The way the Internet Works

You know all these companies, spotify, I-tunes and the radio(I know it's not internet but it works in a similar way to spotify) they all have adverts! I hate adverts! You get them everywhere but just think how do these companies make money!

I'll tell you what would be good, an open source music program like spotify. If they could have something like that that could get past law then I would really be saying "WOW!"

I do like spotify and I do think it will suceed but If only (the world was made of sugar).

Spotify, an Itunes competitor

The other dy, on one of Leo Laporte's shows, he said that he wished he could have something called 'Spotify' in the US and I had a look at the site.
It is a program that works identically like Itunes.

I don't listen to music much so at the time I thought U-tube was fine for that kind of thing. Anyway, I ignored it.

A while later, my friend was using my EP and installed Spotify on it and was using it. I looked more into it at the time and started trying to create an account. But, when I was making the account I saw that it asked me for my valid postcode and I never like putting any valid private info in the cloud so I didn't. So, I ignored it. So, he installed it on my EP with his account and use it while he was there. I didn't remove it after that.

Then, today, I came across it when I was looking at my Wine Apps. I clicked on it out of curiosity and started using it. I love it. The search is very fast. It has hadly any adverts and a BIG database.

I have never used I-Tunes so I'm not soo good at comparing. If anyone who read this post knows which one is better, please tell me. Otherwise I am staying with and using this App.

Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala

Well, it's coming and I can't wait for it! Ubuntu 9.10 is coming fast. It has a few extra features like:

Faster Boot
Better Packages
And stuff I don't even understand.

I hope it will have less bugs than Jaunty though. You can get it early if you want at cdimage.ubuntu.com with UNR and all the other of the 'Ubuntu Family'. You can get it early if you want but I want to wait untill it's completely polished!

The Snow Leopard

I thought I should summarize the case of the Mac OS X 10 Snow Leopard. I have heard opinions before and after the release of the Snow Leopard and I waanted to turn them into one conclusion.

Ok, on the early release, Mac got a lot of attention for the release with news all over the cloud. So, every mac-user was happy, curios and could not wait to get the disk. Mac had caught a lot of attention and probably a few hundred more users.

So, they got the release, installed it and became completely annoyed beacause it almost looked exactly the same! But, apparently, the whole Mac undelayer had changed.

I think, that the main reason Mac did it was to get attention and also beacause they had improved it loads, I also think that after a bit of usage, people will see the diffirence between Leopard and Snow Leopard.

Os Wars

At the moment, everyone is talking about the OS wars between Mac, Linux and Windows, and here I have a little to say about it...

It is a stupid war, they all have pros and cons, don't fight, just get what's best for you and be hapy with it! Linux's advantage is it's open source freedom and virus proof stuff. Window, well, windows... has... popularity and cheapness?
But then Mac, Virus Proof, good hardware but expensive.

I just say again, get what you need, be happy with it and Shut Up!

Ubuntu-Mac

Hello, here I am again, and this time I have an Mac-style ubuntu, a while back I poseted a link on twitter (grizato) but lately I found this:

http://mihirknows.blogspot.com/2009/05/turn-ubuntu-jaunty-into-mac-osx.html

I can tell you it is so cool, it took me 4 OS reinstalles to get it working but I loved it! I love mac, but for me at the moment it's a little hard to get so I just got the looks!

UNR, Ubuntu Netbook Remix

After Easy-Peasy I moved onto UNR, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, A more updated and official Version of easy-peasy. I prefered it to tell the truth, apart from the fact that everything looked the same!

I carried on with it and had the same problems if not more that I had had before. But this time I managed to fix them with bit of forum research. The Worst Problem I had was when the Classic Desktop came up with no toolbars.

I fixed that by editing the startup APS and adding gnome-panel and gnome-wm. That fixed it perfectly and I was Ok running the Classic Desktop Mode.

My EP continued: easy peasy

Here I'll tell you a little more and perhaps the rest of what's happening with my EP.

After I was finished with Xandros and ready to move on to something else I found out about 'Easy Peasy', Ubuntu for netbooks. After a bit I managed to get it and learned how to turn the .img file into a bootable USB stick using a pre-installed ubuntu AP called something like USB disk creator (if your using this as a tutorial, I probably got the name wong and I think for .img's you need another AP on the ubuntu site) and put it on a USB. Then I put it on my eeepc and started it up.

I was quite pleased to have Ubuntu for a change and was surprised at the way the netbok desktop worked but I prefered the classic ubuntu desktop so I switched to it. From then on it worked fine untill I rebooted and...

The toolbars didn't load, I got the background image but that was all. I tried several things but I couldn't fix it. So, I reinstalled the OS, I know that sounds a bit drastic but I did it and this time I just used the netbook-style desktop.

That worked out OK and I used it for a while happily. Untill another problem arose, when I reebooted it would ask me for the wireless rooter password and a linux keyring. But, something went wrong one day when the keyring password didn't wok and I couldn't do anything so I just gave-up with easy peasy and moved on to...

Kubuntu

I'm gonna pause on the EP for a poll or two because I want to cover Kubuntu.

Not long ago I was in Wikipedia and I was looking at Ubuntu and I followed a link to the Kubuntu page. I liked it because it looked a bit like Vista. So I downloaded the .iso and burned it.

I tried it out on my 8 gig and It installed nicely. I started using it but the annoying thing was that it had very few basic APS so I got them and for me it was quite easy and I didn't mind beacause I liked doingthat kind of stuff.

Then somebody asked me if I could put ubuntu on their computer and since I had the kubuntu installer, I put kubuntu on it knowing that they wouldn't mind much.

At first it was kind of OK after I'd apped (put APS on) it with a few basics. But after a bit, the person who was using it started to get annoyed about all the incompatibility with normal ubuntu programs (the funny thing is, another person who had Kubuntu8 said that it should be very much ubuntu-compatible).

So, after several annoying problems, the person decided to just get ubuntu and that wasn't too hard to do. I just had to change the hard disk from computer to computer and back again.

So, I suppose the only thing I like/ed about kubuntu was the looks. But apart from that, Kubuntu9 was problematic for me.

My EP and Xandos

Here is a picture (not taken by me!) of my eeepc 901 and here I'm going to tell about Xandros.

When I got my EP, it had Xandrox on it and I liked it, it was OK apart from the fact it didnt have a proper desktop! It was mor like a mobile phone main menu!

Anyway, I was picky about it but since it wasn't so bad, I left it untill I (well, me and somebody else) found out about Advanced desktop mode, like Xandros but moe windows look orientated.

I liked the look of it so the guy who found out about it and I spent a few hours (a while) getting it onto the EP and we manged it. I liked it a lot and quickly learnt alll about all the menus and controls and all that fun stuff.

Then, after a while, I started looking for a way to put Windows APS onto it beacause most of my favourite programs were either only Windows compatible or Windos/Mac.

So, I looked around, and in about 5 seconds, I found something called Wine, a program to run Windows Aps on linux. Which was just what I wanted. The website info all looked fairly complex at first, but I managed to get my head round it, in about 30min I was running Wine.

It was great, I could now run Windows APS on my netbook and immediately I began getting game of the Internet to play!

Then I used my EP for a good while longer reinstalling the OS every so often (when it acted up!) and got a good shot out of xandros (Untill another idea popped into my head!). Well, that's all I'm gonna say in this blog, I'll tell you more about this shiny (with a bit of dust) piece of junk next time!