I now have my Gentoo Linux setup almost completely functional. I’ve managed to get graphics, sound, and network sharing working. The only big tasks left are printing, and palm-pilot syncing.
ADDITION: “MPlayer”:http://www.mplayer.hq is quite possibly the best media player I have ever seen. Both it’s ability to play almost any variety of media file that gets thrown at it combined with the quality of playback has encouraged many a movie download. Continue Reading »
Just as an exercie I’ve been working on hand-coding my resume, trying to use the HTML(Hypertext Markeup Language) to more closely relate the semantic content, with CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) used to control the formatting. I have most of the HTML(Hypertext Markup Language) complete, and hope to finish the stylesheet coding by this weekend. When it is done, it will replace my current online resume, which was created by exporting a copy of my “OpenOffice”:http://www.openoffice.org maintained Resume. While the code is reasonably clean, I thought I would be able to do better by hand. We’ll see how it works out.
I had the great pleasure of sitting in on a session of “Prof. Altschuler’s”:http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~altshule and have to say that in that one class she managed to convince me that she is one of the 5 best instructors I have had the privledge of seeing at “Rutgers”:http://www.rutgers.edu . Unfortunately, there do not appear to be any open slots in the class, so it looks like I will not have the pleasure of enrolling.
“The Daily Targum”:http://www.dailytargum.com at “Rutgers-New Brunswick”:http://www.rutgers.edu has undergone a new redesign for this year. While the new coverpage looks cleaner and somewhat more attractive, I think many of the interior pages look less professional and the new styles are inconsistantly applied. Continue Reading »
“Rutgers University”:http://www.rutgers.edu has comeup with a new overall website template, which they’ve used for the new main site, as well as the New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus section. While much more visually sophisticated and inline with current trends than the past design, I have noticed that the current design uses tables in several locations to layout HTML. I wonder what that does to accessibility. Does anyone know what kind of accessibility requirements major Universities are subject to?
