The ghost


from: http://xkcd.com/686/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mandriva 2009

Image
Last week, Mandriva released the 2009 version, because I'm a mandriva fan, immediately I downloaded the One- KDE ISO, burn it and installed in my old HP laptop ( PIII 1 Ghz , 256 Mb RAM, 20 Gb HD , Wi - fi card). The LiveCD run perfectly, show me the new KDE 4 desktop and made a clean install without problems (many others Linux LiveCD have problems just to boot in old hardware like this). I like to use a different partition for the /home, so my partition table looks like: / 5GB swap - 512 MB / geexbox - 100MB /home - rest Yes, I want to install the GeeXBoX , it's great for watch movies. Some good points are the new design, fast boot, the best hardware detection and many friendly menus to configure all. Remarkable is the improved URPMI , it is fast, now support simultaneous package download and the best part is the --auto-orphans option, this check for unused or broken packages and suggest uninstall , cleaning the systems even the kernel, removing unused drivers or m...
Read more

Old computers Dream

Image
I own a little old laptop (it was owned by a very good friend, traded in a perfect time for us). It's a HP pavilion ZT1114, PIII @ 1GHz, only 256 Mb in RAM, no battery, I recently change the HD. The computer is still working well, except for versions of heavy Linux can run but response time is slow. Long time I used in this machine Mandriva , from 2007 to 2009 releases, changing the default desktop to XFCE to save memory and optimizing the system, also I tried Puppy Linux and other minimalistic Linux distributions. But always I feel something missing, an ultimate Linux distro with fast performance. Until few weeks I noted the new release of DreamLinux , a Debian based distro with a pretty and fast desktop (XFCE). I had installed last week and after one week of use, I like it! Everything works well. The AWN bar looks like MacOS X. The Debian stability and large collection of packages. EasyInstall application is really useful. DCP-Control panel works well. Of course not everything w...
Read more