Computers

One of the trickier parts of setting up Xorg is getting the monitor refresh rate configured properly - this tool can make that much easier:

# emerge -av sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix

Then run it like this:

# ddcxinfo-knoppix -monitor -modes -firstmode 800x600

This will produce details that need to be edited in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

Came across this in my graphics searches today - the Electric Sheep Screensaver which is open-source and uses a distributed model to generate the graphics and an evolutionary model to design more complex imagery.

I've installed it on a computer on the LAN - we'll see how it goes ...

http://electricsheep.org/

Example of a lineage:

http://sheepserver.net/v2d6/cgi/dead.cgi?id=93571&detail=lineage

Note: firewall was blocking the 'bittorrent' download option - turned that off seems to be going now ..

I tried the AMCode plusgin for B2Evolution to allow code segments to be displayed (looks great) but I had an issue - the css wasn't loading up - not sure if it should work just fine for 1.8.6 but I do know they've moved on - however the fix was easy - locate the plugins php, found the css being output, modified the proper path for the image file, moved image file there, and added the output (and modified) css to another CSS file -

# locate _am_code.plugin.php
# nano /var/www/[xxx].com/htdocs/plugins/am_code_plugin/_am_code.plugin.php
# locate blog_elements.css
# nano /var/www/torbonium.com/blog.torbonium.com/htdocs/rsc/css/blog_elements.css
# locate numbers.gif
# ls /var/www/torbonium.com/blog.torbonium.com/htdocs/plugins/am_code_plugin/img/
# less /var/www/torbonium.com/blog.torbonium.com/logs/error_log
# mkdir /var/www/torbonium.com/blog.torbonium.com/htdocs/img

This program is handy for creating 3D models of buildings and such on your computer - however it was the ability to add custom photos onto the side of objects, or to use a building of a photo to help create the 3D model, that I was most impressed with.

http://sketchup.google.com/

some "How To" videos here:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=aidanchopra&p=r&page=1

I've installed the latest version of b2evolution blog software that's available via portage - 1.8.6 - however the newer 1.10.x sounds like a worthy upgrade. We'll see how much interest there is in this, and judge if the upgrade is worth it.