Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Conservapedia gives you the straight goods I tells ya
I've officially abandoned Wikipedia - it's just brimming with falsified entries by American bashing far-left types. Each article hosted in this faux encyclopedia is just replete with factual errors and anti-democratic vitriol gathered from Anti-Semitic literature and moldy copies of Pravda. Take Global Warming for example, the Wikipedia entry for this does not even discuss the concept of liberal science conspiracy or leftist control of granting agencies which only fund pro-Global Warming research! How can we take a Global Warming article seriously that doesn’t raise the serious dissident viewpoints advanced by scholarly sources such as Fox News? So, where does one turn to for an online encyclopedia that delivers the straight-goods? Conservapedia of course!
Don’t let the liberal media tell you what to think!
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Share your bloglines feeds
Hi folks,
You can easily share your RSS feeds in bloglines with others by selecting "Share" on the main page then posting a link to your blog with the public URL that appears on this page. My public feeds can be found here http://www.bloglines.com/public/homanca. I've also added a link to my sidebar.
a.
You can easily share your RSS feeds in bloglines with others by selecting "Share" on the main page then posting a link to your blog with the public URL that appears on this page. My public feeds can be found here http://www.bloglines.com/public/homanca. I've also added a link to my sidebar.
a.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Adding Feeds to Bloglines
1. Click on the "feeds" tab on the far left of the page and "add".
2. Enter the URL of the blog you wish to add to your feeds and hit "subscribe".
3. In this instance there are two types of avaialbe feeds: atom or rss - check mark one or the other (it does'nt matter which). Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and "subscribe".
Adding links to your sidebar
- On Blogger’s dashboard under “Manage” click “Layout”.
If you don’t see “links” already on the layout page click “add page element” and add click “Add to Blog” under “Link List”
Create a title for the new link element such as “My Links”, then add links by copying your link into “New site URL” , and add a name under “New Site Name”.
Either hit "Save Changes" if you are done adding links for now, or simply "add link" to continue adding links. (you can add more links later on by clicking 'edit' next to 'links' on the layout page later on).
Thursday, March 01, 2007
waterfront revitalization
"...The misfortune of that area is that nothing ever succeeds there, nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Gestures hang in the air, movements are prematurely exhausted and cannot overcome a certain point of inertia. We have already noticed the great bravura and prodigality in intentions, projects, and anticipations which are one of the characteristics of the district. It is in fact no more than a fermentation of desires, prematurely aroused and therefore impotent and empty. In an atmosphere of excessive facility, every whim flies high, a passing excitement swells into an empty parasitic growth; a light gray vegetation of fluffy weeds, of colorless poppies sprouts forth, made from a weightless fabric of nightmares and hashish." - Shultz, The Street of Crocodiles
Learning 2.0
Howdy 2.0'ers
OK. You may have noticed this is my first blog entry in some time. Well, around december I ended up getting into facebook, which made the blog somewhat redundant, but I've decided to start using it again for Learning 2.0 and i'll be posting some responses to some of the more frequently asked questions I receive. If you have not already done so, I would suggest that you add your group members RSS feeds once you set up your google rss, or bloglines accounts. It's a great way of keeping up to date with your group members blogs!
a.
OK. You may have noticed this is my first blog entry in some time. Well, around december I ended up getting into facebook, which made the blog somewhat redundant, but I've decided to start using it again for Learning 2.0 and i'll be posting some responses to some of the more frequently asked questions I receive. If you have not already done so, I would suggest that you add your group members RSS feeds once you set up your google rss, or bloglines accounts. It's a great way of keeping up to date with your group members blogs!
a.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Favourite 2.0 technologies
Today, I thought I would share a couple of my favourite web 2.0 applications at the moment, so here they are:
1. Protopage (www.protopage.com) - A personal web portal that is highly configurable, and allows users to create multiple tabbed portal pages with varying access permissions. With Protopage it is possible to have a private homepage with all the inboxes of your various email accounts, personal bookmarks, RSS feeds, games etc. and have similar pages that you can password protect for invited access or create public pages and share your favourite bookmarks, RSS feeds...
2. Pandora. (www.pandora.com) - Internet Radio that allows its users to create, share and save their own stations, and it’s free! As you add particular songs or groups to an individual station's play list, the Pandora engine will suggest (and play) other groups or songs that are similar (which you can either accept or reject from your playlist). Build, customize and share your own radio stations!
