Smiley’s Picked News: Week 1

Yeppers, this is taken by the idea of Vint’s “Second Life Web Resources” often post! I’m making mine for the 1-feed-per-1/2-hour/s habit Engadget (and others) have:

  1. Leopard hacked for Intel PC consumption — Mac OS X Leopard has been hacked to run on PCs, means no buying 600$+ computers! Although I do agree the 64-bit core and HD graphics really interest me into staying on the “Buy an iMac!” side…
  2. Leopard vs Vista: feature chart showdown — No matter what Mac OS X has in store for me, I somehow still think of “But, I want an iPod Touch first!” “Idiot, your currently hard-damaged PC doesn’t even support iTunes 7.4*!”, so this keeps me on track ‘^_^.
  3. Habbo ~ Trick or Treat TGIF — The Habbo Hotel team from Sulake has a nice little treat for us Habbos for Halloween, so I selected option one (Treated) with my main account, and option two (Tricked) with my alt, hehe. Yep, for now I moved to Habbo Hotel due to all the problems i’m having in SL. SL works on my main PC’s hardware, but not it’s ISP, vice-versa on the secondary PC. Habbo and There.com work on the secondary, so why not…
  4. Habbo ~ *FREE* PURPLE TRAXMACHINES! — No matter how hard I try tried (It EXPIRED! AHHH!) I can’t get one with the complimentary Traxpack! I mean, it opens with 900 every day at 3:00PM EST, and I try exactly at 3:00PM EST, and it says none are left!. Ouch.

*The currently damaged installation of XP (that looks like Mac OS X for now — changed theme) doesn’t support Windows Installer packages at all, but removal. This probably has some problems with the temporary directories, where files are extracted to during the installation. Stupid Windows core.

8 Responses to “Smiley’s Picked News: Week 1”


  1. 1 dandellion Kimban

    on Leopard vs. Vista question I can only smile from my freshly installed Gutsy Gibbon. :razz:

  2. 2 Smiley Barry

    @Dan: Yeah, I really wanna install Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon :D . But I got no spare partition, and my spare computer has Windows XP Genuine since about two months ago, so I don’t wanna lose one of the three allowed installations per license! Lol.

  3. 3 dandellion Kimban

    Yeah, I know that… That’s one of the reasons I cannot get with win things. When I have win I reinstall it all the time (not my fault that it get broken every two months) so I cannot fit into allowed number of instalations. That law and eula things are too complicated for my tiny brain. I prefer to put the CD in, click install and go on without thinking :)

  4. 4 Smiley Barry

    @Dan: Yeah, that’s why i’m now cutting a part out of my 160GB HDD on my main computer, for Gutsy Gibbon :D . When I get an iMac, i’ll install Windows XP on one partition and Gutsy Gibbon on another :D :D :D .

  5. 5 Smiley Barry

    On second thought, I don’t wanna lose my current installation in case of failure. I’ll pass! :???: .

  6. 6 dandellion Kimban

    And have in mind that Linux distributions will need two partitions, though I’d recomend three :)

  7. 7 Smiley Barry

    Just like Mac OS X, one for the system files, and one for our files. Plus, I heard it’s very similar to the Mac OS X interface :D And I LOVE Macs! :D .

    By the way, do you think there’s a way to install Gutsy Gibbon on a Windows partition? :???: .

  8. 8 dandellion Kimban

    If you mean NTFS by windows partition then no. Any modern UNIX will insist on ext3 file-system. And with reason, who wants to do defragmenting every week? Actually, I am not sure if I understand the question, whatever you install, you’ll have to format the partition(s) for it.

    And… partitions… on unices, one is for system files, other is for swap and (optional) third one is for /home i.e. user’s files. Which is simple and nice thing. Swap is much faster when has own partition instead of single file. And separate partition for user’s files, settings and preferences allows you to reinstall the whole system and have your old desktop (including all settings for all the programs, icons, wallpapers…. browsing history, passwords…trash in the recycle bin…) just before changing the system.

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