The best, most secure, most working, Linux ever

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To make the best Linux ever, you need to download Ubuntu 9.1 and Kubuntu 9.1 Live CDs. Install Ubuntu 9.1 onto the hard drive. Go into the terminal and type "sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop".




Normally, I was too lazy to put into that one line so I kept downloading RPM based Fedora and OpenSuse, because I'm only human.



That other distro I'm using since 2003. It's American.

Been in Melbourne, Australia

I was in Australia for one week. Looked at all the landscape. It took me a year to fund this vacation. My cousin at the Yokosuka Naval base said Australia was one of his favorite places, and he's been to Melbourne. It was one of the top tourist places. It's subtropical. I've already been to Florida twice.

Unemployed Joyseekers Need not to Apply?

One of the scarier tendencies that have surfaced in the job market as a result of the current economic crisis is that many companies are refusing to hire people who are unemployed, irrespective of the reason for the unemployment:

In a current job posting on The People Place, a job recruiting website for the telecommunications, aerospace/defense and engineering industries, an anonymous electronics company in Angleton, Texas, advertises for a "Quality Engineer." Qualifications for the job are the usual: computer skills, oral and written communication skills, light to moderate lifting. But red print at the bottom of the ad says, "Client will not consider/review anyone NOT currently employed regardless of the reason." In a nearly identical job posting for the same position on the Benchmark Electronics website, the red print is missing. But a human resources representative for the company confirmed to HuffPost that the The People Place ad accurately reflects the company's recruitment policies.

Read more about this completely insane and self-destructive tendency here.

I have to leave right now but I will blog soon about my analysis of what this tendency means for us and where it is likely to take us. In the meanwhile, feel free to leave your own interpretation of this troubling phenomenon in the comment section.

podcasts

Podcast 11 vorbis
podcast 11 aac


Podcast 10 aac
Podcast 10 Vorbis

Ban Dodging.

Today I used Technitium Mac changer to dodge bans @ Gamespot so I can be happy again. Beats the alternatives.

Playing Mass Effect

Semester is over, enjoying Mass Effect. I had to deal with the Normandy bug. It's fun, i give it a 9.0. Reviewed it



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Here is the no DVD exe so I can play it with the 1.02 update.

DirectX 11 takes a lot of memory.

DirectX 11

DirectX 9

I'm officially braced the DirectX 11 future with a version of Windows 7 Ultimate and a GPU. The reviews said the card was fast, yet only first gen of DirectX 11 cards. My card does 4.64 Teraflops, more than quadruple the Geforce GTX 280. At the moment, the only DirectX 11 benchmark is Battleforge, a real-time strategy game. The directX 9 games all run past 150 fps at 2650x1600 resolution. DirectX 10 games have an average frame rate of 150 fps at 1920x1080.



This is really fast for me, I usually stay with the old school thought where 60 fps was fluid and anything more was faster than the human eye could process. This old school thought came from 2D fighting games like Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for Sega Dreamcast. That's a 2000 era thought.


DirectX 11 API (Battleforge, EA 2009)

Yeah, I asked for a XFX Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition for Christmas along with a TB hard drive to get rid of the RAID5. I didn't wait for the Geforce GTX 380 this time around, because it had 1.5 GB GDDR5 memory. From what I hear the Catalyst drivers are very buggy, so I should see a 12-15 fps increase in 6-7 months in the future with better drivers. My card also supports OpenGL 3.2 so that API beats DirectX 11 graphics a little.

IT DOES ABOUT 5/8 a IBM ASCI White SUPERCOMPUTER IN 2000 (7.226 TFLOPS).



December 27 2009 update





Card intelligently underclocks chips and RAM when not doing 3D graphics.