(I was messing around with PIL and realised that the dithering capabilities were perfect for my graphical LCD. As you can see, it turned out rather well!)
Archive for March, 2009
GTK is awesome. PyGTK is awesome. PyGTK on Windows is far, far less than awesome. I recently wrote some software that runs fine on my Linux box after a couple of apt-gets, but unfortunately the software is for Windows users. I spent a good part of the morning getting all the stuff needed for PyGTK installed in a VM; it was a painful process of trial and error. To save everyone else the trouble, here is how I ended up doing it. Continue reading ‘Installing PyGTK on Windows’
So, I’ve finally gone Linux-only on my desktop with a nice fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10. I have to say that Ubuntu has improved greatly since I last used it on the desktop (I have been running Ubuntu Server for a while with no issues as well), but there are still a few nagging problems. One of these was the Xorg autodetection driver; while mostly awesome, it would recognise my gamepad as a mouse and then intercept all input from it. However, a couple of quick edits and a restart fixed it up nicely (this post assumes that your joystick is supported by HAL under Linux, but is just behaving badly). Continue reading ‘Getting your joystick to work under Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10)’
Well, ‘09 has been a good year so far. I love python, so I wrote a personal blog in it, you can find it here. Also, I started Engineering at UQ and am having an awesome time.
I bought a unibody Macbook 13″ and love it 
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No-one probably comes here since I was serving 500s for about 3 months, so I best get writing again!