死吧，WGA!

"Microsoft kills Windows Genuine Advantage" - MacWorld UK (src: http://www.macworld.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?email&entryid=300&blogid=2)

"And I think it’s no coincidence that none of them are made by Apple." - Mark Hattersley

看後，令人拍案叫絕！大快人心！

Mac OS萬歲！Linux萬歲！Karena萬歲！收工。

Naming My Devices (2)

As previously posted, I use animal species as name of my hardware. My Nokia N70 is called Phoenix, after replacing mainboard. My virutal XP on Mac is called Kestrel (a type of small falcon). And for virtual Ubuntu, it will be called Shoveler. I might change the name of iMac to Egret (and reserved the name "Heron" for my Mac Book Pro... if I have one).

So, there are falcon, dolphin, penguin, hawk, egret, phoenix, kestrel and shoveler all on my desk.

Ubuntu 6.10

After XP, the next OS I would like to install on a PC is Linux. Oh, not NextOS. It's Ubuntu 6.10. And one of the first thing I wish to do inside Ubuntu is... listening to MP3. But listening to mp3 (source from a networked XP) on Ubuntu in Parallels for Mac OS is kinda... waste. But who cares! Nowadays, besides dummies and electricity, one of excessive thing we have is computing power. So, hail to the Mac!

When would the price of 2GB DDR-2 667Mhz RAM drops? Once it reach $1500, I would purchase one.

Naming My Devices

In computer world, every device can have a name for identification. Naming them one by one has been a headache to me. Most of the time I just use their model number. Sometime will added my name with it. But sometime I would give them a better name.

falcon - the second desktop built by me. This name was first used in a file server from the first company I worked for. Furthermore, I was using falconer somewhere for something before, which I had now forgot. A funny thing about this computer is that, I picked the slowest P4 CPU available in the market, rather than a fastest one.

dolphin - Buffalo LinkStation is a 250GB LAN disk I bought for backup purpose. I tried to pick names of animal species, to match with falcon. "D" for data and "D" for dolphin.

swallow - I borrowed Sunny's CPU-onboard computer for some time (now returned). This computer won't start up if installed memory is over 64 MB RAM.

Penguin - for my white and black Nokia E50.

Hawk - during reinstalling the Bluetooth software on my second laptop, IBM ThinkPad T42, I gave it a new name. This comes from black hawk (in Chinese) as T42 has black body.


I want to rename my white iMac and black Nokia N70 if possible, but don't have any good names to represent them. iMac is white...... may be... polarbear? And Owl for the black N70?

Red Hat Linux 8.0 Part III

尋日放工回家就繼續裝Linux，食完飯差唔多裝完，太好了，終於boot入GNOME。之後猛睇documents，煲左三個chapters又搞左好耐終於上到網。部機屬於輕巧型(當年)，所以連network卡都係要另外用PCMCIA加上去。

好，今日繼續睇Linux既GSG... Getting Started Guide

Red Hat Linux 8.0 Part II

尋日關機時發現一句很怪的comment:

Open Linux

我想，Red Hat Linux無法成功啟動GUI或許和這個有關，所以今日晚飯後就即刻再裝多一次，今次所有partition都format一次，partition分佈很奇特：1GB, 300MB SWAP, 15MB free, 4GB，中間15MB是bad sector，萬萬不能用，format都無效，因為一format到那個位置，部機就會死下死下，之後reboot。

今次選擇將個linux裝響頭果1GB，所以只裝最基本既野。但係咁都要40分鐘先裝完，唉，部機真係慢。

今次終於成功BOOT得起個GUI，用既係GNOME。以前未用過，要學下先。希望可以上手啦。

Red Hat Linux 8.0 Part I

同事送了一套Ubuntu 5.10 Linux，單靠CD就能boot up，無需安裝，任何電腦都可以run Linux而無需鏟機。

「不如試下在舊notebook上run。」

已經裝在舊notebook上的Open Linux因版權問題停止支援（我是付錢買的），亦不支援notebook的sound card，有畫面無聲，現在有新的Linux，不妨一試。可是，搞了半天都無法執行，是機件故障麼？還是hardware型號太舊呢？或者因為它是十年前的產品……

後來又試下老友送的Red Hat Linux 8，單單安裝就用了三個鐘。安裝完可以順利boot up，但無論選擇登入GNOME或KDE都只有這個畫面，點解？還我三個鐘呀～



p.s.: my old laptop is Texus Instrument Extensa 900. It was sold to Acer on late 90s.