I know the many folks that read my blog have been wondering when I’d post again. Well, tonight, I’ve decided to break my silence. I’m doing much better now that summer school is over (at least for me). I pulled out of 2nd semester Civ (History of Civilization) with a B———-. I say it that way because I’d been keeping track of my exact grade the entire semester, and I ended up with a 79.6% (which, thanks to my excellent teacher, rounds up to an 80%). Every point in that class accounted for about 0.2% of my overall grade. So, if I had lost one more point, my grade wouldn’t have rounded up, and I would have ended up with a C+ (which at BJU is the same, GPA wise, as a C or a C-). So, I am grateful to God for handing me that grade. I know it was God’s doing because I just don’t make B’s in History (well, not since 6th grade anyway).
On the Linux front, I’ve got Xgl/Compiz working on Ubuntu Dapper. This helps me do wonderful GUI effects on my favorite OS. I did with the help of my GeForceFX 5200 (and excellent binary drivers, care of nVidia). I wanted to set this up on my Thinkpad T40 as well, however, Xgl currently doesn’t support the open source ATI driver that my Thinkpad’s ATI Mobility 7500 uses. However, AIGLX (an acceleration architecture similar to Xgl) does support that driver, and Compiz (the compositing manager I’m using) works just as well on AIGLX as it does on Xgl. So, I got it working there as well.
I’ve also been told, at my place of employment, that they’ll be changing my job roll slightly. I’ll be going from PC tech support to Linux/UNIX server management. This, to me, is an wonderful change. I really wanted something like this to happen for a long time, but I never felt like I had enough real qualifications to ask to work in that roll. I still feel like that to a certain degree, but hopefully I’ll be able to learn a lot more than I know right now.
Anyway, that’s my life in a nutshell right now. More to come when I know more. 