Moving Onward

So for the past year and a half or so I have had this crazy idea about getting my Red Hat Certified Engineer. I have been working on and off with Linux at home, and I thought to myself how much I would love to work with Linux. I bought a book to help me prepare for the RHCE, but after the first couple chapters it seems to have fallen by the wayside. I graduated college with a Information Systems Management Degree, got a job, got married....things were busy.

Now since things are starting to settle down and I have begun evaluating where my career and life are going to go in the long term (15 yrs +), I have decided to put Linux on the back burner. At college, all the programming classes were .Net, and my current employer is a Microsoft only company, so all I have done for the past four years is (drum roll please) the dot net environment. After some soul searching, and a long conversation from a programmer friend, I have decided to go for my Microsoft Certified Professional Developer. It's what I know. It's what I'm familiar with. So...as hard as it is for my to set my love for Linux on the sideline, I am going to be devoting my time towards C#.

Linux/GNU I lift my glass to you. Till we meet again.

Now this doesn't mean that I wont be following the Linux Desktop, Mobile environments (Palm OS, Android, etc), and everything that comes between. Instead of purely a Linux blog, I will follow everything I find interesting technology wise. Is that biased...yes, but that's the beauty of the internet.

Oracle Red Hat Merger?

Martin Veitch writes a compelling article about the merger between Oracle and Red Hat. Check it out...

Ok...so...postponing the KDE thing

So after reading Aaron Seigo's blog on the new and upcoming KDE 4.4, I am going to hold out for that to start trying KDE again. I have had a few things come up in my every day life that has made it hard to try it (such as getting married). I will do it. I love what KDE is doing...it just struggles on my netbook for right now, and I havent had time to put it on my desktop. So without further adieu, Aarons blog about KDE 4.4!

Trying KDE for a month...

Ok...Im doing it. It might sound ridiculous since KDE has such a big user base, and for what it stands for but I have been really reluctant to switch over. I didnt initially switch over to KDE 4 because of KDE 4. I was so hyped up about the change, that when it finally did come, I was crushed. So I started trying Gnome, and I really got use to Gnome more than I ever did with KDE. But after following Aaron Seigo's Blog for a few months, Im beginning to see all that KDE stands for, what it represents, and all the strides that it is making.

So in an effort to continue learning I am going to try and learn the ins and outs of this desktop manager. I will be posting periodic updates with Gnome comparisons to show the differences. I haven't decided whether to do Ubuntu or Fedora yet...so I'll report that comparison first.

Also...on a side note...check out this mashup of plasma modded for a netbook.

Ubuntu...good...and bad

I love my Ubuntu netbook. That thing is rocking. In my opinion, it is the best distro that has run on it. Synaptic is easy, apt-get friendly to use, and I love the new notification pop ups. But there has always been a few issues that have annoyed me.

I know they got rid of root (su) to help users...but I miss it. There has been weird issues with my mouse pad. Every once and a while the mouse will only be able to go up and down, but not side to side. What!? And even if I reboot, its not guaranteed to fix it. Even windows didn't do that to me. There has been other small issues, easily fixed, but needless to say I need a new distro. Today I stumbled across this article...and it intrigued me.

I can't say if my experiences are typical [with Kubuntu]; I've heard everything from "It's the best" to "It's the worst." I know there are millions of happy Ubuntu users who are satisfied with how it works, and that is good. That's the whole idea, to enjoy your computing experiences and to get things done.

Well, I haven't been enjoying my experience thus far...and I think I am going to install fedora 11 on my desktop. Here is the rest of the article titled Leaving Ubuntu for PCLinuxOS

HTC Hero

I have been following Android since it first came out. It always had a special place in my heart, because I have an unhealthy attraction to any and all GNU/Linux OS's. My past few cell phones have all run windows mobile, and they have worked well enough (my current phone I have to reset it every morning otherwise it will do weird things when I try to answer a call.) Android hasnt been enough to pull me over to a new phone....until now. I just watched a clip about the new HTC Hero, and I did a little dance. They have added so many nuances to the phone (I currently own a HTC Touch Diamond) that it would be like christmas...every day I used it. See for yourself.




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Fastest Computers in the World

The fastest computer in the world at the moment is based on 14,400 Playstation 9-core CPUs?! I knew that there was a big debate over the power of the PS3 cpu...but that is pretty sweet!

Check it out...

/Arrival

Hello World!

I wanted more space to post stuff than twitter's 140 characters. I have comments and thoughts about technology trends that I want to talk about...but my fiance doesn't understand. So you are my outlet. Ignore me if you want to, I don't care. This is just an outlet for me. A digital journal that everyone and their brother can read. (Kinda creepy if you think about it). Some of the main points of this blog are to post updates on:

• Linux as a whole
• Technology updates
• Laptops (more towards netbooks and ultra-portables)
• A little bit of Android
• Programming (C#.NET, Web Development Stuff)
• Info I learn from the Certifications I am going for

So...all in all, Im just like every other tech blog out there.