I've decided to take a shot at using Linux for my desktop set at home and I've settled with xubuntu because of my love for xfce over and above any of the other window managers.
So far the installation has been great. I have a 2ghz machine which I am using with only 256mb of ram, definitely need an upgrade. 80 GB hdd should be plenty for now seeing as I've got my external 640. The computer seems to sporadically freeze whenever it deems itself unfaithful which I've still got to take into consideration and have a look at, not sure what that might be.
wxPython is my next roller coaster of learning, been doing tutorials and so on which has been a great learning experience for me. Buttons, textCtrls, bindings.. all very fun for me.
Work been learning and studying hard getting down and dirty with Drupal which has been much of a happy experience, I'm quite sure I'll be doing more Drupal websites in the future for work. For now, working on an accommodation portal. (As the rest of South Africa throws their bits in before the World Cup)
Trying to think of some kind of web listing/online business directory of my own to start running seeing as Pizza seems to be a bit stagnant for the time being and it would be a blessing to make a few pepperoni's and cheese. Any ideas?
Brief updates while sipping tea and eating my morningly dose of Pronutro.
Take Care!
[EDIT]
Oh.. and I found this this morning while trying to get my head around aptitude. Thought it was a good read/watch:
http://luv.asn.au/overheads/aptitude/aptitude-intro.html
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
What if...
Monkeys come from monkeys,
I answered the request,
It’s been this way since life began, I told my honored guest
And people come from people,
A mommy and a dad,
From these come another human, a little girl or lad.
These are the laws of nature;
Each produces its own kind,
With fences built around the species, no exceptions come to mind.
The engineer who designed each creature
With such love and care,
Placed infinite detail in each feature, all uniquely rare.
Voluminous information is in one cell,
Miniaturized and compact,
Details greater than math can tell, fixed in an unseen contract.
The DNA, the proteins complex,
Myriad parts, the pulse of life,
Nutritious feeding, the role of sex, between these necessities place no knife.
Add circulation, aeration, and elimination,
With quality control production,
At rates to one thousand times a second, division and multiplication.
All these and more must be in place
For life ever to be beckoned.
This demands an architect, a genius, a producer, it can be reckoned.
If Darwin could squint through an electronic lens,
If he knew what we know now,
His book on origins would 180 turn, to observable facts he would bow.
Did life begin in a dirty pond,
Struck by lightning, a coincidental event?
My friend, you know the truth: the odds eliminate such an accident.
Did the species evolve upward,
By mutation and by chance,
Each yielding on Darwin’s tree some elegant new branch?
From amoeba to tadpole,
From fish to walking on land,
From creeping thing to flying, from monkey’s grasp to hand?
Mutations are destructive;
It is always so you see.
That is why from Russia’s Chernobyl, all residents did flee.
Neither human observation,
Nor the strata of the rock,
Give a glimpse of one mutation raising the standard of life’s stock.
Where are the missing links, I ask,
Not one but the millions required,
To verify Darwin’s theory and by scholars to be admired?
Transitional forms don’t exist, dear scholar,
Because life didn’t happen that way.
It time to be honest with ourselves, and let truth rule the day.
Intelligent designer, artist supreme,
Who for a canvass employs a butterfly’s wing,
Lover of beauty and originality diverse, what shall we call you, if such a request I may bring?
My child, a kind voice answered,
With a hint of mystery and mirth,
Look in the book that opens, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
J. Daniel Lupton
2007
I answered the request,
It’s been this way since life began, I told my honored guest
And people come from people,
A mommy and a dad,
From these come another human, a little girl or lad.
These are the laws of nature;
Each produces its own kind,
With fences built around the species, no exceptions come to mind.
The engineer who designed each creature
With such love and care,
Placed infinite detail in each feature, all uniquely rare.
Voluminous information is in one cell,
Miniaturized and compact,
Details greater than math can tell, fixed in an unseen contract.
The DNA, the proteins complex,
Myriad parts, the pulse of life,
Nutritious feeding, the role of sex, between these necessities place no knife.
Add circulation, aeration, and elimination,
With quality control production,
At rates to one thousand times a second, division and multiplication.
All these and more must be in place
For life ever to be beckoned.
This demands an architect, a genius, a producer, it can be reckoned.
If Darwin could squint through an electronic lens,
If he knew what we know now,
His book on origins would 180 turn, to observable facts he would bow.
Did life begin in a dirty pond,
Struck by lightning, a coincidental event?
My friend, you know the truth: the odds eliminate such an accident.
Did the species evolve upward,
By mutation and by chance,
Each yielding on Darwin’s tree some elegant new branch?
From amoeba to tadpole,
From fish to walking on land,
From creeping thing to flying, from monkey’s grasp to hand?
Mutations are destructive;
It is always so you see.
That is why from Russia’s Chernobyl, all residents did flee.
Neither human observation,
Nor the strata of the rock,
Give a glimpse of one mutation raising the standard of life’s stock.
Where are the missing links, I ask,
Not one but the millions required,
To verify Darwin’s theory and by scholars to be admired?
