Well, I come to you today with several cool/exciting/funny things to talk about.
First, Last night I finished making a lighting system for my presentation in drama class. Normally I wouldn’t think much of it, but I think that the glory of this one deserves a little extra recognition. This is 250 Watts of halogen cornea searing magnificence. I’ve added the picture. I have five halogen bulbs rated at fifty watts a piece connected to a 300 watt computer power supply to which I have attached copper power rails so that I can easily connect and disconnect lamps individually via that aligator clips I have attached to the end of the power cords. I had the misfortune of testing it last night while it was running on full power, basicly from across the room it was like looking into the sun. Not fun. Anyways, since then, I added a five volt rail in addition to the 12 volt rail so that I can choose for each lamp whether I want it to be sun blazing bright, or a much kinder milder happy illumination.
I just read today that on January 11th, 2008 KDE Four is supposed to be released. Now, some people might ask ‘WTF IS KDE FOUR?’ Well, I have an answer. In the world of linux operating systems, there are two primary desktop environments. Gnome and KDE. KDE Four, is the next release in the KDE series of desktop environments. I have to say that looking at some of the pics I have to say that I am pretty impressed. Even being a primarily KDE fan already, I have to say that this is a major step up. I believe that this is going to be a major step towards truly having linux be a viable consumer market operating system. I’m downloading a live beta right now so, hopefully sometime soon I should be able to comment about my experiences using a pre-release version of this hopefully magnificent improvement.
