Marc O’Morain

Soup Dragon is Far Away, Chill is Close!

I was just reading Luis Villa’s Blog, and I found the best blonde joke, ever. (No Gordon, not better than Super Monkey Ball).

From today Google talk is able to talk to Jabber. Here is a picture of me in Google Talk and me in Jabber talking to each other.

I had just bought a new PC from Komplett. I installed Ubuntu last weekend, and last night I installed Windows XP Pro.

Installing Ubuntu was a case of clicking yes, yes, yes. It asked me a few questions about country and timezone, and asked me to set up a user account. All very standard. Installing Windows was very much the same. With both OSes I choose to configure my drive partititons myself.

Ubuntu booted fine, and I was online in seconds after logging in. My sound didnt work, so I played with the settings for a few minutes, gave up, and searched the web for my sound card. I found that the drivers were only checked into CVS in December last, so I may have to go without sound for a while in Linux, I don’t know how I will fix it. To load the Nvidia driver I have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and one occurance replace ‘nv’ with ‘nvidia’. Typical user-friendly Linux. I logged out and logged in again, and I was given the NVidia logo when X restarted. So all was working bar my sound, and Ubuntu did (only one) big update to get all the latest packages. I didn’t need to install any software, but I did need to know how to use the terminal and sudo to edit xorg.conf.

Windows booted, but didn’t detect my graphics card. Or my network card. Or my sound card. Luckily, my DSL modem router has a USB connection, so I was able to plug into that. Unluckily, I needed drivers, which I had on a CD somewhere. I was able to get online. I was then able to download (in this order) Zone Alarm, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, NVidia Drivers, (restart), Windows Update (restart), VLC, Windows Update (restart). I still have no ethernet network working. I was unable to find drivers for my graphics card on Creative’s website, I will see if a CD came with the PC later on tonight with the correct drivers. I still have more Windows Updating to do. I did not need to know how to use the terminal or sudo though.

Vlad Titov: lord of the rings has a scarely high rating, for its shitness

GIMP crashed recently, and I submitted the crash using Windows’ built in crash report tool. After the report I was led to the following webpage - how sweet is that?

I remember before when 3DS Max kept crashing, and froze my whole laptop. After submitting a few crash reports I had to log in as an Administrator for some reason, and windows popped up a message box telling me that the crashes that I had reported in the past had been casued by my ATI graphics card driver, and they pointed me to where I could download a fix driver from.