December 14, 2010

• teknix, pt.1

  i've been trying out other operating systems...installed the new Ubuntu on my family's computer in Texas City, my uncle liked it a lot better once i had it running for him- he doesn't use it much and hates all the bullshit spyware that comes with windows... i got the "restricted" (non -open source code) drivers for the video and mp3 playback and we kicked back and watched an episode of outer limits - "The Sand Kings" on Hulu.com ...Ubuntu had made computing fun again.
  Ubuntu can be challenging to set up, but the latest release was fairly painless once i got windows to let the wubi installer run. (wubi allows Ubuntu to run alongside Microsoft Windows with a choice of OS at boot)
  it's a great looking operating system, too.
  most of the time it's pretty easy to get new software and do the same stuff i'm already used to doing in windows...the latest version, Lucid Lynx, is pretty  slick and smooth interface and installing new apps is fairly straight forward.
  -unfortunately, i can't run the latest, new and improved Ubuntu on the machine here at home ( not enough ram, an all-too-sadly common ailment) so i use an older version ( hardy heron v8.04) that likes to keeps asking me all the time if i am root. just who the fuck is sudo, and why is he/she so obsessed with my root? how the fuck would i know? and if i was, why the fuck be asking me in the first place? Ubuntu, why won't you just love me the way i am as your name implies?
  Ubuntu loosely translates as "goodwill to mankind".
  here is a shot of me current Ubuntu desktop:
   
  
  next i share the hotly awaited results of my Android OS experiment on the desktop....that's right, the  google smart phone operating system on a desktop pc....i can tell you're excited.
  really, i can.
  
  

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