Second week of May; Robot Unicorn’s adventure in Linuxland.

 

Pavlov’s Dream Page 19, Micha lost his hat! *gasp*

Not much to show on the comic department, since everything is at writing/planning stage.

A lot of things to talk about at the distraction department though, it’s a wonder I ever get anything done these days!

First, the infamous Robot Unicorn Attack. This game is crack-done-right; It’s a combination of absurd concept taken to the top, tried-and-true gameplay mechanism plus actual quality in execution. I think the soundtrack (Always – Erasure) also plays a big role.

My fingers started to twitch involuntarily after 30k.

On other gaming news; Steam for Mac! With free Portal! I got it of course, never said no to free stuff (Unless you can see obvious strings attached) and downloaded  Torchlight demo. So far so good, but I want to see more AAA titles available for mac  before I make any judgment. One complaint though; where’s menubar icon? I like menubar icon!

Last of the distraction; over the weekend, I decided I wanted some lightweight Linux on my EEE 900HA netbook, because waiting 5 seconds for each window (even an empty folder!) to completely loaded up is ridiculous. Don’t make me say how long I had to wait for ‘add and remove programs’, grrr.

I never used any linux before. But I do enjoy installing (and breaking) things. My criteria is simple, all I need on this netbook is Browser, Dropbox and some kind of word processor that can open .doc. I started with googling ‘lightweight linux for eee’, and ‘lightweight linux for netbook’ which brought me;

-- Puppeee Linux. I was sold by the name alone. But after trying it out for a few hours, I found that there’s such thing as ‘too lightweight’. For one thing, I can’t figure out how to install Dropbox on it to save my life. So it’s a no go.

-- Jolicloud. Everything seemed fine except that I hate having to register to their site to use an OS. And I hate ‘cloud computing’, whatever the hell that means. And really, why do I want to know which apps people are installing? Some kind of nerd voyeurism? 

-- Ubuntu Netbook Edition. First time I installed it, it didn’t work, produced a lot of error booting up and shutting down. So I tried to wipe it off and installed it again, worked better second time, but really, it was about as fast as XP, and as prone to crash as XP as well. What’s the point?

-- Xubuntu. The same as Ubuntu, just with prefix, different look and a –tad-- faster. It worked well enough and I could have stuck to it, but I really want something more lightweight. And I really don’t see the point of using linux that looks like windows…

Which brought me to final candidate, one which I’m currently using, and probably here to stay:

-- #! Crunchbang linux. Confession time; I misread the name as ‘Churchbang linux’ for about half a day before I realized it, no wonder I can’t find anything worthwhile when I googled the name. Crunchbang linux is basically a lightweight Ubuntu (at least the current version is, the next version is gonna be based on Debian instead) with just enough GUI to get by, a lot of administrations/configurations are done via terminal/text file config, just enough to keep me on my toes and make things interesting. And I like abusing sudo apt-get, the bestest way to install programs, imo.

Isn’t it pretty?

First week of May.

First, the big news would be that Zuda, as it was, is no more.

They have eliminated the monthly competition entirely. It used to be that they pick 10 comics each month and let readers vote, which comic get most vote would get to be serialized on the site. Pavlov’s Dream which I co-created with @bicyclefish was in the January 2010 Competition (we ended up rank 6). I admitted that I both like and hate being in the competition. January was the most stressful month so far and I was glad it was over. But I’m definitely sad to see that there will be no more competition. After all, it was the reason that Pavlov’s Dream was born. I have 2 more stories I was working on which I had to put on hold for now, just to see what will happen next. My guess would be that Zuda will move to ‘instant win only’ model, which is at best, one comic every few months. I feel like the door was definitely shut. But we will see, @bicyclefish wrote a thought on this as well, check it out if you are curious.

Here’s some drafts of Zuda entry that will never be:

I might try to adapt these two to some other format, or maybe there will be other venues open up in the future, who knows.

I’m currently working on sisters’ luck book 2, speaking of which, I need to finish website for it, at least before the book comes out.

On a more personal news; I’m going back to school, in pursue of a bachelor degree. A degree in which I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do with it. But I guess Bachelor degree is the new high school and it’s your civic duty to finish it, or something.

There’s nothing caught my eyes on the internet this week, not even Youtube cat, On to next week!