Xineann’s review of Moblin

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It frequently lost its mouse, or froze to the tune of “It isn’t responding”, and I had time for my nails to dry between page loads.

Actually, this was only true for windows XP. The only reason I had for using windoze at all was because it was the only way to run Skype and video simultaneously.

I normally use eeeBuntu which is quite zippy on the eeePC. Unfortunately, and because the of Open Source reasons, Ubuntu runs an older version of Skype (2.0) which for some reason takes over the eeePC’s sound card completely so you can’t hear sounds from any other applications, but is otherwise quite fast. It does have a problem running Firefox quickly when looking at SU pages with Greasemonkey scripts, which is why I prefer to use Chrome on all available OS’s. Chrome only became available on Ubuntu recently and since then I’ve only booted up Windows once (for backup).

If you own a netbook, and you aren’t trying to maintain long distance relationships via Skype, I highly recommend eeeBuntu. It uses a full fledged Ubuntu configured for the Asus eeePC. You have the full range of applications available. The only downside is that on a 1024×600 screen some dialogs wander off the bottom of the screen on some applications making settings changes challenging when not impossible.

This is where Moblin comes in. Unlike eeeBuntu, it doesn’t try to be a full fledged OS. It offers a subset of OS functionality designed to run well within the hardware limitations of Netbooks and similar devices. This subset favors internet connectivity and social networking applications and the interface paradigm removes the need for a desktop and file system to organize one’s files. The assumption is that you will connect to social networks for content management and sharing rather than using hardware and software resources.

Why own a netbook at all you ask? I get a 5 hour battery life on mine and I can close the clamshell and stick it into almost any bag. Users are now spending more time on applications that can directly manipulate facebook and twitter rather than spreadsheets anyway and that need better communications rather than processor intensive computing hardware.

Moblin is designed to answer that need and I’ve enjoyed using it so far.

Filed under: Objects I Like , communications, computing, interface pradigms, linux

“Because it’s a long way home back to the place where we started.”

I am a bird now

Because it’s a long way home back to the place where we started.

Perhaps where it begins and ends should be as a meal

Perhaps the world is simply a meal punctuated by other events

The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.

The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on.

–Joy Harjo, Perhaps the World Ends Here

Perhaps Poetry is as much the soul’s nourishment as Experience

Filed under: Celestial, Poems I Like

Eternity of the moment

1x.com – Photo: Eternity of the moment by Jure Kravanja.

thank you and good night

Filed under: Objects I Like, photography , photography, relationships

Symbolic Travel via Animated GIF

We're going on a road trip today. Sort of like easy rider except in a red jeep and we shall avoid getting stoned in New Orleans (where we are not going to...)

 

thank you Serina for the grumpy bird

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Huang Yimin, Forbidden City Series #11

imgfave | Huang Yimin, Forbidden City Series.

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Seven Stars

 

 

Seven stars I saw, above that minaret
Unknown to unbelievers, till they finally set,
In slow and tortuous track with tightest harmony
Unfolding virtuously humanity’s regret.
Speak softly now, the crystal sphere’s ignominy
Shall last for but one day, and then recall us yet.

– Rajul ibn Mustafa

image courtesy of inciteful

Filed under: Celestial, Fake Quotes

I’m here instead

Map of the Voyage of the Argonauts

 

I’m tired of stumbleupon

Filed under: Parody

Small text

Oh captain, captain look! A ship is over there!
Oh captain, captain why do those folks stare?
You should know, my son, since they had sailed
They have since become ghosts whose lives had failed.

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Aporia

Aporia

I am completely uncertain about how to categorize this. For certain “rhetoric” comes to mind, as it is indeed the only honest category to explain this term. Unfortunately, Stumbleupon’s post-postmodern sense of Ironic Sincerity does not include such a category. The SU category system having been invented through an automatic process at inception, based on a collection of popular search terms in the late 1990’s, reflects a cultural paradigm of earlier pre-Web 2.0 users; one whose perspective is obviously not attuned to SU’s current userbase. (I note, with a sense of full postmodern irony, that SU’s owners and developers are younger than the average users.) So, since most internet users have only a dim perception of the word “rhetoric,” usually one in a pejorative sense as in “that’s just rhetoric!” implying pure form without any regard to content, we are left with a sense of modernist Angst; that a system of categories exists which does not include one of the principal disciplines of classicism. Should I ask that Rhetoric be more than just a tag and a full fledged category? Is this an imperative? Or should we just allow culture its due? Many questions.

Filed under: Objects I Like , rhetoric

Goddess/Consort Application Form

This is in response to this appeal.

7.1 Name: Venus aka Aphrodite, Ishtar
7.2 Photos: I got lots but this is my fav!

7.3: Height: 4 1/2 cubits?

7.4: Country of Birth: Foam on the Coast of Cyprus

7.5: How I found your website: I follow Mercury on Twitter

7.6: Some of my feelings about your lengthy message.

Relationship Status: Okay, it’s complicated. I have a husband who spends entire days tinkering with god gadgets such as flying horse drawn chariots, spears of lightning and drinking cups that never empty. I have a boyfriend who’s kinda hot but stupid and let’s his testosterone poison his brain everytime there’s about to be a fight then wanders off for several months. The last time this happened he was helping those UN guys look for WMD’s in Mesopotamia to see if they really could cause destruction and/or pestilence. Boy was he disappointed. He was in a blue funk over the whole thing for weeks and when we finally did get some hot action going it took all of three minutes. Bottom line: I’m really interested in this tantric sex stuff you keep going on about.

Spirituality: Uhm, well I don’t really do those 15 minute meditation things you mention. Wait! Do any of those involve masturbation cuz then it might be a yes. Oh! And I’m not a scientologist (phew!)

Body: *smiles*

Mind:

(No psychiatry. No mental disorders. No psych meds.)

Yup! None of that crap. Not sure about Bachelor’s degree though.

Social:

She is RELIABLE about phone calls and dates with me.

As long as I can find the right dress sure no problem. Let me tell you though that goddess hairstyles can take awhile to get right so this “reliable” business will have to be flexible okay?

Work/Vision:

She understands that the elite tyrants have reached an advanced state in the systematic imposition of their so-called “authority” onto the population of the entire world.

Boy don’t I ever! Actually I kinda know men are stupid about running things and get in the way of a good time.

She has the COURAGE to unite with and give her full Goddess support to a powerful man (me) who dares to believe that tyranny can be eliminated from the face of this earth during our lifetime.

Uh, okay, whatever…

Sexuality:

She believes in the light-filled MAGIC of sacred sex. She wants to utilize this magic to manifest our Global Vision. She realizes that her sacred sexual union with me is crucial for manifesting the Global Vision.

Actually I kinda invented the concept. I mean look at all that boinking going on! Not sure about the Light-filled though. Are you, like into kinky LED kinda stuff?

She is WILLING to surrender and be worshipped as a Goddess.
She is WANTING to surrender and be worshipped as a Goddess.
She is WAITING to surrender and be worshipped as a Goddess.

Been there, done that. Next!

My interest is NOT in controlling her, but rather in creating ecstasy in her

NOW yer talkin’!

7.7 Spiritual Practices: I like influencing mortals into the act of love. I know this deeply and it is in my very nature. I like playing footsies.

7.8. “Any objections you have to what I have stated in this web site, and/or things you might want to negotiate about.”

Actually I’m really just wondering about that “Light” thing you want to change everything for. Wait! Are you Prometheus? Is this some sort of candid-camera website thing? Cuz if you are I know this chick with a box.

7.9. “One or more questions you would like me to answer.”

Do you wear socks in bed? (I hope not!)

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