So... here we are. Me and the so-called Web 2.0 - who thought we would ever get along?
I've never posted a video on youtube or uploaded one of my photos to flickr. And I'm certainly wouldn't even think of submitting something to myspace.
I do have a last.fm account, though. But that's two years old (back in the days when it was just a nice little tool, to create your own private hit parade, called audioscrobbler) and I rarely use any of those fancy features.
And now a blog... what has become of me? Where will it end? Will I get poked?
Hopefully not, because I don't plan to taddle and twaddle here. For now I will just use it for How-To's mostly, because I feel like I've been around in the Linux-community long enough to share my knowledge.
Alright, if you insist... here are some informations about myself:
I'm 26 year old student (I'm studying philosophy and mathematics intending to become a teacher) from Cologne, Germany and I'm married with two children (this always makes me laugh, because in german you say you're married with and not to someone... so if you translate the sentence word by word, it means I'm married to two children).
I'm using Linux¹ for one (and a half) year now and my first distribution was Ubuntu Dapper Drake.
The first time I got hooked on the whole concept of free software was when Firefox came out (or Firebird as they called it that time) and it still amazes me to this very day. The community played (and still plays) a big part in this for me.
I was attracted mostly by Ubuntu because of it's community and got a regular poster on the german Forum right away.
When Edgy came out, I thought I was experienced enough to try Compiz but switched to the newly created fork Beryl (again, mostly because of the community).
I learned a lot about window managers, the XServer and things like Xgl and AIGLX. In general, I can say Beryl and Compiz made me understand Linux and free software a way lot better and I learned to help people out, that weren't so much into it.
Right now I'm an active member of the Compiz Fusion community, compiling from git on a daily basis, following the mailing lists... you know, the geeky stuff.
Because of that, I always stumble upon people that are fairly new to Linux and since desktop effects are a popular way to attract people to free software, I want to help them out with a detailed How-To once in a while.
And this is what a majority of this blog will be about.
Another thing I'm planning to do are previews of alpha/beta stuff of both Compiz and Ubuntu.
So much for the introduction. Stay tuned for more Happy Days.
Regards,
Nick
P.S. as you might have noticed the title subtitle of this blog is quite long but I always loved this line (it's from the song "Much against everyone's advice" by Soulwax) and if the guys at blogage.de let me use unreasonable long titles subtitles it's their damn fault, so don't blame me.
I guess the The title will be has been changed some time soon to something short and boring.
(The one who knows on what song of which band the subtitle is a pun on, wins... uhm... a virtual banana.)
¹I will use Linux as a short term for the GNU/Linux operating system and Linux-kernel for the kernel itself on this blog. If you want to know more about the distinction, see Linux and the GNU Project - by Richard Stallman
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Haha, sehr geilter Titel für deinen ersten Eintrag, Nick!^^ Nur das Problem mit der gesprengten Top-Bar bei langen Blog-Titeln müssen wir noch hinkriegen - aber das wird gefixt, versprochen ...
>Actually I have never uploaded to YouTube or Flickr either, don't like (well, hate describes it better) MySpace und I never used last.fm, and still I am programming blogage :)
Yeah, that was somehow meant to be a disclaimer ^^
I'm just not into the whole Web2.0 stuff like blogs, feeds etc, so don't expect nothing too fancy from me right now. ;)
It was also a little nod to you guys, because, as I already told Stephan, I didn't plan on doing a blog until I read about your nice project. So keep up the good work. :)
(You know... "if you build it, they will come")
>I think that's what great about Web2.0, there is so much todo, you don't have to like most services, but still can enjoy what others made
Well, it's just that when I hear the term Web2.0 that's exactly what pops up first. You just have to ignore them and move on to explore the good sides of Web2.0, I guess.
>except MySpace Profiles, they make me wanna puke :)
Hehe... yeah, just when you thought the times of crappy html-pages were over, MySpace profiles came along ^^
>if you also want some server-related How-Tos (like Setting up a Web-Server, or even some more advanced stuff), I could be a help, although I use Debian, but that shouldn't be much of a problem, considering that Ubuntu was based on Debian.
That would be great, I also read that you host the fuckup-wiki (König mutle ^^). But I guess, if I was able to do that, I may not be here at blogage.de, so don't tempt me ;)
@Doener: Naja, ihr hättet ja natürlich auch einfach die Zeichen für Blognamen begrenzen können ^^
Aber hat mich mal wieder positiv überrascht, dass ihr's nicht gemacht habt. :)
*poke - poke - poke*
:-)
Oh, no. It happened. I thought I was safe. How naïve of me. Nobody is safe anymore. Even outside of Facebook.
The virus will spread and we all gonna die.
Poked to death.
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Welcome Forlong!
>I've never posted a video on youtube or uploaded one of my photos to flickr. And I'm certainly wouldn't even think of submitting something to myspace.
I do have a last.fm account, though.
Actually I have never uploaded to YouTube or Flickr either, don't like (well, hate describes it better) MySpace und I never used last.fm, and still I am programming blogage :)
I think that's what great about Web2.0, there is so much todo, you don't have to like most services, but still can enjoy what others made (except MySpace Profiles, they make me wanna puke :) )
>Because of that, I always stumble upon people that are fairly new to Linux and since desktop effects are a popular way to attract people to free software, I want to help them out with a detailed How-To once in a while.
>And this is what a majority of this blog will be about.
Great! if you also want some server-related How-Tos (like Setting up a Web-Server, or even some more advanced stuff), I could be a help, although I use Debian, but that shouldn't be much of a problem, considering that Ubuntu was based on Debian.
Greetings,
Mutwin