conspirators!
January 30, 2006
watch this: Loose Change 9-11or this article : NASA Scientist Censured Over Greenhouse Gas Comments
More Ubuntu
January 16, 2006
Having spent much of the weekend playing around with my new-found OS, I must say I am more and more flabbergasted. How can it be that there are not more people using this wonderful OS. I have already started evangelizing friends, trying to convert them. One musician friend of mine who spends much time composing on his machine has been looking to get more out of his hardware. Windows just does not cut it for him, so I dug around a bit and found Studio to go ! which is a distribution targeted towards that exact user-group. Myself I have to admit I did spend more then 20 minutes setting up my Eclipse CF and Flash environment, but it did not take longer then what I was willing to give. And now I have a stable Environment up and running, and I have learned a thing or two that will come in handy the next time I need to interact with a Linux server. One more thing, to XP to Ubuntu converts I suggest Automatix
The transition
January 15, 2006
Linux is in it’s puberty, and it requires recognition. So is Windows, it wants us to recognize that it too like any other teenager will tell you, is the center, the hub the very reason for the universes existence. Now we adults might not necessarily agree with all these self-indulging and fanatically fantastic self-loving statements, but one needs to give them adult attention, which quickly can go over into caressing of the hair or reading of a good story. But Linux is such an easy teenager. Comes home on time, the girlfriends are just lovely, and he calls home whenver he might be late for supper. With Windows itès an all other ball-game. With XP an easy way out would be to raise it’s allowance. But I digress.
So the allowance could be raised, But honestly I find that my Compaq laptop still should have a few good years in it without having to give more then it allready does. I bought it no more then two years ago and developed quite a few apps and pages on it, but now, it seems, with all the constant MS updates Windows XP was just getting slower and slower, asking more and more resources from the poor little bugger. And I was asking myself why on earth this was so. Did every update need to implement itself into my registry as any other second rate memory resistant Trojan, Spyware or Virus. So Three days I put my foot down, enough is enough, I want out. ‘Windows,’ I said, ‘it’s time we moved separate ways! I give you a simple choice, if you want to continue staying within my four laptop walls like this, you can either get a job and start paying rent, or if you want to continue living here for free I want you to go back to school and come home with nothing but top grades. Well Little to say but Windows refused. So I was quick to look for a replacement.
Now bare in mind that my laptop is the machine I use to read write and communicate. No development (except a little debugging now and then) no games, films, music or other things like that. So really I was looking for something to be my communicative hub. For development and other data-heavy tasks I have the big ugly Dell sitting in the corner.
Well I asked around and was assured that Ubuntu was the way for me to go. Ubuntu being a light-weight very powerful Linux Distribution that was user friendly and that I, as a somewhat savvy computer user, should have no problems understanding and installing. And all I can say, is…wow. Where have you been all my life. Such a well behaved teenager…!
more to come soon…
Dmitri Shostakovich - The Jazz Album
January 6, 2006
Since this summer I have been (re)discovering Shostakovich and his compositions. They document, underline and describe the clichés of Stalinistic politics so well. It makes me wonder if the polit-office ever really listened to the music this man wrote. There are so many messages in it.
This last summer it all started with the CD: Shostakovich: Trio Op 67, Cello Sonata / Ax, Stern, Ma, the actual content. …read about it here
Now a new piece of that has captured me and my imagination. Dmitri Shostakovich - The Jazz Album. I seriousely suggest you listen in on it…Enjoy!
MAC envy
January 5, 2006
Pure envy led me to go on a hunt. By clicking Apple+ESC a friend at work brought up this really nice panel, typed any kind of keyword and in well fashioned AJAX -manner the application starts suggesting apps, files and bookmarks that are related to what you are typing. It is incredibly handy, I find. Obviously the OS X look gives the whole app a nice feel to it. The app is called Quicksilver. So I really wanted something like that for my Windows XP system. I am already using the Orbit Dock for Windows XP and this is a nice new feature I really like to customize the appearance of the XP UI.