Pollywogs!

…and upgraded from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04. What is an ‘Ubuntu’ and why should you care? You shouldn’t care. Yet. Seriously, what follows is quite boring, take it from me and go check out reddit. Here is an interesting story on turning algae into bio-diesel:

“A full-scale Solix project would coexist with a coal-fired power plant, bubbling exhaust gas through water and absorbing much of the carbon dioxide, Sears said.”

How cool is that?

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Ubuntu is a flavor of Linux. And you shouldn’t care yet because Linux Desktop is just about, but not quite, ready for prime time adoption. This video may give you an idea of why this operating system is nearly ready to grab Vista by the hips and start going to town on Microsoft’s ass: amazing 3D effects on a fraction of the hardware teH Vista demands.

It was enough for me to wipe the Edgy Eft off mom’s comp and throw a Feisty Fawn down. Compiz is ‘built in’ to Ubuntu these days, and after enabling the proprietary nVidia drivers and enabling Desktop Effects, the old Sempron and nForce 4 Ti4200 were doing a pretty neat dance. A few effortless minutes later, after following these concise directions, I was spinning my shit like a crack-crazed DJ. How well it performed on this old hardware, this aging Ti 4200, 512MB of mem on a nForce3 board with a Sempron processor…fuck, nobody needs Vista!

Yea, if Beryl was stable enough to be included in 7.04, I might say that today is the day that Linux comes out of the closet and starts raping Windows across the desktop segment. I had problems with switching between users while Beryl was running, I’d switch back to the user where I left Beryl running and find a black screen and my mouse.

My next task is probably to install QuickBooks 2004 on the box (or at least try to). If I can get that running, I might ‘force’ an upgrade at work to start getting us weaned off of Micro$oft. I know my mom was running 6.10 for a couple months every night without problem, if she can play Sudoku and surf the internet from a Linux Desktop, anyone can.

The real test will be my sister when she comes in next week. She is a true hater, has an undefinable distaste for Firefox and hates Ubuntu. If I can break out Beryl on her, throw a couple bad ass themes down in quick succession, spin the cube around from Sudoku to Firefox to aMSN to Mahjongg, I might be able to throw her off guard enough to want to sit down and actually give it a chance…which is exactly what Linux Desktop in general needs for general uptake and acceptance: ooh, I want that pretty, give it to me! I wants my precious!

I’ll try to get a video made tomorrow too, [UPDATE: I stuck my video in the bottom of the post] prob won’t be quite as impressive as the video linked above, but I sure as fuck know it will be shorter: one of my personal pet peeves is having to wait more than five seconds to see the money shot. I don’t know why I don’t start every blog post title with a swear word, come to think of it…unrelated, I get this spam occasionally of this woman looking into a guys pajama bottoms like there is nothing in there, and then another woman laying on a bed holding this black guys impressive cock, thing looks like a god damn maglight…a D-cell maglight. Every time I get it I want to crop the guys cock out and make a collage out of it and post it here. Don’t worry, corporate slaves, I’ll make sure to properly label and sanitize the link. Like this: NSFW. Except as far as I can tell, that video would only really not be safe for kids in elementary school…and even then, I hear that this would be pretty tame…maybe kindergarteners would be be shocked and outraged by that link? So don’t worry, a static collage of some gigantic black cock couldn’t possibly be offensive to anyone.

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