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Yeah! I had finally my geeky evening and after download the needed files during all the weekend I'm finally writting this post from Deer Park Alpha 2 (Firefox x86) :D

How I did it?
I just followed this how-to. There was some problems with ubuntu, as the HD was not really HDA, but wasn't too hard to fix.

Is it fast?
It starts faster than windowsXP in that machine :O!

Should I do the same?
Not yet.. as it's a ultra hacked version, some features doesn't work properly and also safari was crashing all the time (that's why I'm using firefox x86 ;). Also, the screen doesn't want to be at 1920x1200 :P There is no option. I'll probably do a bit more of research about how to fix these things.. And also, looks like rosseta doesn't want to work here :/

Anyway, it's quite cool.. The problem wasn't the machine, the problem was the OS! ;)

This weekend was one of those were you got too much stuff to do that you (hapilly) decide to do nothing. So I did basicly that.. nothing. But better than watch the tv, or sleep to much I usually watch some of those movies that are waiting on the server's HD. Somehow, and I just realized now, I did like an American session, the movie I seen the last weekend was Sin City, as story wasn't really my stuff, my I like the aesthetics of the image and some bits. Quite enjoyable.

But this weekend the quality was much better. Tho the start was quite poor with Batman Begins, a coworker spoke me about it and told me that was more about the psycology about batman (daba daba daba).. Was a little bit boring.. and the car this time is UGLY. Then, the next one was Stella Street. I don't know exactly where did I get that one from but It was quite weird. The story is quitre simple and absurd.. Jack Nicholson, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino and some other celebs decide to go to live to Surbiton (an almost unknown London neighbouthood). Was quite funny as surbiton looked like East Acton (the first neightbourhood I was living when I moved to London). All the celebs are actually 3 different actors, the quality of the film is almost like Home Alone, but was very funny to hear all those deep-english accents.

And the final one (and the best), was Primer. A masterpiece done by almost one guy (Shane Carruth). I will need to watch it like 2 or 3 times more to complete understand it but everything, sound, feeling, image, story was veery interesting. The most amazing part is the story of Shane doign the movie. Read some bits here. (I'll add that one to my personal list :D)

".. and Windows had to restart."

What?! Oh.. Ok! Who was the genius that had this time that idea on Microsoft?! They were doing it very well with the updates. But.. who had the idea to restart the computer without wait for the user approval? So, for example, you got a 3D animation to deliver on monday, and you will leave the computer doing the rendering.. But as you were working a lot you decided to go to the beach meanwhile the computer is rendering. On the beach you don't care too much, you spend a lot of time on there, then some drinks somewhere and all that.. you don't care because you know your computer is not going to crash or something, you already did a lot of renders with it.. but, oh! you arrive Saturday at midnight and your computer is showing the desktop. And the message of "Your computer was recently updated..." appears on the corner.

This didn't happened to me, but i'm sure that that will happen to a lot of people. And I don't really see an easy way to configure that so I can asume that for a normal user is imposible.

Thanks again M$!

The new version of the cancer is going to be released soon. I was thinking, uhhh! Firefox is doing a nice job, but, what if now Microsoft fixes all the shit in his browser and becomes better than firefox? Well, atleast firefox would made that posible.

So just went to Paul Thurrott's site (aka Microsoft fan number 1), and what a surprise!! Even Paul is dissapointed with the Beta version of IE7!!.

That really sucks!! That means that the webdevelopers will still have to do extra work to make website look properly on IE again.

Are you using IE? Check that out, switch and browse happy.

Download freeon150ep by r08028

I've been testing and doing audio experiments with some music programs since 1999. Impulse Tracker was the first one, then I moved to Fruity Loops, tried then Cubase and all those, but with the one I felt better was Reason. I did a lot of music with that one and sone of well finished tunes (imho). After all that time, the guys of roterfleck offered me to release an EP under their label and that made me very happy ;) Alex Martin @ roterfleck did all the mastering with a selection of my latest tunes (thanks a lot m8!), and as my latest test were quite Dark and Terror style we decided to move it to a Poison/Terror EP.

Probably it would sound weird to you, but hope you enjoy it.

Thanks to Kris Brower and, of course, to sole.

+ xplsv.com website v2
+ xplsv.tv new features and bugfixes
+ trace vs zbrush (1% completed)
+ new visuals for pmp gig(s)
+ roterfleck website v2
+ thisisnotaneditor

ARF!

Some months ago Mr.Mac mentioned that he just installed ubuntu and that was quite easy to do. So, weeks after that I went to the website and I just asked for 10 CDs, and then I forgot..

Some weeks ago I received the CDs at work, I was very surprised that they actually sent them. So after testing the liveCD with good results, I had the idea to install it on the server so we were going to deal with WindowsXP+Ubuntu+MacOS at home.. Isn't that geek?

So, yesterday, I started the installation, and I expected that was going to be as easier as the liveCD was. But, after the first installation process, and ejecting the CD and then rebooting it started that GRUB Boot loader and the command line was there waiting for me.. ok.. and now what?! "press TAB for help", done.. what's that shit?! ok.. I'm happy that i got my laptop with internet connection here.. let's google about it.. ok.. boot loader.. let's learn some syntax.. examples... ok.. put that, and that.. ok, I can load windows.. reboot.. let's try boot ubuntu now.. try that.. and that.. oh! it's loading..! Kernel Panic!!.. ok.. wasn't that Linux for human beings?.. reboot.. let's try again.. uhm.. no (1hour later (3:00am) no no.. eh! uh!? what did I press? Esc? What's that menu?! OMG!! why don't they have an small text saying "press ESC to show the BOOT MENU" or so?!

Ok.. now that works.. everything works.. fine fine.. login.. ok.. how can I read the HD where i have Windows?! uhm.. google again.. what?! mount it?! oh.. ok.. that's the syntax.. ok.. i got it.. done.. Let's share a folder.. uh?! i have to install what?! samba?! what a name! ok.. how do I do that? Terminal again?! doh!..

So.. if I need to do "relative big things" I need to write weird syntax stuff with the Root Terminal? let's say it again.. wasn't that Linux for human beings?

http://www.google.com/ig

After adding the custom RSSfeed feature, this is just what I was looking for. Perfect! Thanks google!

How long will take to MSN to copy that? :D

And now is free!! \o/ I don't know if that one was the first widget thing, but at least was one of the first I've seen. I'm these days testing it and seeing how useful it is.. You can have the same like on mac, that pressing f8 appears all those widgets, or you can change the preferences of each one and have them floating the desktop.

By now, looks like a clean, cute way to have your todo list in the screen. I'll look for rss stuff now.. :)