Boy, September 14, 2008 is also gone! My last post here was on December 14, 2007. That makes it 9 months since I disappeared, huh? Oh well, a lot has changed in these last nine months—most importantly, I’ve got married! It’ll be five months on the 29th of this month. Who would have thought I would be hitched, eh? Kudos to me wife—the kid has a lot of patience to be putting up with the likes of me. Well, what can I say? She’s a great human being—yeah, and that’s not just because she married me of all people; but because she actually is. And, to add to that, she’s great fun to be with. By the way, that’s her on the post titled ‘imagine’.

Anyway, I haven’t been around because of a few things: didn’t have time, forgotten that I had a blog,  busy cribbing that I don’t get time for this shit anymore, etc. Got a good spanking for the wife, so back here!

So, what else is new? Nothing much, really! I still swear by music and free software. Oh and I have a new computer finally, too. It’s an assembled one. Did quite a good amount of reading up before getting it glued. Reason I didn’t go for a branded PC was because: first, I didn’t wanna pay the Winduhs tax; second, didn’t find a good enough AMD configuration to choose from the lot! Well, I dunno why, but had been wanting an AMD for the past one and a half years now. Wife had an AMD too, and she was pretty satisfied with it. Sys admin dude at work had good things to say about it too. So, I went ahead and got an Athlon X2 5600+, with each core capable of clocking at 2.8GHz. With 2GB of RAM, I’ve been happily VirtualBox*ing for a couple of months now.

By the way, in case you didn’t know, there’s a new version 2 of VirtualBox out there for grabs. [Just in case you dunno what VirtualBox is, don't expect me to spoon feed you—there's a reason I've provided you the hyperlink somewhere already.] Anyway, since I’m not really one of those geeky dudes out there, I have always been using VirtualBox over para-virt stuff like Xen. Boy, Xen is a pain for the lazy folks, hi!

For those who knew what system I used to use, would recall how I used to be a big PCLinuxOS fan. Well, that’s also past—have gone back to Mandriva, which is what I run on my work laptop. And here at home I’ve been primarily using openSUSE 11—simply, because I get to try out the latest KDE 4.1 builds. However, as soon as Mandriva 2009 comes out next month, I’ll be sold.

Anyway, I just downloaded the Amarok 2beta, but it kept crashing on me. So, thought of updating the whole KDE 4.1 stack—had v4.1.0, and now in a few minutes I shall have v4.1.1. Yes, I know, it’s only rock n’ roll. But I like it! Yes, I do. Anyway, lemme go play with for a while now! Adios!!

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