Jiminy Crickey Lives Here
He's Bored and want's a career change...

Saturday, June 10, 2006
OK Then
Well, still nothing hear about the mortgage, so I'm saying nothing about that, full stop...

I have just come across this on the internet, though:




It really shows that some people are willing to get behind open source. They're taking a free product, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, and packaging it up in fancy box, with manuals, and other free merchandise and then selling it with their own support package. This sort of thing is exactly what's going to bring gnu/Linux to the masses.

While I did testing for Dapper Drake (6.06) I think I will pass on testing 6.10 for a while, as Catherine has told me I'm not allowed to 'break' anything. So, until I am able to test 'Edgy Eft' (which won't be until after we move, so I might not be able to test at all...) I am going to follow the development and hope for a few small things.
1. When I turn off my computer I would like it to actually turn off, not have X lock up and have to turn off the computer manually with the off switch without it shutting down propperly.
2. Less dependencies. Why, oh why, should I need to remove superkaramba, just to remove xmms? They never depended on eachother when I used Mandriva/Mandrake.
3. Auto-mount FAT32 and NTFS partitions with write access to regular users. Damn, ubuntu's main audience is windows converts, they will mostly be dual-booting and will want to access their windows files without having to manually edit fstab tables or chmod the folders.
4. Less obsession with mono, dammit! I don't want extra kernel modules increasing my boot time to load apps that I want, but rarely use.

OK, that's my rant done, lol. See you all later.

Currently Listening to:
Vai, Just Vai
Current Song Playing:
Steve Vai - Window to the Soul
Mood - Not sure... lol

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Thursday, June 08, 2006
Hmmm...
Ok, so things aren't too great at the moment. Work is OK, I've been everywhere helping loads of people with their work, might be off to London again next week, too... It's all fun :o) I fancy going on the phones, sometime, though, so maybe they'll let me do that for good behaviour, or something...

Aside from that buying the house isn't working out so well, we have a small problem, which could prove critical, but it's fixable if the bank will look favourably on us...

Please cross your fingers for me!!

Currently Listening to:
Watching Fantasia 200
Current Song Playing:
Rhapsody in Blue (I Love this one!!)
Mood - A little down...

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