Intrepid Dreamer

Xineann’s review of Moblin

Sebastian — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:32:11 +0000

Celestial Cat provided by the author of the subject review.

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.

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

Sebastian — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:08:55 +0000

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

St. Cecilia, Patron St. of Musicians

Sebastian — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:07:43 +0000

File:St cecilia guido reni.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

She sang to God as she was dying, and there was certainly plenty of singing during the mass.

Curiously, X and I didn’t know it at the time, but having decided on the “return to our roots” approach to spirituality this weekend, we chose the St Cecilia’s Church not knowing it would be that saint’s feast day the very next day. It was more in celebration of “Christ the King” this being the last day of the year in the Catholic Liturgical calendar that drew us to the Roman Church in the first place.

There was a fair measure of spirituality involved, but the priest’s manner reminded me a bit too much of Felix Unger to not pass notice — he was overly fastidious about cleaning his Eucharistic paraphernalia after Communion.

Eternity of the moment

Sebastian — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:49:40 +0000

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

thank you and good night

Photo of Young Men Swimming and Some Sand

Sebastian — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:04:42 +0000

It’s always nice to get into the water after the sand.

If you want to see lots of sand

(award winning sand at that)

Symbolic Travel via Animated GIF

Sebastian — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:24:51 +0000

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

Huang Yimin, Forbidden City Series #11

Sebastian — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:16:11 +0000

imgfave | Huang Yimin, Forbidden City Series.

Seven Stars

Sebastian — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:03:35 +0000

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

I’m here instead

Sebastian — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:38:12 +0000

Map of the Voyage of the Argonauts

I’m tired of stumbleupon

Small text

Sebastian — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:31:28 +0000

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.