W00T! Forgive my geeking out for a second. Mark installed
Ubuntu for me and I am totally blissing out. I had stopped using my own laptop entirely for a while, because I couldn't stand waiting for half an hour for my XP to boot up, and then waiting another half hour for whatever program I wanted to start up. It was annoying. I also didn't want to spend any money on buying a new non-Windows computer - I was getting pretty disillusioned with Apple's products - granted, I only have one iPod Mini, but that experience was enough.
There were a couple glitches, though. There was this one
major bug that had actually been filed last year that Mark had to write a script around. And there's some minor bugs, like printing issues. But Mark says he'll fix that up for me later. And he also warns that I'll have a hard time playing media, but there are workarounds. In the meantime I don't have anything to print, and playing around with this has been a lot of fun. I'm also excited about playing around with
GIMP, which is sort of like a Linux Photoshop clone. Everything loads up so quickly - I'm amazed.
South Park Mac vs. PC:
Other things:
I'm really looking forward to
Judd Apatow's new comedy
Knocked Up.
I'm terrified by this link that I saw at
Warren Ellis' blog:
Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
