Puzzling Billboards
Some people are talking about a riddle….
maybe the answers are here.
THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY
Hypocrisy
Yip, I’m a hypocrite. KDE has stolen me back. Warmed me into its loving caress with its blue seduction. That and fantastic dual-screen support. I guess it will be a perpetual war of attrition, one promises me elegant glory, while the other drops propaganda pamphlets right on my doorstep.
My heart is a refugee on the GNOME – KDE border.
In the meantime….
I’ve been neglecting this blog of recent. Been a bit busy to be honest. Easter holidays were good, good to get home to the land of 56K dial-up….. Spent the time learning a bit more bash scripting and idly fondling the Feisty Fawn, which has now been released back into the wild.
I’m currently working on a little project for work I’m calling “PlaceHolder”. Nothing too exciting, just an event registration and administration system. Kinda like an online enrolment thingy, except a wee bit more indepth. I’m using it as an excuse to learn more AJAX-y stuff, prototype and spry for example. When its done, I’m going to make it less specific and let the world have it, if anyone out there wants it I mean.
Anything else….. oh yeah! VIRTUAL BOX.
Got this little baby running on my laptop. Sweet baby jesus its quick and INTEGRATED. By integrated I mean that I can run a virtual Windows XP on my external monitor and keep Ubuntu on the laptop monitor, seamlessly moving mouse and keyboard between them! No more vain attempts and at getting Photoshop and Flash to work through Wine! pfft!
Right about know you might want to find something to hold onto….
I’ve even managed to put the windows XP desktop fullscreen on one side of my compiz desktop-cube…..while still being able to flick seamlessly between the other three Ubuntu sides of the cube. If i get time, I’ll through up some screen shots and maybe even a wee video just to show off.
Anyways,
Later
More Photies
There ya go then jay, take a meander and a gander at this then.
God Bless Gnome
I always thought of myself as a KDE man, overwhelmingly configurable and shiny blue by default. Thats just the way I was. I tried self-help… staring at an earthy brown screen, mmm chocolate … don’t get me wrong, I approve of ubuntu being brown by default … but it was only a matter of minutes before my hand moved of its own accord.
I am no longer human, I am a blue-tinted mutant.
Blue, yes blue. I’m, not afraid to say it. I want a blue desktop. And BLUE (albeit a different kind of blue) was the reason I would (normally) have reverted back to KDE.
The kind of blue I’m talking about is bluetooth. Yes, good old IEEE 802.15.1. Traditionally I would never have bothered with it in Gnome, installing the KDE bluetooth packages immediately. However, since Feisty was being so nice to me, I thought I’d try to keep my forays into KDE and Qt to a minimum.
A wee root around in Synaptic later, and what do you know, bluetooth-applet, a tray app for bluetooth in Gnome! And whats this? gnome-vfs-obex-ftp….. could it be? Was Gnome actually going to allow me to browse my mobile phone from Nautilus???
I already knew that I could easily sync my phone up to Evolution, but with a tray app that handles pairing and simple OBEX and a VFS for OBEX FTP, I now have a complete bluetooth solution.
King Harald I would be proud…..
Goodbye KDE…. until 4 arrives and seduces me with new-fangled witchcraft that is….