Just read a story that says the new ManHunt 2 video game will be banned from the UK. I really wonder what they think that'll accomplish. That kind of advertisement will not only make the kids want the game, but make the players take it more seriously.
I'd have agreed with a 18-certificate, but I have to disagree with a ban. That's censorship - I don't want to know what it leads to...
Something's certain, when you spend a tenday in forest: you have time to think.
I can't remember half my thoughts, but here are some examples: how governments could and should optimize the use of natural resources through taxation; what linux I should next switch to; what data structure to choose for nearly empty arrays with fast lookup in mind; how on earth lua actually stores it's tables; which is faster of Fluxbox and IceWM...
Found iGoogle today. I mean, I was aware of it, I just hadn't tried it before. As my old home page was Gmail, I decided to swich to iGoogle, where in addition to new mail, I see news and weather. Convinient...
Been using Ubuntu for the last couple of months. First installed Ubuntu, which was just too slow. Then I tried Kubuntu, which didn't work at all (problems with graphics). I now have Xubuntu, which ran ok... after uninstalling OpenOffice and not using Firefox at all... Installed IceWN and Fluxbox, of which Fluxbox seems to be the faster on my system. Nevertheless, I ended up having to download Opera (not free), as Firefox is just too slow. Someone really needs to make a good light web browser; yes, I've tried Links and Dillo, but they're far from complete. Why don't they have a lite version of Firefox? I only need to be able to view web pages: I don't need fancy password managers, text completion etc.
Even with my tweaks Linux is too slow on my computer, so I have to do all programming in XP. Been progressing in my Lua studies, and I'm already incorporating Lua scripting into my main project. I really like Lua's easy syntax for complicated tasks, such as passing a variable number of values returned from a function directly as parameters of another function.
Note to self: download Fluxbuntu and see how it differs from my Xubuntu-with-Fluxbox.
In an intricate series of link-clicking in Wikipedia, I found the campaign Bad Vista by the FSF. As much as I respect what the FSF has achieved, I must say that I'll never join the campaign. This seems like the OS war is degenerating to some kind of calling-names-sandbox-fight. The correct way to promote free software is to show where Linux and GNU software is superior, not to flame on every single security invulnerability of Windows. Further examples on where the campaign goes wrong are quotes like "an affordable and usable system running Vista is perhaps 5 years away", when the only reference is a text by an individual writer's blog with no real facts or research to back is up (other than meaningless calculations based on predictions).
I really like to see good free software prosper, but I doubt this is the way to go.
On a completely different subject, thought I'd pick up a new programming language, so I started reading on Lua. Seems interesting and simple enough for my needs (a scripting language atm). I'm halfway through the Reference manual already.
Decided to finally create a blog, since everyone seems to have one these days. Not that it would be the main reason; I've actually lacked this for some time now. Can't just keep all the mindless rambling in my head, can I? I wonder, if I can customize this; the colors and fonts definitely have to change.
As a side note, I found something very useful today: Ext2IFS. Definitely solid software. As a Linux newbie I've had some trouble moving files between the two OS's, until now that is.
