LiveCD or the actual installed version, an article on LaTeX, a "how to google efficiently" article that may or may not be useful to you, and a few others that haven't been fully developed). I'm starting university and as such I can't promise regular updates, but I felt you should be made aware of the fact that I have things in the works, and they will arrive sooner rather than later.
Also, for those musically inclined readers of mine, I have updated my Guitar post from May with my new electric guitar (no pictures of the other acoustic, sorry!).
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