So many tasks, so little time
I spent a good chunk of today finally repairing some WPC driver boards that have been sitting around since Thanksgiving of last year. The parts I needed arrived, and I was able to get them off my plate. Being that most pinball machines owned by individuals these days were at one time on a location on a route, there’s some significant “hacking” that takes place on some of these boards. One of the boards today was no exception. I’ve seen worse; I have a board in my hands that was on fire. Short of that though, this is pretty close.
Since I’ve a failing drive in my “work” workstation, I decided to replace it and reinstall today. We’re using Fedora 10 on the VM box, so I thought I would give Fedora 11 a try. While I’ve no major problems (a few niggles not worth complaining about) it’s really funny to me how easily you get used to your desktop being a particular way, and Fedora’s defaults are definitely nothing like Ubuntu’s. Fonts, window behavior, it all just feels a little “off” and that’s frustrating.
Maggie bought me a Korg nanoPAD for Valentine’s day. It’s a slick little device. Using Hydrogen (a drum sequencer for Linux) the device worked out of the box, with no configuration required. How’s that for user-unfriendly? If you’ve ever wanted to play around with drum sequencing on a computer, the nanoPAD can’t be beat. The price is right, at $59, and it’s USB, so you don’t need MIDI adapters or anything like that.
Left4Dead is half price this weekend on Steam. While I don’t have time to play it yet, it seemed like a good time to pick it up. I’ve noticed a lot of my friends who play Team Fortress 2 with me play Left4Dead quite a bit as well, so hopefully it will appeal to me.
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