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.
Written on November 11th, 2008 , Humor Tags:

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.

Written on November 5th, 2008 , Ubuntu Linux Tags: ,

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.
Written on September 23rd, 2008 , Fun Stuff Tags:

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