Get Things Gnome

In the flood of confessions of certain FLOSS heads this week- I must complacently add mine to the record. I have become extremely lazy in all that I enterprise lately. Perhaps it’s the weather, or just in my nature to do so. This state has been festering for a while now, I suppose-so maybe it’s the latter. When I started this blog, my action was the right thing for the right reasons, learn by doing! The plan was to write more blog-posts on subjects I love and care for,and learn to use correct American English in the process. First, things set of sailing on a breeze, then slowly down the line I wrote less and less. Writing seemed too much a drag on my time, a real shame. I would spend my free time playing about with stuff on the net, my comfy desk-chair as my plush couch and the monitor a T.V screen to watch the web show pass-by. Oh yeah, I do a bit of admin work also for a school -from the same comfy chair.
It’s so easy getting sidetracked these day’s being connected to the rest of humanity. Dramas unfold before your eyes. Some horrid and vile, like a M age’s summoning of some netherworld demonic beast. Oh wait, that’s when I’m playing Magic, see how easy I’m distracted, look shiny……
Anyway long introduction to a simple little post with the subject, get organized you fool!!!

So, I did organize my goals a little for the near future. Thinking a month ahead at a time, I laid out what I wanted to learn or revise. There is a nice little tool in Gnome called Getting Things Gnome, GTG for short. I know many folks out here reading this will argue, it’s a waste of time to make to-do lists. M eh
It’s a waste of time wasting time getting distracted from the task at hand, I’d rather spend an hour planning the next month in what Andy Hunt coins the Pragmatic Investment Plan, than googly mooking a perfectly good day away, again. A little discipline, and a plan will go along way.

Linux on Lenovo Y560 Laptop

Friday nights are not a good time to get your machine at a store. I found that out the hard way by having to go back the next day to trade in a dud. The machine ran for like an hour or so so then spun up real hard getting extremely hot in the process before shutting down to only run a few seconds after that before doing the same. Diagnosis was CRAP! Just had to wait till the next day, not fun. But heyo let’s go…….
Time to test the new laptop a Lenovo Y560 with Ubuntu 10.10 aubergine flavoured Linux. The kernel used in this version is

# uname -a

Linux coppermonkey 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Everything so far runs real well standard out of the box, all hardware has been found.
If you want to keep your original Windows7 install, don’t choose the” install next to another “ tab during the partitioning menu’s. Instead, choose to manually partition the freed up partition, you can easily free a partition by using the DE-fragmenting and partition tool that is native to the Win7 install.
Some people might not want to jump into a single Linux install right away either due to not voiding warranty, like always, check your warranty license first, then strap up your boots and go for the kill. Install like with most modern distributions is very pain-free. As a plus, the system after going into the desktop alerted that a Catalyst Radeon driver was readily available. I have been running the machine for a good 12 hours and it is a monster. Seven 1.600 MHz cores and 4gb of DDR3 memory you can’t go wrong with that. Yeah 2 hours on a 6 cell battery but hey… If your read my previous post on what I was using as a desktop machine, yes I caved for a brand spanking new laptop. I’m hoping this machine will serve me well the coming years with lots of hacking on Linux stuff and sharpening my Magic skills.