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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.
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
Vai, Just Vai
Current Song Playing:
Steve Vai - Window to the Soul
Mood - Not sure... lol
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Well...
It certainly seems that I wasn't wrong with my last post. I find it quite ironic that the only post here now with advertising comment-spam is the one where I complained about advertising comment-spam. Berloody Rediculous.
Anyway, If you haven't read my MSN Space you won't know I've moved house, it was MAD! So stressful and Catherine wanted everything sorted straight away, so no relaxing after lugging heavy boxes in from the van oh no!! We spent the following two weeks getting everything sorted, painting the house (we did ask the landlady first, don't worry) and moving furniture about. After that, I started looking for a job again, and again, I couldn't get one, cos I don't have the BPS accreddiatation. So there we go...
Then I finally gave up on pyschology, I'm taking the BPS Qualifying Exam in June and psychology can wait until after that. I joined a temp agency and I'm now working for the government. I'm an AO/Span 3 in the Tribunal Service in the Visit Visa section, dealing mostly with appeals for family visit clearance from Pakistan and Nigeria. It's not bad and it pays well, so I'm happy doing that for now.
I wrote to a few psychoanalysts yesterday, asking for advice on how to get to where I want to be. Afterall, I'm not going to do a PhD in clinical psychology, so jobs in the NHS are pretty limited and highly competed, fingers crossed I'll hear back sometime soon.
Also, I've not used Windows now for almost three months... hee hee!! Been using ubuntu linux, with KDE (not kubuntu, ubuntu with KDE) and once I have the time, I'm planning on playing around with linux from scratch to learn a bit more, before settling with gentoo, since LFS doesn't have a very easy update mechinism.
Anyway, If you haven't read my MSN Space you won't know I've moved house, it was MAD! So stressful and Catherine wanted everything sorted straight away, so no relaxing after lugging heavy boxes in from the van oh no!! We spent the following two weeks getting everything sorted, painting the house (we did ask the landlady first, don't worry) and moving furniture about. After that, I started looking for a job again, and again, I couldn't get one, cos I don't have the BPS accreddiatation. So there we go...
Then I finally gave up on pyschology, I'm taking the BPS Qualifying Exam in June and psychology can wait until after that. I joined a temp agency and I'm now working for the government. I'm an AO/Span 3 in the Tribunal Service in the Visit Visa section, dealing mostly with appeals for family visit clearance from Pakistan and Nigeria. It's not bad and it pays well, so I'm happy doing that for now.
I wrote to a few psychoanalysts yesterday, asking for advice on how to get to where I want to be. Afterall, I'm not going to do a PhD in clinical psychology, so jobs in the NHS are pretty limited and highly competed, fingers crossed I'll hear back sometime soon.
Also, I've not used Windows now for almost three months... hee hee!! Been using ubuntu linux, with KDE (not kubuntu, ubuntu with KDE) and once I have the time, I'm planning on playing around with linux from scratch to learn a bit more, before settling with gentoo, since LFS doesn't have a very easy update mechinism.
Currently Listening to:
Nothing
Current Song Playing:
Nothing
Mood - Sleepy
Nothing
Current Song Playing:
Nothing
Mood - Sleepy
Labels: computers, house, life, linux, psychoanalysis, rants, work
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
R.I.P Mandrake/Mandriva - Long Live Ubuntu
Originally posted on my MSN Spaces Blog yesterday (so dates may be a *little* wrong)
Well, then. I've decided I Love ubuntu (kubuntu to be precice) and I've finally rid myself of dependency hell with mandrake/mandriva. ubuntu is a FREE linux distribution based on debain. While I'm no fan of debain, I love apt-get so much more than urpmi (which was evil, yes, evil... like the fru-its of the de-vil *nod to Mike Myers :p*)
lol... Anyway. I installed ubuntu and then:
lol... Anyway. I installed ubuntu and then:
"apt-get install kubuntu-desktop"
from a terminal in gnome to install kde (best to do it that way round than install kubuntu from the off and wind up with problems with GTK etc. lol.)
I can now say that I finally feel free to stay in linux more often than windows, and as soon as pc games will play on linux, I will ditch microsoft forever!!! Mwahahahahahaha!!!
