Projects
I have added a projects section to this website. It will document and share the various programming projects that I have completed and others that I am working on. Today I am adding my Calculator project which was produced in my Grade 12 Computer Science Class. It takes in a mathematical expression and evaluates it. Nothing fancy really but it does show my knowledge of object oriented programming and data structures. Feel free to download it and take it for a spin.
Ubuntu’s Fail
I purchased a Lenovo G550 laptop recently and I decided to place Ubuntu as the only operating system on it. So I wiped the hard drive down and placed in the latest version of Ubuntu which is 9.10 “Karmic Koala”.
It turns out that 9.10 ships with broken Kernel Mode Setting for intel based video cards, more specifically the GMA X4500 that ships with the Lenovo G550. This results in the screen after boot being black and nothing can be done except for a hard reboot. See bug #429369 for more detail. Even though there is a work around, I am worried that by the time 10.04 comes around something else will be broken.
Derek Wyatt’s Vim Video’s
If you are like me and trying to learn Vim you know that it’s a very hard process. There are cheatsheets, :vimtutor, and lots of material on the net but I find that most of it is hard to follow. I’ve been using Derek Wyatt’s videos to help me get around vim. In my opinion learning from these videos are far more effective then scrolling through lots and lots of documentation. I strongly suggest watching the Welcome to Vim Video which I have embedded below.
Welcome to Vim from Derek Wyatt on Vimeo.
Hello World!
I’ve started a blog, hopefully it will end up being useful.