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If you haven’t seen it yet, google has just made a new browser called chrome, which uses webkit (the open source renderer behind safari). You can get it at http://www.google.com/chrome?open. They’ve also built a new javascript engine, called V8, which seems to be MUCH faster then firefox, or any other browser. If you use any javascript intensive sites (digg.com for example), you should give chrome a try, it’ll probably be much faster

Keeping up with all of Google’s other thrends, the browser will probably never make it out of beta (like gmail), but even at it’s first release, it works great, is complete, and has very few bugs.

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Facepwn.com / www.facepwn.com are now hosted on my VPS, despite the machine being much slower, the site loading times are MUCH faster. The new IP address is 216.66.9.147, so make sure you’ve migrated before telling me something is wrong :).

In order to get lighttpd to work with wordpress, I had to use a modified mod_rewrite, which you can find here: http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/985. I’m not sure if there will be any problems with it, in my tests it seemed to work perfectly fine, but if you run into anything post a comment and I’ll see what I can do.

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For the next few days, i’ll be away (not like anyone cares), on vacation to Mexico. I’m not sure if the hotel we’re staying at will have internet (if it does the I’ll pop in every now and then), otherwise i’ll be out for a few days, try not to miss me too much

I’ll be leaving tomorrow (the 5th) at 10am, so this will probably be the last time i’ll be on.

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Well I managed to semi-hose my Server 2008 install (no idea what.. but it only works half the time now!). So I decided to *try* ubuntu. I’m not linux pro, but I’ve used it quite a bit (usually on servers), and usually when I try on my desktop it fails (I never seem to be able to get my dual monitors working :().

Then I found out about Envy, a program that finds the proper nvidia driver for you (8800gts in my case), then installs it. Before I was going to the nvidia site and downloading their drivers, but that would always fail (something about 64bit ubuntu and nvidia = fail). After envy did it’s stuff, I went into nvidia-settings, enabled my other monitor, set up the proper resolutions, told it to write to xorg.conf, then rebooted.. and it worked! Apart from a few applications that don’t like twinview (I’m looking at *you* VLC), it works without any problems at all.

Half life 2/Half life 2 deathmatch work 100% fine with wine, other then fullscreen seems to not work as well (probably because of twinview) all my devices worked, even my logitech easycall desktop, which worked as soon as I started skype up and told it which sound device to use. As for everything else, there seems to be a Linux equivalent that works nicely. The only thing that gives me problems is the 64bit flash plugin for firefox, since flash has no 64bit linux plugin, it needs to use a wrapper around the 32bit one, which makes it use a lot more resources, but most everything still runs fine.

To wrap it up, I think i’ll be staying with ubuntu for a bit longer then I did server 2008 (no promises though ;). Ubuntu is getting better and better with every release, and it’s quite pleasant to use (compiz is awesome, much better then Vista!)

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Isin’t a PC a “Personal Computer”?

Last time I checked, Macs are “Personal Computers” as well.. Shouldn’t it be Mac vs Windows, not Mac vs PC? That’s always bothered me..

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