26 Sep, 2008
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... read more
22 Sep, 2008
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... read more
21 Sep, 2008
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... read more
20 Sep, 2008
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... read more
19 Sep, 2008
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... read more
