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A Crow Left of the Murder

148792431 1a7e5a05b0 t A Crow Left of the MurderWhen I first got the new Incubus album I was disappointed! Now the more I listen to it, the more I like it… Usually that’s a good sign for an album :) Anyway, I found a very cool website that already has some tabs …for those who also like to play along and don’t have the time to fiddle out everything by themselves.

Linux drivers for Centrino

About a month ago Intel announced to provide a linux driver for the Intel Pro wireless chipset …again! Nothing happened so far …again! Some news just don’t get me exicted anymore…

Live and unplugged

148792293 8be4851910 t Live and unplugged148792386 1731f6ee59 t Live and unpluggedTonight I played with two friends live and unplugged in one of our favorite bars. The club was packed. A lot of friendly faces showed up. We played some covers e.g. from Morcheeba, Incubus, REM, Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, Jet, Tenicious D (…) plus a couple of own songs. We started out being pretty nervous but after we finished our set it was so much fun that we started playing songs that we never played before :)

ohne proben ganz nach oben

OSX vs WinXP vs Linux

 OSX vs WinXP vs Linux148792274 f1dc86fd92 t OSX vs WinXP vs LinuxOn my quest of finding an OS that finally gives my a cosy feeling I came across this comparison. It’s too bad you cannot easily give MacOS X a try. You need to buy a Mac first. Quite an expensive try-out. My personal requirements have changed within in the last few years. It’s no longer fun for me setting up my system to do all the simple things I’d expect from a OS. The most basic stuff should “just work” out of the box. …and be rock solid.
Many people seem to have found exactly this with MacOS X. And I almost made the move to become a switcher …but in the end I refrained and kept my current laptop. I love the Powerbooks from an esthetically point of view. MacOS X might be what I am looking for but my Centrino gives me a much better battery lifetime …especially taking CPU power into account. Not to talk about the power / price ratio. And I won’t be able to do any x86 development anymore. But maybe that’s the price you have to pay?
I am pretty sure a good Linux distribution could jump in here. Although I love debian it’s still too much work installing it on my laptop. All the little details you have to care about (suspend-to-disk, ACPI, touchpad, special buttons, etc). Hope the new 2.6 kernel will make things easier. At least on the first glance Xandros -which is based on debian- looks very interesting.

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