{"id":497,"date":"2007-03-22T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/22\/some-random-thoughtscommentsupdates\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T19:06:22","slug":"some-random-thoughtscommentsupdates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/some-random-thoughtscommentsupdates\/","title":{"rendered":"Some random thoughts\/comments\/updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Watched a hailstorm from the safety of my room with my parents yesterday. It was awesome, some of the hailstones were almost 1\/2 cm in diameter. I did have to go out once to move the car so that the hail didn&#8217;t mess up the paint. Got a couple of hits on my head during this for my trouble. <\/p>\n<p>* Installed Linux on my desktop over hereas I needed a system where I could install\/debug my scripts. Also resizing a lot of pics in Linux in easier than in Windows. In Linux all I need to do is run the following command and it resizes all the jpg files in the current directory to 1024 x whatever (It maintains the aspect ratio) <i>mogrify -resize 1024x *.jpg<\/i>. I haven&#8217;t found anything that does the same in windows yet and resizing pics manually is a pain.<\/p>\n<p>* Also re-installed Windows on the same system. Its a lot less painful than what it used to be. However, some things to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My USB ports weren&#8217;t detected until I installed SP2 and then installed the drivers<\/li>\n<li>The max resolution I was getting was 800&#215;600 until I installed the VGA drivers<\/li>\n<li>The USB not getting detected meant that my USB mouse didn&#8217;t work. Good thing I had a PS2 keyboard&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the other hand Linux detected all my hardware without issues. I did use <a href=\"http:\/\/kanotix.com\/\">Kanotix.com&#8217;s<\/a> Live linux CD to jump start the install process so it wasn&#8217;t really a completely fair test. Once I installed it to my harddisk for some reason it decided to not initialize my network card but it was a 2 min fix. Other than that I didn&#8217;t face any issues with the install. So if you want to play with Linux\/Install Linux with a minimum of hassle then use Kanotix to install it. One of these days I am going to install Gentoo on my system just to try it out. Personally I love Debian (Kanotix is a Debian based system).<\/p>\n<p>* Reading the Blood series (Also known as the Vicki Nelson series) by Tanya Huff. Its about Vampires\/paranormal and how a particular ex-cop (Vicki) interacts with them. Pretty interesting. However the 4th book didn&#8217;t start off that well. I think the author is going to make the characters more emotional\/whinny which would suck. <\/p>\n<p>Well this is all for now. Will post more later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Watched a hailstorm from the safety of my room with my parents yesterday. It was awesome, some of the hailstones were almost 1\/2 cm in diameter. I did have to go out once to move the car so that the hail didn&#8217;t mess up the paint. Got a couple of hits on my head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}