So I’ve been asked by a couple of people to write a bit more about Conky such as, my config file for it. And how I installed it, how long it takes to configure, a few options that other people might like. So I’ll be posting it in parts in the coming days/weeks (it depends when I get a chance, I’m a bit busy at Uni right now :()

More to come soon!!

So it’s back to normal for most people and we’re all back at work/college/university and all can’t be bothered (me especially!!) so I figured I’d make a post in the 3 hours I’m free today.

I noticed last night that the Xbox Live issues everybody has been experiencing over the Christmas season still haven’t gone completely, which is annoying…and there’s still no news on that free arcade game.

Also there’s been a lot of people on the Ubuntu Forums posting in “Internet Speak” e.g. lyk this n its hard 2 read sumtimes LoL!!1!  I’ll be honest, and I’m sure I speak for most…it’s annoying…don’t do it I’ve been doing my bit to help all the newcomers that we’ve had over Christmas, so try to help us, and make the posts’ readable

Ok so I’m using Ubuntu at the moment (which means I’m not using Windows Live Writer - incidentally, that is a brilliant piece of blogging software in my opinion!).

I have to say that I’m pleased with how well everything’s gone with Ubuntu, everything works, I have flash & java installed, and it auto-connects to my home wireless and Uni wireless

One thing that I’m missing a lot is iTunes, as there’s no native version for Linux (but why?!?!) Apple seem friendly to open-source development, anyway I’m using Rythmbox now, which reads all my music from my Vista partition which is nice…saves me a ton of space on the hard drive

That’s all for now

I installed mono on my laptop earlier, and it installed a command prompt application to compile my C# programs.

The problem is; I use cygwin for my C compiling and ssh-ing into the University servers. SO obviously I wanted mono installed in cygwin.

Luckily I found a way to do it:

1. Download the mono for windows installer
2. Run the installer, and select your cygwin folder for the installation directory (in my case this was C:\cygwin)
3. Install
4. Open cygwin and type "mcs" without quotes, and if it’s installed correctly it should spit back a load of rubbish about no files at you.

Hope this helped anybody who was struggling to do this.

One of my modules at University is C Programming, which I have to say, I am quite enjoying, as I’ve always enjoyed programming.

However a friend of mine is starting doing C# (C Sharp), and asked if I’d do it, which I said I would.

So I might start learning that soon, just got to wait to see if we can have a proper lab session on it first. Though I might have a bash over the weekend, I’ll probably download Visual C# Express Edition or something to try it out.

Ok so I’m running Ubuntu in a virtual machine at the moment, but still posting this from Windows Live Writer.

I have to say, that its great running a VM, purely because with my laptop, which has 2GB, and a core 2 duo, which itself supports things like this, can run Windows Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10 at proper and decent operating speeds…it’s brilliant!!

I don’t really know what else to say, so that’s it, downloading MS Expression Studio off the MSDN Academic Alliance, I’ll post saying how good or bad I think it is probably

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, my Xbox 360 died on me the other day.

I emailed Microsoft support, and they then emailed me a UPS label to print, but based on the fact it’s not my fault it’s broken, I figured "why should I print the label?!" So I instead phoned Xbox customer support.

They told me that I would get the label sent to my home address, however that was around 3-5 days ago, and UPS are infinitely better than the Royal Mail, so I knew there was something up there.

I’ve just got off the phone with Xbox support again, and told them to send me the label via email, because I don’t seem to get post anymore, so I’ll print the label at Uni, and then phone UPS.

Ok so in my Uni course, I have a module - Programming In C, which is basically exactly what the name suggests. We do the programming on Mac’s because it’s a Unix based system, not Windows, and C + Unix = Made for each other or so we keep getting told.

I have a Linux system at home, but not that I can access frequently, so I downloaded and installed Cygwin which is some sort of compatibility layer for Windows, but which basically allows me to compile & run my C programs in Windows.

Was a bit of a hassle getting it to work at first, but I’ve got it all sorted now, and it works…so I’m not going to fiddle

Ok so I went into town earlier because I had a 2 hour break at Uni, and I had a look in Game, as you do.

I ended up walking out with Viva Piñata, and it does look quite good, and I enjoyed the demo, I’ll admit that. Plus it was only £13 so that’s why I bought it, I’ll probably do another post letting you all know what I think when I’ve played it some more.

Posting this means I can use a tag I’ve created more than once!!!

Anyway, I’m just uploading a few changes to my website (find it here) I know there’s nothing on the Homepage yet, but if you check the About, Why & Why Not pages they do have something on them, I’ve updated the style mainly.

Doing this did allow me to see the versatility of CSS and how easy it is to change the layout of a whole website with about 8 extra lines of CSS code.