"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." (Robert A. Heinlein)

Saturday 31 March 2012

A new beginning ...

 
The provider hosting my current blog, musante.i.ph, is shutting down its free blogging service. So here I am juggling between backing up the old blog and experimenting with the still unfamiliar blogger interface. Unfortunately i.ph people locked my blog for new content so I can't even properly inform my few readers of the changes in act. May be I should have started blogging on a more reliable host from the beginning but I really loved the fact of blogging from a Philippines domain and that short domain name!

By the way here I am, again, facing an empty blog like more than three years ago. I'm going to slowly restore the old musante.i.ph content and, even more slowly, posting new content like before.

Stay tuned!

(Update Apr. 24th)

At last I managed to finish the backup/restore process: all my posts, back to the very first hello world, are now on blogspot.

 (Update May 24th)

Since today my old blog "musante.i.ph" seems to be definitively down, its counter stopped beating at 36776 hits. I hope all my few reader managed to reach the new blog here on blogspot.

So long, i.ph, and thanks for all the fish!

Tuesday 13 March 2012

Test Drive: Ubuntu 12.04 Beta1 (Live)

Ubuntu upgrade season is coming and, even if I changed my EEEPC installation to Linux Mint, I'm still curious on how the new Ubuntu release behaves. So, as the new Beta1 release of Ubuntu 12.04 has been released, I couldn't help not to prepare a bootable USB stick and give it a look at least by running it live.

First impressions: Unity improved

Here is how Ubuntu 12.04 looks like on the EEEPC.