Wow. That was terrible.
I thought unveiling the Xbox 360 on TV instead of at E3 was a nice idea, because most people don’t get to attend E3.
But this wasn’t a console unveiling. They didn’t show much at all. Somehow they managed to produce 30 minutes of TV without actually doing anything.
I talked about podcasting (radio shows put online for automated downloading and listening on MP3 players anytime) a few weeks ago. Since then, podcasting has become even more popular, and the amount of content available has exploded. Sites like Podcast Alley help sort things out, but there are some great shows that are rated lowly on Podcast Alley – everything’s so new and still trying to find its audiences.
So I am expanding my podcast subscriptions to sample more programs in areas of interest to me, and then contracting by cutting out the stuff not worth my time, then expanding again for the next wave of new stuff. There’s lots of room for better word-of-mouth advertising, so I’m going to share my findings here. Hopefully it will help steer people to good podcasts (and away from crap).
One of the shows I’ve begun listening to (but has been around for a while) is LugRadio. LugRadio is a show about the Linux operating system and related software. The hosts are a quartet of crass Brits, who tend to start segments with good intentions before devolving into silly chaos. I’d be tempted to call it Python-esque, though doing so would probably just reveal this American’s ignorance in British humor on the whole. In any case, the humor seems sincere, rather than forced. Whether it’s establishing “pi” as a legal score on a 5-point rating scale, or responding to someone’s complaint about “language” (intending foul language) by speaking in “f–king clicking noises”, there’s always some unabashed nonsense in the hour’s time between start and finish.
It works, though, because there’s content among the insanity. The last episode contained a great interview with the President/CEO of Linspire, and actually kinda sold me on their place in the Linux ecosystem. The show before that had an excellent interview with a usability guru from the GNOME project. Always something interesting to hear.
LugRadio is much more entertaining than more typical (read: stuffy) tech-oriented shows. Definitely not “work safe”, but with the help of some headphones, it helps pass an hour of my work week more quickly.
There is an attractive young female in the undergraduate C SCI program.
With burgundy red hair coloring, no less.
I’m tempted to ask her what the hell she’s doing here.
She seems fairly popular with the domestic undergrads, surprise surprise.
Two weeks left before finals, and counting. Much work to be done in the meantime.
I’ve sacked my desktop computer, and am using my laptop computer plus my desktop LCD in a dual-screen setup. Very neat. Only catch so far is that ATI’s video drivers for Linux, fglrx, don’t support two displays using different resolutions in Dual Head mode. I get distorted video on the second screen. Yet, if I use Big Desktop mode, it works fine (but I don’t want Big Desktop mode, because I want windows to maximize to only one screen).
I recently discovered Microsoft’s OneNote software. It’s the note-taking software I’ve been looking for for years. So I’ll be using Windows pretty frequently until I can get OneNote to run in Linux using WINE or Crossover Office or something (maybe I’ll go so far as to set up a VMWare environment, though I’d prefer something without so much overhead).
I have to say, Windows has managed to be very tolerable for me, thanks to some of the software I’ve been using to keep it hassle free. I just wish I didn’t need to always commit so much RAM to virus protection and spyware protection and so on.
Just installed Ubuntu back onto this machine. The “kubuntu” packages give me a KDE desktop in Ubuntu without so much hassle, though the packages still have a ways to go. Lots of improvements on the Ubuntu front – it could conceivably end up as my “permanent” distro.
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