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A model view wallpaper pack

I’ve made another wallpaper pack with a recent photo I took from the balcony of our apartment. It’s titled “A model view”.

Download A model view wallpaper pack from deviantART.

Conference

Hi guys. Today I had a conference with Buff, Mon, and Teddy.

View from above

Well, as expected, I have been playing around with my D-SLR all afternoon. Here are a couple of night shots I came up with. Not the best but I’m happy with it.

I’ve made two wallpaper packs out of these which can be downloaded from deviantART:

View from above WP
Another view from above WP

Got my first D-SLR!

Today I went to Ted’s at Australia Fair and purchased a Canon EOS 1000D with twin lenses and a tripod. I’ve been wanting to do a bit of amateur photography for ages.

MacBook kernel panic

My unibody MacBook has crashed on several occasions for no freaking reason whatsoever! The laptop was just sitting there running Mail and Adium and then it goes into a kernel panic. It’s very upsetting especially coming from Apple. I guess nobody is perfect.

iPhone OS 3.0 is a piece of s***

The long anticipated iPhone OS 3.0 has arrived. However, to my disappointment the update is quite buggy, forcing a couple of native apps to crash occasionally. MMS still does not work on the iPhone. It kept producing “Message send failure”. I called up Optus technical support but they couldn’t find what the problem is and now I have to take my iPhone into a store to look at the possibility of a defective phone.

I’m really beginning to dislike the iPhone as a result of all these little annoying things. On the other hand, all of my Nokia phones have never complained.

EDIT: 25/06/09

I went into the Optus store at Australia Fair and after many trial and error, the sales rep called Optus technical support and after many tweaking (supposedly the MMS profile was changed on their end), MMS finally works!

Remove Kubuntu splash screen

After installing the KDE Desktop I realised the default Ubuntu splash screen has been changed to Kubuntu which is quite annoying.

There seems to be a common way of reverting the Ubuntu splash screen but it did not work for me. Basically there is a line of code that is used to change the splash screen but after doing so and rebooted, the same Kubuntu splash was displayed.

In the end I decided to uninstall the Kubuntu splash screen altogether which then reverts back to the Ubuntu splash screen.

sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-artwork-usplash

KDE 4.2

I took a day off today as I really had trouble sleeping last night. My stomach was giving me problems and I was up until 4am. Anyway, despite all that I managed to install KDE 4 on my Ubuntu machine and after playing around with it I’m starting to like it a lot! It seems to be a huge improvement since version 3 in 2005.

Panorama view

After lots of hard work, we’ve finally managed to get the apartment sorted out. I spent a whole day re-arranging the furniture. Anyway, here is a wide angle view from the apartment.

Assassin’s Creed 2

The highly anticipated Assassin’s Creed 2 is coming out towards the end of 2009. Just saw a couple of trailer/gameplay videos on YouTube and the only thing I can say is that it’s impressive!