Subway in the Storm
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This is from the snow storm we had here in New York on Saturday the 19th. It was brutal out, but we didn’t get hit as hard as our neighbors in Pennsylvania and Maryland (unfortunately!). Now the only thing that’s left are some piles of snow on the side of the streets and a bunch of slush on the corners that you need to jump over.
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This is from a few nights ago when I met up with a friend to get some nerdy electronics I won’t go into detail about. I decided that since I live 10 blocks from GCT, I should probably do the tourist photography thing at least once or twice. This time I brought a tripod so I didn’t have to push the shutter speed too high. I think this may become a new thing: doing night shots of classic tourist destinations.
Other spots on the (not-quite-) agenda are: Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, the Top of the Rock, and a cityscape of the Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn Heights or Williamsburg or something along those lines.
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WHAT THE HELL? Seriously–this is such a well-known issue, that’s so consistently complained about, that this should really be fixed in the main release by now. Or at least there should be a fix. Well, thankfully, there is a fix. A (very) long story short: apparently there’s a conflict between the way X handles certain things with desktop effects on between Intel drivers (for the integrated graphics cards) and ATI drivers (for instance, in the W500 machines). Ubuntu decided to opt for having X work out of the box with Intel instead of ATI, and there’s an ongoing debate between XOrg’s developers and ATI and neither will put in the effort to actually resolve the issue. (I hope I got all that right, after Googling about this for about 45 minutes).
In any case, the way to fix the lag is as follows:
ppa:launchpad-weyland/xserver-nobackfill
sudo apt-get update
and hit enter; then type:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=2:1.6.4-2ubuntu5~ppa1 xserver-xorg-core-dbg=2:1.6.4-2ubuntu5~ppa1
and hit enter.
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