Shiny.

A have new toys.  Free, shiny, and gadgety.

 

A buddy of mine from work has been running a hacked copy of the Mac OSX "Snow Leopard" for awhile, now.  I recently found some older versions of Windows backed up on my computer, and deleted them, freeing over half of my hard drive space, so I had plenty of room and wanted to do something cool.  The aforementioned buddy of mine got a copy I heard could work on my hardware, and I was going to start playing.

 

But Windows wouldn't let me free up enough partition space!  I could free up about 1.24 Gigs.  I can't put anything cool on 1.24 Gigs!  And I didn't want to format and start from scratch.  I wanted to dual boot Win7 with something fun, but Win7 wasn't going to let me do all the fiddly bits required.

 

I started browsing around.  I went to the Ubuntu website, and thought, "Well, I can download a copy of this, and have it ready in case I find a way around the partition problem."  And then the download halted partway in.  So I went back to the website--and noticed something cool I missed before.  There is a Windows installer for Ubuntu.

 

I can install it from Win7, setup a dual boot, and never have to muck around with actual partitions.

 

So I did.  I've been messing with Ubuntu for the last couple of days, grabbing software, a blogging plugin for Chrome.  The Google junky I am, I needed to grab Chrome, too, after I got Chromium.  I got World of Warcraft to work--badly--in Ubuntu.  I got a Vent client.  And there's a lot of cool Linux software over here on the flip side--stuff that does cool things, things that are a little...shady, let's say.  Software that isn't very trustworthy, if it's on the Win side.  And it comes preloaded, here.

 

Anyway, it's been a long time since I posted.  I wanted to give my excuse.  I'm playing.

 

~j