Archive for March 2006
A post, I think.
Well it's been a while since I've posted and figured I should get something up here. I'm not sure why I feel that I need to post, since I think I'm the only one reading this, but I feel the need anyway. So, the question is, what to post about? I guess I could tell you I'm looking forward to the release of labelr, a way to add categories to Blogger blogs (I'm not sure why Blogger doesn't do this themselves or why they don't use the autosave functionality that's in Gmail for post creation [this is the second time I've typed this post]). Is this sufficient for a post though? Hmmm… I guess it will have to do.
Music the way it should be.
I recently found out about Magnatune.com and I think it's an awesome idea. I'm sad I didn't find out about it sooner. With fifty percent of any proceeds from online sales or licensing going to the artist and the ability for the buyer able to choose their own price, from US $5 to $18 per album, this rocks. I'll be spending the near future listneing to what they have available, and from the little I've heard I'm pretty sure that I'll find something I want. Oh by the way music is available in a variety of digital formats and as real CDs. I'm begining to believe that their tagline "We are not evil."
Something that works.
It seems several distros are close to their next release right now and once they do I may look around a bit. I went with MEPIS for now. I just needed something that would function for the wife, or I'd have to go back to windows (yuk!). A happy wife is more important than my computing preferences (or is it???).
Unhappy with Ubuntu
Ok, so I recently ditched Windows, and probably would have went with BLAG to have my soul rest easy, but I would have ended up with non-gnu stuff on there for family and school, so decided to go with Ubuntu (5.10). I can't say I've been real happy with this decision. Firefox is behind in Ubuntu's repositories, so I install Automatix, and have it update Firefox, only to find out that Flash isn't going to work now. I try the different workarounds I'm able to find to fix that to no avail. Well, I only went after Firefox 1.5 so I'd be able to use the extensions I like and as far as Flash goes, my family wouldn't be happy not being able to play their Flash games/watch Flash cartoons. I don't think I should have to mess with stuff outside the "Official" distribution, but with Ubuntu I've had to. I'm not saying to “chase the new release game”, but I think every day functunality for a typical user should be expected from a "newbie-friendly" distro.
