animation

me and Mal made a kick ass lego animation today, called 'cross country lego'. Should be up on youtube within 24 hours :)

EDIT:
ok it's finally up on youtube, here it is...

Powered by Ubuntu stickers!

I sent of a SASE (self addressed stamped envelope) only two days ago to system76 for some free "powered by Ubuntu" stickers and they arrived today!

Here is a scan of them:If you would like to get your own "powered by Ubuntu" stickers send a SASE to:

The Linux Emporium
Bridge House
17a Maybrook Road
Sutton Coldfield
Birmingham
B76 1AL UK

or go to system76 for other countries

I EATEZ BRAINZ

arggggghhhhhhhh!!!

GEEK Test

I was on the GEEK Test getting 100% as usual when i found the following:

Of the Computer Geek Quiz Takers:
17% are scared of links
17% of Windows users curse it
4% of Linux users selected Bill Gates as their hero

LOL!

Ubuntu PC

I have been borrowing the monitor from our home XP so that i can try out my Ubuntu PC and check that my ram works. while i was at it i found out that my Celeron D was actually 3.2 GHz not 2.2 GHz. Celeron D is definitely a big improvement to the old Celerons.

And while i was at this post i found out that you can get Celeron dual core!

Open Movie Editor

Open Movie Editor is a pretty self explanatory, open source movie editor. You can get it here (http://www.openmovieeditor.org/). I tried compiling/installing it from source last night, managed to get it installed after compiling a few dependencies, then when I tried to execute it it gave me an error, some shared library missing or something, that should've been installed with one of the dependencies. So, unless you know what that problem could be and know how to fix it, If you're on Ubuntu if you want to get it installed quickly and easily then just type: sudo aptitude install openmovieeditor in a terminal to install it. It's also in Debian and OpenSUSE repositories.

Right now OME is only available for Linux, the developers are looking for people to port it to OS X and possibly Windows (the only reason there's no OS X version is that the developer doesn't have access to an Apple Mac :S). I guess porting to OS X would be easier than windows as OS X is pretty similar to Linux anyway, at it's core.

New Human theme

I'm testing Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" alpha 6, and I've noticed that the default Human theme has vastly improved. Here's a screenshot of thewidgetfactory: (and btw, the progress bars are animated :))

GTK hack (mac-menubar)

I hacked my GTK to have a mac-menu applet that places the menu bar on the main gnome panel like Mac OS X (I did this for two reasons: I find it easier, as I used OS X before Ubuntu and not Windows; and I want as little as possible resembling windows on my Ubuntu installation ;P). You can follow the guide yourself if you want. Be very careful and don't miss a step (unless you know what you're doing) as it could mean fucking Gnome up ('scuse my french ;P). I used apt-build; you could try compiling it yourself without such an automated tool, but don't say I didn't warn you (E: Corrupt dependencies; please install lib-with-100-dependencies etc....) I used apt-build cause even though it compiles the thing, not install from binary, it's incredibly automated and easy to use. (although i wouldn't reccomend hacking your gtk for the average joe computer user..) and BTW as of time of writing, this hack won't work with OpenOffice.org apps and Firefox/Thunderbird. (as in, the apps will still work, just with the menu bars in the same place as usual).

OK I couldn't resist uploading a screenshot (yeh yeh, taking ur bandwidth :P lol):















Do you notice that the menu bar is at the top like OS X? Pretty cool, huh? ;)

WINE

I am using WINE to run some Windows apps under Linux, and some of them run surprisingly well. Cut to the screenshots, first we have Macromedia Flash 8 (Adobe Flash CS3 doesn't like WINE):















Adobe Audition also works surprisingly well:















I also have Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 working under WINE aswell.
In both of those screenshots, you saw Windows apps running seamlessly under a Linux Ubuntu installation, without the need to run Windows in the background while making it look seamless. Goto winehq.org for more info, download, etc.