techie stuff
Discovery #1:
I've finally done it -- after months of making noise about trying out Linux, I come to you now live from Linux Mint, an Ubuntu-based distro which is extremely aesthetically pleasing. *_* (that is to say: omg it's so BEAUTIFUL and SHINY and FAST and, and, and...) Because I like safety nets, I didn't jettison Windows entirely but did the whole partition-and-dual-boot thing as explained on roughly a thousand tutorial websites. Turns out this is good because battery life is noticeably less on Mint than on XP; otherwise I've been completely seduced thus far.
Discovery #2:
For anyone who regularly uses more than one computer: Dropbox is a MIRACLE, omg. *_* Like the name implies, it provides a file dropbox you can access via secure login from any computer with the program installed. So instead of emailing yourself 7 different versions of the same file as you keep making changes or messing with your USB drive out for a MEASLY 22K WORD DOCUMENT (...you can see that has always bothered me XD) you just pop into the dropbox and you're all set. For a variety of reasons involving a laptop that doesn't like Photobucket/LJ Photo/basically any photo uploading service and a printer that only has a PS2 port, this is a dream come true for me.
I keep meaning to post about Media Stuff; aside from catching up on reading real books I've seen a truly obscene amount of television over the last few weeks (Torchwood, Doctor Who, The West Wing, the new BSG episodes) while I hang around waiting on each successive step of the interview/application process for a Particular Thing. But that will have to wait for later, as ettezag, encouraged by the comment thread on my last post, is coming over in a short while to force the beginning of Merlin on me. Er. That came out a bit wrong but you all know what I mean.
p.s. hands up anyone who would read "arthur and merlin fall through the rift to cardiff"
I've finally done it -- after months of making noise about trying out Linux, I come to you now live from Linux Mint, an Ubuntu-based distro which is extremely aesthetically pleasing. *_* (that is to say: omg it's so BEAUTIFUL and SHINY and FAST and, and, and...) Because I like safety nets, I didn't jettison Windows entirely but did the whole partition-and-dual-boot thing as explained on roughly a thousand tutorial websites. Turns out this is good because battery life is noticeably less on Mint than on XP; otherwise I've been completely seduced thus far.
Discovery #2:
For anyone who regularly uses more than one computer: Dropbox is a MIRACLE, omg. *_* Like the name implies, it provides a file dropbox you can access via secure login from any computer with the program installed. So instead of emailing yourself 7 different versions of the same file as you keep making changes or messing with your USB drive out for a MEASLY 22K WORD DOCUMENT (...you can see that has always bothered me XD) you just pop into the dropbox and you're all set. For a variety of reasons involving a laptop that doesn't like Photobucket/LJ Photo/basically any photo uploading service and a printer that only has a PS2 port, this is a dream come true for me.
I keep meaning to post about Media Stuff; aside from catching up on reading real books I've seen a truly obscene amount of television over the last few weeks (Torchwood, Doctor Who, The West Wing, the new BSG episodes) while I hang around waiting on each successive step of the interview/application process for a Particular Thing. But that will have to wait for later, as ettezag, encouraged by the comment thread on my last post, is coming over in a short while to force the beginning of Merlin on me. Er. That came out a bit wrong but you all know what I mean.
p.s. hands up anyone who would read "arthur and merlin fall through the rift to cardiff"