New logos!
So after about 3 years, I've finally gotten myself some new logos! =) I decided I wanted to go for something simpler than what the old logo was, and something a bit more modern looking too. These logos were designed by a friend named Lelia who I shall provide credit to once I find out the proper linkage to do so..
So, to end this rambling, here they are:
New Logos
As you can see they come in a few different colors and formations. Some with the C, some without, some with only the C. Just to show a few more examples of the logos w/ higher quality images below:
Blue Logo Word Only
Dark Logo Text Only
Where have I been? o-O
Its been nearly a year since the last post on this site, so, I might as well do one now, right? I mean considering the fact I paid to have the domains renewed for another year, and its already been half a year since I've renewed one of them, its almost as if I've wasted half a year. 
So a lot, and I mean, A LOT has happened in the past year. I've gotten a job, lost a good bit of weight thanks to the job, got hooked onto a game called Minecraft, finally got around to getting my drivers permit at the age of 19, gotten hooked onto mechanical keyboards, and a bunch of computer upgrades! Of course the computer upgrades are always fun. 
So I guess to start off, I got a job at UPS over peak season, starting out on the Ramp as thats where they needed people during peak. That was fine up until they hired me on after peak, at which point they would have required me to have my license, which, at the time, I did not have, so they instead move me into the hub in Small Sort. BUt, having that job during peak had allowed me to do a a few upgrades to my PC. I had upgraded to a Phenom II x4 925, an ATI Radeon HD5750, and also got a new 520W Seasonic Power Supply.
I might as well go into some of the other upgrades I've gotten throughout the past year as well. I've finally gone to 8GB of Kingston RAM. Was going to go for 8GB of Patriot, but, I couldn't find a single matching kit to what I had, so I said hell with it and sold the 4GB kit I had, and bought an 8GB kit of Kingston. I also got myself a 1TB Hitachi hard drive to go along with the 500GB WD Caviar Black that is in my system, because I felt like I needed to get more storage. I replaced the optical drive due to that was giving me issues, had to replace both my 120mm case fans, and I am now buying a new case in the upcoming week so I could throw a larger CPU cooler into my system.
Now onto the subject of Mechanical keyboards. After having played with a mechanical keyboard somewhere, I really enjoyed the feeling of typing on one so I decided to start looking for an IBM Model M. First off I ordered a Model M off of eBay, with the seller neglecting to tell in the description that it was the rubber dome version of it, but that was still a strong keyboard.Then in March I went to a Hamfest in Southern Kentucky with one of my friends, and out of the corner of my eye at one of the booths I had seen two IBM Model Ms. They were the Silver Square logo Model M's, with no indicator LEDs, both manufactured in early 1986. I have been using them since I have gotten them and they are amazing to type on. Since then I have also acquired a Dell AT101W, which uses Black Alp Sliders, which aren't as tactile, but nice as a backup keyboard.
I guess thats enough rambling on for now, isn't it? I'll probably be posting more, especially now that I got around to updating WordPress. OH! I also do plan on getting a new computer case at some point soon, so expect to see pictures of a new case up soon, PLUS a review of it. Probably sometime not this week, but next week as I can't order one till Friday. Thanks for reading, if anybody even bothers to check anymore.
- Tyler J. Brown (Condoulo)
Updates and Streaming this Friday
So because I haven't posted in a while, I do have a couple things I would like to mention, and just throw out a couple updates.
For one, I'm still on Ubuntu. =) I deleted my Windows partition about a month ago, even though I'm contemplating putting it back on the 80GB to play some games on, of course.
So, what can you probably expect in the near future? In about a couple weeks I will be giving my thoughts on Ubuntu 10.10 when thats released, also to note I will be going 64-bit again! =) About half a month ago when IE9 beta was released Adobe decided to come out with Adobe Flash Player Square, which has support for 64-bit on All three platforms, OS X, Windows, AAAAAAND Linux. I am definitely excited to go back to 64-bit once Ubuntu 10.10 is released.
And of course, as the title of this blog post mentions, I WILL be streaming this Friday. After a little bit of thinking, for about a few weeks I'm gonna give streaming every Friday night and doing a show a trial and see how that goes. If it goes well, and I get a good amount of Interest, I WILL continue doing it every Friday night, if not, then oh well, I might still do it. I will make a note of what time I plan on doing that, probably doing the evening.
A few updates on the IRC channel.. CondyBot is current down for the moment. Until I can get another machine to put CondyBot (that uses very little energy and is quiet), I will have somebody else running an IRC bot. Thanks to Dan/Grimreaper on that one.
Another thing that I have setup recently is a Teamspeak server that I set up for personal use, a few friends, and it also serves as the Backup Server for the This Week In Linux Teamspeak server.
And as a final note, as you may have noticed there are a few posts on this blog that were not written by me, that is because I have decided to allow FlamingLinux, someone I have met from the TWIL Community, to do blog posts on Linux related topics every now and then. 
Anyway, thanks for reading, please check later for a specific time on when I will be doing the stream this Friday, subscribe (As I normally say) to get updates on future blog posts/content, also you can follow my on Twitter which is @condoulo, and subscribe to the youtube channel Condoulo (Which I will be putting the shows up on). Until Next Time,
- Tyler J. Brown (Condoulo)
The Flaming Experience With KDE 4.5
I have time and time again heard that KDE 4.5 sucks badly and KDE only got worse. Well.. i have no freaking clue why people are saying that. In my own experience, i have not had any problems with KDE yet. I may not.. KDE 4.5 runs like a dream for me. It uses less RAM than KDE 4.4, it has faster system performance, it is extremely stable, and everything is still just as easy to use! I dont know why many people are having problems with KDE 4.5, but it may just be my own experience. I have replaced my xfce desktop with KDE on Arch Linux. If you agree with me that KDE 4.5 works quite well, or disagree with that, feel free to comment back! Preferably if you have used KDE long term though...
Thanks- FlamingLinux
My view on all the distro flame wars….
I never get this "my distro is better than yours" crap. Everyone has different experiences anyway, and i dont mind if you state your experience and opinion. (relatively speaking). But i hate that people try shove them on me and MAKE me agree.. I dont like these flamewars... they really are overrated, but i get too many people trying to make me agree to things like "PCLOS is better than Linux Mint" or "Ubuntu is better than OpenSuse".. I just say, it doesnt matter. As far as im concerned, it is all linux anyway. Just use it.
But that is just my thought about it.