| Go out a little... or maybe not. |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 06th of July 2008 15:19:07 PM |
I was planning on going out for a walk, maybe take the train to Bath or Frome to visit. And I then had a look outside to see the weather: --  Finally, I'll probably watch some series in bed. Another one of the landscape from my window, but with a better weather:  |
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| News in pictures |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 02nd of June 2008 01:16:04 AM |
So to start, some times ago, I was sleeping with an open window, when it was time to get up, I was gonna close the window and go to work, and the view from my window was so nice I had to take a picture. Some days later, I went to the office's kitchen to grab a drink, and there were rabbits, right outside in the field, like a few meters away.   After this I decided to take a little walk and saw the tree I had already taken earlier, but quite more lively, I therefore made a little comparative picture:  And finally while eating with the window wide open, I saw this in the backyard:  After this we went geo-caching with the russian guy who was staying with me the past two months (he left the house yesterday evening, as the other room will now be rented to an idian guy working here in Bruton). For thoses of you who are wondering whan geo-caching is, you can either have a look here, or read on for a small explanation. The principle is quite simple, people take some rubbish stuff, a box, a notepad and a pen, hide this away in some place, and take the coordinates with their GPS, go back home and put the coordinates on the website with some instruction if needed. You can then take the coordinates, a GPS and search for the cache, exchange one of the thing in the box with another one, or take nothing and just fill the log with your name and a comment. That's all there is to it, except that most of the time, the main goal is to lead you to some nice high point with a great view, or to visit some nice place. We actually went for 3 walks, the first one was a multi-cache where you get to one point, get information, determine new coordinates based on the indication plus the information you got, and go on. The fact is, we needed to get to a point that was closed because some construction going on. We therefore tried to guess coordinates, with plausible values. We walked quite a lot, but we're pretty sure we were at the right place but didn't find anything. The information on the website was talking about stopping by the shop to say hi, but the shop is now closed, so maybe the guy isn't able to maintain his cache anymore. Was a nice walk of around 6.5km, which was quite tiresome. For the second one, we went to two caches, one really close to our place, and in addition, someone found it soon before us, and they searched a lot it seems, therefore it was quite easy. Then we went for another one, way farther, with a huge hill to climb. After climbing the view was quite refreshing we found the cache and went back by another way for the fun of it. This one was 8km long. The final one I was a little tired, we decided to get a "small" walk, it was supposed to be about 5km, unfortunately we took a wrong way, climbed a lot, went back by another way, and ended up with a 9.5km walk in our legs! But it was worth it, there's only one picture I kept from this walk, but it's a nice one I think. I let two version in the gallery: - full size - reduced (so you can see everything in one go without scrolling, or not too much at least) Pictures And that's it, hope you'll enjoy the pictures, there are some I really like in there. |
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| Gvim and colorscheme |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 10th of May 2008 12:44:37 PM |
| Today I was wondering either to stay with vim in command line, or switch to gvim. By default gvim comes up with a eye killing white background, and I was willing to use the koehler colorscheme, so I naturally added: colorshceme koehler to my .vimrc file. Nut this was kind of broken, the text had the right colors applies but not the background, which was the main purpose of this modification. I found out that you can have a .gvimrc for the graphical version, putting this line in this new file, it's working just fine. What surprised me a little is that I didn't even knew there was a possibility to use an rc file for gvim, and I didn't find much occurence of it while browsing the web about this problem. But well, it's working now, but I think that I'll use the command line version in the end, because the UI is quite slow (probably related to X slowness on this lappy, I'll have to investigate this further someday). |
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| Urxvt mouseless |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 08th of May 2008 09:20:27 AM |
| I found this morning a nice tool to replace the default url handler in urxvt, this one let's you copy or even open links that are found in the current terminal window with your keyboad. That's nice even if I wasn't able to find how to use the yank mode that seems to be planned to let you select a part of the term. Everything's here. Enjoy! |
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| Speakers stangeness |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 04th of May 2008 10:36:12 AM |
| This morning I got annoyed by the sound of my headphones, those I use while I sleep are old sony in ear plugs. Nothing fancy, still they tend to have a little to much bass (to please common people with loud bass and therefore strike them as great headphone I assume), but I was feeling like bass were lacking, like really nothing was below some frequency. As I didn't encountered this problem before I thought that may come from the speakers where I plug them, and it actually is. It seems that these speakers (Sony SRS D21) don't redirect the full signal to the headphone plug, but only what's sent to the satellite speakers, therefore lacking the whole low frequency spectrum. They're 20£ speakers, so I wasn't expecting much, but the sound with the subwoofer and speakers is quite nice for this price range, but a stupidity like this was hitting me as not likely, still demik (school's friend) pointed out that he already encoutered this kind of stupid behavior with their auto radio... Way to go Sony! My laptop is the last thing I really appreciate coming from your brand... |
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| Dual head mania |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 26th of April 2008 16:47:34 PM |
| As I don't have much to do around here when I don't go to work, I spend most of my time watching movies or series, and then 10.6" screen of my laptop is a little small. So I had planned for quite some time to get an LCD monitor a little bigger. In the first place I was looking at some 19" samsung and LG, but well, by lowering a little my standards in quality I found an acer 22" for the same price... Now, I don't always use my laptop where I setup the sceen (next to the bed of course), and I need to switch from dual head to single monitor quite often. I'm not using any fancy gnome or kde with various tools you have to search for half an hour for an option to try to add or remove one monitor, I was a little scared that I'll end up having to use two X configuration file and restart it every time I want to switch. But actually xrandr is quite handy for this. To list the varioud heads and resolution supported: % xrandr To add a monitor: % xrandr --output VGA --auto --right-of LVDS And that's it, I'll just have to restart ratpoison (that takes about 2 seconds) for it to take into account the second screen and I'm up and running. To disable it: % xrandr --ouput VGA --off I can also make a key binding doing this and a ratpoison restart for both cases, and that's one key combination and like a 2 seconds wait. Note that restarting ratpoison isn't like restarting X, I won't loose the running applications, it's just a matter of rescanning for screens and running windows on the display. I'd like to see how fast this can be done through the various menus of a modern desktop manager. The only drawback in this is the fact that X is running a xinerama, and therefore this 2 screens aren't really separated like I would like, but that way faster so I'm still happy with this.  |
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| Oxford |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 18th of April 2008 21:50:02 PM |
| Last sunday we went to visit Oxford, it took me quite some time to go through the pictures I took, but I finally managed to do it. Here we go |
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| Rabbits ! |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 10th of April 2008 09:39:35 AM |
As I didn't really took the time (or had it in fact) to get around other places to take pictures, I've taken a few more around work. There's not much more to say, so here it goes: --  --  -- And that's it for now. |
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| French and proud of it. |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 30th of March 2008 19:51:51 PM |
Some toast with brie cheese on it, that's what I call a good tea time. |
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| Around work |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 29th of March 2008 16:40:47 PM |
Here are some pictures I took around work at some point where it wasn't raining. --  --  |
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