Upgrade.

After a few months running Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' on my laptop without any big issues i decided to take the next step and upgrade to 8.04 LTS, the process took a good hour and went completely smooth, after upgrade was complete i made a full reboot and the results are simply wonderful, now i'm running compiz and all the effects work just fine, all my hardware was again recognized and everything is up to date, excelent work Ubuntu team!!

A black hole?

Ever wondered what a black hole is? how and why does it come to be? then check out this site for an excelent explanation on this cosmic phenomenon.

Ubuntu on HP nc4200

I recently got my hands on a HP Compaq nc4200 so that i could finally run Linux without lots of problems and configurations, the results of the installation and post configurations are here.

Microsoft, Intel and the OLPC

According to the free dictionary a predator is:

1. An organism that lives by preying on other organisms.

2. One that victimizes, plunders, or destroys, especially for one's own gain.

Corporations are predators, they find a victim, let it play around, get comfortable and when the victim thinks 'everything is ok' and takes a little more space than the predator allows then the predator strikes and destroys the victim, the difference is that the 'animal predator' does in most cases it to feed, the 'corpredator' does for fear that the victim grows strong enough to become a threat.
Enter the OLPC. Mr Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. Enter the fat-cat multinational 'corpredators' microsoft and intel: the OLPC is becoming a threat: it's cheap, it's using AMD chips instead of intel and it's running Sugar, a free operating system devised by geeks for the love of it instead of windows, so they got scared and tried to kill it, read the complete story here