Too slow

I have just decided that this blog is too slow and that that is a reason why I don't post on it so often so I am going ot do something about it such as decrease the length of posts shown.

I have also just installed 3 amazing Firefox addons they are:

Speed Dial - If you don't know what speed dial is then 1) Have a look at the Opera browser 2) don't come to this blog anymore as it is too techie for you (well maybe not, but almost every one knows what speed dial is)


iMacros - If you always need to log on to your Webmail or Blogger account every day (or even every week) which requires clicking on a link, typing in your user name and passwork and then clicking on your inbox, then this is the plugin for you. It can automate what ever you do in Firefox, just press the record button, go to your webmail address, type in your username and password, and click on your inbox, then hit the stop button. Next time all you need to do is click on the Macro and it will take you straight there! (It is actually quite fun to watch it zipping between pages doing what ever you told it to do) And if you do really want to do some coding they are text based and you can edit them at will.

AutoPager - Everyone uses google to search for stuff regualarily, but don't you just hate it when you have to scroll down the page a little and then click on the 'next' link and then wait for the page to load and scroll wond, click next, wait, etc? Well this plugin automatically adds the next page to the bottom of the page that you are vewing and then you can just keep on scrolling!

I have also found a really good gnome app called:
Gnome Do - As its name might imply, Gnome Do can do almost anything. Summon it up with Super + Space and then just start to type, as you do, Gnome Do displays the results it finds on your machine. The clever part is that these results can include almost anything. If you're searching for an application name, an icon will appear from which you can run it. Press Tab and the icon on the right is enabled, and from here you can press cursor down to list any other options for the same search result, you can also just type for the option. It's functionality is endless because it is expandable by plugins so if one of the plugins already there does not do what you wan't you can just make a new one! For instance the Microblogging plugin will let you add your typed search to your Twitter of Identi.ca account. This is by fare the quickest method to update your status from the Linux desktop.
I.E. You have to get it!

Ubuntu Reinstalled

I have finally got round to reinstalling Ubuntu to my new WD 250GB SATA hdd, I think I have pretty much got all of my applications installed that I had before, and all of my files as i just had to copy them over from my old installation and I made copy's of /etc and lists of packages from dpkg.

I now have a fresh install of Ubuntu with Kbuntu and Ubuntu Studio extra packages, the only thing that is wrong is my Usplash displays normal ubuntu theme on start-up and kbuntu theme on shutdown, I want it all to be Ubuntu Studio! And my suspend works finally, but I still need to get hibernate to work. Once I have done that I have 2 new life CD's SystemRescueCD and Clonezilla, I have tried the former and I will use the second to back up my root partition after I have got all my apps and stuff finally working flawlessly, then I will use Time Vault or some versioning software to back up /home.

P.S. Please remind me to Post about my BIOS update that nearly went wrong!

Jaunty

YESS!!!!! The new Ubuntu Jaunty is on my computer (9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, which is officially alpha, erm, 6, right now). Hey there are a few bugs but it's an alpha, it's actually much more stable than the alpha of Gutsy or even Hardy was. Although the name 'Hardy' really does suit that particular LTS release of Ubuntu. It is hardy to the most foolish of people, and is crash-able by only the people who want to crash it, like me. I kernel panicked it once, but only by deleting some major system file in the /boot folder! But the alpha of hardy? That was a different story: 1) open a gtk dialog. 2) click on the desktop. 3) click on the gtk dialog. 4) there is no 4. Reset button please. That's just one particularly awful bug I found in hardy alpha though.

Anyway, back to the original topic. Jaunty. Now don't get me wrong, I do like Ubuntu kinda, but lately the development has seemed to have, erm....hit something hard, and...fell over shall we say? yes there are things here and there like, um, new popups (those are a real improvement and kick windows's ass on that front btw), plus a new computer 'janitor' that cleans up junk on your computer. And it uses the ext4 file system, of course, which reduces fsck times by about a magnitude of 25 (if I got my estimates right, that is). But apart from things like that, things the general user wouldn't even notice if he/she wasn't a geek, things really do seem to have hit a plateau on the development front. I really haven't noticed many new features, so if it continues this trend I might consider switching to something with a faster development cycle. The trouble with them is that, with that there tends to be the fact that it's still quite a new and undeveloped distro, like gOS for instance (which is based on Ubuntu I believe).

