The problem

I bought Neverwinter Nights for my father to play on his Ubuntu 13.04 system and wanted to get it working on my own machine before trying on his.

After installing, I was having trouble with the whole screen being black and unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input. The only option was running it in safe mode (a safe mode shortcut is created by the GOG installer).

I found an extremely simple fix for this while trying to disable the intro videos. Disable the intro movies.

If you’re like me, and you just got a PS4 because you F5’d the stock page for your local electronics retailer until you could send a retired family member to snatch a PS4 from the clutches of some other deserving gamer, you may be having some difficulty signing in to the Playstation Network.

I certainly was, until I came across the following thread on the Playstation Support Forum. http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-4-Support/i-cant-log-onto-my-acc-stuck-on-quot-please-wait-quot/td-p/42126099/highlight/true/page/4

The following directions seemed to work for me:

Oh. My. God.

I have returned from quite a long hiatus in blog entry writing to write about how I got sound working in Wine with a stock install of Ubuntu 12.10 and the (mostly) default Pulseaudio setup that Ubuntu uses. It took me 2 months and tens of Google searches for things like “Wine Ubuntu 12.10 no sound” and “What the hell? No pulseaudio sound with wine1.5.”

All I wanted to do was play Starcraft 2 without booting in to Windows. I’m fine with the lower frame rate when running under Wine. I JUST WANTED SOUND!

I hate to delay the release of this plugin but I am currently reworking some of the preferences to take advantage of Token more effectively.

The initial design for the module was that dates for the calendar entries would be determined by some process on specific CCK date fields from the node type. The module would take care of date format construction under the hood. I was initially fine with this decision until implementing it inside the project it was designed for.

I have finally moved this site over to Drupal 7.

So far, the Open Framework theme https://openframework.stanford.edu/ seems to be a winner.

Installed NexusBeam 4.1.0 last night on my Nexus S. ICS is pretty fantastic so far.

Awesome

• Tiny interface tweaks like smooth fades
• Attractive spell check under-lining in most text input fields
• Screen orientation rotation effect (Thanks to iOS for forcing Android people to up their UI game)
• People app!
• “My Contact Card” concept in People app. I can’t believe this took so long
• Settings App sucks a lot less

Less Awesome

• Google Search bar at the top of the home screen. (I don’t really use this, but maybe I’ll have to start now)
• Horizontal scrolling through the apps drawer
• Once finished scrolling through the apps drawer you start scrolling through your widgets.
• Less battery life (but I’m using a brand new, probably untweaked, community build, so I’m not going to actually register this as a complaint yet)

It is hard to have any real opinion until I get a stock Google Rom and try it out, but for now I am very happy with ICS.

Preface

This post is just to give some back story to the original needs of this module because I think it may help someone reading the documentation and asking “how can this help me?” while being a bit more anecdotal and less technical than the documentation. I will go in to more detail about the module design and usage in coming posts, so don’t feel bad if you don’t read this. :)

This past Monday morning was great; I came back to work after an extended vacation and I installed Linux Mint 12 on my T510.

I am a heavy user of workspaces to keep my work and my mind organized. I like knowing that Thunderbird is a quick (CTRL+ALT+RIGHT)*2 away but that it will not distract me while in a coffee-induced ADHD-like state. For reasons like this, I feel offended and alienated by changes to my workspaces! I felt like I was being asked to lose functionality for the sake of new users and the tablet experience.

With the recent gene therapy successes with Hemophilia B, how long before we get attempts at Hemophilia A gene therapy? If I understand it correctly, they are both single gene defects and the same techniques should work.

From what I read about the mechanisms of the gene therapy, liver cells were ‘infected’ with a working F9 gene with their viral vector. The number of affected liver cells was proportional to the amount of viral vector given. So, if I understand this, once these liver cells die off the ability of the patient to produce Factor IX will go with them and they will need another round of therapy.

I hate to delay the release of this plugin but I am currently reworking some of the preferences to take advantage of Token more effectively.

The initial design for the module was that dates for the calendar entries would be determined by some process on specific CCK date fields from the node type. The module would take care of date format construction under the hood. I was initially fine with this decision until implementing it inside the project it was designed for.