Maciu Personal Blog

trancetraffic down?

Maciu — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:32:15 +0000

my favorite music tracker is down for some reason, until 5 min. ago i could ping it but now its down completely :( i hope its a temporary problem…

utorrent on macosx !

Maciu — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:54:18 +0000

Something that was long awaited is coming to Mac users - utorrent! If you download torrents then you know what a pain it was on mac. Now things are changing rapidly - currently i am using Transmission which runs natively on leopard. The program is ok, i have used it before in ubuntu, but it definately has some problems with high speed downloads. My favorite torrent client comes from windows - µTorrent. The development of mac version has been ongoing from quite a long time (2 years?), and users have been pretty eager to use the new version. The µTorrent were spammed with questions about when is the mac version going to come out, resulting in moderators locking every single topic that was concerned with the mac :) My advice - to pledge your support go to mac.utorrent.com and show the developer that you are interested! I download lots of torrents and cant wait till the stable release comes out, of and BTW a beta leaked out just recentely - grab it here!

Starbucks in Bulgaria

Maciu — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:10:07 +0000

If you are a coffee drinker, there is some good news for you! I usually brew my own coffee in the morning and to be honest i like my home made brew the best, but i love the different flavors that Starbucks has. Bulgaria is not that far behind in the coffee business. the first one to enter the market was Onda Coffee Break (about 4 years ago), then about two years ago Coffeeheaven followed. While Onda was not that bad, it was not as good as i would like it to be, Coffeeheaven was good but super duper expansive. Now that Starbucks is coming to Bulgaria, i already know that the price is going to be a killer one, but on the other side i think they have the best coffee :) so i cant wait to have my pumpkin spice latte!

are linux flash nightmares over? probably not

Maciu — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:59:34 +0000

Thats a good question, all that time i had to view flash based content in my browser my processor suffered, and i suffered at the same time because the browsing pleasure was very low. On October 15 Adobe released a new flash - version 10. And guess what on the download page there is a direct link for Ubuntu 8.04+! Being a Ubuntu user from a couple of years i was very pleasantly surprised. I removed my old flash install and flawlessly installed the new version. With new versions there is always now hopes for better but not this time :( It crashed on the adobe.com page, second impression it kills my work Ubuntu box that is equipped with AMD Sempron 3000+. Watching a small youtube clip consumed 60 % of my processor resources. So nothing changed, i hope the first crash was just a single accident :)

Amarok on Mac OSX becomes reality

Maciu — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:34:20 +0000

Yes this is true and i confirm it, after long time compiling and having end up compiling something which was totally unusable and ugly i finally got my hand on something which is 10000 time better then awesome -
I got the .dmg from the amarok mailing list, it is the first fully functional copy of amarok for Mac, and also the first music player for mac that is worth using. Not only that it - is my favorite and personally i think the best piece of software for listening to music!

ubuntu server is going enterprise

Maciu — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:30:22 +0000

Canonicals efforts to popularise the ubuntu server editions have some visable effects - Wikimedia Foundations adopted ubuntu as their server platform! That was something very pleasant for me to see. It definitely proves the reliability that ubuntu provides to is users. There is nothing that they have to proved to me - i use ubuntu from 4 years and i think its great, but there is still a lot to do to convince those hard minded Red Hat and Novell administrators that ubuntu is worth giving a try.

Don’t you hate itunes?

Maciu — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:58:32 +0000

Ok by now i can cay i am a pretty confident mac user, managed to compile some of my open source favorites, as well as got used to some of the mac substitutes for what i used till now. I even bought a mighty mouse to enhance my mac experience (to be honest i don’t like the one button idea). But there is this one thing that drives me nuts, its called ITUNES !!! I literally hate this stupid piece of software! I used it the first time when i bought an ipod last year, and i thought it was pretty stupid but then my girlfriend took over the ipod and i didn’t get to used it that much. Now that i have a mac i was brutally forced by apple to use their full of bullshit music player! Can’t apple admit that people get their music from different sources then just their stupid store ? Screw the stupid DRMs :/ Now i thought this would be pretty simple - you dont like this software then you try something else, right? But for mac there is no something else ! I compiled amarok and used it for a while in X11 but it is unstable, sloooow, and there is no database support :( Well there is nothing left but waiting for the official mac port of amarok2.

Amarok on OS X ?

Maciu — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:41:08 +0000

Well well check this out Cant wait till Amarok 2 will be released ! I love Amarok it is the very best music player i have ever used, and it is one of those programs i miss the most, now i am going to try to compile from the how to thats given there. But overall it would be great if Amarok officialy supported Mac.

no more porn & ubuntu

Maciu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:42:23 +0000

I found that one while reading linux haters, it is in deed the most bizzare reason to switch operating systems i have ever heard of. Check it yourself link. Funny and sad at the same time, but i think its mostly funny :D In fact i laughed my ass when i have seen it !

transformation

Maciu — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:41:46 +0000

And it happened at last, i was thinking of it for a long time and now the money conditions allowed it - I bought a MacBook ;) Right now i am in the phase of what i call transformation from linux, and so far so good. The shiny small notebook works as good as it looks good. The only thing that i miss from linux was the dock. Although Mac had it first - Awn simply works better, and there is muuuuch more you can do with it.