Amazingly, I went more than two whole months using only Ubuntu at home since
one of my RAM sticks got busted
and Windows refused to boot. Luckily, I have a dual boot computer, with Ubuntu as my alternative OS.
Ubuntu is pretty awesome. As a Windows replacement, it does most of the things you need without much problem. It has two distinct advantages over Windows:
1. The Debian package distribution mechanism is just great. Virtually everything you need is provided and can be installed easily. In Windows, every single program decides how it wants to be installed.
2. The customizability of the UI. I'm pretty sure this one rates a lot higher for geeky fellows than ordinary folk though.
However, there's something that makes it really difficult for me to go pure Ubuntu permanently: gaming. Wine/Cedega is a pretty lame substitute. And with the Future Sight online release coming up, I decided I needed to have access to Magic Online again, so I got hold of an XP installer and tried to fix my XP install.
The freaking XP installer wiped my partition table.
After running the XP installer just to see what options I had for repairing the previous Windows installation, I found that the Grub bootloader wouldn't work anymore, my PC refused to boot at all. I lost some 60GB of downloaded data that day. (I was able to recover some 4GB of personal data...pictures and such.) Up to now I'm still wondering if the XP installer saw that I had a different OS installed and just had a "Oh yeah? It's me or nothing!" tendency.
In any case, I'm on a clean XP install now. I'll probably reinstall Ubuntu some time (dual boot again), but for now I seem to be another Microsoft sheep again.
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A blog about playing through each one of the Ultima games, in sequence. I should do this. For Final Fantasy. When I retire or something.
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1. Ban the distribution of sample ballots and election paraphernalia on election day within the vicinity of voting precincts. Seriously, check out the amount of trash generated on election day near the precinct:
And I noted that the current level of trash is already an improvement from last year!
In Quezon City at least, the local government seems to have been able to keep people from plastering campaign posters all over the place (relatively), so banning campaign materials on election day should not be too much of a stretch.
2. Disallow the usage of candidates' nicknames for voting. If you are any kind of serious voter, you should at least bother to know your candidates' full names!
I realize the above two "reforms" would at first glance make it difficult for voters when casting their ballots but that's actually part of the point. I'm not sure that voting is supposed to be easy. The duty of each citizen is not only to vote, but to vote wisely and according to what he belives will be right for the country. You're not supposed to rely on sample ballots or name recognition.
Sample ballots and nickname voting are crutches created to herd sheep into voting for people by name alone. Without these crutches, I'm hoping at least a few more people will be forced to think about the choices they make during election time. And that those who are too lazy to think get so put off by the needed effort that they don't bother to vote. It's our responsibility to vote, but if you're not going to take it seriously, don't bother!
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