It’s been more than a week after the Presidential Election day, but I just want to say a big congrats to the president-elect Barack Obama. I’m not a supporter, but I was very impressed with his campaign. I hope that in the near future, our government will allow other political parties to have a fair chance to compete with the two mainstream parties.

I’m so excited! :O The long awaited new version of popular linux destop distro Ubuntu is released today and I’m upgrading my OS as I write this blog.  The new release 8.10 aka Intrepid Ibex is now available to download/upgrade at www.ubuntu.com.

I voted today as a 40 years old virgin (first-time voter).  And yes, I was shocked at myself too.  The reason that I voted because this election is that important.  I impressed of how smooth the voting process was.  It was painless and fun, so I encourage everyone to vote.

Since I have to start over with Ubuntu installation, I thought that this will be a great opportunity to tryout different flavors of Ubuntu.  So I went on did just that, I have installed various versions including Kubuntu, Edbuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu, and Ubuntu Studio.  And the verdict:  Ubuntu Studio.  I love the themes and the prepackaged graphic applications.  I know that you can customize your desktop, theme, icons within Ubuntu, but If you don’t have the time or just plain lazy (me), the Ubuntu Studio distro is for you.  Don’t take my word for it, check it out here: http://ubuntustudio.org/

My Maxstor 250 GB hard-drive in my newly installed Ubuntu workstation went kaput on me today…I was so sad and depressed because I spent many hours configured software and customized the desktop to my liking. And just about when I begin to settle down and enjoy my newly found happiness, disaster strikes.

So depressed and no spare storage laying around, I use my live CD to boot up the machine and trying to salvage any tip & trick files I collected during the installation and configuration that I stored in the home directory, using a 4GB SD card in the workstation built-in memory card reader as a backup storage…then suddenly, a crazy idea crossed my mind…how about install Ubuntu onto the memory card, is this even possible? Oh well, one way to find out, what do I got to loose, this experiment can ease the depression of loosing a hard-drive.

Well what da ya know, I have to set the computer bios to boot up using a removable device and make sure it will recognize the memory reader/card during boot. And then boot up my live CD and choose the install option. And voila, the software recognized the “drive” and allow me to install. The speed is, of course as expected, a bit slower than that of a hard-drive. Isn’t this cool? See if Microsoft Windows can do that.

After installation on a 4GB SD card, still have 1.3GB left

Well, do not try this at home LOL.  Currently, I have Ubuntu 8.04 installed and want to try Kunbuntu desktop by issue command “apt-get install Kubuntu-desktop” as recommended in one of the blog, which will add the KDE desktop to Ubuntu.  Unfortunately, it didn’t work, the installation of KDE corrupted part of GNOME.  It took me about 3 hours to do the clean-up and get rid of KDE.  I still want to try the Kubuntu but I think I will wait until version 8.10.

Just got ERP5 installed in my Ubuntu 8.04 workstation.  The UI is nice and it reminds me of SAP.  I’m trying some examples found in ERP5 website but not very successful.  The documentation is very limited and perhaps it may have been written for some older version?

Wooo hooo! my first blog page,  how exciting!  I just set this up…give me sometimes to blog…see ya later.