2nd Lab>>

and with that… I played around some more and made this:

You can’t see it’s animation coz it’s just a screenshot, but if you can see it animating… it’s actually a planet orbitting around a weird shape yellow thingy. with stars flickering and little space particles flying around.

OpenGL is so cool!

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Remember how I said good riddance to Ubuntu at the end of the previous semester?

Well, I end up having to use it again. This time, server edition! Damn. I just can’t run from Linux.

So instead of installing VMWare, which clogs up my system like hell, I decided to go all out and install the damn OS on my 2nd hard drive.

After backing up the stuff on it to my external drive, I did the installation. The first time round, there was a problem with the importing of profiles from XP to Ubuntu. So I unchecked the option to import my files the second time round, and it installed smoothly.

All the time from yesterday till today, I’ve spent on pimping my Ubuntu. So right now, it looked like this:

It’s not much… coz I can’t get my resolution up! I tried sudo, I tried messing with x server, I tried everything they said in the forums. What did it give me? 3 times crashed display, and 2 times denied access to my OS.

I’m gonna leave it as 1024 by 768 already.

But all in all, I think it’s pretty neat for a FREE OS. Now I’m in the process of installing the 143 updates they’ve got for me. A lot, isn’t it?

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They didn’t give an advanced warning on when school’s gonna start. All of a sudden, I found out that it’s starting this Wednesday. It’s like having the rest of the holidays ripped from you. I’ve had almost a month of holidays, yes, but still… I feel robbed. Haha.

What’s worse is that it’s gonna be the ‘intensive’ period that’ll last for two weeks.

It’s gonna take up the rest of the fasting month. Lessons every single day of the week till Hari Raya.

Great.

I’m taking Computer Graphics and Systems Administration this time round. While computer graphics sound nice & cool, I doubt it’s gonna be what I expect.

Final year already. Time flies, but couldn’t it fly faster? … I wish.

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I came home today after my last quiz assessment for this academic year. There won’t be any more assignments, quizzes and tedious programming… at least for the rest of this semester. Exams are coming up real soon, but the first thing I’m doing is to uninstall Ubuntu from my PC.

However, I feel a small hesitation to remove this cool OS from my system. I had removed Oracle right after the last assignment from the previous semester without any remorse. But this time round, I actually have second thoughts about removing this Unix OS.

The last question of the quiz just now (for which I came conveniently half an hour late) was to evaluate Ubuntu based on our experience using it. I feel a weird sense of attachment to this OS. It’s unique workspace approach… it’s MAC-like interface integrated with WINDOWS style layout… The fact that you can do loads of different things as if you’re on a different machine altogether, only to crash the system, but hey, no worries, it’s UNIX… it’s almost impossible to crash.

Sigh… good memories trying to work the shit out of kernel programs and processes. I’m still no good at it. Should I keep this OS? interactive_systems… All that’s left of this module is its exam…

The other module I’m taking is system_development, aka bullshit subject. Seriously, the subject teaches you to bullshit all the way. Me and my course mates actually laughed at the notes given to us. You couldn’t believe how full of shit the notes are. Useless common sense crap.

The last assignment, a group work with presentation, was most memorable. On the presentation day, everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, came with a laptop, all geared up for the presentation. Two of my members were late, and we only brought a thumbdrive. We were the last group to present. While everyone actually programmed their stuff from scratch, we simply produced a website that accomplishes the same objectives. A good two days worth of development and reports. Oh man.. it’s like POLY all over again. I remembered that business module shit that me and Boga did like a few days before the deadline and scored better than the group who umm, kicked us out.

I still don’t know how well we fared for the project, but it looked really hopeful. What I know is that the class sure as hell don’t look happy seeing our short cut method and how interested the lecturer is. Maybe he’s interested in failing us eh? I don’t know.

I really have no idea how to study for this subject that’s full of bullshit. It’s like.. you have to stock up on all the bullshit you can get before you take the paper. Then spew as much crap as you can.

So now I’m still thinking of uninstalling UBUNTU.

Ah screw it! Good riddance UBUNTU! Get the hell out of my system!

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No school today. I should be preparing for thursday’s lab. Instead, I do this.

Just a doodle. Since I got no ideas for a comic. Trying to play with perspective shit. I think I failed rather miserably.

and who says Luna’s not goth?

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