I just finished installing Ubuntu 8.04_1 LTS on a friends computer. They have had enough with Windows inparticularly Vista. The installation went smoothly. No hiccups from the wubi installer. In no time my friend had ubuntu up and running, and boy she loved it. She adapted easily to gnome the desktop, found OpenOfiice 2.4 easy to use and was using firefox 3 to do her browsing.
So phase one is now complete. She plans on spending the next couple of months getting use to the environment and is willing to put in the time to save her multiple hours she would have lost on Vista.
Phase two will be a complete removal of Vista. Running XP in a virtual machine for must have software.
For those who don’t really care about Green house emissions.
Happy Carbon Belch Day
Information Week Article
The methods people go to voice an argument.
A pity it’s not April Fools Day.
I’ve finally taken the full plunge into Facebook after friends and family found my account.
I am amazed at how easy it is to track down lost friends from years ago. Friends I went to Bible College with, who live oversea, old family friends, teacher even.
I consider Facebook to better than Myspace. it also seems to attract a more mature crowd.
So to those Facebookers out there. Happy Social Networking.
Council’s these the days are now going to great lengths to insure that we are recycling and doing the right thing with our waste. The problem I have is the lengths that some Council’s are taking to ensure we comply with their recycling Policies. TI-RFid has now been inplmented in Ryde and Randwick councils; see the SMH article on Tracking device on bins ensures residents chip in. This will be used to measure the weight of bins, time of collection of bins.
“But the councils insist they are not spying on their residents’ waste habits, or planning to use the technology to increase waste levies in the future.
They say they are using the data to help identify areas where people are not recycling enough.”
“Bin weight data will help identify average bin weights by type and suburb. This information will also be used to develop waste education material,” a Randwick City Council spokeswoman, Alexandra Power, said.”
What this shows is that council’s believe they need to monitor their residents as they can not trust them to do the right thing. This could show that Council’s are trying to measure usage with the aim to charge more on the customer if their waste is high. Well only time will tell. Will be interesting to watch its progress and whether other waste services and Council’s will adopt similar strategies.
