Siteground Cpanel
Published on December 21, 2009 at 8:02amEdit: my views on Siteground have changed.
ArchLinux vs. OpenBSD -- somebody else's perspective
Published on December 20, 2009 at 6:11pmI have talked about Arch and BSD and this that and the other thing a lot. I finally found somebody's perspective who used BSD and would compare it to that. I have seen a million people comparing some other Linux distro to BSD and saying BSD is so much greater, but I hadn't seen anybody compare it to Arch. Arch is way better (in my oppinion) than most other distros, so I was always wondering what a BSD guy would say about it.
3 Weeks (21 days), as of now
Published on December 20, 2009 at 5:06pmA long time ago, over a year ago, back when I was using Windows Vista, I would leave my computer on for about a week and would notice wierd things start to happen. The one thing that sticks out in my mind is the right-click menu thing. I would right mouse click and the menu would partially disapear when I hit escape or clicked elsewhere, but not all of it. It would never go away, and it was on top of all my windows, which was extremely annoying. The only way that I knew of to get rid of it was to reboot, which took time.
School Computer vs. Mine
Published on December 4, 2009 at 4:13pmToday I did a little testing of boot speeds at school. Here are the results:
School Computer (2.2GHz Dual Core Processor, 4GBs RAM)
Time to login screen: 36 sec
Time to fully functional comptuer: 72 sec
OS: Windows XP
My computer (2.4GHz Dual Core Processor, 4GBs RAM)
Time to login screen: 30 sec
Time to fully functional computer: 40 sec
OS: Arch Linux
The Great Debate -- Arch or *BSD
Published on December 3, 2009 at 7:32pmI have blogged twice on switching from Windows to Ubuntu to Arch (accidently), but I haven't blogged on Arch and BSD. I switched from Ubuntu to Arch while contemplating using some BSD distro. I had been stuck deciding between OpenBSD and Arch, but finally went with Arch because I thought you couldn't get Xorg on OpenBSD. Well, it turns out that you can have Xorg on OpenBSD. Thus, I went back and tried to decide whether switching to Arch was a good idea.
The Great Switch -- Ubuntu to Arch
Published on December 3, 2009 at 7:22pmNote: sorry... I didn't remember about my other switching to Arch Linux post. lol
As some of you know, I used to use Windows. Then I made the big switch to Ubuntu and absolutely loved it. Well, when I upgraded to version 9.10 a few days after the public release, I ran into a few annoyances like volume problems and started wondering why I chose to go with Ubuntu in the first place. It was probably because I had heard plenty about it and it sounded nice to me. I'm glad I chose to go with it. It gave me a good basis for knowing how Linux worked and everything. I probably would not be in the world of Linux today if I had started off trying to use Gentoo, but with version 9.10 I started thinking about why... why did I use it... is there something better... etc. I started "distro hunting."
Faulty radio; Must download file to play
Published on November 25, 2009 at 9:03amI decided yesterday that I was going to listen to the radio. I went to the Praise 106.5 and copied the link to the file (I tried both the itunes and windows movie player one, either should work though). I just couldn't get Rhythmbox to play it. It kept on comming up with errors like: "Could not determine type of stream" and "A text/uri-list decoder plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed." It refused to work no matter what I tried.
That's too easy; that's too hard. Hmm, that's better.
Published on November 24, 2009 at 2:17pmI don't know if anybody knew this... but I used Windows operating systems up till pretty much just about a year ago. I loved Vista and liked going in and editing system dll files to change this and that, editing the registry, and so on and so forth. I was content with Vista even though now I am not since I have seen the other options out there.
Here, have all of my passwords
Published on November 22, 2009 at 8:16pmI have a brilliant idea. Let me give out all of my passwords to you so that you can get all of my personal information, money, documents, etc. This idea is not really that weird of an idea. I know many people who give out their passwords in person, chat, email to another person. Yes, maybe the person is trustworthy and won't delete your stuff. What if they accidentaly do it? What if they have it writtend or recorded somewhere where somebody else finds it and doesn't really care about your data at all and deletes all of it for fun?