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==== EPIC FAIL ====

James — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:35:09 +0000

Perhaps you’ve heard of that exciting new filesystem called ext4. Perhaps you’re a MORON who knows the risks and runs it on your primary system anyway. Perhaps your laptop battery dies every now and than.

Well, hey. Would you look at that?

EPIC FAIL!

“Wait, what’s this?” you say. Let me help you understand.

That folder marked lost+found? That is the only folder in the root directory of my primary hard disk. All those numbered files inside? That’s my system files, my program files, my documents, my 500+ tomboy note collection, my music, ALL my class work for the past three years, and almost every line of code I’ve ever written. File #132067 is my FAFSA confirmation from last year.

I am an idiot.

Not a complete idiot, mind you. I have a little on my Windows partition, and I do back up what I’m currently working on. Thank God for Dropbox.

But still. This fails.

Summer of Insanity

James — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:05:14 +0000

So, the now officially released AbiWord 2.7 development branch contains the happy multipage feature I talked about all last summer. Yes! You can check it out here.

You may notice that it’s all flickery if you use the feature with documents other than those containing 72 point font. I didn’t notice it at the time because I was, um, testing the feature using unrealistic, simplistic test documents filled with the aforementioned font. Oops.

The main reason it’s all flickery is because there’s currently no double buffering being performed on the document drawing area. So. This summer I’m learning Cairo and hanging out with Uwog. By the end of the summer, my svn branch will have beautiful, fast double buffering code. It will be all optimized and shiny.

Somewhere along the line it turned out that I also need to take three summer classes to graduate. Hence, the title. I’ma be busy this summer.