Hulleye Comes By!

so i guess my post finally inspired someone to convert. here’s his account of what he went through to get everything up and running. ahsan is an old friend of mine, and anything but a geek with very little knowledge of operating systems and hardware. as he has mentioned, all you need to know is how to use google. he forgot to mention some issues that he had with his power management and battery life, which he has also figured out using google. he actually tracked down a copy of ubuntu at www.ping.com.pk, so if anyone needs one they can get in touch with them or at linuxpakistan.net. the rest of you high bandwidth users outside of pakistan can just download a copy for free. and as mentioned, you guys can bug me about any issues or any reasons you all are hesitating to switch over.

i managed to install ubuntu(fawn), took me all of 15 minutes. which means it was pretty simple, and im a pretty basic pc user, used windows all of my computing life. didnt like the frequent blue screens, antivirus, cracks and so on. went to ubunto on a whim and i dont regret it. its easy to install with the live cd. one thing abbas will tell you is that root should be on a separate partition to home, in case u want to make changes to your os at least your data wont be wiped out. all you really need to know is how to google, and follow instructions, cause on the occasions you do have a problem, chances are there will be a detailed step by step guide on how to solve it. personally, everything worked out of the box bar the wireless, which was a problem, until i googled around, and searched up ubuntuguide,org which is a great resource. apart from that so far so good, i had a problem with the touchpad sensitivity, but i changed the configurations and it seems to be working better now. installing new applications is easy with the add/remove program. programs id recommend are amarok for music, vlc for video, deluge for bittorrents, skype for voice chat and amule for p2p. youll need to install these though. might need codecs, but again easily installed with the add/remove program. itll run all your office documents with open office. has a pdf reader. you can use gaim for msn/yahoo/aol/gtalk. for those who cant do without their windows applications, there is a nifty program called wine which is an emulator that runs well without being a resource hog. finally, i like ubuntu because i can mess around with it and tweak it to my liking with the added adventure of it all blowing up in my face(not really). a decent internet connection is recommended since your going to be downloading all your software. ask abbas for any help, im sure hed be willing. if anyone in pakistan wants ubuntu support they can contact me and i can point them in the right direction. linux isnt for the serious gamers. if anyone brags on about how pretty vista is show them the burning menus and the 3D desktop cube, and that should shut them up: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ

so animals from across the kingdom have some pretty weird mating rituals. here’s a list of the top 30 or so oddest rituals. think of it this way, the honey bee’s exploding testicles barely made it to the #30 spot. the list comprises of everything from hyena’s, to bonobo’s, to silverbacks, to garter snakes to the emperor penguins. discover all the goodness of nature here at neatorama.

so very few of you probably remember the japanese themed posts that i did a long while ago, from how to escaping your farts, the japanese toilet, the vending machines, and so on and so forth. i was astounged when i came across this video of this girl showing off her secretarial skills. it’s nuts. i mean i’ve seen some bank tellers count money about that fast, but nothing comes close to this sort of motion.

Following up with the millennium seed project, scientists are now about to write up an encyclopedia of life.

The Encyclopedia of Life project aims to detail all 1.8 million known plant and animal species in a net archive.

Individual species pages will include photographs, video, sound and maps, collected and written by experts.

The archive, to be built over 10 years, could help conservation efforts as well as being a useful tool for education.

“The Encyclopedia of Life will provide valuable biodiversity and conservation information to anyone, anywhere, at any time,” said Dr James Edwards, executive director of the $100m (£50m) project.

“[It] will ultimately make high-quality, well-organized information available on an unprecedented level.”

The vast database will initially concentrate on animals, plants and fungi with microbes to follow. Fossil species may eventually be added.

keep reading at the BBC.