Now, I don't consider myself to be a very inept writer in terms of blogging, or releasing my thoughts onto a block of text, but I figured that it was time to follow the blogging trend and make one of my own. However, I've still left an inevitable question that I've yet to come up with an answer to -- what do I write about in this blog? Should I discuss things I find on the internet? Talk about what it's like to be a father? Discuss current hardships within life?
Any and all of these things seem like plausible subjects, but they aren't the nicest thoughts for me to blog about. Look at the blog title -- "Excrements of the Mind". It isn't word-play, nor is it supposed to have a subliminal definition behind it; it literally is me pushing unresolvable thoughts out of my head, and onto a medium where someone, somewhere can talk about them.
I do intend on using this blog regularly, but I do not plan on having a defined subject matter.
To truly begin this first post, I'm going to start with something that I've been playing around with as of late -- an operating system [not quite well] known as Linux.
A bit of a back-story: I've been using Windows for as long as I can remember. I even remember having floppy disks with games on them for the ancient Windows 3.1 - Maxwell's Maniac and Jezzball vividly form in my mind as I reminisce back, far enough to where dial-up internet was still very widely offered. Anyhow, through my journey of Windows OS's (from 3.1 -> Me -> NT -> XP -> 7), I slowly began to realize that I had incredibly bad luck when it came to running internal notebook hard drives. Over the course of three years, I've had to replace an internal notebook hard drive six times. Well, six times until June 17th, where my less-than-one-month-old Scorpio Blue internal notebook hard drive decided to fail.
Frustration led me to take a break involving any sort of computers. After about a month, I browsed the internet using my handy PSP, and found out that Linux could be installed through a USB hard drive. And well, the rest is history.
After using Linux, I've grown very fond of it. Even through an external hard drive connected via USB, the performance is more than tolerable as a backup operating system. I'm still able to browse forums, I'm still able to watch YouTube videos with great framerate, and well -- quite frankly, I'm still able to many things I was able to do before. There are certain programs that prove to be a pain with Linux, where Wine (a program created specifically for running Windows programs, for Linux) doesn't seem to work, but all and all, the OS is incredibly fast for a USB connection, and doesn't lack in functionality whatsoever.
