Archive for October, 2008

A new handwriting font called rufscript has been released by Hiran Venugopalan under the GNU GPL version 3 + Font Exception.

A link to the Hiran’s blog is here and UbuntuGeek.com has installation instructions for Intrepid and Hardy here.

It seems that to encode videos for the PS3 in Ubuntu you need to use ffmpeg, however when I tried to do this the first time I ran into problems because I was using the version from the hardy-proposed software repo. To get it working you need to use the packages from medibuntu.org.

BlenderArt (the online magazine I proof-read for) has just released issue 18 “Landscapes, Environments & Sets!”.

You can download it for free from www.blenderart.org

That’s it… I’ve finished my honours degree! YAY!

The final exams today seemed to go well so I now await my final degree classification after my exam results come out in December.

I’ve just finished the final mock exam for the courses I’m currently revising for. I have two exams on Friday, both of them are three hours long, with a break of one and a half hours in between.

Revision is going well at the moment and I think I’ll get my target results. The one thing I’m worried about is how my hand is going to respond to six hours of almost non-stop hand writing.

As I use email and messenging as my main form of non-verbal communication I don’t physically write that much normally, so my revision has been as much about getting my hand writing legible as it has about studying the course!

In other news Entertainer 0.2 is very much on the horizon, hopefully we’ll see it released before the end of the next sprint over this coming weekend.

I’ll be going now to type my notes out…