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Name: V
Birthday: 9/21/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: Ohm's Law; Electrical Engineering; Science; Geekology & Pseudonerdism; Math-Headedness; Classical music (especially Piano, Violin, and Orchestral music); The Arrogant Worms!; Star Trek and other sci-fi; Dilbert; Tintin; Fish; MOSFETs; Dogcows; Dingos; and all Felinoids.
Expertise: Understating.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Electrical/Computer Engineerin
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Member Since:
3/19/2005
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| I haven't been blogging much lately, but I'm thinking about switching to Blogger. I've become obsessed with Googley apps, and also Xanga is becoming slightly ad-y and stuff. I wouldn't abandon beloved Xanga for commenting and nostalgic reasons, and I'll miss the Xanga smilies, but Blogger seems a lot cleaner for actual blogging purposes now. Meanwhile, I suppose I'll get aquainted with Blogger and see what happens.
Edit: For the curious:
http://mosfetsquid.blogspot.com/
I think I will switch over, actually. Everything seems pretty nice, except I haven't found anything analogous to protected posting, which is somewhat disappointing. However, I guess other means can still be used to communicate the content of would-be protected posts, such as Xanga.
Pruts! 
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| I've started trying Google Reader today. Bloglines is nice, but I just felt like trying something new (and Googly). 
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| ARGH. Senior project is so mosfetty. I would gargle a cup of mosfets if I didn't have to do it. Actually, it could be very interesting if I had nothing else to do. But now it just makes homework look like candy.
Had a Chinese midterm today. I didn't know it was today until last night, but luckily it wasn't hard.
Coming up this week:
- Tuesday: finish writing revised test plan. Don't forget to turn in GANTT CHART
- Wednesday: Discrete math midterm 1.
- Thursday: DSP hw due. Chemistry midterm. Don't forget!
- Sunday: China Night.
- Monday: Othro appt.
In between all this, I must figure out how to do some sort of isochronous transfer on the Cypress board! The very minimum at least! So mosfetty.
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| Just upgraded from Edgy to Feisty successfully through Update Manager! I waited a while to do this because I was frightened from messy experiences with Breezy -> Dapper and Dapper -> Edgy.  After a couple weird reboots, everything seems to be working great. A few minor fixes needed to be done:
- Reinstalled Adobe PDF Reader with plugins for Firefox. Added extra repositories to do so.
- Mplayer trying to start files with spaces in their name through nautilus gives an error, but playing through terminal works fine. To fix this, edit:
/usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop
and
~/.local/share/applications/mplayer-usercustom.desktop so that:
Exec=gmplayer %U becomes Exec=gmplayer %F
Haven't had any other sort of trouble yet. Also, some nice new things include:
- Quicker startup/shutdown
- mail-notification 4.0 more features than 3.0 in edgy
- Newer version of evolution mail
- Newer version of gaim: 2.0 (pidgin doesn't come until gutsy)
- Newer version of Amarok
- Newer version of Open Office
- Desktop Effects: Fun and kind of Mac-like effects. Slows everything down a lot though, if you want to use it on my computer.
and probably plenty of other things I haven't checked out yet.
Overall I am very pleased with the upgrade. In fact, I was so pleased I almost wanted to upgrade again to Gutsy right away, but chickened out. I'm satisfied with Feisty so far and don't want to cause any unnecessary trouble - a lot of people seem to be having major problems with Feisty -> Gutsy upgrades. Although a lot of people also seem to be upgrading fine too, I think I'll wait a while again before I upgrade again.
P.S. This Xanga weblog entry editor they introduced a while back is always really slow on my computer. While it's nice, I think I'll switch back to the simpler one.
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