it's 2am again. i've been tinkering with setting up the flock web browser in ubuntu. i haven't been using ubuntu lately. mainly what happened was that i wanted to use my gps and didn't want to bother with setting it up in ubuntu at the time. i took the quick and easy route, and swapped in my hard drive that has windows xp on it, and well...i fell to the dark side there for a little bit.
anyway, a few days ago i helped out a friend...or friend's dad (whom is also a friend)....or something like that. apparently his windows xp install went kaput after trying to install service pack 3. i think i would freak out if i had 160gb worth of files that suddenly weren't accessible. anyway, he purchased a 500gb external hard drive, so the plan was to backup everything and then wipe out the internal drive with a fresh install. easy, eh? wrong. long story short, 6 hours later we finally got everything backed up thanks to a linux distribution called recovery is possible (r.i.p) . I originally attempted to use knoppix however ran into the problem of writing to an ntfs formatted drive. luckily with rip i was able to force it. woohoo!
so anyway, helping out reminded me that i really liked the new ubuntu, and because of that gps incident i hadn't done anything with it in a few weeks. today i finally decided to swap out the drive for the one with ubuntu installed. i like it! i also found out that if i hold down the alt key, i can make a window transparent using the scroll on the mouse. i don't know, but that is neat.
so now flock is mostly setup. i look forward to getting everything setup on this system. here is something along the lines of what i hope to accomplish. the video is a little bit outdated, but yeah...wish me luck :)
so, i leave you with a picture from a visit to a museum in austin the other day. all these pennies were from the year 2005. i believe it was $6000? well, if you're curious leave a comment and i will look it up and reply with more details.
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