Just happened to be walking into Pick n Pay, Fish Hoek this morning/afternoon.. I hear this British accent and my friend and I are intrigued.
It so happens after I went to find out what the event and the festivity was , it's some bloke named Alan Marriott. If you have ever seen Darren Brown you will know what kind of person I am speaking about.
So this guy tells us that he will do a display there and then of a show that he is going to be doing on the 25th.
He whips three cards out of his pocket and tells my friend Richard to pick one, the cards have different shapes on them. Triangle, circle and square. After picking his card Richard is ordered to give me the other two cards he didn't chose and hold the chosen card flat down between his two hands. Then Richard gets told, after some eye staring etc that he is holding the card with the triangle.
Then he does it to the both of us, Richard picks the triangle again and this guy happens to KNOW that Richard MUST be trying to trick him.. he tells Richard this and then suddenly says Richards holding the triangle again. He was right. My turn. I chose the card with a circle, he was right again.
This is where he singled me out and says that when he tells me, I must put my hands behind my back and chose a number with my fingers. Richard stands behind me to make sure that I don't change the fingers I have chosen.
First time round he stares at me, deeply into my eyes and I choose the number two, by default my pointy and middle finger. He guesses two. He was right.
Second time round he tells me to "clear" my mind. I am not the type to really give into these hypnotic types. Anyways, while thinking about other random things, he stares deep into my eyes again and guesses correctly the number which I have chosen. Five.
Trickery? Magic? Skill? Power of suggest? Conscious suggestions? Subconsciously suggesting something to me, in order to subdue my will?
Not sure what to make of it.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Kuki Linux for AAO
So, I've been running gnome and eeebuntu on my AA1 basically since I got it..
I barely even gave Linpus a try, I am not really that much into those Fedora based distros.
The time then came when I realised that eeebuntu was really designed for the eee pc's.. even though it does support the AA1 quite nicely. I also realised that I didn't even really like the whole Gnome thing it had going down.
Gnome just isn't really my thing, it's too bulky and actually quite a bit monlithic. I think that's the perfect word actually. Almost sums Gnome up it it's entirety for me, just a personal thing I think.. I basically feel the same way about KDE too.
When you only have an 8 GB SSD drive who would want something as big as Gnome is anyways, and nice thing about eeebuntu is that it came loaded with Compiz and Open Office, which is nice, and I'd probably want to get Open Office sometime but for now I'm pretty darn pleased with my Kuki Linux installation.
Kuki Linux, basically based on the Kuki kernel from what I understand, specifically for the Acer Aspire One series. Once I had done a little bit of reading on this specific Linux distrobution it really appealed to me that it seemed so VERY lightweight. By default the window manager is Xfce, it comes with most of the Xfce applications packaged with it and it most definitely seems to me like it has a lot more customability for me than what eeebuntu ever had.
On another note, my wireless lights on my AA1 never worked when using eeebuntu, yes there was a hack for that which I just never bothered getting around to, I guess I should've but I just didn't. Now Kuki really impressed me this way.. upon installation wireless worked first time, and so did the lights (yay).. the sound worked 100%. (As a side note, my sound was never PERFECT when it came to eeebuntu, eeebuntu had so many options for my sound drivers and I never really knew specifically which one to use, I think it was ALSA but even once I had that one set.. now and then I would get some weird crackly sounds when playing sounds or music which really isn't what I wanted to hear :()
Right now, using Kuki I just have not heard those crackling sounds once, overall I am really impresseed. It books up really quick due to the fact that the kernel is packaged specifically for the AA1 series. Apparently the battery lasts longer too! Which is truly great.
Seems I have a whole lotta setting up to do from here on out though, in eeebuntu I had my Python setup already going with SPE as my IDE and all. But since I've done the fresh reset with Kuki I guess I really should start setting all that up again and getting my AA1 ready for development...
I barely even gave Linpus a try, I am not really that much into those Fedora based distros.
The time then came when I realised that eeebuntu was really designed for the eee pc's.. even though it does support the AA1 quite nicely. I also realised that I didn't even really like the whole Gnome thing it had going down.
Gnome just isn't really my thing, it's too bulky and actually quite a bit monlithic. I think that's the perfect word actually. Almost sums Gnome up it it's entirety for me, just a personal thing I think.. I basically feel the same way about KDE too.
When you only have an 8 GB SSD drive who would want something as big as Gnome is anyways, and nice thing about eeebuntu is that it came loaded with Compiz and Open Office, which is nice, and I'd probably want to get Open Office sometime but for now I'm pretty darn pleased with my Kuki Linux installation.
Kuki Linux, basically based on the Kuki kernel from what I understand, specifically for the Acer Aspire One series. Once I had done a little bit of reading on this specific Linux distrobution it really appealed to me that it seemed so VERY lightweight. By default the window manager is Xfce, it comes with most of the Xfce applications packaged with it and it most definitely seems to me like it has a lot more customability for me than what eeebuntu ever had.
On another note, my wireless lights on my AA1 never worked when using eeebuntu, yes there was a hack for that which I just never bothered getting around to, I guess I should've but I just didn't. Now Kuki really impressed me this way.. upon installation wireless worked first time, and so did the lights (yay).. the sound worked 100%. (As a side note, my sound was never PERFECT when it came to eeebuntu, eeebuntu had so many options for my sound drivers and I never really knew specifically which one to use, I think it was ALSA but even once I had that one set.. now and then I would get some weird crackly sounds when playing sounds or music which really isn't what I wanted to hear :()
Right now, using Kuki I just have not heard those crackling sounds once, overall I am really impresseed. It books up really quick due to the fact that the kernel is packaged specifically for the AA1 series. Apparently the battery lasts longer too! Which is truly great.
Seems I have a whole lotta setting up to do from here on out though, in eeebuntu I had my Python setup already going with SPE as my IDE and all. But since I've done the fresh reset with Kuki I guess I really should start setting all that up again and getting my AA1 ready for development...
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