[francois]

Originally Posted by joker77

Cheers for that, I'll definitely look at skinning the desktop because that was one thing that put me off last time

Gimp is pretty cool alright - there's a windows version as well

KDE is easy, I'm a firm believer that if you can work a mobile phone you can work a computer whatever the flavour of OS!
GIMP is really fast under linux

[joker77]

First post from Ubuntu 12. Definitely feels a lot faster. Wonder what herself will make of it in the morning, ha

I said it was like moving from iOS to Android

[francois]

Originally Posted by joker77

First post from Ubuntu 12. Definitely feels a lot faster. Wonder what herself will make of it in the morning, ha

I said it was like moving from iOS to Android

both have their roots in Unix, so you are right

[BaZmO*]

[Clanket]

Speaking of Linux, my Rasberry Pi arrived yesterday.

I need to buy a few things to get it running but it really is an amazing piece of kit. A computer the size of a credit card (with 2 USB ports, 1 HDMI and a few others) for €45.

I can't wait to start messing around with it. I think it will be used mainly for streaming stuff to my TV. I use an XBox360 at the minute but it can be quite loud because of the fans.

[jtsuited]

haha, a certain boardsie has trolled my soundcloud account. i'm leaving his comments as they're very very funny......

http://soundcloud.com/bawdcaster

[BetterCallSaul]

The Olympics opening ceremony tonight could be interesting with Underworld and Danny Boyle involved.

[milltown]

Originally Posted by jtsuited

haha, a certain boardsie has trolled my soundcloud account. i'm leaving his comments as they're very very funny......

http://soundcloud.com/bawdcaster

"stick ur demo mix up ur hole ya skinny lil hippy"

Guessing this guy hasn't met you?
Who is he?

[ianuss]

He's my old pal. The label head of Sh1tty Sh1tey Records

[BaZmO*]

So what did people think of the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics? I have to say I was really impressed, thought the musical score was fantastic. Didn't realise that Underworld had such a heavy involvement with it.
By far the best piece of the night was the Pandemonium section, and I didn't realise until today that that piece was written by Rick Smith of Underworld (but just credited to Underworld). He also wrote the final piece too.

[BetterCallSaul]

Originally Posted by BaZmO*

So what did people think of the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics? I have to say I was really impressed, thought the musical score was fantastic. Didn't realise that Underworld had such a heavy involvement with it.
By far the best piece of the night was the Pandemonium section, and I didn't realise until today that that piece was written by Rick Smith of Underworld (but just credited to Underworld). He also wrote the final piece too.

Bit of a two months off sample going on in there ^, the score was epic for an event like that, the athletes strolling out to Dark and Long, never thought I'd see that!

[jtsuited]

I was so blown away by the olympics ceremony I had quite a spectacular sh1tfit on Twitter and facebook.

It was almost like Danny Boyle had thought 'this one's for all the cynics and curmudgeons'.

Strangely enough, the type of people who normally like Opening Ceremony type sh1te (and parades, and the Galway Arts Festival, yadda yadda) seem to be less than impressed with the whole thing, whereas every dyed-in-the-wool cynic I know was blown away.

It pains me to say it but fair play to the British. The industrial revolution, universal suffrage, socialised medicine, the internet, etc. Some of the better achievements of mankind.

[BaZmO*]

Originally Posted by jtsuited

I was so blown away by the olympics ceremony I had quite a spectacular sh1tfit on Twitter and facebook.

It was almost like Danny Boyle had thought 'this one's for all the cynics and curmudgeons'.

Strangely enough, the type of people who normally like Opening Ceremony type sh1te (and parades, and the Galway Arts Festival, yadda yadda) seem to be less than impressed with the whole thing, whereas every dyed-in-the-wool cynic I know was blown away.

It pains me to say it but fair play to the British. The industrial revolution, universal suffrage, socialised medicine, the internet, etc. Some of the better achievements of mankind.

The only bad bit (although some of the music was great) was the parading of the athletes. I swear to Jaysis they were just making up names of countries!
What's the dealio with the 3 athletes that didn't have a country to represent? What happens if they happen to win an event? Do they get to choose their own anthem?

I loved the bit about the Industrial Revolution. It was very clever how it was conceived, especially the way they used the cast stripping away the set as an integral part of the show; the movement away from a pastoral countryside society to an industrialised society. All the musical and cultural references were great too. The soundtrack is now available... some great stuff on it.

Isles of Wonder: Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games

[jtsuited]

Honestly, when the jocks started walking out, the whole planet went 'whatever, give us some more mad sh1t'.

[BaZmO*]

Originally Posted by jtsuited

Honestly, when the jocks started walking out, the whole planet went 'whatever, give us some more mad sh1t'.

Haha, so true.

I found it mad that some people in the British media seemed almost apologetic that the 'merkins didn't quite get the eccentricity of the show. I was like Fvk that! You paid for it. Do what the hell you like......plus it was deadly!!