This summer, I’ve been trying to master CSS but have been no more successful than in my attempt to try to finish the Physics syllabus for this year. But what I have done successfully is installed Fedora Core 5, Suse 10.1, Ubuntu 6.06, Xubuntu 6.06 and Mac OS X 10.4.7 on the same PC which I had pronounced “dead” in one of my earlier posts on this blog. I figured that Xubuntu and Ubuntu(in correct order) are by far the fastest operating systems based on the new Linux Kernel. Talking about speed, Xubuntu takes an amazing 7 seconds to start on my computer. Windows takes 35 seconds without anything on startup and completely free of spyware. The beauty of Xubuntu is of course the Xfce desktop environment which is quite different from how Gnome or KDE work.

User-friendliness: SuSe is absolutely the most user-friendly Linux distro out there. THe partition manager at the time of the installation is very intuitive and let’s you do anything to your hard disk. With this, you can forget about those problems where you lose all the data you normally shouldn’t have. Following SuSe are Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu Dapper Drake. The Dapper Drake CD was delivered home today, but I didnt ask for it. It just came!

All those of you who have broadband and have faced problems with using the internet on Linux will have that problem again. But this time there’s a solution. I assume you are using ADSL which is the main reason that this problem usually arises. All you’ve got to do is set your connection to DHCP and create a new DSL connection with the username and password that your ISP originally provided you. That solves the problem. Then for browsing the internet you’ve got to change the connection preferences in Firefox to “Directly connect to the internet” instead of “System setting”. Now you can do all that you did on Windows and probably a bit more.

I’ve used Linux for a week and haven’t missed Windows for a second. And please stop spamming me with requests for cracks for WGA. Buy the OS, use Linux or get back to the good old Win 98.

I watched Superman Returns the-day-before-yesterday and I seem to have liked the movie more than the others who watched it with me. Otherwise that day and yesterday were quite pathetic with Argentina losing to Germany and France not playing well at all. But I must say, I never expected Ricardo to save all those goals. Unfortunately neither Ghana nor England are going to win the WC06, as Tarun(on BlogConnect) had expected. Going back to the Argentines, I am clueless as to why they didnt play Messi and why they made those unnecessary substitutions at the time when they really needed players like Crespo. Sad…

But yes, as per my expectations Brazil didn’t do well at all in the world cup and failed to come even close to reaching the semi-finals as I had said in my previous post. Oh yeah, I know I could have had a better title for this post but my post was originally only on CSS but my mind has once again lost concentration.

I would also be grateful to anyone who would send me a good tutorial to learn how to use Linked Lists on C++. I simply hate Linked Lists, actually even more than CSS and it is the one topic that has made my score in my monthly test(at school) in Computer Science come down like hell.