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Ubuntu

After becoming progressively more and more irritated by XP's slowness on my home machine I installed the latest version of Ubuntu, Breezy Badger.

I must say that so far i really like the system. Runs fast, looks good. It took me a while to get the hang of repositories and apt-get, but now its no problem. If ther eis something that doesnt seem to be working then a quick search usually finds an answer. It also detects and supports almost all the hardware on my laptop (no SD card reader or Broadcom WIFI card) out of the box.

Still, I am not sure that it is yet at the point where i would i would install it on my parents machine. While I am sure it would be ok, I would think that the procedure to install new apps is still too complicated. Finding the right app using Synaptic is is not always easy, could use a self installing exe or something. If this already exists then, hey, I've only had it for a week.

One last thing I really am enjoying, is getting back in touch with the old Unix command line, takes me back to the old days at Heriot Watt and Ascada.
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Flickr Pro

Recently upgraded to a Flickr Pro account. I now have a plan of copying all my older pictures there, we'll see. If you are interested there is an RSS feed,

Broadband upgrade

Hee hee, recently upgraded my ADSL connection from 0.5Mb with Telia for 349 kronor per month to 8Mb with Glocalnet for 249 kronor per month. Not too hard to see why I changed, and even the switch went pretty smoothly.

Outsourced...

A couple of weeks a go we got to hear at work that our R&D department at Siemens was getting outsourced to India. This came as a bit of a surprise, but we had just got a new division boss, so it was to be expected I suppose. Boo to the boss. The original plan was that we would all get six months notice and under that time we were expected to transfer the product to India. However, our managers in Sweden maybe thinking that we would not be 100% behind that work, persuaded the powers that be that it would be much better to transfer us to a consultancy company and then give us the work through them. So now I am a money grabbing consultant :-) working for Teleca. The other projects that they are involved also look very interesting so personally I think its a pretty good development.