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Not much has changed since my last update to this site. For that I apologize. It's good that I am able to keep myself busy, but the site gets neglected due to this fact.

I've been playing with System Animator over the last few months. I have worked with the author to improve it a little as well as creating a skin for the Spectum Analyzer gadget. I have also made a few animations for it that are available on the author's website. I'd post them here, but I have rediculously little space and I figure they'd get more attention being on his site. You can also check out his Youtube channel to get an idea of how the gadget works. You might even be able to see one of my animations demoed.

I also made the jump to Windows 7 and have been suffering the headaches that plague any new OS. I gotta keep up with the latest. It's a nice OS, though I feel that since Bill Gates has left Microsoft, they started to slack a bit and it shows in Windows 7. Vista's headaches were no where near as bad, and I consider switcing back every day. I managed to snag some Madobe Nanami stuff so the thought of being able to create custom themes, msstyles, and logons has ocnvinced my to stay. Just trying to get it running stable has taken a lot of my time recently. I still haven't gotten anything better than a 4 day uptime, even with a motherboard change.

I've also been keeping up with wicd for linux. Since even the latest versions seem to have problems connecting on the PS3 hardware I have been keeping on top of my patches as well. They are all avaialble for download in my post on the yellowdog-board forum. I post there because I feel the forum is friendlier, but the patch should work for wicd on all distributions you can install on the PS3, not just yellowdog. As with many features before, it's a shame Sony removed the otheros support from the new slim PS3s. It was a feature that sold me. Ironically, they also changed the ad slogan to "It only does EVERYTHING" (except what it used to do.) Someone should explain this to the US Air Force.

- sun

Posted by sun on Thursday February 12, 2009 - 16:58:15

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