Okay so I got on my Laptop Sunday night and I turn on my PC to encounter a scary "Operating System Not Found" error with only a black background. Long story short I was doing a heck of a lot of googling and was finding from an error in windows to my hard drive being dead. (bad, very very bad) As I was searching I remembered my friend Zach was going to be setting up Linux on this server he was working on, in a random thought I figured downloading it.

I was actually moments away from removing the HD and checking it out when I flip up the laptop and see that the Hard Drive is sticking out, I push it back in and see that two screws are missing. I turned it on to see it working fine and I couldn't find the screws, I can't imagine them just coming out somehow and I had my Laptop turned sideways that day, so I realized why I didn't notice the missing screws until now.

Alright, so anyways, even with Windows running I figured I'd give Linux a shot. I've always said that I wanted to give it a shot sometime and I had downloaded it onto my Flash Drive, so I went ahead and burned it onto a CD and installed it on my Laptop. After getting it running, I'm impressed! I'm using a type of Linux called "Ubuntu".

It took a bit of work to get all my programs (that I need) up and running, but overall I have few complaints. I love the way it's structured, the speed and pre-loaded programs. Most of my gripes have been fixed with little searching and the fact that PHP, Apache, etc. is built-in is just awesome!

So I guess the question is if I'd reccommend it to others? I'd say yes for those that know there way around windows and such. As much as Linux has advanced to be user-friendly, some things require using the terminal (but not much) and if you're looking for an OS for low-medium computer users, windows is a no brainer. But for the tech savy, Linux is at least worth a try.

Now back to coding!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope all viewers enjoy today and of course enjoy your presents and stay safe. However unlike a lot of sites on the web we practically never take vacations. We'll be posting, hopefully, the AdaptCMS Lite v1.0 Beta soon after Christmas and a tutorial or two over at Insane Visions and more on the Browns game, along with a podcast at Bengals Chatter.

Merry Christmas!

As always, a lot has been going on, I like to keep myself busy. Unfortunately, overall, my websites aren't doing well, that's why I am doing kind of a "re-structuring" my network of websites. Just main website wise (adaptcms.com and adaptbb.com, not included) I would like to get down to 5, that's my goal.

That would mean Insane Visions, Charlie Page (this site), Political Yard, Dynasty Wizard and Bengals Chatter. IV is a site that I have no plan of going away and is a main focus. Of course I'm not going to get rid of my own blog, it doesn't take much and I may even see it as a "secondary" web site, since my mail goal with this blog isn't to make money and such, if I can great, but it's just a blog.

Most people would agree that Christmas is their favorite time of the year and it is, without a doubt, mine too. But the fun part is of course getting ready for it.

Without going into details, this will probably be the nicest Christmas I've had in years and I'm very much looking forward to it. I just got up the tree (a 4 footer) and decorated it with ornaments along with lights on the tree and on the balcony, I'll take pics and post them here once I can find my camera USB cord.

Of course now I have to get presents...my dad (very tough), my mom, going to get something for my grandmother (a mystery book) and then a present from my mom and myself to a family friend and then one for my best friend, Andrew.

Continued...

First off I want to say that I will be adding content to 360 Universe. I have 3 reviews I need to do (MOH: Airborne, Madden 08 & Halo 3) and one or two will be up shortly.

Next up, OneCMS is doing well. All of the work and I just finished compiling all admin files into one "admin.php" file, almost half a MB! Next up I will probably be doing the same, except with the frontend and then will move onto bugs/security issues and then features.

Update 2: Karr will face child porn charges in california