1. Protopage (www.protopage.com) - A personal web portal that is highly configurable, and allows users to create multiple tabbed portal pages with varying access permissions. With Protopage it is possible to have a private homepage with all the inboxes of your various email accounts, personal bookmarks, RSS feeds, games etc. and have similar pages that you can password protect for invited access or create public pages and share your favourite bookmarks, RSS feeds...
2. Pandora. (www.pandora.com) - Internet Radio that allows its users to create, share and save their own stations, and it’s free! As you add particular songs or groups to an individual station's play list, the Pandora engine will suggest (and play) other groups or songs that are similar (which you can either accept or reject from your playlist). Build, customize and share your own radio stations!
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
not much of a new post
this is not a new post at all. for some reason my contact info doesnt seem to be showing up after i've added it to my profile? Well, if you know the answer to this problem make a comment or reach me on msn or hotmail at: alexh9 at hotmail.com
Friday, August 04, 2006
HRW report on Israel
Human rights watch has released a report detailing the serious crimes being committed by Israel's military, at the behest of the civilian leadership, in full view of the international community. The Canadian governments position has not changed, Israels destruction of Lebanon and Gaza, is still "measured". view the entire report here
Monday, July 31, 2006
Food Not Bombs London: Stop the War in Afghanistan!
Food Not Bombs London: Stop the War in Afghanistan!
Description:
Food Not Bombs London is looking for volunteers for Friday August 4th, and Saturday August 5th to assist in our participation at the CIRCA Rally against the war in Afghanistan. Friday we will be procuring and preparing food for the rally occurring the following day. Saturday where we will be serving, leafleting, and supporting the rally against Canada’s war in Afghanistan along with London’s Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA).
Where/When:
Food Preparation for Saturdays Rally:
Friday August 4th, 2006 6 – 9pm. 256 Grey Street (Grey & Wellington).
Rally:
Saturday August 5th, 2006 1 – 3pm. Mcmahen Park (Pall Mall & Adelaide). march begins starting at 1pm at Mcmahen.
IF you have:
food donations
Plates, bowls, forks
sharp knives & cutting boards
to donate, contact us!
OR:
Come out and join FNB for the preparation on Friday August 4th (6 pm – 9pm) at 256 Grey Street, or for the Rally August 5 (1 - 3pm) at Mcmahen Park and support preserving Canada’s traditional role as PEACEKEEPERS not warmongers.
If you can help out email ASAP foodnotbombslondon@hotmail.com . Thanks,
Alex Homanchuk .
Description:
Food Not Bombs London is looking for volunteers for Friday August 4th, and Saturday August 5th to assist in our participation at the CIRCA Rally against the war in Afghanistan. Friday we will be procuring and preparing food for the rally occurring the following day. Saturday where we will be serving, leafleting, and supporting the rally against Canada’s war in Afghanistan along with London’s Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA).
Where/When:
Food Preparation for Saturdays Rally:
Friday August 4th, 2006 6 – 9pm. 256 Grey Street (Grey & Wellington).
Rally:
Saturday August 5th, 2006 1 – 3pm. Mcmahen Park (Pall Mall & Adelaide). march begins starting at 1pm at Mcmahen.
IF you have:
food donations
Plates, bowls, forks
sharp knives & cutting boards
to donate, contact us!
OR:
Come out and join FNB for the preparation on Friday August 4th (6 pm – 9pm) at 256 Grey Street, or for the Rally August 5 (1 - 3pm) at Mcmahen Park and support preserving Canada’s traditional role as PEACEKEEPERS not warmongers.
If you can help out email ASAP foodnotbombslondon@hotmail.com . Thanks,
Alex Homanchuk .
