A while ago, I attempted to start using Ubuntu, but failed to install it on an old gateway laptop that didn’t have any linux drivers for audio, visual and wifi devices. Or at least I couldn’t find any online for the laptop. Due to the failure in getting it to work, I stopped my Ubuntu journey. I wasn’t ready for it. Skip forward a year later and I found myself installing Ubuntu 10.04 on my newer HP laptop. Installation was a breeze and everything worked out of the box except for some issues with double fingers on the touchpad and the right/left click ares on it. I was impressed. Wifi, bluetooth, sound, video, and pretty much everything worked instantly with Ubuntu.
As soon as I started to use it for a few hours, I noticed they took a some of their UI from Apple’s OS X and Windows. It’s the best from both OSs combined into one. Workspaces is cool. I’ve never experienced that working on Windows. I find that very useful when multitasking. I also like the way alt-tab works when switching from one item to another.
The best part of it all is developing with Ubuntu, which is the main reason I switched. I was having a hard time dealing with Windows and developing with Ruby on Rails. On Ubuntu it was extremely fast for obvious reasons. I haven’t tried developing in PHP or Java yet, but will soon.
Posted by Amir Sahib on 07 Jul, 2010 at 08:17 AM in Gaming
I woke up this morning to receive an email saying my order for Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty was canceled. I immediately got up called 1-888-BEST-BUY and logged on to my computer to check the order status. It was canceled. I spoke to a lady from Colorado from Best Buy online customer service and she said the price for the SKU number for that product (Starcraft 2) was “accidentally” changed to 5.99 instead of 59.99. So to fix the price they had to cancel all the orders.
I thought to myself, it sounds like someone hacked it.
Anyways the lady was very nice and pre-ordered it again for me and gave me a discount for $5.
Posted by Amir Sahib on 27 Mar, 2010 at 02:11 PM in Movie Reviews
Just watched it. Excellent film. Showed a completely different perspective of Genghis Khan. It was about his rise to power. Although it might have been exaggerated to make it more Hollywood friendly.
Posted by Amir Sahib on 24 Mar, 2010 at 11:23 PM in Books, Sci-Fi
I’ve been reading this book for a few days now. It’s really good. I’ve actually heard about it a long time ago, but never got the chance to sit down and read it. I first heard about Dune when it was a PC game in the early 90s. I didn’t know it was a book by then. It was an awesome first person game. One of my first gaming experiences. I then remember watching a movie about it. Reading the book is better and more exciting than the movie or the game. Actually the game is pretty inaccurate when it came to the story.
Posted by Amir Sahib on 05 Jan, 2010 at 04:28 PM in Web Development
So today at work I spent several minutes trying to figure out how to send an sms link with a message along with it. Turns out according to the iPhone URL Scheme, you can’t do it (at least for their phones). So to all those people who are going to try to search on the web (hopefully this blog post ranks high in the search results) I’ll make it easy for you and show you what you can do:
