Yippeee!!

Wooooooooooo hooooooooooooo!!!
I am a happy man, I finally have Fedora Core 8 running on my machine that too with no risks of loosing Dell's support on the laptop as they support only Windows XP and Vista!
Yeah, VMWare it is baby!
VMWare 6 and Fedora Core 8 with the new version of Ananconda is a cakewalk for even a n00b!!
Well, I definitely count myself in that category and so it is good news for y'all!!
If you have a Dell or any other brand's laptop running some version of Windows with your laptop's manufacturer supporting only Windows and you're craving to lay your hands on a Linux baby, get VMWare!!!
I did have a hard time finding a Linux installation DVD as the SuSe disk I was supposed to get came out to be corrupt and Ubuntu ships only their shitty Live CD now.
That was one hell of a disappointment.
I got this Fedora Core 8 DVD free with the December issue of Linux for You magazine!
I dont normally subscribe to it but the moment I saw it was offering what I wanted so badly, gotcha!!

And here's a screenshot to make the likes of Subhobroto Sinha further jealous! ;)

I am sure you recognize the blue desktop!
Dont you?

The world of Geeks!

This one comes to my mind from what happened yesterday. A fellow geeky friend of mine suddenly asked me if I could allow him access to my system for a minute or so. I knew he wanted to get a feel of a computer running Windows Vista and probably see what I was doing with it!
Well yeah of course I know what one can do in that time but this was a genuine honest request from a friend who's been living without a computer for quite some time now. Poor fellow sits at office after work to let his mind satiate its intellectual desires.
So I decided to play Mr Nice and allowed him access using a Remote Support Software (e.g. VNC, LogMeIn, XpressRemote etc) and gave him 20 seconds!
And when he finally got in, I could sense the pleasure he derived...it was like a small little baby playing with a toy he loves, looking around in all awe and veneration. He loved the changes Vista brings with itself and then when I unfurled a few tucks from the corners and showed him the devices connected all he could exclaim was "Come on now, that's show off!"
Yeah that's really show off, in the world of Geeks Computer Hardware is something to show off, Operating Systems or Applications are "SEXY", they can be used to induce jealousy!
Whoa! The world we live in is so ruled by machines...
I wonder if the modern interpretations of the Apocalypse prophecy would actually come true one day...something that we saw in the Terminator series of movies.