4 posts tagged “vox”

Well, this is the first post I've written up on Vox for awhile. I've been really active on Pownce and twitter (more so on the former). I had written a post that I wouldn't be giving up on Vox as a blogging platform, and I had slacked off recently. I finished a semester of school and a bunch of other commitments have been popping up with regards to working at the private school. All in all, I feel like I have a bigger purpose now more than I really ever had.

One of those reasons is that I feel like working with computers again, tweaking things and making them run different as to be customized. With the release of Ubuntu 8.04 last month, I wanted to give the Linux alternative another try.

I tried it before back in the era of 6.04 and 6.10, and I understood that it had really changed a lot from when I last tried it. If you need any other reason to give it a look-see, it's got an updated GUI system that adds extra effects and functionality to the desktop, allowing for more customization than the previous versions of the operating system.

First thing I did was test it out on my PC. I have an older Gateway box running XP Home with a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 HT processor, 1.5 GB of RAM and a inexpensively acquired ATI X1950 with 512 MB on-board.

For those that don't speak technobabble: this computer is mediocre compared to some of the machines out there today. It's not a duel-core machine and it doesn't have the speediest video card for graphics, but it's served me well, and I've never had a problem with it.

I downloaded a disc image from the Ubuntu website, and I burned it at a slow speed, 8x. I discovered that there is a way to install Ubuntu without messing with the bootloader in the computer, rather just messing with the boot.ini in Windows.

Installation in this manner uses a virtual disk and doesn't partition any space on your hard drive to make it run. All you need is simply free space on your hard drive and it will make a virtual hard drive for Ubuntu to run in.

After installation, a simple restart brings you to your new boot selection screen, where all you need to do is press the down arrow key and then Enter. Then you're off to the races with Ubuntu!

Well, it seems that Pownce is not loading for me. I guess Pownce is down.

This is rather depressing. I don't want to fill my Vox up with microblogs: that's what Vox is for.

Logging into Vox is generally exciting every so often because one of my neighbors posts. But when I find this particular link...

The evidence on the front page

Hey, Vox.

Don't worry, I'm not going to move to WordPress' online blog hosting again. I enjoy you so much. You're such a great platform for serving and publishing my thoughts when they just so happen to be longer than one-hundred-sixty characters or so. For those moments when I cannot bring myself to voice my feelings or condense the thoughts to the barebones on my status, you are there and you always serve up what I give you to publish.

Don't be jealous because I've been to college lately. Yeah, it's only community college, but it's better than nothing. I'm working towards an actual goal--an Associates in Engineering--and I'm happy for the stress it's given my life. I think it has really been the finger int he dam of escaping energy that I have been misusing for these last two years. I wish I could have fixed my situation sooner, but I think that sometimes life simply serves up a new variety in spite of the variousness (and since that probably isn't a word, forgive me) that it already offers.

Don't be jealous that I am in the defining relationship of my life, and that I am happy no matter how things may be one day to the next. That I'm happy at least seeing her smile and that I have a chance to make her mine for the rest of my life. I know it's not been long enough with regards to a traditional relationship, but the feelings just click with her. Whether I misfire with the way that I mean things or the way that they come out, I know that deeper than those failures that an understanding exists between us, and that any misunderstanding will not last forever.

Don't be alarmed because of all the physical wrenching that the stress puts on my body, especially my shoulders--rather, be understanding that while my body is the weakest link in my physical experience, I know that it will not always be like that.

Looking back at what I just wrote, it's sort of amusing to think that I had merely just ranted my way on with the rest of this entry with my eyes closed, touch typing at the keyboard. I just think the thought in my head and then figure out the correct way to type it into the text box, and in the next instant it would appear to have brought my ideas to you, Vox.

Don't worry, Vox. I won't forget you.

Here is a video that I made earlier this afternoon regarding my lack in previous vidoes from the week before. I had only posted links to these on Pownce, but I think I might also start cross-posting these videos to my Vox. I know it's not the greatest use for the text-centeterd blogging service that is Vox, but Vox does integrate into other forms of social multimedia services such as YouTube.

I picked YouTube because I was always curious at how others started their own personal representation of themselves on YouTube with respect to how they would have conducted themselves, how they might post a rather informal message to people, or even begin recording responses to all of the videos that they saw on the website's constantly evolving index.

Perhaps it won't turn out to be a bad move. If there are any cooler sources to host, record and aggragate your own video from as USB connected webcam, please message me on Vox or through Pownce!

Until then, take care Vox. I really do miss you.