Dreamwidth

Yes, I'm running a Dreamwidth journal; for the forseeable near future it's more of a backup than a move, but I will respond to comments made there. Let me know if you're on DW.

Journal posts made here on Livejournal (after this one) wil be echoed there.

Neat Stuff

Xoddo -- make a custom plush (no fur) starting from a basic form, adding parts and choosing colors from an extensive menu. For $28 (plus S&H and taxes) and a wait of five days, you get your 10"x9" plush delivered to your door. There's also a half-size version for $18.

The Xoddo looks to be along the lines of a flattish pillow, with your design printed on the fabric. Still, I can see some fun here :)

Neat Stuff

Xoddo -- make a custom plush (no fur) starting from a basic form, adding parts and choosing colors from an extensive menu. For $28 (plus S&H and taxes) and a wait of five days, you get your 10"x9" plush delivered to your door. There's also a half-size version for $18.

The Xoddo looks to be along the lines of a flattish pillow, with your design printed on the fabric. Still, I can see some fun here :)

(And, I'm getting used to posting in both places. Gimme time.)

Large scale 3D printing

Uses sand plus a binder and has a printable volume of 6m x 6m x 1m (very roughly 19' x 19' x 3'). Looks like the first use will be for a large abstract sculpture in Pisa, Italy done in sections.

Large scale 3D printing

Uses sand plus a binder and has a printable volume of 6m x 6m x 1m (very roughly 19' x 19' x 3'). Looks like the first use will be for a large abstract sculpture in Pisa, Italy done in sections.

From Ubuntu

Wish me luck - compiling wine from source :)

Posting this from Ubuntu, so right now I'm having to manually post :)

From Ubuntu

Wish me luck - compiling wine from source :)

Posting this from Ubuntu, so right now I'm having to manually post :)

Interestingly, Firefox is seeing some of the forms here on LJ as being the same as those on DW, and offering to autofill with what I used there ...

Wine

Well, the compile of Wine 1.1.20 went OK -- I now have Semagic running under it again.

For my next trick, I'll apply a patch to Wine and see if I can get World of Warcraft to come up ...

EDIT: Patch successfully installed, WoW still fails while loading textures. Seems to be a known issue with the way Wine handles virtual memory.

EDIT THE 2ND: Well, WoW does come up in direct 3d mode ... horrid frame rates (14 fps in Thunderbluff), but it works. Now to slap it around some more and see why it doesn't work in openGL ...

EDIT THE 3RD: openGL does now work, sortof ... but WoW tries to map across both my monitors, becoming unplayable in the process. Because the resolution it's trying to run at is so huge, I still only get 18fps. Looks like WoW will continue to be run on Windows around here, since I get a more playable 30fps there ...

The biggest hangup to getting it to work right is because I'm running S-Video out for the house TV ... so I either run the TV and my main monitor as one big desktop, or, because of the way the proprietary drivers handle it, I can have two separate desktops but the TV *must* be the primary. Ick.

When I get up later this morning, it'll be a full day in the workshop. Next time I look at the computer I'll try to straighten out the house network. The Windows boxes can see the Linux boxes and the other Windows boxes, the Linux boxes can see the Windows boxes, but the Linux boxes can't see each other (except by IP).

EDIT THE 4TH: Got separate screens working with TV as secondary; didn't help WoW's frame rate, but at least I can now set gamma and brightness independently on both screens. WoW running in openGL with all the Compiz eye candy turned off runs at 20fps compared to 30fps under Windows XP. Same settings, same location. WoW running in d3d in Ubuntu gets around 15fps. Some WoW addons also strangely don't work under Ubuntu.

Wine

Well, the compile of Wine 1.1.20 went OK -- I now have Semagic running under it again.

For my next trick, I'll apply a patch to Wine and see if I can get World of Warcraft to come up ...

EDIT: Patch successfully installed, WoW still fails while loading textures. Seems to be a known issue with the way Wine handles virtual memory.

EDIT THE 2ND: Well, WoW does come up in direct 3d mode ... horrid frame rates (14 fps in Thunderbluff), but it works. Now to slap it around some more and see why it doesn't work in openGL ...

EDIT THE 3RD: openGL does now work, sortof ... but WoW tries to map across both my monitors, becoming unplayable in the process. Because the resolution it's trying to run at is so huge, I still only get 18fps. Looks like WoW will continue to be run on Windows around here, since I get a more playable 30fps there ...

The biggest hangup to getting it to work right is because I'm running S-Video out for the house TV ... so I either run the TV and my main monitor as one big desktop, or, because of the way the proprietary drivers handle it, I can have two separate desktops but the TV *must* be the primary. Ick.

When I get up later this morning, it'll be a full day in the workshop. Next time I look at the computer I'll try to straighten out the house network. The Windows boxes can see the Linux boxes and the other Windows boxes, the Linux boxes can see the Windows boxes, but the Linux boxes can't see each other (except by IP).