i.justrealized

Was at Wikipedia checking out more information about Linux distributions when I chance upon an article on Ubuntu distributions.

• gNewSense is designed for users who wish to use only free software. It is officially supported and recommended by the Free Software Foundation. The project has also produced a set of scripts that allow anyone to create a free distribution.
• Goobuntu is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that Google uses internally. It is not released outside Google.
• gOS early versions used the Enlightenment window manager, featuring Google Apps and other web-based applications.
• Linux Mint’s purpose is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable Linux desktop based on Ubuntu.

There’s so much distributions. They are all unofficial distributions by the way. And some are religion-related:

• Ubuntu Christian Edition (also referred to as Ubuntu CE) is a distribution designed for Christians. The first version of Ubuntu Christian Edition was announced on 24 July 2006.[4] Ubuntu Christian Edition features fully integrated web content parental controls powered by DansGuardian, as well as a graphical tool to adjust the parental control settings specifically developed for Ubuntu Christian Edition, and includes several popular Bible Study Programs such as GnomeSword.
• Ubuntu Muslim Edition (also referred to as Ubuntu ME) is a distribution designed for Muslims. Ubuntu Muslim Edition is a free, open source operating system based on Ubuntu. Its main feature is the inclusion of Islamic software, such as prayer times, a Qur’an study tool and a web content filtering utility.
• Ubuntu Satanic Edition (also referred to as Ubuntu SE) is a series of dark themes for Ubuntu, and a parody of Ubuntu Christian Edition. It’s not a derivative distro, the themes can be installed on any Gnome or KDE based distro.

 I laughed when I saw Ubuntu Christian Edition which is now, by the way, suspended: (more…)

Saw this in my Google ads, you can fix internet explorer, or fix internet explorer, or fix internet explorer. But wait, look who we have among the list.

Does that need fixing too?

This is just so annoying. I had to use the vi editor and it’s hard for me. I’ve gotten use to the mouse and backspaces and enter and all the Word shortcuts. To downgrade to this vi editor sucks.

Ten vi editor commands

1. To insert - a (INS works too it seems)
2. To insert on new line below the cursor - o
3. To replace the one character under your cursor - r
4. Left Down Up RIght - h j k l (Arrow keys works too it seems)
5. Undo - u
6. Delete the line - dd
7. Delete the character on cursor - x
8. To get out of the Editing mode - ESC
9. To quit the bloody editor without saving - :q!
10. To save and quit - :wq

This is by no way the complete list, the complete list have hundreds of commands that only a true geek who reaches the stage of nirvana can remember.

This post is more for my personal note. I encounter editing when using the visudo command.

Okay, here’s five:

1. My favorite numbers are 5, 7 and 12. I dislike the numbers 6, 8 and 9 maybe because they’re too round or something.
2. I don’t have something I really like, don’t have something I really hate. Many a times I’m pretty much undecided. (Asides for numbers I guess.)
3. I can’t work with loud music but I like loud music. (See - can’t decide.) I enjoy turning up the volume to cover the background sounds such as the aircon or my computer sounds.
4. I enjoy listening to people talking, but they often take too much of my time unfortunately. Sometimes time passes so quickly, you just forget about… well… time. Sometimes I just listen till I forget I have work to do and my day is kinda ‘wasted’ in a way.
5. I think a lot when people talk to me or when I talk to people. It’s as if my mind keeps churning and churning and registering information and indexing them. Even when I am talking, my mind keeps thinking. Because of that, sometimes it appears that I am not concentrating.

Maybe you can compile your own five things too.

Recently, due to my Java class, I’ve been typing parseInt() in my PHP code instead of intval().

Here is a compilation of all sorts of ways to parse string into integers:

PHP

JavaScript/ActionScript

Java

Apparently you need to type really long to parse stuff in Java.

Python

Ruby

Now that I suddenly remember them all, I decide to quickly write them all down. Because the next moment, I’ll forget them or mix them up again. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Examinations (find posts tagged ‘examinations’) have yet to begin. I have yet to study (even though I planned to but you know you know) for anything. Yet I’m already looking forward to after examinations already. Here’s a list of what to do after the examinations:

• Go do some exercise: I haven’t done any since a really long time. I just sit in front of my computer and type.
• Get back some money: Well, this is a little personal, so…
• Figure out how to set up an Ubuntu server: This is more for personal learning. It will have Lighttpd, Ubuntu, Python and MySQL, I call it LUMP, haha… And I hope to do something interesting with it too. We shall see.
• Settle some work: Unfortunately, some of my work is incomplete. I have yet to tie some loose ends and I’ve been really slow in these.
• Find back my friends: I have neglected them. I’m too busy with my work and school and some self studying. I never met a single friend that is not my classmate or workmate for the past 1.5 months.

Now, back to studying for exams. Oh ya… Before that, I have a comic to share regarding friends:

See how important friends are? I don’t know who is the artist for the comic unfortunately. I got it through an email.

Here are a list of 62 facts that you may or may not have known. Some facts are kinda outdated though, nevertheless it’s still an interesting list.

Things You Might Not Have Known

1. Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
2. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
3. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
4. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
5. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
6. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
7. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
8. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
9. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
10. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why. [Actually they do now.]
11. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2. [Honestly I don't get this.]
12. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
13. Every person has a unique eye & tongue print.
14. The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
15. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled. [That's why they had the 1997 version - to correct them!]

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