My Venture to Linux

    So, I got a new laptop about a month ago. Previously, I was using my Dad's laptop or the family desktop. I had a _big_ accident with the family computer but that's all covered in another post ;D Now that I had my own laptop, I wasn't scared of destroying something I didn't own!

    Now, due to some influence and advice on my favourite irc channel, #hbh on hellboundhackers.org, I decided Debian 5.0.5 was the distro for me. I downloaded an iso then burned it to a CD and tried to boot. Couldn't read from the CD-ROM was the error. Kinda stupid because it was reading from the CD-ROM when it booted... I was talking to some guys and they said it might have been because Debian doesn't get updated too often, that Lenny mightn't have been updated recently and since my laptop is new, the CD-ROM mightn't have been recognised!

    Annoying, but nothing I could do about it. I then moved on to my second favourite distro, Fedora. Fedora 13 Gnome downloaded to a Live USB and I'm away. I partition, la di da di da. Then when I have it installed I realised that it was _slow_! It would take at least 20 seconds to open up a web page in FF. I then inquired on #hbh and was told the problem could have been because I was using 32-bit Fedora on a 64-bit lappy. Even more annoying.

    By now, I had made a nice file system and everything formatted nicely. Now when I installed fedora, and subsequently formatted that partition I un-intentionally left GRUB installed. This caused some _serious_ problems when I tried to boot back into windows to make a new live-cd! Basically, I could boot nothing. Luckily, I had a live cd of Xubuntu so I could boot into that. Then I had to install Xubuntu and use that version of GRUB so I could boot into windows (Thanks to #hbh!) Made a live USB of a 64-bit Fedora and then installed that. Problems solved! (finally)

    Now that I'm happily in Linux, I want to get onto Debian. #hbh recommended netbootin and I'm trying out that now :D So two mottos, find people you can trust (Most of #hbh) and then, more importantly, trust them! Shout out right here to all my friends at #hbh, especially Spyware, Ynori7, Drewid[rogue], Moshbat (sometimes trustable ;P) and yhrei_43 who frequents occasionally!
       NotMyFault

Back Again!

    So I'm back again! I haven't posted in a _long_ time so sorry guys! Lots has happened in the last couple of weeks so I might as well tell everybody.

    Well I found out about hackerspaces. They are class and to make things even better, there's one in my area :D They're running a Linux workshop sometime soon so I think I'll make it my business to attend that.

    Speaking of Linux, my laptop is now dual-booted with Fedora 13 but my whole conversion to Linux deserves a post itself so watch this space!

    My house has also been completely re-done. Well, not completely but a decent portion of it. My parents decided it was bes to get it done before school comes back again which is in less than a week :) If you think I don't post often enough now, hopefully some routine will help me post more regularly, I doubt it though ;P

    Along with my goal that I set 3 weeks ago for myself which was to finish reading C++ Primer (Failed btw) I've also taken it upon myself to learn AJAX, Javascript and JQuery properly so I can finish that damn app on the sidebar <_> It's really starting to annoy me. What should have been a simple, week long project has turned into a month long drag of nothing getting done on it.

    More happened but I'll tell everyone about this later. Glad to be back!
       NotMyFault

Widget Update

    I've been away for the last few weeks and only now am I getting some time to do some more work on this widget! You will see a form input and a blank box above it at the moment and if you do decide to press the submit button all you're getting is an alert box saying "success". It's lying. It's not a success yet. For now, I only have 2 small problems I need to work on. The first is displaying 2 .txt files using jquery or Javascript and the second is to use AJAX to submit the form instead of the page needing to reload. Then my widget will be up and running at last!

    I wonder what I'll do when I finish this... I'm working on a console game of Snake in C++ at the moment and I'm also looking at making a CMS. My last CMS worked but the layout was horrible and the code was a right mess so maybe I make a new one with my new-found talent in AJAX and Jquery ;P

    Ok, so that's about all that's happened since last time I posted apart from Apple making it legal to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iTouch :D I'd ask you again, not to submit the form in the sidebar because I don't want anything weird happening!

    NotMyFault