Monday, October 16, 2006

Growing Grass...

I hate Linux... but it is some good stuff... But I wanted instant result.
It happened one day when I am running low on disk space and i need to extend the partition of my virtual machine.
As i am running vmplayer, i need to download the server edition to extract the tools, vmare-vdiskmanager. Damm...
After that, i had problem extending the partiton under Linux. i had my partition configured as LVM. Thanks to system-config-lvm under Fedora core, i managed group the volume. Then i extended it with lvextend. lvdisplay indicated the extra space. But the system does not see the extra space. Sigh. In the end, i found that i had to run ext2Online. Finally, the extra space. It took me 3 days just to make some extra space. Windows had made it so easy with 3rd party software. I am such a Linux idiot.

I can move on to grow my Grass.
Hee, hee I am trying to build gis grass.
Sigh need to download....tc/tk... postgre...gdal....fftw....
then ./configure.... make..... make install
can we have it simpler?

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Google

Google is amazing... I love google map, google docs and spreadsheet. They really opened my eyes. If internet were to go further, We can see winword disappearing like wordperfect used to disappear. Technology.... sigh.

After effects!

I was told years back that after effects is great. I started off with adobe premiere. And After effects seems too much for a simple person like me. And today i had a chance to create a simple project from it... Wow... trying is believing. It is really great for making effects.

Trapcode is a must to go with it. It is wonderful.