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Compiz Fusion

Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2009 by svminvictvs

This is perhaps the best thing to ever happen to my PC since Gentoo Linux.  I know that it has a tenancy to be a bit buggy at times, but, what good is a window manager if you can’t use it to draw flames and raindrops over top of everything, or explode your desktop into a cube showing each and every window with little gears inside.  The only downside seems to be that my productivity has dropped by about 75% because it’s just too fun make jiggly windows, raindrops, and flaming words on my desktop.

Here’s a few screenshots, yeah they’re kind of silly:

I still think that Compiz Fusion puts anything that Mac or Vista has to absolute shame.  To the authors:  Keep up the good work, it’s much appreciated!

Shocker!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on July 14, 2008 by svminvictvs

So I picked up a good deal on a new paintball marker this week. Shocker SFT 2006 model. I took it out for a few games this weekend and it quite fun to use. The picture shows the old VL Revolution loader. Unfortunately, there was a slight mix-up in shipping and the hopper it came with was shipped separately. It’s supposed to have a Halo loader with it, but it’s in the mail so I went a day without it.

Shocker!

The marker has a vision board, which is a really nice feature. I’m not sure if that feature is standard on all new NXT Shockers, but I do remember a few years ago the vision feature was optional and quite an expensive upgrade. Unfortunately, this model has the reflective style sensor, which I’m told isn’t as reliable as the break-beam style sensors which are available in the NXT Shockers. Regardless it performs quite well and I had fun with it on the first day. I can’t wait to take it out again for some games, this time hopefully with a proper loader attached.