Memphis is dead. He fell victim to one of (if not the) worst weather disasters that befell Metro Manila. But there are many good souls around the world, and through them, I acquired Alexandria: a Lenovo G450 laptop. This sub-section, like the Memphis Report, is a collection of notes and reminders about what I've done with this computer.
It's been a while since I last posted in this part of my blog because ever since I installed Lucid Lynx and configured it to my liking, I've chosen to stick with it. I haven't done much experimenting on Alexandria— at least, nothing significant. But two years after getting Alexandria, I finally decided to give her a much needed upgrade. Today, I took her to the Lenovo shop at SM Marikina to max-out her RAM.
Last week I started coding some JavaScript to help with some interactive stuff that I'm working on. Today, I thought about making a demonstration video of what the small library can do but discovered that the FFMpeg that comes with Lucid Lynx has a problem dealing with OGV files. This is a problem for me because I use GTKRecordMyDesktop for capturing my screen then use FFMpeg to convert the resulting video into another format like AVI or MPEG.
I did mention that I was quite fickle, right? So yesterday, I downloaded the Lucid Lynx AMD64 torrent from the Ubuntu site, spent the waiting hours backing up my files and settings to Alexandria's storage partition, created a Live USB stick, and tested the thing. It didn't take two hours until I decided to fully install the Lynx on Alexandria.
Apparently, there are a few people out there who are really interested in my Quinarayan project; and they're a bit disappointed because I seem to have abandoned the whole thing. Well, I haven't. It's just that last year's great flooding really held me back a long way. Things are getting better now and I think I'll finally have to time to work on Quinarayan again. But before that, more reminiscing.