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So I saw my golf today for the first time since the accident(tm) on Sunday. It really wasn’t as bad as I remembered it the adjuster says it’s borderline for fixing or junking. Only time will tell.

Gizmodo has a series of articles asking web celebs what gadgets they haul around with them.

Cory from BoingBoing
Cmdr Taco
Glenn
Some guy named Jake

I thought it was pretty interesting so here is my list.

Timbuk2 Commute: This is a great bag, blue and grey, waterproof, padded
bottom, tons of pockets and a laptop sleeve. I picked it up at EMS for way too
much money but it’s worth it for all the crap I carry around in it.

iBook G4 or Thinkpad T20: Depends if I’m going to work or doing my own
stuff. I like both these laptops a lot, if my ipod and my camera both played
nice with the linux thinkpad I’d think about just switching back. My whole
friggin life is on that iBook though…

iPod 40gig: I used to have a 10 gig then I upgraded, now I keep movies and a ton of music on it, as well as a back up of my thesis.

Aiptek DV3100: This is my digital camera and digital video camera, it has
128mb CF on it and can take about 60 minutes of avi’s or a ton of 3 mega
pixel photos. It’s a nice camera but the focus is a little shady and there
is no flash which sucks.

Gameboy SP: It’s the blue/purple one. Right now I’m playing Golden Sun 2 and Metroid Fusion, I’ve been on the last guy forever...

Moleskin: Yeah, one of those overpriced notebooks. It doesn’t run out of
batteries or fail to sync with whatever computer I’m running, plus it’s more
fun to doodle in. Until a PDA is more useful than a pad of paper I’m not
keeping one.

Cups: A Nalgene water bottle and a Starbucks Coffee Tumbler. I’ve had the nalgene bottle forever and it’s pretty beat up but holding up fine. I just got the
‘decorate your own’ starbucks cup because I get a cafe mocha everyday, no
reason to waste that many cups. I put a trimmed down 8×10 photo I took in
Venice to decorate it.

Misc: Leatherman Pulse (thumb locks for the accident prone), a few blank cd chargers and cables, a novel (Good Omens), usually whatever computer book
I’m working through (Java Swing from O’Reilly), plasitc knife and fork, and
some pens I stole from work.

Buzzco: Dude, I just looked in the freezer. We have Ice Cream, Tater Tots, and Vodka…
What can you do with that? I mean it’s a whole meal, but…
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ow my neck hurts.

So as many of you know my car has been demolished. I’ll find out later today if my car is actually totalled or if geico will try to fix it. I’ll also be getting photos of the destruction today. So that should be fun.

For those that don’t know I was rear ended by an old Ford Bronco. This send my little golf crashing into the Taurus in front of me, then the Bronco hit me a second time. I had a bunch of x-rays and I’ll find out if I’m screwed up in a day or two. Until then I’m on a ton of painkillers and stuff.

Ford: 2
Volkswagen:0

Ok, so I wanted to continue thesis work on my desktop because the screen is larger and the keyboard is friendlier to my wrists. Problem is I’m running debian and it’s not the most java friendly linux distro I’ve ever used. I did get in running a lot easier than I thought though. Here is what I did.

Get the goods

I got the IBM SDK at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux140/ on the right hand navigation box is the download link. Fill out their giant form and then download IBMJava2-SDK-141.tgz.

Next get IDEA at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ if you havn’t purchased it yet get the 30 day trial license while you’re there.

Set up ibm’s java

Unpack your SDK in /opt, if you choose to install in another directory make sure you reflect that in the environmental variable. In your .bash_profile add the following lines, if you want all users to have access to java then place these lines in /etc/profile.

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/IBMJava2-141
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/jre/bin
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAVA_HOME/lib

source .bash_profile for the changes to take effect.

Install IDEA as normal

Just run the installer as normal. I set all the project folders to be in my home directory and I set the install directory to be in /opt. When it asks for your JDK just point it at your JAVA_HOME.

Dats it.

I was installing IDEA on my debian box at home, don’t ask. The installer kept erroring out on the install saying I didn’t have enough space in /tmp. I just set this box up and I KNOWthere is space. I followed the instructions of creating a environmental varible pointing towards a directory to use for temp. No luck. For the hell of it I did a df -h and this is what it returned:

skylark:/home/matt# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 -1258697186802k 1.0k 0.0k 26% /
/dev/hda3 -1900504695993k 1.0k 0.0k 2% /home
/dev/hdb1 -3850782210679k 1.0k 0.0k 28% /export

To fix it I had to do this:

skylark:/home/matt# apt-get install fileutils

Crap that’s scary.

Hey, I’ve actually had a couple people tell me to update my site which is nice. I thought the only people catching this page were http://planetcosi.org folks. So this is to tell people that there will be some content in the next few days. I’ve been working on quite a few things between thesis, subversion, rendezvous, and (slowly) rebuilding skylark.

This is just a quick before bed post, here are a few useful unix utilities rounded up. Any serious linux user should know about.

I’ve been having a lot of wrist problems between typing all day at work and then most of the night for thesis. I was reading some about how I could ease my pain and this was the best suggestion I could find.

Well I lost my cellphone. I’m going to retrace my steps and try to find it. This sucks. I cleaned out my bookmark files on a couple different machines last night and there were a handful of interesting links I wanted to share.

- The first one is clok . This is a little java program that displays time visually. It’s like a timeline of a day, color indicates what section of the day there is. Black is normal sleeping time, dark blue is free time, blue is work time, and light blue is midday/lunch. The idea is that you can get a feel for whether you have time to complete a task and it works especially well when several instances are run to compare yourself with co-workers or friends in different time zones.

- Next is Worm Virus Count . This is a apache log parser that give tells you how many times internet worms have hit your system. You can see an example here . Luckily I havn’t been online long enough to get slammed.

- Buddahbrot is an interesting variation on the mandlebrot set. It’s almost breathtaking and is a good example of math as art.

- Finally a little commentary on what makes a good manager. I think this is just about dead on. It was the style I tried to use working as the editor of the integrator and president of my fraternity. Albiet a far cry from work management but the style does have some crossover ability.

I guess that’s it. I hope I find my frigging phone.

I’ve gotten a lot of work done on the blog tonight. I finished about 3/4ths of the css conversion and a just added a bunch of badges to the left side bar. I cleaned up index.php a lot and discovered a lot more about the inner workings of fromage. I contacted the developer and expressed interest in helping him work on this. If he’s not interested I may just fork and make chages as I like. I have to do a lot of thesis work tommorow rather than this. I hope to have a code drop for Tim soon. I keep holding back and changing things because I want it to be the best possible, so my work can hold up along with the rest of jetia . Well bedtime for me.