It’s been a crazy week of work with little profit so im very much happy to be going home tomorrow after work. I feel like i should take this opportunity to improve my computing skills to be honest.

Ever since moving to Mac my computing abilities have kinda stood still because i never have any trouble. This is good in one aspect because i can always just do what i want to do but on the other hand im limiting my possibilities to learn new things and improve my skills. So im going to reformat both my macs over the next week or so, so that i can reinstall OSX and also install Ubuntu on them both and create at least one extra empty partition just in case i ever need to use it. Why do this? Well i haven’t done it since purchasing my mac’s so it will benefit it greatly but also because my disk is incredibly fragmented and i want to learn linux. Firstly just the basics by getting used to a new OS again and then learning the command line.

I hear nothing but great things about Linux as a server and i want to test those abilities on my Mac Mini as it will inevitably becomes a server/media centre computer when i move into the new house in about 3 weeks time. So im going to go with Ubuntu desktop first and in the next year or so i will go to ubuntu server if i like it (hence the reason for creating an extra partition. Either for ubuntu server or WinXP)

My MacBook will become my main machine again so i want it clean and ready to rumble for whatever i throw at it.

So what do you guys think? Is Linux really the way to go and do you think it’s worth the hassle learning it? (Keeping in mind that i have 2 months summer where i only work 6 hours a day)

And HELLLOOOOO from the Darwin residents of The University of Kent Canterbury! It’s great to be here FINALLLYYY!!!

I’ve been literally packing till the end of time whilst working 6 hours a day AND then having to move all my stuff on my own from Tyler Court A to Darwin. My days has it taken forever. To be fair its not even finished. I simpy didnt have the strength or will power to do anymore so i left a few bags in Tyler and Darwin reception so ill be finishing it off tomorrow after work. But my computer is setup so thank foook for that :-)

Oh and i don’t have a fridge here. Bloody annoying since i actually bought 3 pizza’s, some chicken and a ready meal. Im gonna go for a ready meal for lunch tomorrow (aka 3.30 or so and a pizza for dinner and then PRAY that i can squeeze the life of 1 more pizza for lunch on Monday. That If i can atleast get that much then i wont be too upset. I done a really good shop as well. All for £8 something. (Keeping in mind that i also bought a packet of bagels too. I was just planning on eating little over 5 days, now i am eating lots over 2. No food wastage, but it hurts my wallet :-(

Anyways, time for bed. Gonna put an episode of Alias on and then sleep to House i think ready for an early start again for work tomorrow.

Fun fun fun fun fun :-)…. ish

I have been eagerly awaiting a version of Messenger for Mac with AV (Audio/Video) capabilities for a very long time. Now when version 7 was released not long ago i was estatic, then realising that all i got was the smallest possible UI changes and, if im not mistaken, the ability to write personal messages. I was bitterly disappointed. Never mind though. AV would be available for normal users shortly.

Shortly… Ummm, 3 or 4 months? Version 7.1 or 7.2 or something. I think that was a fair assumption to make especially since that AV was available for corporate users from version 7.

Turns out Messenger for Mac 8 (yes i said 8) Beta was leaked which does allow AV for its users. Its only JUST been released!  JUST! And it’s a fricken internal Beta and as buggy as hell. It crashes AND the fricking video doesn’t even bloody work properly! Fair enough its an Internal Beta but jesus christ Microsoft. You’ve had so much damn time. Your leaving us mac users out in the dark.

The only reason i want Messenger for Mac with AV is because not everyone uses Skype (hardly any in fact) plus the connection seems to be more reliable than Adium. At least it is here on campus.

Here i was thinking that AV would be introduced for personal users within a few months of version 7 but instead its been over 6 months and all they have released is an insanely buggy version of basically Version 7 with the addition of a poor implementation of audio and video capabilities.

Not impressed.

I’m bored. I really should revise since i have a maths exam tomorrow afternoon but im so sick and tired of it. I just want all the work to finish. I should be prepared for it though. I’ll do a little more in the morning just to set certain elements in stone. After that only 1 more exam and then thats it for my first year of university!

God, it really has flown by. It’s been a great year though.