Saturday, November 8, 2008

Yes, I’m still here: 6 months later and Ubuntu

I have not given up on anyone, nor on anything yet.

The last post, which was quite a while back, discussed my latest attempt at an alternative OS and trying out the Linux Ubuntu Distro. I must say, that it is the first Linux Distro ever that installed and pretty well every thing worked on a Dell D600. I was quite impressed indeed.

In the meantime, I acquired an older Mac PowerBook G4 laptop and I also dabbled into OSX 10.5.5. I will discuss my experiences in a later post.

Back to Ubuntu. I also installed it on a Dell C610 laptop, but I must admit that with only 512MB memory, Ubuntu struggles quite a bit on the C610. I even installed the Xubuntu Desktop. Performance improved a bit, but The Gimp was having issues with the display where the Brush Outline never cleared up and was really, really messing things up. I ended up keeping WinXPP on it and it is working quite fine.

On the D600, it’s performance was quite extraordinary, specially since the D600 has 2GB of memory. But somehow, I really like the XFCE Desktop and I stuck with it.

… time passes …
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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Lengthy questionnaire answered.

I came across this long questionnaire over at chimeric.de today, and since it is “free for all” I’m giving a try… It is available as well at: splitbrain.org and foosel.org. The original is from Zwerg Im Bikini Blog

Since all the other posters made it free, then of course, I’m making it free for all as well. If anyone feels up to tackling these 63 questions, please go for it. The questionnaire follows:
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63 Questions
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

ACTA, IP & a couple more sites worth watching.

With the summer just around the corner, time is zipping by quite fast these days.

That said, I noticed that there is a lot of Intellectual Property activities going on. Canada, as you may well know, is a really bad guy when it comes to piracy stuff, according to all the **AA. Now, it was leaked that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been working in the background behind closed doors to come up with the most draconian measures about how the Entertainment industry is dealing with the New Digital model…I think the Internet World and the infamous Digital Contents is completely crashing down…
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Still Alive and getting close to finishing….

Well, believe it or not, I’m still working on the painting project!!! This last part is the bathroom, and these can be bring on real headaches… ‘Nough said on that subject. Will be sone in the next couple of days as I include cleaning the whole place up as well…

I have to be honest though, as I don’t really dedicate 100% of my time on the painting project, as you can pretty well imagine! I’d rather spend more time enjoying the weather, etc. etc…
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Friday, May 9, 2008

Some more updates…

Even though one has retired from active IT work, there are still an awful lot of things going on around and there are still a lot of lessons to be learned.

First, my painting project is nearing its end Real Soon Now as I suspect I will be completed by tomorrow. As usual, there are some lessons learned in just about we undertake in life. For this painting project, I realised that painting the door frames and the baseboards white is an exercise for which I may (most likely probably) not have the patience I used to have… Not sure quite… I will have to let that sit for a while, while I’m busy cleaning up all the hardware from previous umpteen paint jobs before I put these back.
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