No Twitters for this category. Yet!
I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for months now, and I’m really happy with it. After years of trying out distro’s, and running Linux on my backup puters, I’ve finally ditched Windows altogether. As a gamer, there was always “this one game” that wouldn’t work in Linux. Bleh. But now with the advances in the Wine project and Transgaming Cedega, All the games I play work. Wewt!
Here’s the specs on my latest system. <3
AMD X2 4600 EE / Biostar Tforce 570 / 2GB Corsair DDR2-667 / EVGA 8800GTS 640Mb / Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA2 / OCZ GameXStream 700W / Antec Nine Hundred / Gateway FPW 2185 Monitor / Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 64
I play Everquest, Guild Wars, Star Wars Galaxies, Oblivion, Morrowind, World of Warcraft, Diablo II, Doom 3, Starcraft, and I just managed to get Vanguard: Saga of Heroes working in the newest Wine. I’m stoked to have my games and a real operating system.
For my server I use OpenBSD. Right now it is running 4.0 with a basic fvwm config. I like the default install of X on OpenBSD. I know, not many will agree :P. I usually change the background and I am good to go, hehe. I do a little messing around with .xinitrc and .xsession but not much, I like to keep it simple :)
These are both Kvm’ed to a 22 inch widescreen Gateway monitor. Here’s the link I found for getting it working in OpenBSD (or any BSD for that matter).
Getting Fullscreen monitors setup in Xorg
OpenBSD, Ubuntu
I’ve kept an eye on Ebay for the last few weeks, paying special attention to the Business and Industrial: Test equipment (Canada only, 100 dollars and less) and have managed to score some decent multimeters. I got a pair of Mastercraft handheld multimeters (AC/DC voltage, DC current, resistance and diode) that are compact and very nice for the price (~10) and also a Fluke 8010a Bench Multimeter for 11 bucks that works perfectly.
It’s been treated fairly decently, and was calibrated every two years by the Canadian Defense Department. Sweetness.
For calculators, there was nothing really spectacular in the used department online, so we checked out all the local stores and I picked up a Texas Instruments TI-89 Titanium. It Hooks up to the computer and I can transfer applications, equations, text files and pictures back and forth to the calculator via USB. Next I need to find the keyboard that plugs into it, so I can take notes on the road without lugging a laptop to school. Here’s a few screeners I took of the Desktop Apps, Word Processor, and a few electronics calculations.
But while I am just rambling on about stuff, I also got my old iBook 700 running OpenBSD 3.7 with X, and I have to admit, I like it alot better than OS X. I’m not trying to compare the two, but for what I need out of a laptop, FVWM and a couple of xterms just does it alot nicer than waiting for the beast that ate windows to start loading (and it runs a lot cooler too!). They didn’t do too much in the way of cooling for these little guys so the HD temperature gauge is my left wrist :P You can just feel that little HD burning away. Add to that it’s a lot more responsive, the CD drive works perfectly where It was quite stubborn before, and upgrades are free (well 50 bucks, cause I like to support the project, and my local store carries OpenBSD disks) and it beats the hell out of the upgrade path Mac had me on (buy!.. it’s obsolete… buy new!.. it’s obsolete, oh ya and your hardware won’t run the newy new. buy hardware and software! hmm.
Electronics, OpenBSD, Ti Calculators
