Linux

So I’m working away this morning on a few emails, and of course as the proud owner of a Logitech MX 1000, I love my mouse as much as a man can love a mouse, legally, inside the United States of America. But what does Edgy tell me, lo and behold?

It tells me that I need to recharge that bad boy. AWESOME. I fully approve of Edgy doing things that I find awesome without my need for extra configuration. Now we simply need to get people who also approve of things that are awesome working on the whole GL Desktop/Compiz thing so that awesomeness may abound. That would be… awesome.

Jorge says, it makes no sense.

Yet Jorge has a fine history of it.  Ain’t this one a beauty?  Comes off as a real even-headed individual who can keep his feelings separated from the issues, not to mention leading by example in keeping politics off his open-source-centric blog.

Way to go!

OK, so Jorge pointed me at a repository that had Banshee 0.11.0 which is good.  I installed it, I rebooted, it rocks the socks off the fox.  Plugins rule, mini mode rules, the podcasting support rules.

Speaking of podcasts, Jorge himself appears (appears?  In audio?) on a recent podcast on Linux.com talking about the Linux Terminal Server Project, which I am given to understand involves more rocking of pants.

So for days I’ve had to put up with Jorge spazzing about the new awesomed-up release of Banshee.  Well, I’d think, this does look pretty good, and having the plugin support easy to work with would be great, and would let me listen to a couple of awesome podcasts that I like, so why not?

So Banshee 0.11.0 is out now, and had been promised to totally rock your pants.  But of course I’m not running Edgy and there’s no backport for Dapper yet, so… no pants rockage.

Man, it’s like thinking you’re going to some awesome jamboree or something and it turns out to be a class on making macaroni pictures on paper plates which is being taught by a Buddhist hippy burnout who likes his Zoloft a little too much.

A very interesting link today, from a former Mac advocate who’s recently jumped ship entirely to Linux, mostly due to the Apple community. While I’m not a huge zealot in any real direction, I believe I can appreciate this. My experience with the software and hardware has been mostly reasonable, barring a few usability quirks that I find odd (why can’t I close a program with one click? WHY?).

From the article…

It has been my experience that the Mac “community” (ie, the most vocal and active of the Macintosh enthusiast and power users) tend to be incredibly negative and expect much more than they deserve.

I hate to say it, but that’s darn near my experience as well. Supporting the few Mac users we have here at work is a chore, as they expect white glove treatment when they have the smallest issues. Recently we discovered a problem with saving to AFP volumes on the network from Adobe products, causing them to crash. Turns out the problem was a known issue to Apple (and was patched in 10.4.7, thankfully) but when you tried telling the users this, it became an enormous issue of how we were somehow incompetent, and they wanted to call in an external consultant for outrageous billable hours.  Yes, let’s start getting attitude rather than saving to the desktop and dragging the document to a folder.  Perish the thought.
It just seems to happen this way.

Anyhow, welcome to the fold, Bryan, we’re happy to have you. And now the plans I had to move my wife over to a Mac Mini are on indefinite hold. She’s likely going to end up with a Dapper install and a Windows boot volume just so she can play The Sims when she needs to, and life will be a lot simpler from here on out.

Update:

Jorge’s being whiny, so here’s a link to their podcast.

I decided to try installing the Xubuntu 6.06 Beta 1, since my poor laptop is much older and could use a slimmed-down distribution.

This was the very first time an Ubuntu-based distribution failed to detect and configure my wireless card.  Not a good sign.

We all know our FujiP clan loves their svelte little laptops.

Now comes the reckoning:  Fujitsu launches 2.2-pound Q series notebook

So now what do we have to look forward to?  A FujiP with an eating disorder.

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As you can see, my new set of Breezy Badger CDs arrived today. 10 for x86, 5 for x86-64. I am a very happy man, and quite a few of these are coming to work with me tomorrow. Oh yes, the revolution is now, bitches.

EDIT: Anyone care to play Guess What’s On Matt’s Desk? Place your comments.

Yes, Breezy CDs are now available to pre-ship. I ordered a 10-pack today. I will begin salivating immediately.