Why Hello

Wow it has been a while since I have updated my blog, school has gotten busy and my time has gone down significantly.

Happy Hallowe'en to all.

I recently went through a week of midterms, having one Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. So much stress, but that part is over for now........for now.....

I have been trying out the latest Ubuntu, version 8.10. It's quite nice I must say. Finally I can install the nVidia drivers for my card because whatever detection system they used they fixed so it works with my hardware which is awesome. Having a 512MB card also helps with running Compiz-Fusion, which allows for fancy graphical effects to be applyed to your windows and your desktop.

In addition it is a lot spedier and even when using it from the Live CD it feels like you could use it full time, except for the fact that your RAM would fill up and your session freeze, been there done that. The only complaint I have is the network manager applet that controls all networking starts having a feild day with my DNS information and don't communicate with my routers given DNS servers, or its own built in one. OpenDNS came to my rescue but it has a tendency of being slow. It seemed to jsut be the wired connection so maybe its the driver? I'm not too sure.