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Ubuntu Minnesota Gutsy Release Party

The Minnesota Ubuntu LoCo team is having a release party Saturday, October 20th at 7pm. Details can be found at Tony’s blog.
I think it’s gonna be fun to meet the guys that I have been corresponding with for a few months. If you are in the Cities area, you should definitely think about attending. You [...]

Progress

Well, the week before I was pretty successful in getting all of my homework done. Not quite as good on the personal front, but those things are nearly as important.
In other news, I bought Halo 3, so that is where a good amount of free time goes. Beat it in under a week, pretty good [...]

Ubuntu countdown script added

Cool, I successfully added the countdown script to my theme. Perhaps I actually learned something from working with CSS for 4 months. I got the script from Andre Noel, courtesy of Planet Ubuntu. Go Gutsy.

Weekly ToDo

Homework:

Math test Tuesday, study tonight and tomorrow
Data Comm quiz Wednesday, study tomorrow and Tuesday
Assembly Programming lab due Tuesday, start and finish tonight
Database lab due Tuesday, start and finish tonight
Work on another Database lab this week, due next Tuesday
Catch up on all readings

Personal:

Get library card
Checkout recommend book, some fantasy book by Tad Williams
Burn Ubuntu Gutsy CD
Install [...]

Irssi installed on webserver

This week I found out that I could install irssi, my favorite irc client, on my server hosted over at Dreamhost. With the help of Joe_CoT from the Ubuntu US loco team, I found a blog article outlining the steps, which I followed exactly except for one minor change. It seems that the glib package [...]