On Tuesdays, I have a 3 hour night class, in which all the outlets don’t work, so I’m only running on battery. Two weeks ago, I hardly had enough battery for 3 hours on a full charge; today I came with 80% charge, which lasted the entire class, and still had some to spare. Looks like those intel patches are starting to pay off for battery life.

Gutsy includes Firefox 3 (gran paradiso) in universe. While I have noticed some strange rendering in places, and some strange crashes, it uses less memory, and starts in 2 seconds instead of 15.

Today I was using Valknut, a Linux Direct Connect client, but noticing some issues with downloads. I went to look for another client, and found that DC++ (for those unaware, the best windows DC client there is) was ported to Linux and in universe.

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Lo and behold, works and works great (including those pesky downloads)

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As for what I’m doing besides slacking off, I wrote a little script to solve sudoku ^[3] (still needs a little work), I’m working on the approval application for NJ, I’ll be at CHLUG on Friday, and hopefully I’ll nail down plans for a release party very soon!

Update:

As markrian pointed out ^[4],  the sudoku script had a parse error! Shortly after my post, I fixed an sql injection problem, and accidentally introduced a parse error. Fixed.

Fabian asked ^[5]  what the heck Direct Connect and Valknut were. Good point! Direct Connect is a file sharing protocol. It’s really popular at universities, as it’s very easy to set up local Direct Connect servers for the University LAN. DC++ is the most popular client for Direct Connect on Windows; Valknut is based off the linux project dc_gui, but never really worked well.