Archive for May, 2007

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My ultimate geek dream machine

May 31st, 2007

…or machines.
I just had to blog about these! Feast your eyes on the visual and technological marvel that is mul
ti-touch screens!
Jeff Han’s original version
Microsoft’s own take
While I’m not always a fan of Microsoft’s “innovations” (since the first functional multi-touch screen has preceded them for more than a year) I think they really outdid [...]

Suzaku’s Upgrade, Dust, and Community

May 22nd, 2007

1. After almost 2 years, Suzaku (my desktop) finally got a much needed upgrade! Say hello to my fancy new monitor.

It was my first ever LCD monitor purchase, so I was quite anxious about it. Fortunately, everything went well, and got it working easily. Funny thing was that X on Kubuntu Feisty (through the Monitor [...]

Catching up

May 17th, 2007

Just a few quick updates:
1. My workspace obsession has finally ended, resulting in a new room layout. Although a new LCD monitor would probably make me redo everything. But now I’m more “focused” on making/finding a laptop stand.
2. MOTU “project” put on hold: with a lot of stuff getting in the way, I have [...]

The Distro Tour Project: openSUSE 10.2

May 15th, 2007

This is the first part in my Distro Tour Project, featuring openSUSE 10.2
Contents:

Installation
Hardware
Default Applications
Performance
Software Management
System Administration
Documentation
Other Special Features
Conclusion

1. Installation (3/5)
Installing openSUSE 10.2 is easy and very flexible. New or inexperienced users are presented with very sane defaults. At the same time, tabs or buttons give advanced users more features. One very neat feature of the [...]

The Distro Tour Project

May 12th, 2007

When Byakko (the laptop, originally called Takeshi Kaneshiro by my sister) finally arrived, I immediately grabbed the opportunity to do what I couldn’t do when I only had one computer: to test the different Linux distributions, specially the major, more famous ones. You might wonder why I didn’t choose the virtualization route, which would have [...]

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