Woohoo! 20 million...

I just noticed that my credit passed 20 million this morning! Not bad considering the hardware involved.

Sudoku@vtaiwan on Linux

I attached to suduko@vtaiwan with two Windows machines (no problems) and a 32-bit Linux machine. I kept getting "process exited with code 195 (0xc3, -61)". I chmod'ed the project directory to "777" and all seems to work fine now under Ubuntu 8.04 server.

I've given up on Unity!

I gave it a try, honestly I did. But I have had enough of trying to find apps that I am sure are installed but I just can't find. I have to give a thumbs down to Ubuntu 11.04.
Before returning to the excellent 10.04LTS, I did try and install Gnome 3 on top of 11.04. That was a complete disaster. It didn't work well, hung every couple of seconds and somehow managed to reset my BIOS settings.

While on the topic of sad developments ... MS has bought Skype :-( That is probably the end of Skype for Linux, Skype for Android, Skype for Mac etc etc