Brian Alexandrowicz

I’ve put together a soundtrack to put on my Xbox for when I need some music to own to. Check out my tentative track list below.

1. Dogfight - Another Day
2. System Of A Down - Chop Suey
3. Smile Empty Soul - Bottom of a Bottle
4. Breaking Benjamin - Believe
5. System Of A Down - BYOB
6. Stone Temple Pilots - Unglued
7. Linkin Park - Crawling
8. Linkin Park - Numb
9. Evanescence - Bring me to Life

I’ve tried to write this review about 3 times already, and this time I’m going to write it for sure. Also, I know that I’m a little late reviewing Ubuntu, but I felt that I should do it anyhow, so shut the hell up and read.

The promise behind Ubuntu Linux is that it is easy to use and usr-friendly. For the most part, I found this to be true. From inserting the disk to logging in, the process took about 30 minutes. The Ubuntu installer does most everything for you, except you select what hard drive to install it to. It also offers some other more advanced options, but the default settings will be fine for most users. On login I was greeted with a simple and clean interface what was very functional and easy to navigate. Browsing throught the menus I found that Ubuntu comes bundled with a lot of useful software such as the fantastic OpenOffice.org office suite. The piece of included software that I found most useful was the Synaptic Package Manager. It functions like a WinZIP/Windows Installer hybrid program installing tarballs such as Windows would install EXE programs. There was one thing, however, that was so frustrating, it almost brought me to tears. It was trying to setup my wireless network. If you have a direct ethernet connection, then you’re good as gold. If you have a wireless PCI card with a Texas Instruments chipset like mine, then you are screwed. No matter what I did, it would not work. I’m sure that with more in-depth work you could get it to work using the wlan drivers package, but I found that even that did not work.
In my final thoughts, I would say that Ubuntu is a very good Linux distrobution if you don’t mind puttingi n a little work to get things up and running.

Got questions about Ubuntu/Linux? Email me: bacontheory@gmail.com

For a while I’ve been wanting to do a case mod and express my creativity, but I’ve never had the cash or guts to do it. Adam told me just last week that he has an old P3 computer that he would sell me for $20. I think I may just take him up on that offer and try my skills on that computer, if I screw up, it’s only $2o, not $850 like my main computer. I’ve also wanted to OC my video card but I’m a bit skeptical this time around because my last 6600GT broke and I had to get a replacement from Chaintech. There really won’t be that much of a performance gain, as I’ve seen in the past, but I think I’ll give it a go anyhow.