This year I got into Google Summer of Code with my application to create an epic space battle visualizer for Thousand Parsec

Today, for work, I embarked on the task of fixing wireless on a Dell Inspiron 1525 running 32 bit Windows Vista (Why? I have no idea or choice.) My first step was to hit up the Dell driver site, which listed 4 or 5 drivers, so of course I got them all since I could not for the hell of me figure out what model of card this was, being in Windows. I found out I could queue up these downloads and download them as either a .zip file or a .tar.gz file, so I choose the linux friendly option of .tar.gz.

Eager to get to work, I then tried to open the tarball with Nautilus. Whoops. It hadn''t finished downloading yet and I was getting an error. After I waited several more minutes for 150mb of drivers to download I tried opening it again with Nautilus. Whoops. Oh, wait, this time the download was completed and there were no errors! Thinking it would be about the funniest damned thing if my newest theory was correct, I checked out the tarball with file.

The results?

landon@Goliath:~/Desktop$ file My_Downloads_List145815.tar.gz
My_Downloads_List145815.tar.gz: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

I just unzipped your tarball, Dell.

Over time I've become more and more disenchanted with SVN (especially when I found out that DVCS like git have commits seperated from pushes... revolutionary!) Soon enough I'll probably be switching my own repositories from SVN to Mercurial. Only a few things holding me back though:

1. SVN is everywhere! If the computers at school have any VCS type things installed, it's usually TortoiseSVN.
2. Well, actually, there's only one thing holding me back

Excitingly enough my AVR Dragon is here. Before I get started though I still need to get a few chips and components before I can start fooling with it. After I get my kit completed, I'll start work on a few interesting ideas and post them on my projects page.

After much frustration, I've finally gotten mod_fastcgi set up in lighttpd and ready to use with Django. What will I be using Django for?

My new projects page. With any luck this will work out better than the small javascript dropdown I have now! Stay tuned for any further updates I may have of my Django progress.