New Forum

Well, I’ve got a new forum on my website. It’s been up for about 2 days now. It has 7 members (including me). I’ve always wanted to admin or moderate a forum. Well, we don’t have any mods over at the forum yet, only 2 admins, and one *submod. But that’s good enough to handle the forum for now. Here is the link to the forum

*submod: mods 1 forum

EDIT: I’ve installed new forum software. The link to the new forum is http://nathangrubb.freehostia.com/bb

OK I admit it..I suck at making good looking websites

OK I admit it..I suck at making good looking websites. But that doesn’t stop me from using Pre-Made CSS Templates!

Yes, if you go to my website now, it doesn’ t look like a page from 1996.

More like Circa 2002 😆 . But hey, that’s alot better looking than what is used to be. (And if you wanna see a really old design I had for it, go here.

Well expect a more functional website from me in the future, that actually has content. As the main page states, its mostly practice for XHTML/CSS and storing things (but I haven’t exactly stored anything that is a personal file yet).

I just wish people would write understandable files :'(. The CSS and HTML file I got with the download wasn’t very good. But hey, that’s the first one I downloaded. Perhaps the next ones I get will be better 😉

I got my new LCD!!!!!

I got my First LCD monitor!! I’ve always wanted one. This one is a Dell SE198WFP. It’s a widescreen monitor. The max screen resolution is 1440×900 (Which is alot when you consider I come from 1024×768 land on my ol’ 17″CRT). its too bright but maybe its just because its midnight and I’m tired. The response time is 5 (forgot the units), which is the same as my old CRT. Overall, I am loving it, and I will continue to love it

My Website

OK some of you knew about http://eblognuts.org/nath. But Now I have my own website, http://nathangrubb.freehostia.com. I’m sorry I haven’t had time to write lately, I’ve been working on my website. My website is almost completely done (of course I’ll still be adding content from then on) but my Fluxbox guide isn’t online yet. Also, I just love writing HTML. Pretty soon I’ll have to learn CSS

Oh no!!! My Linux experience is screwed up!!

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I’m sad to say I’m typing this on Windows. And if I can’t get my Linux setup back, it might be a while of Windows.

Here’s how it happened :  After getting sick of the fact that openSUSE doesn’t have  as many software packages as I would like. So I went out searching for my Ubuntu Gutsy CD. Unfortunately, I could not find it so I had to use my Feisty CD (And I found it later, d’oh!).

Well the video drivers didn’t work to well. I noticed it was using the “restricted” drivers by default. All was well. That is, until I tried to play Nexuiz. Than the X-server crashed and I looked in the xorg.conf, it was using the driver “nv”. So I changed it to “nvidia” (It had said it was using the “restricted driver”.

Well after I tried to start xorg after that it said “no screens found” (How the hell would I be reading that if there were no screens found?), and I ran dpkg reconfigure xserver-xorg. It said it was using “vesa” (which doesn’t exactly count as a “restricted driver”). So to see if that was true, I tried to install the nvidia-glx-new driver. (I thought it was already installed, and apparently, it wasn’t).

So I tried to reconfigure xorg again and  set it to use the nvidia driver. So I tried  to start xorg again. Well that’s great, it doesn’t work still (no screens found again)]

So here I am. Since I found my Gutsy CD, I’m going to install it tonight

Please people. Use Metric.

OK this has bugged me ever since i knew that metric existed. The US NEEDS to switch to the Metric system. I’m sick of talking to people on IM that live in other countries and having to convert to the Metric System.

First of all, farenheit makes about as much sense as a fish riding a bicycle. Do you know how Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit came up with the 0 F point? He determined the freezing point of a ice/water/sea salt mix. And you know how he came up with 100 F? It was supposed to be the temperature of a human body, but he was off a few degrees. (There are actually several theories on this, these 2 are just the most widely accepted, or at least according to my science teacher they’re true)

Also, can you tell me right now how many feet are in 3.5 miles?  Now try and tell me how many meters are in 3.5 KM.  There are 3500 M in 3.5 KM. I didn’t even have to think about that.  I had to calculate 5280×3.5 to get 18,480 for the first problem I mentioned. And what if you didn’t have a calculator or any paper to do the problem on? That problem doesn’t sound fun to do in my head..

