ххх - Знаешь в чём сходство GeForce 4 MX440 и тележкой из супермаркета?
ууу - ???
ххх - Оба не поддерживают пиксельные шейдеры!
http://bash.org.ru/quote/391755
And yes, I’m alive. Soon I may even have free time.
The past few days have been a tad rough — some personal issues to deal with. On the plus side, I started reading bash.org.ru (in Russian, naturally), and it’s awesome. http://bash.org.ru/quote/6011 is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time.
I started writing a long post about this past year, but then I thought no one really wants to read that. So here it is in two sentences: This year has been the best year of my life. Also, 1L year at HLS is crazy.
All in all, I had a blast. I tried crew for the first time, and had a fantastic time.
Now that my finals are over, I should have more time for Gentoo work. Huge thanks to Gunnar et al. who picked up my slack.
Also, I’m in Mountain View for the summer. If you are around and would like to grab a beer or something, let me know.
I started Planet 02138, a planet site for Harvard-related blogs. If you’re a 02138 guy/gal, check it out, and let me know if you have a blog you’d like to add.
Huge thanks to Ben Schwartz who suggested gnome-power-manager. After reverting to gentoo-sources (I was trying suspend2-sources all along) and installing gnome-power-manager, suspending and hibernating just works!
Of course, there’s a glitch. I’m using XFCE, and I discovered that all GTK theme info is lost on hibernate. The culprit is xfce-mcs-manager, which apparently must be run after restarting ALSA (really not sure why). I’m hoping that the gnome-power-manager folks will add suspend/resume hooks soon (they are working on it).
Now excuse me, I gotta go suspend.
I got a couple of useful suggestions for my suspend/resume problem. For a while, it looked like s2ram was going to fix it, until I discovered that on every other resume the system hardlocks and the screen starts turning all kinds of colors. Pretty, but useless.
I thought this was an issue with fglrx, so I tried vesa. No dice. Oh, I also ran into a lovely image corruption bug at 1400×1050, which I see has already been reported.
So, suspend still doesn’t work. Fabulous.
I give up. For the life of me, I can’t get any kind of suspend/resume working on my Thinkpad T60p. It’s tantalizingly close: hibernate-ram wakes up but the screen remains blank, and hibernate is also almost there, but not quite.
If you have any suggestions on how to get it working, pretty please let me know.
Yesterday I noticed that the battery in my T60p wouldn’t charge; the battery indicator kept blinking yellow. I called IBM/Lenovo and spent less than 10 minutes on the phone with a very pleasant rep in Atlanta, GA, who (a) informed me that my battery was covered by the original warranty, b) said that I should be getting a replacement battery in 3-5 days, and (c) told me an entertaining customer support story about an earlier caller who didn’t bother being polite and ended up on an “extended hold.”
I was pleasantly surprised today when a got a package from IBM. Turns out they overnighted the replacement battery to me. I suspect their prompt attention is at least partly due to the fact that I bought my laptop through my school which has a partnership with Lenovo.
Sometimes they get it right. Well done Lenovo.
I don’t know if there is anything I can say about Stuart’s departure. To me, Stuart was the human face of Gentoo. He was the first developer to actually talk to me when I was interested in joining the project. He was my mentor who always had the time and patience to explain how things worked, what I did wrong, and what I did right. He did all that without once telling me I was stupid, hackish, or otherwise unworthy of attention. He was always positive, never arrogant. Somehow, a bloke in England whom I have never met managed to make Gentoo more than what is starting to feel like a collection of email and IRC bots hurling insults at one another.
Farewell.
