Away to SA...

I will be going to SA (south Africa) for 3 weeks and 4 days and will probably not be able to post during that time (but i will try to send a update) but when i come back (on the 17 or 18 of may) i will be able to post again.

Till then Buy from me, LikesLinux :-D

P.S. you just have to play BZFlag, it is soooo fun and i captured the enemy's flag for the first time ever!

And...

I am the proud owner of a Logitech LX7 Wireless 1000dpi 9-button mouse + Labtec Y-RAE68 wireless keyboard.

New Logitech WIRELESS keyboard and mouse!

After fela insisted that i get a new mouse so i got a now wireless keyboard and mouse. I am now a proud owner of a Logitech^(r) Cordless Desktop^(r) EX110

W00T!

Hardy Heron Candidate Release

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu
8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server. Codenamed "Hardy
Heron", 8.04 LTS continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the
latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,
easy-to-use Linux distribution.

BZFlag

Battle Zone capture the Flag

BZFlag is a cool exiting multi player game to play online or over LAN.

You drive your tank around shooting opponents and helping friends.
You can collect flags to give you special abilities.
In a Capture the Flag game you try to protect your teams flag and capture your enemies flag

there is a whole lot else that i could tell you but i will leave you to fine out on there website

Monitor

My monitor adaptor arrived last Wednesday and i got a cable for it last saturday (or was it friday?)
And now i can finally use my Ubuntu PC!!! W00T!

Here are the (basic) specs:

VirtualBox

I just upgraded to hardy beta a few days ago (when my harddisk came), and now i use linux-generic (the only kernel compatible with virtualbox). Before i was running VMware server for my virtualization, and i'm telling you, virtualbox-ose (open source edition) just rocks. VMWare sucks if compared.

I am typing this under a windows VM in virtualbox, running Windows XP specialized for ultra portable computers (i also have the main, more sucky one, in another virtual machine).

With VMWare Server, it was noticeably slower virtualizing than running a system natively. With VBox, you hardly notice the difference.

My current virtual machines go as follows:
1) Damn Small Linux
2) Fedora Core 8
3) Fluxbuntu 7.10
4) gOS Rocket beta
5) Windows XP specialized hacked for ultraportables
6) Windows XP

And PS. I DO NOT work for Innotek. I am speaking of my own experience.

ubuntu hardy beta - 3 installs in one morning

The HDD came w0.ot :D

I put Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy LTS Beta onto it. That's what i'm running now. Oh and btw, there seems to be a little bug in the partitioner of the hardy beta installer - i tried partitioning keeping a older partition intact (result of breaking my system within 5 minutes and having to reinstall xD). It seemed to install fine, but when i tried booting into the system my machine kernel panicked just after the 'Starting up' message. I think it was trying to load / as a block device - and obviously failing - I can't remember exactly what it said though, after 'Kernel panic - not syncing:'. One more reinstall later (that's 3 clean installs in one morning lol) and here I am - with a perfectly functioning install of Ubuntu Hardy beta on a 160GB HDD - yay! :D

HDD upgrade

OK I've finally gotten round to getting a new HDD for my Linux box...it should be coming next Tuesday (15 april 2008) at the very latest (it's already been dispatched). Here's the specs:

Western Digital Caviar
160GB
8MB cache
ATA 100
8.9ms average seek time
2ms track-to-track seek time
7200 RPM
rated 50,000 Start / Stop Cycles
3.5" form factor
3 year warranty

I would've got Serial-ATA, but my motherboard's way too stone-age for that...the good news is: it cost me £35 with VAT+postage. Yippee! :) i would really reccomend the seller (novatech.co.uk) for it's low prices.

windows 7

apparently Microsoft are gonna do what Apple did 7 years back, for windows 7. They're gonna make everything incompatible, hopefully for the best, like what Apple did when they released OS X. READ THIS for more info.

binary blobs

apparently, GNU have said that Linux is a breach of the terms of the GNU General Public License, by far the most popular license for open source software. The reason is that Linux includes 'binary blobs': drivers and whatnot for hardware, namely video cards, that the source code isn't freely available to view, study, modify and redistribute of, as the GPL states it should be. But the companies that provide these closed source drivers are NOT willing to release the source code (read: don't give a sh!t about linux). This causes a dillemma: either we have closed source drivers and breach the true open source spirit, or we stick to open source software, at a price (e.g no hardware video acceleration). It's a choice that us Linux users have to make.