Did you know that  every country in the world except the US, Liberia, and Myanmar use the metric system?  It also strikes me as strange that a big country of ~300 Million uses the  Imperial system. It should be noted that, sometimes the US measures in the Metric system (soda is measured in liters). Which doesn’t make any sense to have 2 systems. One standard system is what we need.

In conclusion, in order to make us have a system of measurement that makes sense, we need to switch to the metric system, just like every other country  in the World (except 2) have done.  And even the country that this system came from (England) uses metric now.

From now on I will try to make everything I measure as metric.

I learned HTML!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally. I learned it. I can code web pages now. Not all the way but HTML is still coding web pages. And I’ve been writing pages for practice. I’m converting my Fluxbox Guide to an HTML document so you can view it on a website. I’m so glad I learned this. It was too easy

I’m finally satisfied…openSUSE is the distro for me

I love the theme I assembled.  I love the KDE setup. I love the speed. I found out how to run apt in it. Look  here. But the way I look at things, its only  a matter of time before something goes wrong (usually my fault). Oh well. I could write paragraphs and paragraphs of how much I love it but it will amount to nothing. So you should know, I’ve now found the perfect distro for me!

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I never thought I would think 22 F was warm. But compared to what the temperature is right now, it is. I just checked on weather.com and it’s -8!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I think I’m gonna freeze to death. It hasn’t snowed for about 2 weeks because its been too cold to snow. The ground is ice. And I don’t like it at all.

openSUSE…not as bad as I thought it would be

     OK so I’m writing this from openSUSE. Here’s why. I’ve been wanting to try it for a few weeks now. And since it seems like everyday my ubuntu system gets slower and slower….I decided to try it.

Now, I downloaded an install CD a while ago (no livecd). So about 1 AM today I started installing it. When it came to the install software part, I decided against GNOME and went with KDE. And, quite frankly, I’m glad I made that choice. Although it took about 2 hours to download all the updates and stuff (and KDE) that it needed, I went to bed. I woke up around 6 AM and it wasn’t done yet (?!?!?). So I just went back to bed anyway and slept in until about 11AM. When I returned, it was done.

When I first booted it up, it needed to do a little bit more configuration (mostly user configuration, passwords,etc). When that was over, it didn’t reboot, it booted straight to the system (wasn’t expecting that). The first thing I noticed was how slow it was going. But I figured,  hey, it’s the first bootup, of course its gonna go slow (which held true on the second reboot).

At first, I thought the sound didn’t work. But I tried playing a song with Amarok, it played, rather quietly. And then, I looked over, to my embarrasment, the sounds was turned down really low. By then, I was chatting with my friends on Kopete. But I soon realized Kopete sucks. So i installed Pidgin

RPM wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. But I still don’t know how to install from the command line. Oh well, I’ll read later about that. I’ve heard its slow, but I have to say, it’s faster than DPKG (or apt or whatever you want to call it). I initially thought of things like dependency hell, and slowness.

I have to say that the default theme is nice. Of course I spiffied it up a bit (screenshot link coming).

There is just one thing that scared me alot. The system is using all but 15MB of my RAM. I don’t know what’s taking it all up. But I notice that programs don’t start slow, and that I don’t have alot of swap usage. I find that strange. Perhaps Ksysguard is giving me false values

So after all of this, I’ve decided. I’m keeping openSUSE. I like it overall. And its sure a hell of a lot nicer KDE system than Kubuntu. I like RPM. I’ll have to look up on it some more. I do miss apt though. I need to learn the command line options for it. But I have to say, openSUSE is surprisingly fast. And after all, I’m a speed demon. I wonder what the speed would be like in Fluxbox. I’ll have to install it later. But I close that, openSUSE ain’t all that bad. I don’t know if I could’ve used it for my first Linux distro though.