Nico’s notepad

When I get bored and I have nothing but my PDA to entertain me, I go on Wikipedia and learn stuff. These trips last between 10 minutes and 3 hours, depending on how sleepy I am. I decided to track one of those “wikitrips”. It all started when I was looking for aerial reconnaissance photograph and I ended up learning about all kinds of stuff about the middle ages. What would I do without Wikipedia? (sleep, that’s the answer).

The Youtube community is a great example of how bad people can turn when they’re anonymous. Oh, and sorry for the typo.

Why do people attribute everyone’s character to their religion or color? I’ve seen Jews, Christians, vegetarians, emos, blacks, mexicans, frenchies and homosexuals that I would have punched in the face at any given opportunity. I also met great people from every group mentioned above. When you are nice with people, most of them will be nice and friendly too. The rest are assholes. What has religion, color or language to do with that? Could the humanity move on to more important matters?

Yay! My blog reached 2500 pageviews today. Unfortunately I didn’t take the effort of making some sexy fanservice pictures (like if I could…) so here’s a cute picture of two cute kittens shamelessly hotlinked from a site with far more daily pageviews.

Thanks for the 2508 clicks!

I randomly found this while looking for military recon photos. It’s basically a bird’s eye view of the World Trade Center after its collapse. Click for veryfreakinghi-res pic.

Click for big

This guy is awesome! Check the rest of his vids

“If you wanna mess with me you probably can because I’m not confident and pretty weak for a man.”

I don’t know if the four people who found my blog by searching for “Wall-e porn” on Google were just testing Rule 34 or to get excited seeing two CGI robots buttsexing each other, but there’s no wall-e porn here, m’kay?

Porn. Robot porn.

Remember when I installed Ubuntu a few weeks ago because Vista fucked up during an update? Well once I restored the system I decided to permanently install Ubuntu along with Vista. Since then I pretty much abandonned Vista except for syncing my Pocket PC and installing applications on it. Do you know why I stopped using Vista? Here’s why!

Booting up Vista is long, very long. In fact, booting Ubuntu from closed to the moment everything is loaded takes under a minute. With Vista, I can enter my password and take a piss and the thing is still loading.

Then you realize Vista is a power whore. You boot Ubuntu and after a few seconds the hard drive is idle and everything is calm. With Vista, even if you don’t touch it for hours, the laptop’s hard drive will still spin endlessly until you power it off.

There’s also the fucking updates. You are asked to install 250mb of important updates everywhere, along with antivirus updates, driver updates and the list goes on. Ubuntu notifies you daily of updates too, except they take a minute to install, won’t require a reset and feature 99% less nights of Googling around to find out the update fucked up everything.

Uninstalling software is much faster on Ubuntu. When I first tried to uninstall something (”something” being the ton of bloatware that came with the laptop), I was wondering how the heck the average person could find the “Programs and functionalities” in the Control Panel. In Ubuntu? Simply click “Add/Remove software” in the applications menu. Also, you don’t have to Google for an hour every week to find a solution to a problem that randomly appeared.

Finally, probably the best thing about Ubuntu is that everything you need to start is there. You have an IM client, Internet browser, organizer and all the rest at hand right after installation. 

There is much more stuff that made my switch definitive, notably the fact everything is free, the virus are not a worry, errors are not clueless messages, incredible community support and the infinite customization.

On the other side, Ubuntu has its load of disadvantages, but as long as you are not a programmer or a gamer, few of them really hamper the experience. Ubuntu is so fast… so simple… you never have to worry about anything!

I will stay on Linux.

I received a comment from another Nicolas Bouliane tired of receiving emails from my readers (I have readers?). Just to let you know, I don’t have a GMail acount or any mail account starting with “nicbou”. The sad part is that we both use Linux now… so uh… we’re some kind of e-twins?

I just found the best webcomic on the web, that’s all I had to say. (click the pic to see)

To my future self: if this happens, please stab humanity in the face, thank you.

Remember my rant about WeFi giving Windows Mobile user horrible tech-related headaches a week ago?

Well Amir from the WeFi staff left a comment to the post and I tought I might share it with you.

Dear Nicolas,
My name is Amir Tchetchik, and I am leading the Product Management team here at WeFi.
First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere apologies to you and to anyone who had suffered any technical malfunctions on his mobile device due to the installation of WeFi. I am aware that this could be VERY frustrating.
At the moment, our entire mobile team has stopped working on anything else but trying to fix this problem, and I hope to write you back in a few days with news of how to fix this problem, and with a new version that solves that.
Just to put things straight - in the past few months, since we released the Windows mobile version, we have very few reports of serious malfunctions (out of thousands of very satisfied customers). Having said that, even one user who has to go through a hard reset is more than we want to take, and this is why we are putting all our resources on fixing this.
My personal email is tchetch@wefi.com. I urge you or any other user who suffered from this problem (or has any other feedback) to write me, and perhaps provide us with more information that will help us to solve this issue more promptly.
Thanks,
Amir Tchetchik

Well I’m happy to see they actually give a crap about us. As I commented on FreewarePocketPc, WeFi is an excellent idea with a bad execution. If you also experience this issue, he left his email in the comment so you can leave him some feedback. As he stated, there are not that many serious issues, but they ARE serious, so fix ‘em up soon!

Meanwhile you can still use PeekPocket for your scanning needs. Except for the autoconnect function, it’s excellent in many ways.

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UPDATE: It seems XDA Devs have quite a few threads about this problems but none of them features a solution. So yes, it screws up everyone’s device after uninstall. A member on XDA Developers simply reinstalled the software and removed it from the Today screen and from the apps menu and used it to take care of its Wi-Fi connection.

I just watched the Disaster Movie trailer on youtube. Generaly, when you release a trailer for a movie, it showcases the best scenes the movie has. Did you see the trailer? Until the end? Imagine what the full lenght movie is like. My guess: riots, a rise in suicide rates and Liongates going bankrupt. Just kidding, they’ll make money and do it again.

Just witness the horror…

Unbelievable.