Tag Archives: Linux Information

BillBlog

50th entry!

Apparently, Bill Gates is going to start a blog — interesting, but I’m not really sure what to expect here. Great musings about how Microsoft will take over the world? Details on how he got a pie thrown in his face? This seems to me like a PR move for Microsoft — increase visibility of their chief architect to ramp up the already obvious visibility of the Microsoft name. This could also be a move to compensate for bad press. What better way to refute things than to blog about it as the chief software architect for one of the biggest software firms in the world?

I’ll wager anything he doesn’t talk (positively) about Linux. Oh, well — as long as it’s not called “BillBlog” or some stupid thing like that.

On an unrelated note, if anyone’s interested in setting up SETI@Home under Linux that hasn’t done so already, there’s an excellent tutorial on how to do it that provides both a binary and a cron file. It works, though it doesn’t use the latest SETI@Home version because later versions slow down work unit processing speed.

Linux and Love

Well, my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, autumn, now runs SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional, with some library upgrades and software additions. I’m finding this transition quite fun, and it’s convinced me that you can safely replace Windows XP with Linux. Though I admit that I have previous Linux experience which has assisted me greatly. The only thing not working at the moment is my laptop’s wireless card, which uses an annoying proprietary chipset (acx100, for those who are interested – I have yet to get the drivers provided by the ACX100/ACX111 wireless network driver project to work properly with the card, which I suspect is complicated by SuSE’s weird hardware configuration modules).

Other than that, I’m using Ximian Evolution (apparently now Novell Evolution), GAIM 0.78 for IM, xine for DVD playing, Mozilla Firefox 0.8 for browsing, and OpenOffice 1.1 for word processing. It’s working well.

On an unrelated note, I was watching CMT’s 100 Greatest Love Songs and one of the people speaking about one of the songs says the following:

“Oh, you can be in love with someone you’ve only known for a week and a half or a night… alcohol helps.”

— Unknown

How true, how true.