Now, i want to keep drawing 'n all, but i think i should finish up this linux business...
Step 1:
Step 3: If i failed with both Cygwin/X and Xming, then start drawing again but set up a virtual machine while at it.
I realized when i woke up that i want to create tutorials.
I'll create a new youtube channel and then start pumping them out... later (give me a month)
It'll go
1: Learning 2 art + Gimp
2: Linux
In nr. 1 I would teach all the greatest tips and tricks I learned about drawing in a month of research and experimentation, in Linux, I would create an introduction video, then make a tutorial about setting up Arch-Linux and Gentoo and finally showcase the various software available. (Window Managers, VoIP, Graphical Editors, IM, Conky, Office Packs, etc)
Maybe i could use my "good deeds" days on doing that.
Now what about my project? well, i've spent 2 full days drawing so i have 2 full days for finishing up the linux business (extended deadline ftw!)
When linux business is finished, i will go back to developing amodos and will actively switch between that, and drawing until i can eventually implement drawing into my design work (hopefully 4 months)
Well well, i ogt ahead of myself and fixed the Libpulse issue i was having on my laptop, turns out that libpulse gets confused and goes FUBAR when a non-libpulse application is using a specific alsa device (rather than being set to use the "Default" alsa device) and this caused 2 problems, one being skype sometimes crashing when a sound is played and another being that there was no sound to be heard. I'm guessing libpulse was falling back to my S/PDIF or whatever part of my soundcard which has nothing plugged into it and probably was causing errors or something like that (it didn't have any dummy output to fallback to)
Well, that's a relief, although it still leaves me with a small problem that if i use skype for VoIP i will need to use the laptops internal mic rather than my USB one since i have to configure teamspea kt o use the USB one. That's no problem though, i generally don't VoIP with skype (it's a rare occurance)
Now my linux laptop is finally stable & working again! woo! i was getting worried back there that i might have to start using windows again (oh the horror!)
Argh why is cygwin/x not well documented for beginners usage. I know it was designed for the linux users who want linux functionality in windows, which is usually advanced linux users, the thing has no "installation to complete setup guide" (i guess arch doesn't either) it just has "installation" and "command line options" command line options which by the way fail when i try to use them.
Fuck cygwin/x, i'm going to go draw D: i'm too tired for your shit right now cygwin!
It's stick-figure time!!
Customizing linux is so fucking fun, that is reason enough to use it, however when it crashes, burns or fails to execute things correctly you'll want the world to burn. And that's a "when" not "if". You don't use linux without running into problems like that (unless you use a bloated distro like ubuntu maybe, but that is not fun since it's not designed for being customized to it's users preferences, it's framework themed like apple's junk)
Exercise time! I nearly forgot.
Lets see, i'm aiming at 150 wall pushups to get a rank-up in the pushups, as for knee raises i'm aiming at 70 or 80 to get back to the pace i was in when i quit a year ago. Functional strength seems to fade slower than gym trained strength, and not only fade slower but also return a lot faster. This is probably because we're genetically designed for these types of workouts, we're not designed for gym workouts.
I may be aimang at fast progression from wall pushups, but i'm by no means going to rush it. If i can't do 150 i will just do 180 next week before i progress to another type of pushup.
Wall Pushups: 150
Knee Raises: 80
I did it! things to really hard around 50, started to hurt around 80, got really painful at 100, got hardcore at 120 and turned into a gorefest at 130, but i lived and i still had 10-20 left in me, but 150 was my goal and i am proud to have gone from 90 to 150, that's +60 in one week! that's a brutal progression and would have been impossible if i hadn't done this before (my body knows the exercise well)
Now the tough knee raises... ah... my shoulders hurt... that's good, training my shoulders is extremely important since my only physical weakness is the weakened shoulder joint (that's been dislocated several times) Will i make it to 80?
I made it to 80, it was an epic gory battle. Blood and guts all over the place! (i can only lift my foot about 4Cm off the floor)
My pushups and knee raises are closing in on the level i was once at with rapid speed, now it's just the squats and bridges i worry about, well bridges are hardly a matter to worry about... but well.. water!
Too bad i wanted to one last bar hang today before giving my palms a rest tomorrow, mostly because i'll need them on wednesday. But when i'm only barely able to raise my arms i'm much less able to hang on them.
Oh, i got one in now.
Bar hang: 70s (sweet!)
