no ubuntu is not blowing up people’s laptops your people who just read headers and make up a story of your own.. (shakes head at you people). Its really the most popular linux distro if i do say so my self, since novell bought suse and made it an enterprise based distro it seems its level of popularity has sorta fell ( i still love suse though its really got everything, i’ve never plugged anything in to my suse book (i only have notebooks so i dont say box(pc)). and it never worked.

I love me some ubuntu, it comes in different flavors edubuntu, xubuntu, kubuntu (kde environ) ubuntu (gnome environ ftw :p). i’m on my second cup of ubuntu (second distro upgrade i started in breezy badger days and not from the first (warty warthogh) release.

there is only a few and when i say few i mean few things that i cant do in linux that i really can do in windows.

1.

I cant put mp3’s on my mp3 player because iriver is gay and made a pact with the devil (microsoft and mr billgates) so that the iriver T30mx cannot be used on any computer that doesn’t have windows media player 10. i thought all mp3 players were basically flash drive based.. why didn’t i go with the creative muvo i dont know.. :(..

2.

the other thing i cant do as of yet is use my qtek 9090 with my ubuntu setup it is a Pocket PC afterall. I’ve seen some lil talk of it on the ubuntu forums i might take a swing at it after i finally get ifolder up and running. my stressing project at the moment.. a friend of mine.. enigma got his ifolder up and running but the simias server has began bitchin so now no one can log in.. see enigma’s blog

Flash and linux really grinds my gears.. i got it working then all of a sudden (months after) my sound just went when playing flash files my life got miserable (i’m a youtube fanatic). yesterday i finally decided i must fix this. on fixing it i realized a bug, whenever i play a flash video that is triggered by a hoverover action script firefox freezes, this cant work, i mean i could be reading a really important article and then bam it freez’s and i dont remember the url to go back, total bullshit.

Gonna reasearch a fix for it later hopefully anyway its just a rant, back to gunxsword this anime pwns everything man.

Let me start this blog entry off by saying NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! mango parfrait (writer in tux monthly mag) what are you guys doing… i love this mag and read religiously every month.

I got an email about 2 days ago stating that tux will no longer be a free digital pdf monthly magazine but will become a subscribtion service, however they’re not mean, so they’ll continue to give the current subscribers (yayyy for me) there monthly fix for a few months and probably phase it out over time.

My questions is why?

Why the change, was it an overall loss giving the magazine away free? couldn’t they have explored other options to pull some form of revenue, maybe sell adspace in the magazine, using their user subscription base as statistics to show the demographic that the magazine attracts and is circulated to.

What am i gonna read when they phase it out eventually?

I dunno to be honest, i’ve been thinking about linux journal, as a physical magazine replacement for the digital tux. I know i dont wanna pay for a digital magazine i cant read it on the bus, i cant read it at the barber shop, i cant read it when i’m in the shitter (yes i read on the toire :p). So physical linux magazine for the win.

Do i really wanna pay for a digital copy of a magazine?

simply put the answer is definately no, i just hope linux journal can keep me interested. I need to speak to some people that subscribe to linux mags monthly and see the quality of the articles. before i make ne stupid subscriptions.

so after a day on the battle field of linux bourne again shells and changing runlevels to check if system updates were applied properly i sit, and type on the keys of my newly tamed ubuntu 6.0.6 dapper drake operated dell inspiron 6000. udated this crap using a 256mb connection yes it took forever 8hrs to finish downloading the update files anda bout 45 minutes to apply them. after that my wireless was broken and phpmyadmin wasn’t working properly, after digging through my conf.inc.php files for php myadmin and tampering with the blow_fish_secret variable i got php myadmin up, the wifi was way more trouble, tried bcm42xx-fwcutter but to no avail, turns out that it doesn’t support my card’s drivers (bcmwl5a.inf). so i ended up reverting to ndiswrapper. did this maybe 3 times before getting it properly, but next time my wifi breaks it wont take me more than 1 min to fix cuase i know it inside out :D, after all cli work i was in the mood for scripting so did some php work this lil project i got comming up (tshirt designs previewable via a website :D) and now i need to get food cause i haven’t eaten becuase of all this work from morning.

Cant seem to do anything thats video memory intensive on my system when in linux reason.. i only have 8mb worth of video memory, the stupid i915 agp card cant be set from the bios so i’m stuck with it as is, when in windows however it works in a dynamic nature, goes up if needed goes down when not being used.

the icy version of limewire, for nix.. finally set it up in my ubuntu partition so no more irc for simple things i could find on a simple p2p client god bless frost wire, found the how to on ubuntuforums.org, you’ll need java 1.5 first though the how to on that can be found in the ubuntuwiki.

I honestly dont burn cd’s that much.. who does… but i had to the other day and man was it hell, i ended up having to make an image with k3b and then sending the image over wifi to a friend and openning the image with deamon tools then burning hte contents to a disc.. k3b would not work, nor would gnome baker. today i fixed it though.. VICTORY IS MINE (in the words of stewie)..

pretty easy fix too, for the k3b fanatics, adding your self to the usergroup that k3bsetup uses to burn should be enough, but i did that and i still had some problems with the underlying app that kde uses (cdrecord), i ended up having to run this comand from the launcher (kdesu k3b) which is essentially runningk3b as root. after that kde worked fine.

now for gnome baker, this is what you do

um add your self to the root user group from the user admin dialog or you can do it via cli (as su: type adduser username groupname) then after that do

chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap

and with that gnome baker should be working.. my next test is gonna be with nero linux i’ll blog the details of that experiment.

so k3b doesn’t work and gnome baker doesn’t work (both are cd/dvd burning apps for kde and gnome respectively. the underlying problem is crecord the app that both applications use to write to the discs. it doesn’t seem to have the needed permissions to write the discs.. i honestly dont get why.. i’m thinking to go try burning a disc why logged in as root and see what happens (thing is i set the program group usage to root and it didn’t work.. this is quite annoying now.

same old kde big, bulky.. and alot of stuff i dont really need. i’m sticking to gnome.. >:p. gnomes interface just looks clean and sleek. i’m loving ever second of it. i’m quite convinced that linux hasn’t been so easy.. seriusly ubuntu seems easier than my days of suse 9.3. apt-get is my new best friend indeed.

on a serious note i forgot that i have a windows partition. every single thing that i would want to do on windows i can now easily do on ubuntu.. nothing is the problem no difficulty updating software anymore apt-get is a dream comethrough, its similar to gentoo’s emerge concept, who know’s maybe.. maybe i can get rid of the windows. let ubuntu take over the hd, esp with dapper drake comming up.. i cant wait.