Today me and Pat visited Alison and her new born baby, Summer Elizabeth Uy. I was joking to Jason if the baby is born in Decemeber instead of May, she would be called Winter. Summer is an interesting name, I havn’t seen anyone with name of seasons yet. But according to Jason, there are quite a few Summers. The baby is very cute, the skin feels like Tofu. She is only 5 weeks old. I didn’t hold her, afraid that I will drop her by accident. I didn’t get the chance to hear her cry, the baby is very quiet when I was there. Jason shaved off the hairs of the Baby, to make her grow more hair. I have heard this traditional wisdom many times, I susepct I got shaved when I was a baby. But I wonder where is the scientific proof of this hair growing method. The baby has no hair, so the veins are clearly seen on the skull under the skin. Together with the out of portion big head, she really looks like an alien. Too bad that babies don’t have warrenty, they are deliveried as-is basises. Isn’t it nice if we could refund and exchange for a better looking baby from God?

The Nvidia driver comes with Fedora core 5 doesn’t support widescreen 1680×1050 resolution. Althought the display setup recongize my Dell 20″ wides screen monitor, only 1280×1024 resolution shows up in KDE. I was searching for solution on the web. No answer exactly match my question. Putting all the bit and pieces together, here is the steps I took to fix the resolution.

1. Update the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, add a modeline configuration
2. Upgrade the Linux kernel to latest release
3. Install the official Nvidia driver and follow the HOW-TO in Nvidia’s linux forum
3a. Download the kernel source from yum
3b. Temporary change /etc/inittab to boot without X
3c. Run the installation script, set the SELinux setting for the new compiled Nvidia driver.

Viola! my KDE is finally displaying in full resolution.

I have also installed synergy share the keyboard and mouse between my PC and Linux box. This is probably the most useful utility for multiple computer, multiple monitor setup.

The next task is setup Samba, FTP server, subversion and automated backup from my PC.

I just picked up my new linux server today. To be exact, I had only picked up a new computer with no software installed. I still have to install Linux myself. My new server has a AMD64 3500+ CPU, 1GB or RAM, 250GB harddisk and a Nvidia 7300GT graphics card. I had waited for a couple of months for the price of 939 socket system to drop due to the newly released am2 chipset. I don’t need a topnotch machine, a med-range budget system well suits my purpose. I will keep my old server up and running until I finished settng my new server. Here is my to-do list for the new server.

1. Install Fedora Core 5, boot up the machine
2. Setup KDE desktop, synergy server to share mouse/keyboard between PC and Linux
3. Setup Samba for file sharing between PC and Linux
4. Setup Apache, mySQL and PHP
5. Setup FTP server, Web admin interface
6. Port phpbb (forum), coppermine gallery (album), wordpress (blog), mediawiki (wiki) to the new server
7. Install and learn Rudy and Ruby on the Rail
8. Give my website a major face lift!

This will probably keep me busy between work and study for a few months.

Today, finally I see the first goal of the Worldcup live. I have been watching the games at work on and off during the lunch hour. Somehow I managed to missed all the goals. I saw two goals in today’s game, first one by England and the second one by Sweden. In my company, many people has ancestors come from England, so there are many England fans. When England score and had a 2:1 lead, the whole cafeteria was full of cheers. There are a few odd people support the Swedish, mainly because they had put a bet on it. The crowd was quiet and full of disappointment when the Swedish catch up at the 90 minutes mark. My only response for both goals is to laugh, since I don’t favour any particular team. I want the Sweden to win for this game though, since it is is no fun supporting the stronger side, especially Sweden are not weak at all in reality. The elimination will start soon. I predict the crowd sitting in front of the TV in lunch hour will only get bigger and bigger. Am I lucky that my job allow us to watch world cup at work?

I found this interesting test on the web. This is my result.

You scored as Friedrich Schleiermacher.

You seek to make inner feeling and awareness of God the centre of your theology, which is the foundation of liberalism. Unfortunately, atheists are quick to accuse you of simply projecting humanity onto ‘God’ and liberalism never really recovers.

Friedrich Schleiermacher 73%
Augustine 67%
Paul Tillich 60%
Charles Finney 60%
John Calvin 53%
J’rgen Moltmann 53%
Anselm 33%
Jonathan Edwards 27%
Karl Barth 27%
Martin Luther 20%

I am not surprise to find my thoughts is very similiar to a liberial theologian. This is what I always proclaim my beliefs afterall. St. Augustine comes into the 2nd place is probably due to my Catholic background. On many trivial issues, that I don’t really care about, my thoughts are largely influenced by the Catholic theology.

Here is the link to the test.