I could've hung even longer (my hands aren't hurting so badly at all), now i'm definitely set for doing pullups on wednesday (or my palms are anyways)
My art skills are improving at a retardedly rapid speed. In only 3 days I've managed to go from total 0% skill to being able to draw original poses (i.e. not rely on tutorials to draw them)
Of course, things like perspective and changing the angle of objects is something I still haven't grasped, stuff that just simply takes time. But i'm sniffing out every single trick in the book to go from zero artist to hero artist in a month, and i'm doing so well that i changed my mind about holding back on buying a tablet, i'm buying one right now!
Anyways, that's it for today, i sadly didn't get Cygwin/X working but at least i fixed my laptop's shit.
Tomorrow i gues si'm gonna take one last shot at Cygwin/X before i give up on this badly documented piece of poop and go with virtual machine. (God damned junk, how come it's so hard to start the motherfucker in fullscreen?)
Bai Bai!
Edit: I don't know what, but something in my windows is messing with my GPU it's fan always goes crazy, it's like it's working like mad when i'm not even watching a video. I may end up going with a dualboot setup because of this issue after all.
Edit 2: I believe i found the culprit of this grief, i thought something just had to be off, and i noticed i had some "Divx Manager" running in the processes, checking msconfig it's set to run on startup too. I don't recall installing such a thing (My malware sense is tingling) i disabled it. And seems like the world suddenly became a better place, i'll use malwarebytes on the fucker rather than deleting it normally.
Oh rofl, i googled malwarebytes and
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Hahaha! That's just hilarious! What the fuck is FreeBieber anyways? sounds like a typical name for open source software "Open Source Bieber Movement" lets open him up and mail his insides around the globe to all the fans who want him. For free! (No srsly, wat? And since when does bieber actually have fans?)
So fucking many malwares... 13.
Some of them must've been old (located on my storage drive)
And one of the detected ones was the divx.exe i talked about earlier (i knew it)
There was some stolen data, trojans and backdoor agents, How the FUCK did that get on my computer in 5 days? i haven't even been downloading junk, hot damn windows is a vulnerable piece of shit, it's like a japanese schoolgirl in the vicinity of a tentacle monster and a tridick futanari demoness(angelblade, woo!)...
These were just active malware and the most common folders (like windows or appdata folders) for malware to be stored, this wasn't even a full system scan, i wonder what full system scan will find, but malwarebytes is kinda slow at scanning, so i'll have to give it probably a few hours for that.
One thing i love about it is that it tells you what stuff it finds, but it allows you to selectively remove the ones you don't know are false positives (like the majority of software cracks)
I'm guessing this divx trash was stealing my GPU power to use for some major calculations, i'm assuming it was being used either for bitcoin mining or cracking an encrypted device (i.e. there's no way that thing was made and in use by some amateur, and i was an excellent target since i had a 670 card)
The mistake he made however was that he used up 100% of the card's processing power leaving me nothing for watching videos, if he had left it at 60-70% i probably wouldn't have noticed anything, but well i did let it slide for 3 days (that thing showed up when i started drawing it would seem, but how....)
Anyways, thank god for malwarebytes, the software is so good that even skilled hackers use this shit (i know, because i know a handful and they all recommend this software)
I was keen on abandoning antivirus software, but it seems windows is too vulnerable for that, so instead of doing that I'll just run this one full scan with malwarebytes, then see if i can't schedule malwarebytes to run a quick scan daily to pick up on any disease i might've been infected with every other day.
Windows is so weak, this is one of the reasons i prefer to use linux, even if you can get a virus for linux, then unlike Mac and Windows you actually need to be either dumb or careless for said virus to do any real harm to your system. And the very worst viruses that can mess up your entire OS (like rootkits) simply don't exist for linux, or if they do they wont work unless you've got sudo with no password set up or have your user in some funky administrator groups which a user should not be in.
Windows' UAC is a half decent placeholder for Sudo, but it can never be as good as actually needing a password to install stuff. I prefer Sudo or just Su over UAC simply because using that means that i can simply get temporary administrator access to perform administrative tasks (like installing stuff) but as soon as i close that terminal, the administrative access is gone but i can still run all this software without being asked if i really want to do so (Why else would i have installed it windows?)
But UAC beats nothing, however sadly i need to have it disabled for some of my games to work. This fact proved fatal to me using UAC. Ever. (Unless i'm not playing games)
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