mandazi

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.

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.