Asciiquarium Redux

Wow, I didn’t think it had really been two weeks since I last posted. I used to be putting up some new post every day.

Anyways, Power School is still going well. Managed a 3.90 (out of 4.00) on my last test, which is 0.01 above the score that netted me first place twice already. Well, this time it was only good enough for 5th place (although I may get back to a tie for 1st or 3rd dependings on regrades). Of course, the actual placement is relatively unimportant. The Navy doesn’t care how well you do as long as you pass, so neither do I. ;-)

You may remember me going on about some text-mode fish simulator last time I posted. Well, due to popular demand on #kde-devel, Maksim Orlovich and myself have conspired to create a KDE screensaver based off of the fish simulator, with canllaith providing much-appreciated testing. It is a real KDE program, using graphical mode instead of text mode. However, it appears more or less just like the program in question.

Maksim and I managed to optimize it relatively well, it uses less CPU time than the program we based it off of (although it’s because of the fact we get to use graphical mode, not due to any errors by the original programmer). You can find it at KDE Look at its program download page. One little problem is that the preview in the Screensavers control panel looks inaccurate, you’ll need to use the Test button to see what it’s really going to look like.