On the KDE side, things are looking bad. Not bad, worse than that...erm...you can think of any word and it won't be quite bad enough to describe the badness of KDE4. It is UNUSABLE. UNUSABLE. Can't use it. I have reinstalled KDE4 three times, reinstalled my system once, then reinstalled KDE4 another time, and each time it has the same fault: it just won't work. I try launching a program and it freezes. why couldn't they stick with KDE3.5 for $&%@ sake? It worked and it was damn good. Sorry KDE guys, but I'ma stick with GNOME for the time being. KDE sucks big time.

On the windows side, things start to be getting better, bit by bit, slowly but surely recovering from the miserable days of Vista, the second worse windows distro (actually, make that the worst. I'd take win95 over vista any day :P). Yes, low-IQ person, I'm talking about windows 7 if you're wondering. I've installed the Beta of it on my machine and...well...things are at least a bit better than Vista. It's supposed to be faster than vista, haven't noticed that yet but I haven't been doing anything intensive on it apart from a few games of GRID (and that's not all that intensive even on max settings). From what I've seen of it, I wouldn't pick it over XP x64 though (which I use right now for anything that needs Windows).

Oh btw I had some hardware additions to my computer:
New harddisk. 750GB Samsung Spinpoint F1. One Windows XP partition, one Linux /home partition, one Linux root partition, one Linux swap partition. £70 inc. P&P
New GPU!!! nVidia 9800GT 512MB GDDR3 RAM PCI express x16 (duh). £100 inc. P&P

Is anyone here?

Hi, i was just wondering if anybody was actually reading this? If so please make a comment and then i may put a few new posts up!

New computer

I got all the parts for my computer and it runs like a dream now (well sorta, gonna upgrade the graphics card next month).

OK enough rambling, here are the specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 2x3.1GHz 65nm 89Watt TDP
RAM: 2x1GB 800MHz DDR2 PC6400 Dual Channel
HDD: 250GB Maxtor SATA2
Chipset: nVidia nForce 520LE (yes i know it's crap, so shutup)
GPU: nVidia Geforce FX5200 128MB PCI (Next month I'll upgrade to a nVidia Geforce 9600GT 512MB PCIe x16)
IDE DVDRW
IDE CDROM
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 420W
OS: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid x86_64

hey, my mouse pwns, linux only!

My mouse (the logitech LX7 btw it's the only cordless that pwns), has 7 buttons. Ie. left click, right click, middle click, scroll, sideways scroll, back, forward. The sidways scroll works in Linux! It doesn't work in windows!!! So long windows suckers. I'm running ubuntu 8.10, and I didn't install any drivers to make it work fully. Linux works out of the box! In fact, my only hardware that didn't work out of the box is...let's see here....webcam worked...mouse worked...keyboard worked...sleep + hibernate worked...omg, EVERYTHING WORKED STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOX FOR ME ON LINUX UBUNTU 8.10 INTREPID IBEX, 150% RECOMMENDED OPERATING SYSTEM!!!!!! goto ubuntu.com to download this terrific OS. Or you can request a free cd that takes 6 to 10 weeks to deliver depending on country, the free cd comes with stickers for your computer or anything else.

ye man

i bin offered 2 jobs makin websites, and already started one of dem........sum more cash for me soon :D!!!




an mi non profit home ed group website is at awe.gn.apc.org.

lots of stuff, read on...

Sorry i haven't posted for AAAAAAAAAAGES.

Alot has happened computer wise and not computer-wise:

1) I've learn't lots of skills in web design (and still more to learn ;)). Using these skills, I've made a website using the drupal content management system, you can access my website here. It's for a home education group called AWE that I go to, (I'm home educated BTW), and please do not make an account on it because it'll just get wiped off. Strictly having an account is for AWE members only.

2) My spanish teacher had to leave for Colombia, which was very unfortunate. So I enrolled to do a GCSE spanish course in Hackney college, and got in (of course :P)!!!!!! Next year I'll have my first GCSE, in Spanish.

3) I'm techically dual booting Windows and Linux, so i've partly joined the other side....but you'll be pleased to know that i'm writing this in Linux, and only use my windows partition for: a) gaming, b) starry night, c) Flash, and d) Google Chrome until they make a Linux version. (great browser BTW)

see ya soon
fela