Sickie weekend

I've been feeling kinda sick this weekend, it must have been all those late nights and long days while travelling up to Brissy. Saturday was good enough to head out for a late 1pm breakfast at the South Melb markets with Steph and Simon.
I somehow made it to the gym for a good workout later in the afternoon before it started going downhill Saturday night and now I'm nursing a sore throat and body aches. =(

No matter, best way to get over any sickness is to distract yourself doing something else: So I spent all Sunday tinkering around on my PC.

Remember a couple of weeks back I was writing about experimenting with non-window$ based operating systems?
I finally did get down to giving Ubuntu a shot and almost drove myself to the edge of madness in the process.
Long story short: It is working now, and yes it was really fucking difficult to set up my wireless Internet connection on this damm thing (because yours truly had to use the top of the line WPA2 encryption). Not to mention sound, video and everything else.
I could almost pick up drinking again because of the stress involved in this.

.... but that's all sorted out now.... thankfully!

Here's some screenshots of how it looks. For normal web surfing, listening to music, chatting on messenger and stuff, it runs sweet and is stable as a rock. Not to mention it has a pretty slick interface.


Pretty much the default theme with a cool wallpaper in the background. Everything that I could do in WindowsXP, I can do here too now.



I'm running a music player called Amarok here, you can see the house channel from Digitally Imported running in the background and it even remembers and keeps a list of track titles and the times they were streamed.