I can now say that I finally feel free to stay in linux more often than windows, and as soon as pc games will play on linux, I will ditch microsoft forever!!! Mwahahahahahaha!!!
In other news. I have my Driving Theory exam tomorrow and I've not revised for it...
Currently Listening to:
Hip-Hop
Current Song Playing:
Talib Kweli - I Try
Mood - Nervous
Hip-Hop
Current Song Playing:
Talib Kweli - I Try
Mood - Nervous
Monday, April 18, 2005
Pheew!!
I am back from campus, and I have sucessfully completed both my couselling presentation and my work and organisations essay. Well, the presentation I have to perform tomorrow, but I really am not worried about that. I am doing the psychoanalysis section, so it'll be pretty easy.
On the other hand, my work and organisations essay is the biggest POS I ever wrote. But it's all Ok. As long as I still get 63% or more on every piece of work from now on (and on my counselling essay, which I've not got back yet) then I will still scrape a 2:1.
Also, while procrastinating yesterday, I found this little article. It bascially describes the major differences between what Microsoft thinks about Open Source, and the truth. MS are clearly scared of the Open Source movement, that why we get the FUD marketing strategies, like the "Get The Facts" campaign. A good read, very enlightening.
Catherine's not here right now, she's doing her presentation for her dissertation, if he does it as well as she's been doing it here, for me, she'll be fine, though. Since she's not here, I'm listening to my music. She won't let me listen to rap music when she's here. Don't get me wrong, I don't listen to 50 Cent or any of that "I'm so cool cos I used to sell drugs and I sleep with lots of women" stuff. It was all Ok about ten years ago, and I still listen to NWA and 2Pac, BIG etc... But nowadays, it's all awful and overdone... Bah!!!
On the other hand, my work and organisations essay is the biggest POS I ever wrote. But it's all Ok. As long as I still get 63% or more on every piece of work from now on (and on my counselling essay, which I've not got back yet) then I will still scrape a 2:1.
Also, while procrastinating yesterday, I found this little article. It bascially describes the major differences between what Microsoft thinks about Open Source, and the truth. MS are clearly scared of the Open Source movement, that why we get the FUD marketing strategies, like the "Get The Facts" campaign. A good read, very enlightening.
Catherine's not here right now, she's doing her presentation for her dissertation, if he does it as well as she's been doing it here, for me, she'll be fine, though. Since she's not here, I'm listening to my music. She won't let me listen to rap music when she's here. Don't get me wrong, I don't listen to 50 Cent or any of that "I'm so cool cos I used to sell drugs and I sleep with lots of women" stuff. It was all Ok about ten years ago, and I still listen to NWA and 2Pac, BIG etc... But nowadays, it's all awful and overdone... Bah!!!
Currently Listening to:
Lots of Different Stuff
Current Song Playing:
KRS-ONE - HipHop Knowledge
Mood - Relieved
Lots of Different Stuff
Current Song Playing:
KRS-ONE - HipHop Knowledge
Mood - Relieved
Labels: computers, life, psychoanalysis, university
Saturday, April 09, 2005
I got WAY Behind Here...
lol, looks like I got a little behind on keeping this up-to-date compared with my MSN Spaces doofah. Well, I've been busy, I have had no internet the last 2 days, which was no fun at all!! Aside form that, though, I have 2 essays and my dissertation to write in the next three weeks. And then we're going to see Miss Saigon, so that'll be a nice end to the working... Well... It's 4 days before my dissertation needs to be in, but hopefully I'll have it done by then.
Anyway, here's everything you missed if you don't check my MSN Spaces (In chronological reverse order (newest first)):-
Anyway, here's everything you missed if you don't check my MSN Spaces (In chronological reverse order (newest first)):-
09 April 15:16
Well!!! I'm so not impressed!!!
After 48hours of no internet access due to Tiscali cocking up something in London, I get back online to find that the University has scheduled mainenence work going on today, so I have no access to the uni, still... This will make it four days that I've been wanting to work on this stupid essay, and I've not been able to... Not impressed!!!
09 April 15:43
Ok, Just a quick post, while I should be working on my psychodynamics of organisations essay...
