Animus Wisdom

New year, new theme for my titles…. Any guesses ?

\brief KDE Release Event

I would like to thank everybody involved in the KDE 4 Release Event, It was a pleasure to meet fellow KDE gear heads, talk to media people, get drunk at google, make new friends, get drunk at the hotel, sneak in the backdoor of the oasis pub ( I think it was called oasis ) and sing karaoke till they kicked us out.

\brief Distro Hooping

While at the event I decided to try out Kubuntu since the great Mr. Riddell was so kind as to leave a few install cd’s for anybody who was interested, sadly my POS laptop didn’t like the idea; My Compaq V3010US is one of the worst laptops I have had the pleasure to buy. It has a horrible ACPI implementation, 30 minute battery life, it uses that damn broadcom wireless chipset and a nasty nvidia video chipset that burned out the original LCD display and has already killed a pixel or two in the new display. Sadly Kubuntu lowered the battery life down to 15 minutes and the video drivers didn’t work at all. I have been a hard-core Gentoo user for quite some time and I was a bit worried trying out a binary based distribution but I gave it the old collage try for the duration of my trip yet it didn’t stick, I reinstalled Gentoo as soon as I got home. I love to try distros but I have noticed I keep coming back to good old Gentoo.

\brief Closure

A little under a year ago one of my cars got stolen breaking my stolen car recovery streak; I have recovered every single car that has been stolen from me or one of my family members in a day or even minutes. — I found the damn thing last week in a impound lot!!! The car was stolen on the 14th of Feburary 2007 and was impounded the day after. So it has been waiting for me for almost a year. On the up side my streak has not been broken but on the down side it got stripped by thieves. Que sera sera.

\brief Wrap-up

Well after taking care of most of my backlogged work I can finally get back to some fun and interesting matters! A few photos from ( outside ) the KDE Event and my stripped out car can be found at http://photos.guillermoamaral.com/.

Cheers!