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Canada to Israel "Go right ahead"
For those reading the papers today, the message that Canada has sent to Israel should, by now, be very clear now. Yesterday Israel’s Justice minister said that world leaders, in failing to call for an immediate cease-fire during the Rome summit, have given Israel a green light to push harder to wipe out the Lebanese guerrillas. While Israel continues to expand its bombing of Lebanon, it now has the green light to prepare a massive ground invasion of Lebanon. Preparations have begun in earnest, as Israel has announced its plans to call up 30,000 reserves to begin training.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday "everyone understands that a victory for Hezbollah is a victory for world terror". It's striking to see how closely our two Prime Ministers think. The Canadian government’s position mirrors that of Israel/US, which is despite the many dead and seriously injured Canadians, the situation does not merit a ceasefire. Whitehouse Press Secretary (and former FOXNEWS radio host) Tony Snow released a statement yesterday: "A ceasefire that would leave the status quo intact is absolutely unacceptable. A ceasefire that would leave intact a terrorist infrastructure is unacceptable. So what we're trying to do is work as best we can toward a cease-fire that is going to create not only the conditions, but the institutions for peace and democracy in the region."
The evacuation of Canadian-Lebanese citizens continues. The evacuation beginning 19 July to 25 July has thus far evacuated 8,739 citizens to Cyprus, Turkey or back to Canada. At this current rate, barring any further complications, it will still be several weeks before most of the estimated 40,000 citizens are completely evacuated. Potential complications are IDF harassment of refugee transports such as holding up ships for hours at a time -- reminiscent of the checkpoints many Palestinians have endured daily. This form of continued harassment is common despite Certificates of Safe Passage issued by the Israel Defence Forces for the international evacuation effort.
Expect more casualties. With such a large contingent of Canadians remaining in Lebanon as Israel further expands and intensifies its bombing of the country the likelihood that we will see further casualties is a near certainty. The recent bombing of a UN post, killing one Canadian, was condemned by Kofi Annan as "possibly deliberate" as dozens of desperate calls were placed by the UN observers at the post to the IDF to cease the attack. Israel’s attack continued during the rescue effort immediately after the bombing. The same disregard has been shown to Lebanese as they attempted to escape on bombed bridges and roads and are routinely targeted while fleeing. The IDF's continued disregard of civilian life will certainly continue to contribute to a quickly rising body count.
As the death toll grows exponentially, how will Canadians respond? So far the government has explicitly given the green light to Israel to continue the reckless bombing of civilians and crucial infrastructure unless it's politically impossible demands are met. It is not just the Canadian government that supports this destruction. Canadians are shown to be evenly split on Stephan Harper's stance on Lebanon according to an Ipos-Reid poll released Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday "everyone understands that a victory for Hezbollah is a victory for world terror". It's striking to see how closely our two Prime Ministers think. The Canadian government’s position mirrors that of Israel/US, which is despite the many dead and seriously injured Canadians, the situation does not merit a ceasefire. Whitehouse Press Secretary (and former FOXNEWS radio host) Tony Snow released a statement yesterday: "A ceasefire that would leave the status quo intact is absolutely unacceptable. A ceasefire that would leave intact a terrorist infrastructure is unacceptable. So what we're trying to do is work as best we can toward a cease-fire that is going to create not only the conditions, but the institutions for peace and democracy in the region."
The evacuation of Canadian-Lebanese citizens continues. The evacuation beginning 19 July to 25 July has thus far evacuated 8,739 citizens to Cyprus, Turkey or back to Canada. At this current rate, barring any further complications, it will still be several weeks before most of the estimated 40,000 citizens are completely evacuated. Potential complications are IDF harassment of refugee transports such as holding up ships for hours at a time -- reminiscent of the checkpoints many Palestinians have endured daily. This form of continued harassment is common despite Certificates of Safe Passage issued by the Israel Defence Forces for the international evacuation effort.
Expect more casualties. With such a large contingent of Canadians remaining in Lebanon as Israel further expands and intensifies its bombing of the country the likelihood that we will see further casualties is a near certainty. The recent bombing of a UN post, killing one Canadian, was condemned by Kofi Annan as "possibly deliberate" as dozens of desperate calls were placed by the UN observers at the post to the IDF to cease the attack. Israel’s attack continued during the rescue effort immediately after the bombing. The same disregard has been shown to Lebanese as they attempted to escape on bombed bridges and roads and are routinely targeted while fleeing. The IDF's continued disregard of civilian life will certainly continue to contribute to a quickly rising body count.
As the death toll grows exponentially, how will Canadians respond? So far the government has explicitly given the green light to Israel to continue the reckless bombing of civilians and crucial infrastructure unless it's politically impossible demands are met. It is not just the Canadian government that supports this destruction. Canadians are shown to be evenly split on Stephan Harper's stance on Lebanon according to an Ipos-Reid poll released Sunday.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Food Not Bombs London: Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza
Food Not Bombs London: Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza
Food Not Bombs London is looking for volunteers for Friday July 21, and Saturday July 22 to assist in our participation at the Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza. Friday we will be procuring and preparing food in anticipation of a large rally Saturday where we will be serving, leafleting, and supporting the rally against the invasion of Lebanon. Details below:
On Saturday July 22 starting at 12:00 pm the Association of London Muslims along with several other peace groups will be holding a rally outside the John Labatt Centre calling upon the Canadian government to oppose the present aggression in the Middle East and to further protect its citizens trapped by bombing in Lebanon.
“[Israel will] turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years”
Israel's army chief of staff, General Dan Halutz, said his military would target infrastructure and "turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years". Making good on this promise Israel has bombed civilian infrastructure, targeted civilians, and it is now claimed, used banned incendiary weapons on the population. In a press release dated July 18 Amnesty International condemned the G8 leaders stating that: “They have failed conspicuously to uphold their moral and legal obligation to address such blatant breaches of international humanitarian law, which in some cases have amounted to war crimes." In the same release the casualties are listed as a minimum of 200 Lebanese civilians killed by Israeli air strikes since July 12 “including dozens of children”.
The Harper government has failed to protect Canadian citizens.
Reported in the London Free Press (July 18) while other countries began evacuating their citizens on Sunday, “despite having one of the largest groups of nationals in Lebanon of any country in the world, Canada was getting its first group of evacuees out of the war-torn country only on Wednesday...”. With the number of Canadians killed in Israel’s illegal aggression standing at 8 and many more gravely injured, criticism from the Harper government has been non-existent. In fact to the contrary, Harper has sided firmly with Israel in its violation of international humanitarian law stating “I think Israel's response under the circumstances has been measured.”
Come out and join FNB for the preparation on Friday July 21 (6 pm – 9pm), or for the Rally July 22 (11:30 – 2:00) and support the embattled peoples of Lebanon and Gaza.
If you can help out email ASAP foodnotbombslondon@hotmail.com . Thanks,
Alex Homanchuk
Food Not Bombs London is looking for volunteers for Friday July 21, and Saturday July 22 to assist in our participation at the Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza. Friday we will be procuring and preparing food in anticipation of a large rally Saturday where we will be serving, leafleting, and supporting the rally against the invasion of Lebanon. Details below:
On Saturday July 22 starting at 12:00 pm the Association of London Muslims along with several other peace groups will be holding a rally outside the John Labatt Centre calling upon the Canadian government to oppose the present aggression in the Middle East and to further protect its citizens trapped by bombing in Lebanon.
“[Israel will] turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years”
Israel's army chief of staff, General Dan Halutz, said his military would target infrastructure and "turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years". Making good on this promise Israel has bombed civilian infrastructure, targeted civilians, and it is now claimed, used banned incendiary weapons on the population. In a press release dated July 18 Amnesty International condemned the G8 leaders stating that: “They have failed conspicuously to uphold their moral and legal obligation to address such blatant breaches of international humanitarian law, which in some cases have amounted to war crimes." In the same release the casualties are listed as a minimum of 200 Lebanese civilians killed by Israeli air strikes since July 12 “including dozens of children”.
The Harper government has failed to protect Canadian citizens.
Reported in the London Free Press (July 18) while other countries began evacuating their citizens on Sunday, “despite having one of the largest groups of nationals in Lebanon of any country in the world, Canada was getting its first group of evacuees out of the war-torn country only on Wednesday...”. With the number of Canadians killed in Israel’s illegal aggression standing at 8 and many more gravely injured, criticism from the Harper government has been non-existent. In fact to the contrary, Harper has sided firmly with Israel in its violation of international humanitarian law stating “I think Israel's response under the circumstances has been measured.”
Come out and join FNB for the preparation on Friday July 21 (6 pm – 9pm), or for the Rally July 22 (11:30 – 2:00) and support the embattled peoples of Lebanon and Gaza.
If you can help out email ASAP foodnotbombslondon@hotmail.com . Thanks,
Alex Homanchuk
Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza
Rally for peace in Lebanon and Gaza
Start: Jul 22 2006 - 12:00pm
End: Jul 22 2006 - 2:00pm
Location:
John Labatt Centre (outside, across from Covent Garden Market)
Description:
WHO:
Everyone concerned about the mounting humanitarian crisis resulting from armed aggression against civilians in Lebanon and Gaza.
WHAT:
We are calling on the Canadian government to:
- oppose aggression in the Middle East presently, and condemn war crimes against civilians.
- take steps toward protecting Canadian citizens there.
- provide humanitarian aid to those affected by the fighting.
The rally has been called by the Association of London Muslims, with support from other groups.
Start: Jul 22 2006 - 12:00pm
End: Jul 22 2006 - 2:00pm
Location:
John Labatt Centre (outside, across from Covent Garden Market)
Description:
WHO:
Everyone concerned about the mounting humanitarian crisis resulting from armed aggression against civilians in Lebanon and Gaza.
WHAT:
We are calling on the Canadian government to:
- oppose aggression in the Middle East presently, and condemn war crimes against civilians.
- take steps toward protecting Canadian citizens there.
- provide humanitarian aid to those affected by the fighting.
The rally has been called by the Association of London Muslims, with support from other groups.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
"East London Crackdown"
for those unfamliar with this site its one of the saddest examples of self-rightous assholes run amuk in London. The websites administrator makes a point of photographing and posting images of women from Londons east end labeling them as prostitutes on the website. If you get a chance please do send them an email and ask them (not politely) to take this libelous crap down.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Google video - embedding video
So if you're at all curious you can embed google videos within your blog! sure it works with you tube as well. cheers,
Oh, by the way this is a part of a debate between Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Israel, "summer rain", and collective punishment
Well, it's that time of year again. First come up with the nifty little ethnic-cleansing sounding name for a military operation such as "Summer Rain". Nothing will fix up that ole garden like a good shower. Yep, nothing but hundreds of thousands of gentle artillery shells and 1000 pound bombs to rejuvenate the lawn and quench that nagging thirst…
An Israeli soldier has been kidnapped! Clearly then the only proportional response is to leave 1.3 million people without power – trapped in the dark and under the window-shattering over-flights of the IAF (and artillery shells).
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
detail from surveillance map.
I thought this blog might need a few more images so i decided to post this detail from a surveillance map i produced in 2004 based on my reserch into the NYCLU's surveillance mapping project of Manhattan. The bottom left hand corner of the image is Museum London, and the map is of course north/south. See if you can guess the rest.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Newbie on Gnoppix
Ok, so had no troubles surfing around etc. on the lab b computers. I've been interested in testing out this ubuntu liveCD (Gnoppix) for some time, as i've been considering making the transition myself from the evil proprietary world of Windows XP to what many of my friends (open source keeners as they may be) have been raving about. So far, it hasn't been an easy transition.
Setting the live cd up on my own laptop, I begain by hitting F2 and getting into the bios options on my Acer Aspire 3000. I altered the boot sequence to start from the optical drive and then restarted once again. My first pass at starting up Gnoppix failed. I selected the wrong graphics card - after checking my system specs, i found that i had an SiS M760GX.
My second attempt at starting up the live cd on the laptop was somewhat more successful. The boot time was, as expected, somewhat longer than simply starting xp of the HD. perhaps 3 - 4 minutes startup time, but i selected the right graphics card this time and made it to the gnoppix desktop - but only after receiving an error message (DNS issue).
What next??
I find that my wireless connecion is not working... at all. I spend several minutes cursing... Fuck. Word of the day.
I make several attempts at correcting the network settings, however the wireless card is not listed at all. The ethernet card is there however. After spending some time attepting to get the hardwired ethernet connection working I decided to restart the computer.
OK. So that's it, i've got Gnoppix working on the laptop. I made several attempts on the previous boot to access the network settings and correct the problem. Now making my way back to the root terminal (System tools > root terminal > ping www.google.com) Looks like i'm up and running. By now i'm a little frustrated by the fact that i don't know how to resolve the problem without resorting to a reboot. If this were windows i could have performed an >ipconfig /release then /renew at the command prompt - or check the TCP/IP settings on the NIC (Network Interface Card) or would have a dozen other options that would be far more satisfying than admitting defeat and rebooting...Well i'm sure there are many ways to do these very same steps in Ubuntu. it's something i will have to re-learn.
