Awesome wallpapers are awesome !

Orioto’s deviantART gallery.

Name that Color – Chirag Mehta

I really wanna get THIS t-shirt.

My Nokia E51 died a few days ago – either says no network coverage all of the time or doesn’t detect the SIM card – probably because I dropped it on the floor a month ago…

For the moment I don’t feel the need to buy a new phone and I feel very good without one, but some people around me (girlfriend, mom) nag me to buy one so they can ‘keep in touch in case something comes up’. Balls to that. IRC, IM and email are more than enough and they should know that. I’m going to try to spend 2 or 3 weeks without buying a new phone…if I don’t cave from the nagging :D

I wonder what this little experiment will lead to. A friend gave up IM in favor of the occasional IRC conversation and doesn’t miss using IM. It’d be so awesome if I manage to break free from this useless need of a mobile phone. Sure, it is great in case of emergency, but ..meh.

r.t. – why am I blaggin` in english?O_o

Yup. Just that. I miss it. It was great fun. College and most people I met in it suck *sigh*

Was looking for some books (including manga) and found www.beatmyprice.com. It listed KIMBOOKS with the lowest price for everything I wanted.

For the same book, including shipping:

Amazon – 23.54$ (15-25 days delivery)

Kimbooks – 17.78$ (7-14 days delivery)

Go figure who’s the winner.

I got bored of always writing ‘pacman -Ss ‘, ‘sudo pacman -S ‘ etc so I made a few aliases in my .bashrc. I made a few others for some stuff I use on a regular basis. Here they are

#start apache and mysql
alias apachego=’sudo /etc/rc.d/httpd start; sudo /etc/rc.d/mysqld start’

#stop apache and mysql
alias apachestop=’sudo /etc/rc.d/httpd stop; sudo /etc/rc.d/mysqld stop’

#restart apache and mysql
alias apacherestart=’sudo /etc/rc.d/httpd restart; sudo /etc/rc.d/mysqld restart’

#set CPUs at 1GHz
alias cpusave=’sudo cpufreq-set -c 0 -g powersave; sudo cpufreq-set -c 1 -g powersave;’

#set CPUs at 1.66GHz
alias cpuperformance=’sudo cpufreq-set -c 0 -g performance; sudo cpufreq-set -c 1 -g performance;’

alias py=’python’
alias pget=’sudo pacman -S’
alias psrc=’pacman -Ss’
alias prmv=’sudo pacman -Rs’

#standby
alias gosleep=’sudo s2ram –force;exit’

#vnc into my other computer
alias vnchome=’vncviewer 192.168.1.42:23111′

Oh no, now my VNC port is public!

This little bit below is used to put the current working path in the urxvt window title

case “$TERM” in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne “\033];?: ${PWD}\007″‘
;;
*)
;;
esac

I’m currently using www.iknow.co.jp to polish my basic japanese until the intermediate course will start IRL. My teacher – Kazuko Yamaguchi Diaconu (she had a romanian husband ^_^) – is a very good teacher and seems to love what she’s doing. This website doesn’t compare to a REAL japanese teacher but it still is good. I have to search for some books to help me read kana faster >.<

edit:

http://www.iknow.co.jp/users/tehyosh my iKnow page

After more than 1 year after I got my F-S Amilo Pro V3435 laptop I decided it’s time to use headphones with it instead of listening music on my other computer. I run Arch Linux and I expected things not to work out of the box. When I plugged the headphones the audio output was in the headphones AND speakers. After a bit of googling and asking people I found how to set the headphones and speakers volume independently. It’s pretty easy.

For ALC883, add

options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-dig

to your /etc/modprobe.conf and reboot. If you don’t use the snd-hda-intel module, you need to replace that with your own, which you most likely put in the modules array from /etc/rc.conf

The speakers are controlled from the Surround channel (needs to be unmuted :P) and the headphones from the Front channel

So THIS is what happens when you get shit in your blood!

Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium.