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I was get­ting ready for shower but before I do I like to check my mail. Look closely at my gmail screen! It’s freak­ing flipping!

My Gmail Screenshot

Okay I’m just pulling your legs. This tricks is reserved for Linux users like me. Yes, like me. haha­hah­haaha don’t mind me Win­dows users won’t have this fea­tures. Bum­mer! hahahaha

When Heroes sea­sons 3 TV series play­ing their cool trailer on TV, I was really excited! While enjoy watch­ing the trailer the music clip caught my atten­tion as well. The song is pretty good! I didn’t think for a min­utes that this song was from an Indone­sian band.

This Piano Rock band from Bor­neo, they are good! I think they have good influ­ences of Muse, Coldplay…

Take a lis­ten to it

Appar­ently, Star World uses Indonesia’s artist for entire 3 sea­sons of Heroes. I guess nei­ther Malaysia nor Sin­ga­pore was good for the job? Hehehe

The other song from Nidji from sec­ond sea­son of Heroes was Heaven. Per­son­ally, I like Shadow more. Any­way, I have got to admit this band makes their coun­try proud. Kudos to the band!

I have down­loaded Ubuntu 2 month ago when my moth­er­board was send for repair­ing. Thanks to Silvy for rec­om­mend­ing Ubuntu. This is in fact, my 3rd times in pass few years installing Ubuntu. The last 2 times I ditch the Oper­at­ing Sys­tem (OS) after installing it. I see no rea­son to install Linux sys­tem when am already run­ning Win­dows. Beside, the less eyes candy look­ing Linux did not turn­ing me on at all.

Installing Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was fairly easy and fast. If you have never touch Linux or Unix sys­tem for your entire life, it might take you few min­utes on read­ing doc­u­ments to get going (or maybe quit­ing LOL). For­tu­nately, all I need to do is Down­load, Burn the pack­ages as Image File and run as Live CD.

My Linux Desk­top — Water­falls shot taken dur­ing Xmas. Edited with GIMP.

Even on screen res­o­lu­tion 800 x 600 the User Inter­face (UI) look fairly cute to use and sim­ple basis desk­top envi­ron­ment can be bor­ing to some. I enable NVIDIA dri­ver for my 6600GT so I can finally see the cool effects. The fonts how­ever, very ugly *LOL* I install the True Type Fonts than copy my Vista’s font over (I don’t know why I did that!). If you do not have a proper set of fonts, all the web­site design which look good in Win­dows envi­ron­ment may look pretty bad in Linux.

Most day to day appli­ca­tion are already included in the OS. I installed Picasa 3 and Filezilla FTP client for my needs. Not so hard to do really! Famous appli­ca­tions for Win­dows can be found eas­ily through hack or from open source com­mu­nity. Sound are work­ing fine but I would pre­fer the sound con­trol like the one on Vista. The DVD player are not work­ing per­fectly though. Can’t fast for­ward, go in the menu, no adjust­ment can made dur­ing play.

This is my one week expe­ri­ence with Linux, 3 prob­lem I encounter. Inter­net con­nec­tion may stop work­ing if the sys­tem was inac­tive for some­time and if the PC was put on sleep mode, there is no way for me to wake up. Error boot up hap­pen some­time. I really appre­ci­ate the con­ve­nience of Update Manager.

Since I have 2 CPU, I am going to use Vista and Ubuntu con­cur­rently. The great thing about Linux sys­tem is the huge com­mu­ni­ties who shared and con­tributed their knowl­edge and idea freely.

Why use Linux? why use pirated soft­ware? There is huge poten­tial in Linux through devel­op­ment and learn­ing. I am sure to enjoy the learn­ing part and I guess this is the best Christ­mas present for 2008!

Happy Hol­i­day peeps!

I went for vis­it­ing today and had a great turkey meat! Yummy. Catch up with friends, took pho­tos, hug­ging and kiss­ing, it just so warm!

Cou­ple of sur­prises, I have want­ing to visit Bob’s water­falls for the pass 10 years and I did it today (to drive to his house took less than 30min and yes I took 10 years for today. She, she is back from the state and as usual she look stun­ningly beau­ti­ful. Than I met this short guy, I thought he seem famil­iar so I greet him and said “hey, you look famil­iar!” than he gave me few details and the mem­o­ries came back to mind. (Noth­ing spe­cial about this guy LOL)

I really enjoy myself today!

Merry Christ­mas!

I like to take this oppor­tu­nity to wish all my read­ers, friends, col­league, any one who knows me and every ones whom I have for­got­ten – wish­ing you and your fam­ily a Merry Christ­mas! (what about those who hates me? Erm good question)

Here’s my advice for those you wor­ried about next year, let’s eat all these turkey and burp. Think about it later. (Speedy Eric, you will agreed on this one don’t you? where’s my chicken?)

Merry Christ­mas to Obama!

This year I did not do any spe­cial card like the one last year. How­ever, since I have not trace back links for a long long time so here ya go Hope you get lot of traf­fic

Thank you Trav­el­ing Bra for mak­ing me a Christ­mas Hat!

My Hat!

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Till next time, Adious!

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