Ubuntu 8.04… First impressions

Yeah, I know I’m late to the party, but I still had to give my own opinion on Ubuntu, as it’s the first time I try it out.

Looks great, install was easy, a few things are much easier to use than in windows. It was faster to configure than ArchLinux. It got complicated when I got down to running virtualization, and a few other things. Installing LAMP server was easy as hell. Gnome + Compiz + 3d Cube and a whole set of effects performed superb on my Centrino Duo with 2GB Ram.

I saw no glitches, no apparent slow-down, and little to no application freezing, even while virtualizing Windows XP Pro (with 600MB allotted to Windows), running firefox with 10 tabs, xchat, emesene, pidgin, rythmbox, terminal and a few other apps at the same time.

8.10 is coming out by the end of October so I’m looking forward to the upgrade already, and I’ll share you my experiences with ubuntu when I get farther down the line.

What is Maturity?

Being mature is not the same as growing, or “becoming of age”.

To become a mature person is to learn various important things in life, and to develop ways to deal with situations in a proper way.

It is avoiding excuses, accepting responsability for your actions, making an effort an remembering important things and keeping track of your duties, being responsible with what you own and what you’ve been lent, remembering to give it back on time. It is being patient and searching for the right solutions without losing your temper when terrible, unfortunate or disastrous situations come along.

Drinking alcohol to deal with ones ‘pains’ or to escape from situations is an example of immaturity. Same as doing drugs for the sake of fitting in or being with a group. And the same also applies to going or doing something to avoid facing a certain situation, when by facing it you can end it’s possible future consequences.

Mastering these issues will favor you in life, allowing you to become a better person, serve society, yourself, your family, and be happier in general.

You suck at Photoshop

This is a kind of warped-up strange partially humoristic tutorial for photoshop, I found it quite entertaining. It teaches you quite a lot of functions in photoshop dynamically throughout a set of videos (which can also be found on youtube.com).

In my honest opinion it seems quite crazy, but it’s really entertaining, and the guy is an interesting actor… The first few seem rather uncertain although as you reach further into every following chapter, you notice they get much more interesting, much more intense, etc.

The first video of the series can be located at: mydamnchannel

I mean, video #14 starts with the following phrase: MY name is donnie and you suck at photoshop… I.. I don’t have a lot of time.. right nn… nnow so you’re just going to trust me… you’re bad.

Heheh, check it out for more detail into the action

Coffee & PCs

There’s something just great about driving down or walking to a nearby cafe (Starbucks?) at about 10AM or 11AM, in the midst of a nice cool breezy day, and ordering a smooth frappuccino and working for a few hours on your favourite notebook (or netbook).

I’ve noticed there is something that blends perfectly about the whole situation. The soft music playing in the background, the view of the cars passing by outside, the chit-chatter around you, the sound of an espresso being served… it just seems perfect.

It’s not just the PCs and the coffee that blend in perfectly, but the whole ambience of going to a cafe to work. You can work at home with a cup of coffee on your pc, but it’s not the same. So then, what is it that makes this experience so interesting?

Injustice

OK, so you are walking down the street, and make a brief stop at an ATM to withdraw some cash. On the way out two cops “withdraw” the money from you… That’s injustice.

It did not happen to me, but to a friend of mine, and it infuriates me how this world we live in becomes further more violent every day; no matter the efforts to make things better, society seems to want to deteriorate.

In this city I live in, you can’t trust in those who supposedly defend you, you can’t trust in justice, you can’t trust in the law, as all laws are overriden by those who execute its powers.

Let’s take a stance. No more violence, no more crime, no more envy, no more fighting. Do not empower an idiocracy. Let’s think progress.