Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon
For those of you that don't know, HP had a huge fire sale on their HP TouchPad back in August. Frankly, the devices weren't selling, and HP decided to cut it's losses and liquidate their inventory. Long story short, they started selling their $399 devices for $99.
Great deal right?
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.” —dmr
You sir, were a genius, who will be greatly missed.
Today I ran across an article by Preston Gralla titled “Five Reasons You'll Want Windows 8”. I figured, why not read it? I could use a good laugh.
I didn't even understand what I was getting myself into. These reasons are sad people. I thought I'd go through them for fun.
I'm going to start out by telling you right away, this post has very little to do with Linux. Virtually nothing in fact. There is a little bit of Linux in this one by way of Android, but it's not specifically about Android or Linux.
So tonight I fired up for the first time Ubuntu 11.10, or what will become Ubuntu 11.10 here in a couple months.
I've recently run into a startling number of people that think you can't play DVDs in Linux. I'm sure this idea came about because it is true that you can't play DVDs in Linux by default, but you can install software that gives you the capability, and it's amazingly easy.
I just got done reading Day 3 of Tony Bradley's 30 Days with Ubuntu Linux. Day 3 and he's already kinda pissed me off.
Soon I will be celebrating the anniversary of one of the worst technology mistakes I've ever made. First, some back story.
Recently, a friend of mine and I were discussing his phone and his desire to buy the iPhone 5 to replace his Android phone. Personally, think moving from an Android to an iPhone is a mistake, but that's not really the point of this particular posting.
Pretty much immediately after the release of the newest Ubuntu (Natty Narwhal), I downloaded it and replaced my existing version of Ubuntu (Maverick Meerkat) on my Netbook.
There's been a lot of discussion regarding whether Unity was a good choice or a very bad thing since it appeared on Meerkat. I'm not going to pretend to resolve that issue, but I will say that I don't mind it on my Netbook. It was present in Meerkat, and it's present in Narwhal. I can say that it's greatly improved since Meerkat, and if you didn't like it there, you should probably give it another shot before passing judgement.
The OS speed improvement for me was drastic and obvious in Unity as well as in the rest of the OS. Applications seemed to fire open where they were poky to say the least before.
The Operating System improvements are nice as well. Upgraded software versions, and changes to the media player are welcome.
There are some things that I would like to see some improvement on as well.
First of all, Unity doesn't let you move the bar. While the screen size of your average Netbook definitely loans itself to having the bar on the side, it would be nice to have the ability to move it on my Desktop, and I might just want to have it on the right instead of the left? Maybe?
The other thing that I've been trying to do is change the wallpaper on my login screen. Seems like it should be a pretty straight forward and easy thing to do right? But no, I've tried every utility I can find, copied files here there and everywhere. Nothing works. If anybody reading this can give me a heads up as to how this is accomplished, I would gladly take that advice.