April 2008

After a good review from Macworld, Canon PIXMA MX850 seems like a good overall printer. It is more or less useable for small offices, but nevertheless, I think it would have been a great additional to my incoming MacBook Pro. Since it is compatible with Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard. The old Lexmark Z45 is only compatible with Windows XP, and I think Mac OS X Panther or something.

Not that I really need a new printer, but since I will become more active on the political-front. And with a good printer, you can create some nice flyers to publish.

When I read the announcement made by Canonical Ltd. about the new Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I started to think, why not install Ubuntu on the desktop PC, when I get an much faster PC with the incoming MacBook Pro, (atleast I hope it shows up soon enough). Then I can start to temper with GNU/LInux in a more userfriendly enviroment, rather then the slice I am currently hosting this blog from.

Update:  Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is released for download.

The dude selling me the MacBook Pro, has not replyed since yesterday morning. I am starting to get very impatient. If I still has not got any reply tomorrow, I will call him, and ask what took so long.

Next time, I will withhold a larger part of the money before transfer all.

Getting my first mac later this week. Purchased a new MacBook Pro 17″ from a guy who needed the money instead of a brand new notebook. Never been opened, and I got it about 45% cheaper then the stock price from Apple Store.

Specs:

I really hope this can be a real improvement from my getting-to-old desktop computer.

MindTooth now run on a reinstalled VPS server from SliceHost. This time around I have installed a different web server, LiteSpeed rather then the usually memory hungry, Apache. MySQL and PHP support is also added. Now with an updated version of MySQL from Dotdeb and PHP compiled from source using LiteSpeed’s own PHP SAPI extension.

I really like the usability of LiteSpeed contra Apache. This is all handled with a nice web administration interface. Planing also to do some testing of eZ. The norwegian CMS-solution.

When I woke up this morning. It made clear that I would have no interest what so ever regarding the computer-world. This fell on the wrong day, since today I and my boss is schedule to setup a wireless network at where I practice my sertificate.

I have finally found something to fill my days. Started to take a norwegian sertificate called “Datakortet“. This is just telling my future boss that I have the basic skill of the Windows operative system and the Office-suite. Many see this as an advatnage and can increase my possibility to get a job I like, and not some retarded stuff.

I completed the first module with a score of 100%, the second module regarding Windows XP I only got 83%. Consider that as a poor score for the knowledge I operate at. But, as my teacher told me, I only show my completed sertificate, not the score of the various modules.

Then you have passed the robots.txt file I have disabled the site from all crawlers. Using robots.txt.

Its harder then I would even imagine. I have serveral thousands of ideas and thoughs, but I can’t seem to get them written down. Must work more towards keeping a steady flow of updates. Currently looking after something I can program (learning i.e.) and become good with.