Below are the 6 most recent journal entries recorded in Tibun Beings' LiveJournal:

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
11:57 pm	Ahhh, boring! OK, don't get me wrong or anything, but I get bored of reading every time I hit a 4th chapter of a book. Especially when things don't get interesting. I've been reading 'How to think...' and it's hard to maintain focus. I also tried an IDE called PIDA. I still need to understand how it can be better than Emacs or Vi, or what extra functionalities it will give me. Programming (development) is boring; at least for the ones starting. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 19th, 2008
9:40 pm	What to study!? After my last post, I'm on a 'blogging' spree today, I started looking for good online documentation to teach myself Python. The Online version of Dive Into Python will be a great resource, just not now because it's not for newcomers. I was counting on this book, but then I read the warning and started my searches again. I found, however, what seems to be a great guide for rookies, and it's very well known on the Internet: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, which will, luckily, guide me through my first steps. I always have Tiago (gouki) to borrow me Learning Python Second Edition. The only problem is that it only covers Python 2.3. (Comment on this)
7:31 pm	Starting my studies I have a bit of free time, and even though playing with the computer all day can be fun I decided to put my time into something a bit more productive. I've been hearing allot good things about Python, so today I decided to REALLY study it. I'll be reading the online freely available documentation and I'll use this journal to report my successes and failures on learning a new programming language. (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
3:11 am	Synergy Problems I've had hopes this would get fix since the release, but unfortunately, it hasn't been... When using synergyc to connect to synergys (the one with keyboard and mouse) I get EXTREMELY slow response on the client machine. I move the mouse, and approximately, 5 seconds after, the pointer actually moves. It's laggy as hell! Fortunately I'm not the only one having this issue, and an active discussion is happening on Launchpad. I continue to use the trick of running the client - synergyc - as root; it's not the best choice, but it gets the job done. I don't see any danger on running it as root, tough. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 16th, 2008
9:25 pm	Debian Live USB Today I decided to install GNU/Linux on a pen drive, and after some looking around I decided to go with an easy solution. I didn't want to create anything new, just test drive a distribution running on a flash disk. After a couple of searches I found http://www.pendrivelinux.com/, which is a great site with tutorials on how to run several distributions on a pen drive, including, but no limited to, Debian and Ubuntu. Image running a full Ubuntu install on a Sony Micro Vault; it doesn't get better than that. After some digging around I decided to give their .IMG a try, which includes Debian with Gnome. No add-ons. Just the operating system with the desktop environment. After following the tutorial I had a bootable USB disk with 'live persistent' boot option, so that changes are saved. The next step is to remaster Ubuntu 8.04, remove and install some software, and have a custom 'remastered' Ubuntu version for the USB pen drive. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
5:16 am	New weblog (update) I didn't feel like hosting my own weblog so I decided to change to Live Journal, which I've heard good things about. Wordpress is too Web 2.0 for me, so I think Live Journal will work. The problem is all these advertisements ... Damn, can't a site live without these intrusive things? The domain name I was using for the weblog, debianubuntu.org, is available, and I'm looking for opinions on what to do with it. Any thoughts? P.S.: Comments now open; Sorry, I'm still trying to figure all this out. (Comment on this)