Taken from our living room, through the window, no post-processing.
Frozen Street Light
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Daily Archives: December 6, 2010
Ubuntu 10.10 Looking Spiffy on our Acer Aspire One
I’ve upgraded our household netbook to GNU/Linux Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10, from 9.04), and the latter is now the default boot-time option instead of Windows XP.
Twenty of the drive’s 160GB are dedicated to Linux, as ext4. The rest is divided between the legacy NTFS partition for Windows, and another partition (~5GB) with Acer’s eRecovery tool, so I can reset the machine to factory defaults if ever needed. Since I was able to resize the partition dynamically right in the installer, I didn’t even need to move the files we had under Windows. The NTFS partition mounts in full read/write mode, so why bother for now?
Teagan (11) has been using it for a few days now, with Chromium/Chrome as his default browser and VLC as his default media player. The latter two being the apps he spends 99.9% of his time in.
For the record, I did try Ubuntu Netbook Edition, but I couldn’t get used to the dashboard-type UX, being a long-time Gnome user… The rest of the family would have probably been fine with it, but I figured I’d stick with the original for now. We can install the netbook remix interface on top later anyway.
Laundry Sphinx
Laundry baskets need protection? Never fear, Geronimo is here.
♬ Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow ♬
That’s what up in my Montreal backyard at the moment. Glad I didn’t have to pickup the kids by foot tonight. It’s really not *that* bad for our part of the World, and it’s so pretty. Plus, when it snows, it’s never really that cold either (all things considered).
Google eBookstore is Live (in the U.S.)
Pardon the analogy, but I think my wife might actually have an intellect-gasm when she finds out (and once it’s available in Canada). :p
Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and search through the largest ebooks collection in the world with more than three million titles including hundreds of thousands for sale.
Source: Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices
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