Book Phrase Meme
Just started reading this book.
" He had, in fact, gone out of his way to staple things incorrectly just so he could prevail on his teacher to unstaple them, giving him another glimpse of the blood-chilling mandibles in action."
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
meme howto
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
First thing I do
In response to the current meme, here is what I do after I install/re-install a system.
1. Enable Medibuntu repos.
2. Enable Dropbox repo.
3. Install the follow extras.
sudo apt-get install htop powertop nautilus-open-terminal ubuntu-restricted-extras w32codecs banshee skype nautilus-dropbox ttf-liberation community-themes filezilla mplayer revelation
- htop - great process monitor
- powertop - Program to analyze power consumption on Intel-based laptops. Usually gets me a hour or so of extra battery life.
- nautilus-open-terminal - Open terminal on desktop with a right click.
- ubuntu-restricted-extras and w32codecs - Flash and other non-free viewers and codecs.
- banshee - My favorite music/media player for Linux.
- skype - VOIP Client
- nautilus-dropbox - Dropbox online storage application.
- ttf-liberation - Free font from RedHat, easy on the eyes.
- community-themes - A set of nice themes from Ubuntu 8.10.
- filezilla - GTK ftp/sftp program.
- mplayer - media player.
- revelation - Great password vault.
4. Configure a dark theme. I currently like Dust (from the community-themes package) and Shiki-Colors.
I'm also installing OpenOffice 3.0, but I would not advise that to Ubuntu newbies for now.
Continue the discussion at this forum thread.
Meme Mike
- Take a picture of yourself right now.
- Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
- Post that picture with NO editing.
- Post these instructions with your picture.
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