Ubuntu 9.10 what is all the griping about?

We mostly use debian linux at the monkey house, but some ubuntu for an Pentium 2 (very old) and a remix based on ubuntu (this will become debian though) on a rather nice netbook.

Since the netbook is moving from ubuntu that only left the pentiom 2 pc to upgrade.

Being that this machine is very old it did take 12 twelve hours (on a slow net connection doing too much other stuff) but you could not run windows 7 on it (windows nt, or windows 98 was what the maker supplied it with ten years plus ago.)  Before i resort to some low power distro like damm small linux it still makes a good x host and is ok for spreadsheets and basic tasks.

I’d go use latest debian on it except the sound card isnt supported and to get that back into the kernel requires some plain damm strange magic linux backport stuff that never works when i do it (early etch worked fine)

So the machine does struggle a bit with 9.04, and things do take a bit of time on this old machine but it still has a use in it still with a rather good flat screen display.

Testing of 9.10 indicated most things working except than the x test card test, I had to re-enable the switches on cups to get remote printers to be seen and printed too. That took a minute to fi

The only mickey mouse feature in 9.10 is no gdm screen (on first look)  anyhow quite sure i can live with that for a while until i fix that.

So when people say it karmic koala sucks it does not – try running windows 7 on a Pentium 2, it was pretty awful with windows xp and how long ago did xp come out ?

One happy koala user here.

I mean whats the fuss about ? Im happy with it. Humans sigh

processed food – why humans are doomed.

google ‘fake cheese’ – if you did not then fake cheese is oil based (that’s fat).  Guess who uses fake cheese – frozen pizza’s – why ? well its cheaper than milk.

Here’s the thing.If humans consume processed food aka the ‘ready meal’ then it is not good for you.

This is darwinisn in action, while a few might be rich replacing milk based products with oil cheese it does nothing for the idiots who buy crap pizzas except speed up that medical condition.

Its scary that people buy this stuff after it will leave a bitter taste in the future.

Man with a banana

David Miliband might not be our cup of tea being that his party has gone a bit nazi like recently, but that man has his appeal with the fruit but we are not party to bribes.

The Saudi Arabian guide to suicide bomber logic.

Ed Husain is an interesting character good guy or boogey man is up for discussion but in isbn: 9780141030432 he goes under the hood of the ‘Saudi connection’ to terrorists which not even the ‘bin-bushes’ wishes to raise that issue and rather blame our tailors.

The Book is called the Islamist, Ed hails from Canary Wharf in London, his family originated from Pakistan, and the other bit that get floods every other weekend. Being honest I’ve heard of him, and his book was part of the Orwell book prize which has some interesting stuff on it.

Ed would have described Bananas in the Falklands as being Kafir* at one point (so that means everybody else yes even you), and although now a civil servant was at a stage of his life was hell bent on becoming a young homosexual muslim changing the world into them and ‘us’.

Mr H is careful not to get too close to the violence although an english murder could be associated with his activites he either grew up or got bored but helped to ‘flower’ the uk suicide bomber culture and had a link to known bombers and groups of concern.

The author sounds a right shit and has had an opportunity to observe his retardedness in action. If you go back you can say multiculturalism died a long time ago when his father sent him to the the wrong school.

The book is badly written, too careful and you wonder why Mr Husain was such a retard to start with.

Mildly interesting and still an very intolerant person it appears

* scum/trash in saudi speak

Leviticus and the Zune tattoo guy

losing the faith

Isn’t it funny ? perhaps is sad ? but with Steven Smith (an american) whom was Tattooed all in the name of Microsoft’s mp3 player has now seen the error of his ways.

He now owns an Apple music player.

The problem with Steve is that by buying Zune he by default became a copyright thief, and supports those evil riaa members I discuss the issue here. So that’s count one on the charge sheet.

Theres a funny smell here, and another nail in his coffin is mad christian who decided that Mr Smith is bonkers.

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28

That probably had something to with slavery rather than the way i construe things, but if your going to pimp for Microsoft is that not slavery ?

As an informed customer Steve (mr tattoo guy) warns us all about restrictions in copyright watch the video.

Bananas in the Falklands recognises that some americans hero worship Microsoft and there products, that’s fine until they label Steve a copyright thief by default. I have other issues with Microsoft but to call your customers of zune music thieves (all of them) then there be ethical issues there for everybody

If he owned an digital music player (not mp3 but a proprietary format) – then i think they just became very very unhip.

