http://blog.chatonka.com Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:31:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My original reason for working on a replacement for TimeVault was due to me feeling that its core method of taking snapshots using directories and hard linking files was not scalable because of the lack of hard linking directories on ext3 and other file systems. If you have large amounts ... http://blog.chatonka.com/2009/01/status-of-timevaultng/ I'm typing this blog post in dvorak as I've decided to switch. I'll post more later when I can actually type faster than ten words per minute. http://blog.chatonka.com/2008/12/dvorak-hello-world/ Of all of the areas of computing, I'm most interested in user interaction and user interfaces. Although I can program, I care less about the code (Maybe that's why so few of my projects make it to fruition!) and more about the design and interface. I've been working on a ... http://blog.chatonka.com/2008/12/thoughts-on-user-interface/ Success! The backend has changed quite a bit in 2.7 but there shouldn't be too many differences in the blog (or feed) appearance. Now it's time to work on KDE 4.2 beta1. There are packages in intrepid-backports that I'm itching to try. http://blog.chatonka.com/2008/12/27-rc-update-successful/ Wordpress (the software used to power this blog) 2.7 is nearing release. As I'm feeling a bit adventurous today, I'm going to install the release candidate on blog.chatonka.com. If all goes well, you should still see this post later on today. Later I'll blog about how I use revision control to ... http://blog.chatonka.com/2008/12/wordpress-27/ I woke up to my cell phone alarm on Friday morning at 7AM, quite drowsy and not at all feeling ready to take an engineering exam. However, when I rolled over to look out the window all I could see was whiteness. Wait a minute... it was snowing! Huzzah! This is what ... http://blog.chatonka.com/2008/11/snow/ I'm working on a fairly complex lab for an engineering class. My writeup for this lab includes diagrams, figure captions, equations, references, headers, and some crazy tables. All of this has been created in Word 2007 on the XP machines in the engineering computer labs. However, I needed to make ... http://blog.chatonka.com/2008/11/yay-for-ooo/ would the computer lab be full every weekday. Yay for yet another engineering lab! (not so much...) http://blog.chatonka.com/2008/11/only-in-engineering/ Atmel makes a cheap ($30) usb development board. I'm working on a final project for E5 (more about that later) and in doing so needed a board that I could program. Interestingly, avr, the type of chip that I would be using, has a full gcc port and associated development ... http://blog.chatonka.com/2008/11/adventures-in-embedded-computing/ This is a great photo showing my desktop. Often it's that clean, but as with everything, it goes in cycles of cleanliness and dirtiness. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="A cameraphone (N78) picture of my workspace"][/caption] This second photo shows a tree on campus that I think is beautiful in the fall. ... http://blog.chatonka.com/2008/11/some-photos/