Transitional forms don’t exist, dear scholar,
Because life didn’t happen that way.
It time to be honest with ourselves, and let truth rule the day.
Intelligent designer, artist supreme,
Who for a canvass employs a butterfly’s wing,
Lover of beauty and originality diverse, what shall we call you, if such a request I may bring?
My child, a kind voice answered,
With a hint of mystery and mirth,
Look in the book that opens, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
J. Daniel Lupton
2007
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Kevin's Noodles
(10:50:42 AM) Kevin: what i do
(10:50:47 AM) Kevin: is boil the kettle
(10:50:57 AM) Kevin: and break the noodles up into a lunchbox
(10:51:07 AM) Kevin: and put a little bit of the flavouring on
(10:51:11 AM) Kevin: and some extra spice too
(10:51:22 AM) Kevin: and then when the kettle is boiled
(10:51:30 AM) Kevin: i add enough water to cover the noodles properly
(10:51:42 AM) Kevin: and then straight away microwave them for two minutes
(10:51:47 AM) Kevin: then when that's done
(10:51:55 AM) Kevin: i get rid of all the excess water
(10:52:05 AM) Kevin: leaving enough to keep them moist
(10:52:14 AM) Kevin: and i mix the rest of the flavouring in
(10:52:20 AM) Kevin: and some more of the spice
(10:52:31 AM) Kevin: and i chuck a piece of bread on top to have with it
(10:52:33 AM) Kevin: :D
(10:52:37 AM) Kevin: i love it
... Enjoy!!!
(10:50:47 AM) Kevin: is boil the kettle
(10:50:57 AM) Kevin: and break the noodles up into a lunchbox
(10:51:07 AM) Kevin: and put a little bit of the flavouring on
(10:51:11 AM) Kevin: and some extra spice too
(10:51:22 AM) Kevin: and then when the kettle is boiled
(10:51:30 AM) Kevin: i add enough water to cover the noodles properly
(10:51:42 AM) Kevin: and then straight away microwave them for two minutes
(10:51:47 AM) Kevin: then when that's done
(10:51:55 AM) Kevin: i get rid of all the excess water
(10:52:05 AM) Kevin: leaving enough to keep them moist
(10:52:14 AM) Kevin: and i mix the rest of the flavouring in
(10:52:20 AM) Kevin: and some more of the spice
(10:52:31 AM) Kevin: and i chuck a piece of bread on top to have with it
(10:52:33 AM) Kevin: :D
(10:52:37 AM) Kevin: i love it
... Enjoy!!!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Hypnosis..? Power of suggestion..?
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.
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.
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...
Sunday, May 17, 2009
A new begining...
Let this be known..
If anyone was reading this post asynchronously you would've given up three minutes ago.
Reason being..?
I am starting the transition to the Dvorak keyboard from our good old friend QUERTY.
It feels like amnesia.
But going strong!
More news is that Epistle is up and running, apache, ASDL dual routing & lots more to come!
More posts to follow once I get the hang of the new keyboard layout.
Inspire me.
Post comment if you are a Dvorak brother :)
If anyone was reading this post asynchronously you would've given up three minutes ago.
Reason being..?
I am starting the transition to the Dvorak keyboard from our good old friend QUERTY.
It feels like amnesia.
But going strong!
More news is that Epistle is up and running, apache, ASDL dual routing & lots more to come!
More posts to follow once I get the hang of the new keyboard layout.
Inspire me.
Post comment if you are a Dvorak brother :)
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Web Africa's Service
I must say, briefly, that I am rather astounded by Web Africa's service this Saturday afternoon.
I emailed them about 15 minutes ago asking about the local adsl packages, as I'll be setting up a local Debian server for myself pretty soon ! (yay, more blogs about that to come. I'm sure.)
Within two minutes of sending off the query to Web Africa I got a reply, very pleasant mind you.
I will definitely be going with Web Africa when I start buying local gigs, and think about it. Something so simple, won me over...
I just wish that our other service providers were so on top of the game.
Don't you?
I.e. Telkom, and what about Vodacom? hey.. I could spend all day listing 'em!
Either way, let them be an example to the rest and as the mail said:
Have a pleasant weekend!! :)
I emailed them about 15 minutes ago asking about the local adsl packages, as I'll be setting up a local Debian server for myself pretty soon ! (yay, more blogs about that to come. I'm sure.)
Within two minutes of sending off the query to Web Africa I got a reply, very pleasant mind you.
Hi Zachary
Thank you for your inquiry.
"...Does that 10 GB roll over each month? Or if not all used, will the remaining vanish?"
It does not roll over. Ie. You receive 10GB per month regardless of whether you finish it or not.
Please let us know if you have any further questions
Have a pleasant weekend :)
I will definitely be going with Web Africa when I start buying local gigs, and think about it. Something so simple, won me over...
I just wish that our other service providers were so on top of the game.
Don't you?
I.e. Telkom, and what about Vodacom? hey.. I could spend all day listing 'em!
Either way, let them be an example to the rest and as the mail said:
Have a pleasant weekend!! :)
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