Joined The World Community Grid

I installed boinc through the gutsy repositories and the boinc manager with synaptic and used it to add a new project. I was first thinking of SETI@Home but then I ran across the World Community Grid project and I thought I would be more confortable with supporting their objectives. The agent runs well and doesn’t make my machine slugish in the slightest way. Now it’s time to put this on all the computer at home.

Learning the Hiragana and Katakana

I have been working on learning the Hiragana alphabet for about a month. Progress was slow initially, but I was getting up to speed, when I realized my method would probably not scale further. I had installed Kanatest previously, but somehow had not figured out how it could help me and had dropped using it. But I went back to it, and I must say after experimenting with Bryn Dyment’s excellent Real Kana website, I realized that I could do something similar with Kanatest. I must say that I have become a real fan, and improved in both the Hiragana and the Katakana set which I was not learning before, since I basically drew the characters on a sheet of paper over and over. You can install and run Kanatest easily on the Ubuntu operating system.

The coolest thing is that when doing a search on wiki’s, I ran across a group on Facebook named in Japanese and I picked up WIKI spelled in Katakana characters (I hope this displays right) !

WIKI – ウイキ

I wonder how I would spell XWiki ?

Carthik Sharma Rounding Up Ubuntu Bloggers

If you love and blog about Ubuntu too, then you should definitely write a post linking to Carthik’s entry and get your blog counted in his Ubuntu bloggers roundup.  I wonder what the results will be ?

P.S. I hope this will work, I’m not familiar with pingback.

Hey, Edgy is Out !

I hadn’t even noticed !  Edgy is out !  Youpi !  I just love Ubuntu, thank you Ubuntu developers !

Flashplayer 9

I just installed the Flashplayer 9 on my Edgy laptop. Working great ! I can now see Olivier’s neat Flash animation on the Cap Digital site we built at XWiki.