bjwbell's Articles In Pure Technology
October 17, 2004 by bjwbell
It turns out that the math department at ucdavis gives you space for a website so I'm making use of it. I can finally have a central place to keep all of my 3D graphics projects and games so that people can access them. Anyways go check it out I just posted a simple ray tracing engine that I wrote. I still have a lot of features to add to the ray tracer. In other news. I'm doing well in my Intro to Abstract math class I've gotten 35/36 and 36/36 points on the homework so far but man does h...
September 21, 2004 by bjwbell
My dad was getting ansy to get a new PC so he decided we should buy the parts and build it ourselves. So our journey commensed. I went with my mom to Fry's to get the motherboard, memory, cpu and hard drive. I choose a P4 2.4Ghz for the cpu and a ECS motherboard and 256 megs of memory. The total was $112 dollars for the cpu and motherboard because they were on sale on $90.00 for the memory because it was not on sale addionally I got a western digital 160GB hard drive for $60.00. We got ho...
September 13, 2004 by bjwbell
I updated a tetris like game I made in python with pygame. It even has a website at http://worldracer.sourceforge.net/tex.html a new update is going to be coming out tomarrow.
April 13, 2004 by bjwbell
JoeUser.com has some serious problems displaying with Konqueror 3.1. The joeuser logo fills up about one quarter of the middle top portion of the screen. Anyways I've been working on upgrading KDE to 3.2 and it has been quite a journey. The first time I did it worked great. I like the new features and everything. But then somehow KDE lost the icons for tons of stuff and other things went wrong. So I deleted everything hoping I could start anew. When the installation progran,konstruct, sta...
April 5, 2004 by bjwbell
What defines a linux zealot? I'm and avid linux fan but I'm not a zealot. I've come to the conclusion that a linux zealot is someone who demonizes other operating systems windows in particular. Hence zealots are not good people to have in your community because they are negative all they can do is say negative things about windows most of which are untrue. If you think linux in general for desktop computers is superior to windows I'm sorry but your not seeing the same reality I'm seeing. In ...