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Tags: download, linux, lost, opensuse
Written by: kamasheto

• Exams # Tie so far, 1-1
• Lost # Season Finale
• Linux # openSUSE 10.2, Fight 3

Exams

So far I’ve had 2 exams, Structure and Material Resistance. Last year when I took Structure, the exam, it was quite easy, but I failed to pass because I had below average knowledge of what the subject was about; frankly speaking. This year’s exam was quite tough, 7 questions, questions aimed at the very capable group of nerds; frankly speaking. I tried my best, insh2alah I’ll pass; not doing so well on the large scale is a good sign in our fancy college.

Material Resistance was not so bad, looking at the exam now I know I could have done better with just a little more effort; but oh well, we all live these moments - I still have a good chance of passing this year; ya rab (if you’re reading this, w law bet7eb rabena ed3eli ya she7` anga7 l sanady!).

I still have 4 exams to go; Irrigation, Construction equipment, Concrete, and Surveying - my exams are on Monday’s and Thursday’s, so I pretty much have 2 weeks to go. Irrigation I’m looking forward to, so as with the equipment. Concrete, mmm, not so sure; surveying I can, insh2alah.

Lost

Yesterday I downloaded episode 22 of season 3, and I was told episode 23 was also released, as the season’s finale. You know the kind of movies where you keep thinking something is going to happen during the entire movie, and when you see the end you stay silent for almost 15 minutes not saying a single word, because you can’t believe what just happened; this is exactly what happened with me, except that we were waiting for quite a bit longer (speaking of 3 months).

If you want an interesting series to spend your summer watching, you can ask me for all 3 seasons and you can enjoy watching it - trust me, it’s well worth it! I personally will watch it all over again again, I can’t not watch it; it’s wonderful, spectacular!

Lost has three more seasons to go, the next season starting on January 2008. Quite a long time to wait for something you’re so waiting for, ey?

Linux

I’m having encounters with new stuff every day, plenty of new stuff every day. Most the time all I do is browse nowadays, so I keep things done in a very neat way. I’ve been having a problem with permissions on the /var/lib/apache/www/ directory, because I had to chmod it to 777 each time I add a new directory there, so to keep me satisfied for the time being I did the following

$ su
$ ********
$ touch ~/.alias
$ kate ~/.alias

I then wrote the following

alias chmodwww=”chmod -R 777 /var/lib/apache/www/”

save and close. Then

$ bash

tada! I now have a new command called chmodwww that will allow my kamasheto account to access the new directory (or any other one) in my local root directory. Lots of handy tweaks here and there, it’s wonderful the fact I can do things my way =)

N.B. This will only work for openSUSE 10.2+ (I’m not sure of the version, I’m sure of the SUSE part though), because only openSUSE will run your .alias file for aliases on startup; I think it’s a different file for fedora, Ubuntu, etc.

Here’s a current screenshot of my desktop

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EDIT: The moment I published this entry, I instantly had 7 people browsing my blog; 3 bots, 3 guests, and myself. I’m surprised I have human fans, and bots that are signed up for immediate email notification from my blog; impressive.