Comments for edgar's Arch Linux Blog http://archlinux.me/edgar Just another Arch Linux Blog site Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:31:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Using Dina as a console font by Sara http://archlinux.me/edgar/2009/07/23/using-dina-as-a-console-font/#comment-75 Sara Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:31:56 +0000 http://archlinux.me/edgar/?p=16#comment-75 Thank you so much for posting these instructions, which I adapted to convert MonteCarlo into a PSF font. I had previously tried to convert it from the BDF format to PSF, but this did not preserve the proper font spacing. However, FON to PSF worked perfectly! Having MonteCarlo in the linux console is a dream come true for me.

]]> Comment on A good bargain by celthunder http://archlinux.me/edgar/2009/10/25/a-good-bargain/#comment-6 celthunder Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:10:21 +0000 http://archlinux.me/edgar/2009/10/25/a-good-bargain/#comment-6 good printers. My college has a bunch of them and never had an issue.

]]> Comment on A good bargain by ashren http://archlinux.me/edgar/2009/10/25/a-good-bargain/#comment-5 ashren Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:11:41 +0000 http://archlinux.me/edgar/2009/10/25/a-good-bargain/#comment-5 Thanks for the tip!

]]> Comment on A good bargain by usedtire http://archlinux.me/edgar/2009/10/25/a-good-bargain/#comment-4 usedtire Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:04:05 +0000 http://archlinux.me/edgar/2009/10/25/a-good-bargain/#comment-4 Good find. Only thing I would say to watch is the feed tray. That series had some issues with it feeding more than one page and jamming, but it was a little piece of cardboard to space out some plastic that warped.

]]> Comment on My Computing History by ashren http://archlinux.me/edgar/2009/06/23/my-computing-history/#comment-3 ashren Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:01:28 +0000 http://archlinux.me/edgar/?p=3#comment-3 Thanks for the comment and sorry for the late reply.

So, you’d like to read my thesis. After I’m finished converting it to tex (something I’ve been thinking about doing for while) I’ll share it with you.

Yeah, Naked Lunch is one my favorite Cronenberg movies. The first time I saw it felt altered for a while afterwards, not many movies have had this affect on me. The interesting thing is that the insects aren’t really mentioned that much in Naked Lunch novel they are mainly a product of Cronenbergs twisted imagination. And yes, Burroughs did all the drugs he came across, actually the foreword to Naked Lunch contains Burroughs’ own drug encyclopedia and some say that Burroughs was [i]a[/i] living drug encyclopedia.

The main reason why I chose Cronenberg and McLuhan because of Videodrome, which really toys with, and perverts, the ideas of McLuhan. So, if you haven’t seen that one, do it when you get the chance you won’t regret it.

McLuhan was quite hard to to grasp at first and his ideas really makes more and more sense when you see them in the light of the Internet (media convergence) and the media of today.

Thanks for your welcome and I’ll watch your blog as well. :)

Br,
Ashren

]]> Comment on My Computing History by the_isz http://archlinux.me/edgar/2009/06/23/my-computing-history/#comment-2 the_isz Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:33:16 +0000 http://archlinux.me/edgar/?p=3#comment-2 Wow, a thesis on Cronenberg and McLuhan… I’d really like to read this. Naked Lunch is such a frightening movie on itself, but considering that it’s partially autobiographical makes me shiver even more… I haven’t seen many movies of his yet, but the ones I’ve seen so far let me know two things: This man has taken far too many drugs and he definetely has a problem with insects!

If only I remembered half of what I should have learned in my minor field of study (media sciences), I would love to start a discussion with you about that topic. Unfortunately, I don’t :)

Which leaves me to saying: Welcome aboard archlinux.me and I’ll watch your blog.

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