The Open Sourcerer » hjlord http://www.theopensourcerer.com The Magic of Open Source Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:30:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Idiot goes Open Source http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/05/idiot-goes-open-source/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=idiot-goes-open-source http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/02/05/idiot-goes-open-source/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:38:41 +0000 hjlord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2197 It seems that even the cat is using Ubuntu… the kids have seemingly seamlessly adapted to Open Source Software. My computer has also taken sides and is so slow it’s definitely trying to tell me something. Finally I’ve admitted defeat and have had to ask Al to make the change, with one caveat – that I can still use iTunes. A robotic sounding “virtual machine” is apparently the answer – it will pretend to run Windows in a little bit of Bill-space and iTunes will be none the wiser that I’ve actually left the Dark Side at last.

I know my new look will take some getting used to and I just have to get familiar but it definitely feels quite different. The icons look more home-made and the whole thing seems less slick. I keep repeating “Kill Bill” and “It’s Free”. I know I will get used to it but at the mo I could almost say I felt sad although probably remembering the “helpful” paperclip will remedy that – Yes, that’s done it – I will give it a chance.

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This is an excerpt from my ramblings on going over to Open Source Software. My husband (The Open Sourcerer) has persuaded me to put it on here but I’ve really no idea why. He said “people will be interested, you’ll be surprised.”

….surely they have better things to do??? I’d be interested in the work/chore that is so bad you’d rather read this than do it.

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