I just found this while procrastinating, and thought it was funny
Click Here
I have only one small thing to say about that. You Know you're American when you think Everyone from England regularly travels on underground trains, and knows their way around London like the back of their hand
I just found this while procrastinating, and thought it was funny
Click Here
I have only one small thing to say about that. You Know you're American when you think Everyone from England regularly travels on underground trains, and knows their way around London like the back of their hand
Currently Listening to:
Various Songs
Current Song Playing:
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - I Second That Emotion
Mood - Fed Up
Various Songs
Current Song Playing:
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - I Second That Emotion
Mood - Fed Up
09 April 15:43
I just took a "Which Incredibles Character Are You" test and...
Apparently...
Which Incredibles Character Are You?
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Which is certainly a complement, lol... Except she's a girl, though, to be honest... Could I really expect to be a masculine superhero??
I have just got back from therapy, and I really couldn't care about giving a full story of my holidays again, surfice to say, I had some great bits, thanks to Wendy, Sarah, Lauren and Dave. And the rest was pretty crap!!
Anyway... I just took another little quiz... "Which Forgotton Crayola Colour are you?" This one made me giggle.
Guess what I am...
Labels: computers, internet, life, quizzes, rants, university, work
Monday, April 04, 2005
I'm Back!!
I'm back!!! I'm too tired to post anything propper now, but I will just point out this...
Google Gulp Drinks
The greatest April Fool I saw this year!!!
Google Gulp Drinks
The greatest April Fool I saw this year!!!
Currently Listening to:
Lots of Different Stuff
Current Song Playing:
Günther (Feat. Sunshine Girls) - Ding Dong Song
Lots of Different Stuff
Current Song Playing:
Günther (Feat. Sunshine Girls) - Ding Dong Song
Mood - Sleepy
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Hmmm
Well, I'm getting into my first essay, and I must say, I think it'll be OK in the end.
I'm really not impressed with Mozilla Foundation (MoFo) at the mo. They have just confirmed they're discontinuing the Mozilla (Seamonkey) Suite just as I was considering moving to Seamonkey. Typical! lol. There is a community effort to continue the life of Mozilla Suite, but I'm not hopeful. On the positive flip of this, Mozilla is the people who were unhappy with Netscape and split off, and now they're the bigger people, so it would be nice if the same could happen for Mozilla Suite. MoFo have outlined their intentions and are offering support to those wishing to work on Seamonkey... So maybe good things will come of this... I sure hope so!!
I'm really not impressed with Mozilla Foundation (MoFo) at the mo. They have just confirmed they're discontinuing the Mozilla (Seamonkey) Suite just as I was considering moving to Seamonkey. Typical! lol. There is a community effort to continue the life of Mozilla Suite, but I'm not hopeful. On the positive flip of this, Mozilla is the people who were unhappy with Netscape and split off, and now they're the bigger people, so it would be nice if the same could happen for Mozilla Suite. MoFo have outlined their intentions and are offering support to those wishing to work on Seamonkey... So maybe good things will come of this... I sure hope so!!
Currently Listening to:
Pulp Fiction OST
Current Song Playing:
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Mood - Hopeful-ish
Pulp Fiction OST
Current Song Playing:
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Mood - Hopeful-ish
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Help!!
Well... lol, Apparently my knowledge of CSS isn't nearly comprehensive enough. I tried to make a custom template for this thing, but it's not having any of it!! I wanted to make a 3-column layout like I have on my MSN Blog but it just isn't working. Things were a lot easier back when there was only HTML and xHTML, lol. If anyone wants to help me, or even make one for me it would be nice!! I can put all the blogger tags in myself, I guess it's just the CSS layout I want help with.
Thanks!!
Thanks!!
Saturday, March 05, 2005
OK then...
OK then, Here's my new blog, I've started it here simply to mirror my MSN Space. Which is shockingly poor. Nicely customisable, with all the lists and such, so if someone can help me add lists like that to this, or simply help me make my own template, then I'd appreciate it :o)
I decided to move a blog here since MSN seems to filter out all XHTML and CSS from the posts, so I end up with horridly formatted posts... Typical MS really, trying to control everything!!
I decided to move a blog here since MSN seems to filter out all XHTML and CSS from the posts, so I end up with horridly formatted posts... Typical MS really, trying to control everything!!
Now... Here's everything I've posted before now on my MSN Space
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