Well, been a pretty busy few days to be honest!

Thursday-  Went to the Spot with Jamal and Andy Li, after drinking 2 bottles of wine in 10 minutes beetween us for warm-up! Needless to say it was a pretty eventful nights with Lockwood getting a massive lovebite on his neck haha.

Saturday- Went to Steam with everyone to watch the England match (get in), decided to go for a curry afterwards with Raj and Gabe in the Kyhber which was nice. Ended up in Savoy watching the New Zealand game before stumbling home at 12 which wasnt bad!

Also, from a Tech point of view, i thought i’d give Linux another chance at being my desktop as im sick to death of Vista, so below is my…report if you will:-

+- Vista = Very gimmicky indeed. It looks good, like Suse, but like Suse it doesnt do much compared to other flavours. The main benefits of Vista compared to XP are 1. Ipv6 (which no-one uses) 2. Hard drive encryption (again, no one uses) 3. Media centre (Which is crap, i might add), and a few gimmicky GUI tools. Couple that with the fact that, A) Lots and lots of hardware isnt supported, i.e. Webcams, TV Cards, etc. B) Its so resource inefficient its untrue and C) XP is a lightweight version, does the same job, less hassle and a lot easier.

Now, onto Suse 10.3. A year ago to this very month, i installed Suse 10.1 (IIRC), and after a weekend of trying to make it work i gave up, due to the sheer fact that it is so unfugging usable. DEVELOPERS – You cannot expect average joe users, even techies like myself to go into a config file buried in the OS just to enable dual screen, coupled with the fact its not really dual screen because you cant span applications across them or even drag apps across. When you start to take the Redmond philosophy into account with its usability and assumptive knowledge then you will start to make headway in the home user market. At the moment, there is a distinct lack of support from Vendors, ATI, Creative, etc. There is a lack of effort from developers to make anything remotely simple, and to be honest, Windows is still dicking all over Linux in the Desktop market and will continue to do so forever until the Heads start to sort out their roadmaps.

In summary, Vista – Like XP but with gimmicks and stuff nobody is using.  Suse- totally unusable.

My suggestions, XP for Desktop, stick with Ubuntu for Server (Desktop what matt says about Gentoo and Solaris).

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