Stuffs and LINUX 64-bit and a suprise >~_^
So here it is its to damn long to let it be in the standard window as I've been told because of other posts.

Hi all, I figured that I haven't written any sort of up date for anything at all recently. To start with I was insanely busy with school, its over for the time being and I'm working, YAY. So recently I bought a new laptop to replace my previous Sony VAIO of 5 years, especially since it wouldn't do the OpenGL graphics for the class I had last quarter. I bought another Sony VAIO which is actually really nice. Its really reminiscent of a MacBook, but in my opinion better with more powerful hardware.

SONY VAIO CR220E/R
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
200 GB HDD
Intel x3100 On Board Graphics Card
DL 8X DVD Burner
Windows Vista Home Premium
-$200 Black MacBook



By the way thats totally me, my car, and the computer blends in so nicely with the car and me.

I bought this thing with little intent on keeping the OS (Windows) on it. Ubuntu 64-bit was the plan but I decided to keep Vista on it as a separate boot in case the problem with Flash and 64-Bit Linux doesn't get resolved soon. ON to something more important, LINUX 64-bit. Much less to I was excited to use a 64-bit OS thats mine, the SUN machines at school don't count. The install was just as painless as the 32-bit version of Ubuntu, the troubles came in when the system booted into the HDD OS for the first time. I really don't know what happened but it ran awful, more so on the interwebs than the stock stuff installed. Since that first boot it has been great and not much trouble outside of the usual problems I've encountered with Linux and Wireless interwebs.


So I was able to connect quickly to the servers at school, and my AIM account the next thing was getting Firefox up, which became a chore, because Flash wouldn't work. I got it to slightly work with Gnash install of flash but it fails at interactive flash pretty bad. As you can see in the below picture it didn't load right, the green things in the middle are spinning but the rest is doing nothing, almost as if it loads all the objects but masks them instead of doing something useful with them.



After that fiasco I need to make sure my stuff for my Programming classes would compile on my machine so I need to get G++, a C++ compiler. It seems that if your running 64-Bit and need to install something your 64-bit LIVE CD should be in arms reach, since it seems to need this anytime it install a package for you which is slightly depressing, since I'll know one day I'll forget it when I need. After Popping the disc it seems that everything can be compiled to be used in 64-bit even if it is only actually a 32-bit optimization. Moving back to code it seems to work, because I was able to compile OpenGL code and runs, see lower picture, but I was unable to take a screen grab of the 3D game I'm working on because I haven't gotten it to save out to a file yet.



Well I think I'm done I'll keep everyone that even gives a crap about this stuff updates on fairly regular occasion at the very least I'll be posting WallPapers every time so here is installment one.
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