whats the plot

i just beat quake4 (played the whole game under linux). fun!

emperor works great under
cedega - i beat one level with it

i've always dual booted windows and linux even though linux was my primary os [i am currently running gentoo, its great!]. but finally, today, i've deleted the xp partition and am now running 100% linux. i may get vmware so i can play around with visual studio if i want to write some windows apps, but i think the days of dual booting are over for me, at least for now.

woohoo, got world of warcraft running in linux! it worked, for the most part, under wine [w/o sound]... it works a little better under cedega [sound, a little better of a frame rate], but i am running it on cedega using d3d rather than opengl... whenever i try to run it on cedega with opengl, cedega dies. not sure why.

the game is surprisingly playable from the little bit i played. i had to turn the settings down [they were all the way at max in windows and i was still getting better frame rates than in linux]. now i get decent frame rates even outside [i tested it in auberdine and the wetlands, but i have not yet ventured to ironforge around the auction house to see what happens there].

the only kind of annoying thing is that right clicking is a tiny bit lagged... not quite sure why. i want to follow up with these cedega people and find out why i can't run it in opengl mode, maybe it'll be a little faster that way even.

irregardless, i am pretty happy it works well enough to play and i am pretty surprised that the free wine actually ran it with very little effort. woot!

xdesktopwaves (http://xdesktopwaves.sourceforge.net) is really nice -- totally incredible. it overlays your root background and as you move your mouse or windows, they act like boats moving through water and make ripples on the desktop. really neat!

been playing through kingdom hearts... about 6 hours through it... while i had my doubts at first, i think its pretty good so far... i also ordered a copy of xenosaga off amazon.com - it was on sale and free shipping... plus i had a gift card from my little brother for eid (thanks rami!) so i ended up charging like $0.76 to my credit card for the game... it'll be pretty funny if that's all i buy on the card this month and i have to write a check to the credit card company for $0.76...

greets... i got my digital camera working in linux and got the pictures off of it; along with getting a whole bunch of pictures from jawwad. so i am planning on putting up a picture gallery on this site sometime soon insha'Allah (with God's willing).

windows almost messed up my linux yesterday: i was trying to create a blank partition, and it renamed my primary linux partition from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hdb3... so, of course, the system didn't boot...

anyway... that's all for now. i'll post up some pictures sometime soon insha'Allah.

greets. so on the current thread of email and such, i read two interesting things on /. - the first is the fact that yahoo and hotmail put gmail messages directly to bulk mail... i am not sure if this refers to any emails or just to invites, i have yet to test this. if anyone can confirm or deny this, please post a comment.

secondly, hotmail is supposedly going to up their quota to 250 mb, seeing that yahoo's upped to 100 mb. this is supposed to happen sometime soon i guess... the article is here.

the lake got a weblog! its very random, don't say i didn't warn you.

i think i am going to start utilizing these categories that this weblog allows, so that people who want to ignore the technical brouhaha can do so.

[technical stuff follows]

i forgot to mention this, but i submitted a patch to the liferea project to do auto discovery of feeds given a url. the patch was accepted (and modified) and put in liferea 0.5.0! i guess that would be my second patch ever (hehe).

i spent a good few hours yesterday trying to get guikachu
compiling, but to no avail. i don't have gnome 1.4 installed still, and i tried cvs, and got a plethora of errors. i think its a problem with their yacc file (or with the version of bison i am using, perhaps, although i tried other versions with no avail)... i've emailed the mailing list and shall see what they say. (well actually, i did get it to compile after modifying the yacc file myself, but i don't think the changes i made were "safe," per se, so hence i emailed the list to see if anyone could suggest safe fixes).

i also started reading some of the palm os developer files yesterday as well. the reason for both of the above is that i happened to run into some games written by aaron curtis for the palm -- a long long time ago, we both used to write games for the ti calculators. seeing his palm stuff inspired me to look into palm programming, so i'll aim to play with that at some point...

i also upped my kernel to 2.6.7 today. after many reboots and recompiles and tries, i finally got things working. the nvidia drivers were especially a pain to get working (i could start x, but if i tried to exit x, the computer would freeze). things seem to work now, and best of all, i figured out how to get my card reader to work in linux!