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Ubuntu - Almelo part 2 ; Finkers, Wilders and Bunkers
By now some of you must have noticed I'm Dutch, ( and an SA expat, but that's something for another day ) but before the whole Internet grinds to a squeetching halt in certain parts of the World because of the 'Fitna' movie I'm catching the early wave.
In my previous post regarding radiating matters I briefly touched on the connection between Almelo where ( according to Mr. Herman Finkers, a local stand-up comedian ) the traffic light is the #1 attraction of the town, a Pakistani scientist and a Wild man called Wild-ers.
Now, for this post today I've added another acronym; 'Bunkers'. This points to my birthday present; a Gamma Scout. Yes, on the 13th next month I'm gathering funds for this nifty little device for sale at conrad for the paltry sum of 299 euros ( 499$ )
I've indended to own such a device for years now, and the time has arrived for me to purchase such an item and store it next to the potassium iodine. I advice all those residing in Western Europe and the US Eastern Seaboard to follow suit. It's the price of 'freedom'.
If anyone wants to use my Gamma Scout when they need it they can; now that's Ubuntu
Bueno lo que hace las vacaciones forzadas //Influenza\\
Ubuntu 9.04
Theme: Mac4lin --Personalizado
Iconos: Mac4lin
Conky
Wallpaper: Foto mia
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Kubuntu 11.04
Plasma "Aya" modded
Icons "Reflektions KDE" modded
Wallpaper "A lovely tree" by Seb Creane, from Desktopography 2005
Theme+Color scheme selfmade
YASP (sysinfo) selfmade
Firefox4 integration selfmade
I messed around with Conky today and settled on this desktop set up. I took a popular pre-made conkyrc script, whittled it down a bit, and added a barcode font for the day and time. The wallpaper is from Deviantart.com. This is on the T41 I recently fixed up.
Full size version: farm7.static.flickr.com/6214/6317122330_44f7994278_o.png
Original script: www.quicktweaks.com/2008/09/27/gmail-weather-beauty-right...
Barcode font: www.dafont.com/c39hrp24dhtt.font
Background: browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=bay+landsca...
It is March 1st, and my Windows 7 Release Candidate (the test version) expired today.
I have used MS Windows since Windows '95, but I never directly purchased a copy for installation on a system. I had the fortune of getting them for FREE from trashed systems given to me. By the time the operating system reached my hands, it was the most stable version of Windows. Meanwhile, others were pulled their hairs with the latest version of it.
When I realized that Windows 7 available for testing, I immediately jumped for the opportunity and downloaded it (again for free) for my desktop. I tried Ubuntu simultaneously, but I never successfully found and installed the driver for my wireless ethernet adapter, so I gave up on the 8.10.
Now that Microsoft metaphorically pulled the rug from right underneath my faithful ginuea pig computer, without any form of a formal "Thank you Mr. Ginuea Pig" or a discount for helping test latest OS, I am left with a sour taste in my mouth. Like many of you (who chose the lesser evil: Apple), I refuse to purchase Windows 7 or any future Microsoft OS.
Now, I am revisiting Ubuntu with it's latest edition: 9.10.
"IMPRESSED" is an understatement on my feelings about this new system. Finding and installing the driver for my wireless adapter was very simple (and didn't involve the terminal this time of course). What gets me very excited about 9.10 is the availability of FREE applications and the integration with Google apps like Reader, Calendar, and Talk. Also, all of those apps are available as extensions for Google's Browser: Chrome, which was easy to install, too. Since the bookmarks are always sync'd in the cloud, I never missed a favorite link...that's comforting!
This screenshot was uploaded with Flickr for Ubuntu. Thanks to the "Software Center", I didn't even have to visit the Flickr website to download an installation package and delete the executable (to free up space). The "Software Center" handled the entire process beautifully.
Another thing: I installed Ubuntu on a separate drive and it retrieved all pertinent settings like documents, media, and even desktop background from the Windows 7 folder. All of the important things looked and felt familiar, which is comforting.
Until Google's Operating System: Chromium is released, Ubuntu 9.10 is as close as it gets to having a powerful Google desktop. I only wish I discovered 9.10 a little sooner.
Its under the GNU Licence:
Recipe:
1 avocados
~600 Gr. of Tuna
Pepper
1 stick of Artificial Crab
Various Spices
Enjoy!
A damaged ssd from my asus eeepc, just been replaced with a 32Gb version. The upgrade required a BIOS upgrade too. The photograph has been treated with tone compression to enhance the details (for example for forensics/evidence purposes).
How to set up proxy auto config on Ubuntu Desktop
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In a bizarre parallel with Keith, I too have been mucking about with hard drives today, or more accurately SD cards.
Tech followers may be aware that a new Raspberry Pi was launched recently, with double the RAM and a quad core processor, for essentially the same money! Given the opportunity to massively upgrade my mail server for thirty quid, it seemed daft not to.
On Monday it arrived. That was when I realised that it used a slightly different case. No worries, only a fiver, so one got ordered. Then I realised that it uses a different media type, using microsd instead of sd. I didn't have any spare micro sd cards, so no worries, only a fiver, one got ordered.
Then I realised that I was mistaken, and that the card in the current mail server is a 32Gb, not a 16Gb. That shouldn't have been a problem, as it was only using about 4gb, but the partition was getting mashed when I resized it, and I thought that rather than arsing about, the easiest thing to do was get a 32Gb card. No worries, only a tenner, so one got ordered.
That takes us to tonight, when I discovered that the capacity of my 32Gb microsd card is actually smaller than the capacity of my 32Gb SD card, so one wouldn't clone on to the other without resizing after all.
Gparted has resized the partition to make it a touch smaller - a process taking two hours. As I type, dd is still cloning the data from one card to another, a process that has been running for half an hour and counting.
I do hope it's worth it. :)
I love the 3D effects, for instance when you change the desktop, as OSX.
Over the install you can choose to import a Windows XP session, ubuntu self-mount your partition.
How to disable entering password for default keyring to unlock on Ubuntu desktop
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The desktop which is running from my Ubuntu phone (the Nexus 4) via the HDMI (plus Bluetooth keyboard and mouse).
There are still some problems: the 1900x1200 screen is being recognized as 1900x1080 and the font is non-configurabe (and too huge) but the whole thing is in development.