James Doohan AKA Scotty from Star Trek has been beamed up, aged 85. Farewell …
Also had my first experiment with the Ubuntu Linux distribution. I was setting up a PC at work as a general-purpose workstation for all staff that will be used for:
- Creating CDs;
- Scanning documents;
- Reading/writing from USB flash disks.
Few staff PCs have CD-writers or scanners and Windows 98 support for recent USB 2.0 flash disks is rubbish, so this will be a helpful addition. And, after doing a default Ubuntu desktop installation, all the above Just Works. Impressive. There are however two things wrong with Ubuntu:
- Its name: Well, it’s a silly name isn’t it? It certainly sounds silly when you say it. I plan to get around this by never actually using its name at work. I’ll call it “Linux”, I guess;
- Its colour: the default theme is brown. That, at least, can be easily configured away …
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