2009 is the year of the Linux desktop!!!

"2009 is the year of the Linux desktop!!!"

- Installed Fedora 10 on Dell laptop

- mouse cursor incredibly slow when using trackpad; set acceleration and speed to max, not much better
- random automatic "mouse button" clicks being inserted by trackpad
- screen resolution set to highest, which is good
- incredibly slow scrolling in firefox
- keypresses sometimes don't register unless I wait 1s between pressing each key


installed gsynaptic (yes, it's obvious what this does right?!) - fixes trackpad issues (had to hack xorg.conf)
disable "bounce keys" ignore fast duplicate keypresses - fixes missing keypresses
installed nvidia binary drivers - fixes slow scroll but now I'm stuck at 640x480 (hacked xorg.conf but no change)

I repeat

"2009 is the year of the Linux desktop!!!"

Apologies for the badly written rant - the subject doesn't deserve proper spelling and grammar. Here endeth my love affair with desktop linux - I'm buying a Mac notebook soon. Microsoft has screwed me over too many times and I simply hate Windows.

This rocks!

Can't believe I haven't already posted this; guess Facebook is too convenient. Simply put, this rocks:

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/heroes+of+our+time/video/x63f5p_dragonforceheroes-of-our-time_music

Buy it!

:)

The end is nigh

Microsoft has reached an all new low:

Songsmith ad

Sure, the technology might be clever but the music it produces and the commercial are god-awful. I would be embarassed if I was in any way associated with this commercial. Fire the lot of 'em!

Currently listening to... "Revelation" by Journey

I got an iPod Shuffle for Christmas and Journey's latest album "Revelation", with a new singer. It includes 2 CDs, the second contains a number of classic Journey songs re-recorded with the new singer. If you like Journey, I suggest you get this. There are some really good new songs and some not so good new songs. The new singer (Arnel Pineda) sounds a lot like Steve Perry but his vocals stand up on their own. I just learnt on Wikipedia that Jeff Scott Soto sang with Journey for a while; he's an awesome singer so I'll see if they released an album with him.

Configuring Ubuntu for runlevel 3

I found these instructions for configuring Ubuntu to start in runlevel 3.

Ubuntu runlevel 3

We took Emma to see The Tale of Despereaux the other night. She's just over 2.5 years old and I think this was the first movie I've seen at the theatre since she was born. This was also our first movie out as a family! So I was quite excited, actually very excited. I was nervous how she would fare; I didn't think she'd sit still through the whole movie.

She did very well though. She wasn't quite heavy enough to keep the seat from flipping up - it was the kind that automatically fold up when you stand up. So I sat with my knee resting on the corner to keep it down as best as I could.

I think the film was 2 hours long but she didn't start getting utchity until after about 90 minutes. Mrs. S took her to the bathroom and after that she sat through the rest of the film. She really quite enjoyed the experience though she did think it was too loud. I would agree!

Despite wall placques announcing the theatre's dedication to perfection; this quote is from their site:

Continuing on our long-standing tradition of offering "World Class" movie-going experiences

When the film started, the top three feet of the picture were visible at the bottom of the screen. I informed an employee and eventually they re-aligned the picture. Part way through the film, it suddenly went off and the lights came on. Again I talked to an employee and was told it was being investigated. Not exactly a great experience for my first movie in a long time! Still I can't wait for the next family trip, though the cost of CAN$50 is a killer including snacks!! Ouch!

Winter - be gentle

Last winter was quite rough due to all the snow we had, but did we really have this much??

Ottawa snow fall Oct 07 to March 08