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I'm back in school now. This semester will be my last one at Langara College, unless something goes rather wrong. Next fall I hopefully will be at UBC starting third year computer science. My classes this semester are Calculus 3 (Multi variable), first year Physics part 2 (electro-magnetism), and a Philosophy class (Critical Thinking).
I had a good and extremely relaxing winter break. So relaxing in fact I got nothing done but watching some movies and tv shows. I barely even read. I received and watched all of the Aeon Flux animated series, and the first season of Futurama. Futurama kind of seemed like Transmet Light. I felt vaguely nostalgic for Transmet while watching it. I also received the first season of the Dead Zone, and several more books which I'm only now just starting. Finally, I also got a black Nintendo DS Light which I've fallen somewhat in love with. It's an amazing device. You can walk by an Electronic Boutique and download demos, share one game amongst many friends to play multiplayer, or play mutliplayer online if there is a wifi access point nearby. It's wireless capabilities are seamless, easy, well thought out, and bountiful. The touch screen's also proving to be fun.
Over the weekend I want to a LAN party where we played StarCraft and a little Quake3. I again was the only Linux user there, but pulled it off just fine. I had a bit of start up troubles because I forgot to get things set up before showing up so I had to follow my own guide again to get StarCraft on Linux multiplayer ready (install it on win98 in QEmu and setup a bridge). In the course of doing that I broke a few things and in the course of fixing them learned a few things. Results as follows:
- Hibernate can optionally use Cryptography->LZF to compress/encrypt the memory dump in swap. Do not compile LZF support as a module because when rebooting, if it is a module stored on the harddrive and not in the kernel, the kernel will be unable to decrypt the swap space and so will be unable to resume.
- Apparently compiling LZF into the kernel, and possible emergeing vbetool was all I needed to do to make Suspend to Ram actually work. Previously I could suspend, but resume failed.
- It appears that gnome-power-manager may some how depend on NetworkManager. I can't really figure this one out, but when NetworkManager was off, GPM didn't give me the options to hibernate or suspend. Weird.
- The newest version of NetworkManager (0.6.4_pre20061028-r1) will sometimes change your hostname (if the AP supplies one?). This is bad because aside from being lame and annoying to have a host name of 'dhcddp4' it seems to break X in that no new program can establish a connection to the X server so nothing can run. Just stick with the other version in portage, 0.6.4_pre20061028