Humans.

Fired

Being bananas in the the falklands has some advantages, but you humans really enjoy watching excrement on tv. It has come to Bananas attention  (via a news website) that the talent show is in full bloom. Kosher ? well which one of these candidates should become

1. Alan Sugars latest tea boy/girl
2. Pimp Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
3. Be crowned talentless retard of 2008
4. Win Big Brother

I don’t mind who you vote for.

To vote for monkey a ring 1-9000-rekucs-a, To vote for monkey b ring 1-9000-rekucs-b, To vote for monkey c ring 1-9000-rekucs-c, To vote for monkey d ring 1-9000-rekucs-d

So get voting

Don’t worry the tea boy will leave after a week, the musical will fail with bad reviews, talentless retard will be soon forgotten and the winner of big brother will fade into obscurity.  So lets do it again next year shall me, good. thats a date then.

And now the weather.

* reverse rekucs and win a prize (its in the blog)

Duh – retarded football fans alert

Screen dump from the bbc news website, why is this retarded ?

• football final (two teams remaining)
• one has to win
• or was the event a ‘fake’ final ?

Football (and its fans) continues to amaze me for there stupid-ness.

Book: The God Delusion

The God delusion is by Richard Dawkins , has an isbn of 978 0593055489 and deals with the problems of God (think war on terror)

Its due out in paperback soon, your library should have it as well

A worthwhile read, and its so good to know that the 72 virgins all good godly sucide bombers get in heaven is a mistranslation, and they get 72 raisins instead

A coherent read, and sets a number of things straight, I particularly enjoyed cargo religions and Hartungs thing on page 358

If you believe any religion then your a deranged nutcase.

The future McCann problem for ‘celebrities’

Once upon time a child went missing called Lindbergh in 1932 and it too made the newspapers. History likes to repeat itself and so we can introduce the the McCanns into the picture.

For cave dwellers some months ago an english family was holidaying in a ‘family safe’** seaside place in Portugal, all three children where left unattended while parents went off and enjoyed themselves one evening.

And yep you guessed it one child went missing.

So since ‘family safe’ Portugal is new to this (not the average for them) it peaked a Lindbergh like media event (good for selling newspapers, viewing figures etc) and the hunt for the missing child began with appeals,meetings with the pope, cash rewards (for the foolish) , free flights, appeals on tv, etc and several months on no child has been recovered.

So where is the celebrity problem ?

Imagine you can write books that appeal to morons and having sold forests of them should you help the incompetent parents – just because you can ?

The heart says yes, logic and reason say no. If the parents did do it (no other cases of abduction since) you get called a fool, if no child is found your infectual.

Either way they cant win.

So is it right that the rich and celebrity only get to help and when the stupid* policemen finally get round to asking the ‘bad’ question why should the rich defend them by allowing them to flee, and hiring top legal talent.

This like the Lindebergh case is almost a perfect crime, do it, play victim,get top help and then cry foul when the logical question is asked.

Either way Richard Branson (of aircraft),Green (millionaire), and Rowling (millionaire author) have all be made to look like fools. The newspapers and police continue to ask the difficult question but impeded by a wall of fake trails, leads (with no reward ever paid).

So who did it ? I say the parents, and that is where the use of publicity fails, for if the reward is never paid why give information, and if your going to a suspect for offering information why help.

There are other missing people out there, there not as mysterious as the McCann case but why is this child more valuable then they are ? face it if the Pope cant get your kid back your well and truly screwed.

* who else might have done it is the question ** whatever that means.

for the spooks at ‘british airways’

Why is it when Bananas was trying to book a flight at British Airways I had to

1. make all text entries in lower case
2. alter credit cards to ignore details they say they want
3. change postal addresses to lowercase
4. also make passenger name lower case

But not being a mind reader had to to ring BA three times to get this information ? Which on the last attempt they admitted they fucked up

What does this tell us about about the security services and British airways (ba.com) ?

1. spies only do lower case ‘Bananas’ would fuck them but ‘bananas’ would not
2. credit card fraud is a secondary issue

Its strange to think that credit card fraud is apparently not important, but lower case is. God bless Big Bush for keeping us safe.