So, all is fine with the ethernet connection. I can surf on over to the London Commons website, and i can also download some mp3's using the Gnoppix pre-installed torrent client. I've also seen a major difference in how quickly applications are loading, however this is likely due to the fact that i have a great deal of random shit loaded on xp --- it's been chugging along for awhile now.
It's somewhat frustrating not being able to use my wireless connection at all. I've heard there was indeed some problems with broadcom wireless cards in particular. After 15 minutes of looking for a solution, and finding several lengthy resolutions described in various support forums, i decide to let it alone for the time being.
I'm somewhat impressed using the image editor software as well as open office. I spent some time experimenting and become convinced that these open source applicatons at least have the basic functionality of their proprietary counterparts (MS Office and Adobe Photoshop). I would however need more convincing to abandon these products outright, although i would like to test the windows emulator wine in the near future to see if i can abandon XP and retain some of the more useful software.
Firefox. It's the best out there, and i have real difficulty in understanding why anyone would still be out there using clunky-spy-adware delivery system Internet Explorer when a superior open source solution exists.
Media Players etc. So far i'm on board. It's great to be able to listen to an mp3 without being bombarded by advertisments while doing so. Buy it! no thanks! I would rather rip it, borrow it or burn it.
While it may not be time to dump XP entirely, i would seriously be looking at doing so if Ubuntu can live up to the hype.
Setting the live cd up on my own laptop, I begain by hitting F2 and getting into the bios options on my Acer Aspire 3000. I altered the boot sequence to start from the optical drive and then restarted once again. My first pass at starting up Gnoppix failed. I selected the wrong graphics card - after checking my system specs, i found that i had an SiS M760GX.
My second attempt at starting up the live cd on the laptop was somewhat more successful. The boot time was, as expected, somewhat longer than simply starting xp of the HD. perhaps 3 - 4 minutes startup time, but i selected the right graphics card this time and made it to the gnoppix desktop - but only after receiving an error message (DNS issue).
What next??
I find that my wireless connecion is not working... at all. I spend several minutes cursing... Fuck. Word of the day.
I make several attempts at correcting the network settings, however the wireless card is not listed at all. The ethernet card is there however. After spending some time attepting to get the hardwired ethernet connection working I decided to restart the computer.
OK. So that's it, i've got Gnoppix working on the laptop. I made several attempts on the previous boot to access the network settings and correct the problem. Now making my way back to the root terminal (System tools > root terminal > ping www.google.com) Looks like i'm up and running. By now i'm a little frustrated by the fact that i don't know how to resolve the problem without resorting to a reboot. If this were windows i could have performed an >ipconfig /release then /renew at the command prompt - or check the TCP/IP settings on the NIC (Network Interface Card) or would have a dozen other options that would be far more satisfying than admitting defeat and rebooting...Well i'm sure there are many ways to do these very same steps in Ubuntu. it's something i will have to re-learn.
So, all is fine with the ethernet connection. I can surf on over to the London Commons website, and i can also download some mp3's using the Gnoppix pre-installed torrent client. I've also seen a major difference in how quickly applications are loading, however this is likely due to the fact that i have a great deal of random shit loaded on xp --- it's been chugging along for awhile now.
It's somewhat frustrating not being able to use my wireless connection at all. I've heard there was indeed some problems with broadcom wireless cards in particular. After 15 minutes of looking for a solution, and finding several lengthy resolutions described in various support forums, i decide to let it alone for the time being.
I'm somewhat impressed using the image editor software as well as open office. I spent some time experimenting and become convinced that these open source applicatons at least have the basic functionality of their proprietary counterparts (MS Office and Adobe Photoshop). I would however need more convincing to abandon these products outright, although i would like to test the windows emulator wine in the near future to see if i can abandon XP and retain some of the more useful software.
Firefox. It's the best out there, and i have real difficulty in understanding why anyone would still be out there using clunky-spy-adware delivery system Internet Explorer when a superior open source solution exists.
Media Players etc. So far i'm on board. It's great to be able to listen to an mp3 without being bombarded by advertisments while doing so. Buy it! no thanks! I would rather rip it, borrow it or burn it.
While it may not be time to dump XP entirely, i would seriously be looking at doing so if Ubuntu can live up to the hype.
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