So sad and so happy T_T

very beautiful yet sad ending T_T

no more words.

Finding stuff in slackware

Wew! My last post was so angsty I feeled embarased just looking at it.

OK so I'll try to help some peoplenow to get on a better mood now. Let's talk about Slackware.

If Slackware is famous for something is for being hard on newbies. That said, it is possible to get things working if you keep on trying. Unfortunately, finding help for slackware isn't exactly easy. I had a lot of trouble geting X to work, then getting X to work with my mouse.

Google is your frind they say, so um... ok I googled for these words forever: "xorgconfig mouse problems", "slackware do not detect mouse", "where is the mouse by default".

I got nowhere but I was able to fix my problems by doing these tricks. Firstly. Get a LiveCD that works on your PC. I love Ubuntu, it's free and they ship it to you if you care to wait for it. But really, any Live CD will do.

The configuration for your X server is located in /etc/X11/xorgconfig Just copy this file to a floppy and you there you go! a (kinda) working X server. By the way, to copy to floppy just type mount -vt auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy. Feel free to ad a sudo in there if you are not root, the floppy now is accesible in /mnt/floppy, but only if that location exists! so create it first.

But this didn't fix my mouse problem. That's because the mouse is located in different device ports for different systems. So how to find your mouse? well open that xorgconfig file and find the mouse section, in the device option, point it to /dev/mouse. Now if your mouse is not detected on /dev/mouse, let's make it do so!.

You just have to type ln -si /dev/mouse /dev/wherever_your_mouse_is. That creates a link from /dev/mouse to your mouse. It works but, now, wheres is the danged mouse? well, it definitively is located somewhere in /dev. the common ports are the /dev/ttySx series, or /dev/input/mice. Mine was on /dev/ps2. But how to find out wich one? if anything fails, you can manually probe each of the common ports. This is one of the secret tricks of linux. You can actually see the code generated by your mouse! to do this we use the standard tool cat. Just do cat /dev/ps2 and move your mouse, if that's where your mouse is you will see code appear as you move it, a la Matrix if not, just Ctrl+c to get out of it and try another one.

Hope that helps someone. Next time, getting the most of your console with screen

Rest in peace my dear kitty.

This say was the last day of my dear Bimbo (named after the white bread brand).

He was so sweet, he has always by my side. He took care of every kitty we were helping, he loved food and he loved us. He could be so annoying! He loved to sleep in my bed, even if I had to change the pillow covers from all the cat hair. He would follow me and find me wherever I hid from him, and he would simply jump into my lap, not minding if I'm working and he was ruining my paperwork.

And I miss him so much, I just feel like crying all day.

Rest in peace my dear kitty, I will always treasure those moments you gave to me. sayonara...

How to record movie songs

So, I must comment on the usefull that Audacity resulted. Todey I transfered from VCR to PC some songs and that program has everything you need to polish things up.

By the way, the songs were several anime opening / endings. I can't recommend you enough "Tattoo Kiss" by R.O.R. from Kaleidostar, awesome trance/jpop songs!

Can't wait to get a video capture card. But the thing is, you don't need one of those to record from TV, at least not for music. Virtualy all VCR come with A/V outputs and all PC come with a microphone input that looks like a stereo jack. The only thing you need is a stereo jack converter, they sell them at radio shark.

When you get the VCR and the PC set up, fire up audacity and simply hit record (push the red button). Let some space before and after the song you want to record. Then select some silence and go to effects. Choose Noise Removal, that's what we want. This is a 2 step effect, first click get noise profile. Then select all (Ctrl+A) and choose noise removal agan, but now click ok at the bottom of the window. Viola! Noise removed. Have fun!

It lives! It liiiives!

Currently, im in the operation table, My beloved Nirvana is going to switch places with the new Sylvana wish me luck. And my persocon will live.