Hi all - I'm still alive, you know. I have just some 4 exams to cope with at university, so I'm busy enough to forget posting something on this little space.
Today I'm posting a little info about me; on the style I'd like to follow on information&technology matters.
A little history...
I was an early MS Windows user, spending whole hours of my teenages meddling with hardware and software - of course I was nothing like those geniuses from Silicon Valley, not even a geek, but you could say I was a computer enthusiast.
Somewhen near 15 years old I installed my first Linux system - the result was immediate: master boot record deleted, a mission impossible-like data backup, and complete reinstall of Windows. I was a bit scorched, you know.
Years later I was intrigued by Ubuntu - a giant step towards a real usability in Linux, they said. I was still running Win XP and of course I wasn't very happy with it - ok: it was stable and it could run games, but the price was regular format-and-reinstall-all to avoid extreme performance loss. Besides, university brought about a renewed interest for extreme performance applications for numerical mathematics; and I had no more time for gaming, just a few frags occasionally.
It was time to change, and Ubuntu was the way.
Nowadays I use Linux Ubuntu on a regular basis - I boot on WinXP only to manage a few devices with Windows-based drivers, but the frequency is getting very low.
All of this blog is Windows-free: I write with Google Documents in Firefox; the title banner was created with Gimp, and I'm quite proud of it.
You can see I'm budget minded: why to spend money when you can get nearly equivalent products (sometimes better products) for free? And if it's Open Source Software, it's even better.
Just a final note: as I constantly tell people who don't know about Linux:
- 'Ubuntu' comes from a zulu word which means "humanity to others"
- 'Windows' means just windows.
