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Sir Isaac Newton, 1643-1727

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I share a surname with Sir Isaac Newton, and I like to think I’m that smart too. Joking! Or am I? :p

Anyway, there are a growing number of people hitting this website looking for information on “Izarc Newton”. First off, you really need to check the spelling of his name!

You will arrive on this site due to the fact I have previously reviewed “Izarc”, a compression utility similar to WinZip. This, added to my surname, gives you a broad match in Google.

If you ended up here looking for Great Uncle Isaac, please have a look at the Wiki. If you were looking for me……Hello! :)

Ooooh….bun….too….

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I’ve spent the last month living on my Ubuntu box, just because I fancied a change. I hopped in to Windows 7 this morning as there was a video file I wanted to test (for the record, it didn’t work) and decided to stay with Win7 to do a bit of work.

DO. NOT. WANT.

Windows suddenly seemed clunky, slow and…wrong. Just plain wrong. And the funny thing is, I’d gradually configured my Gnome desktop to look like Win7 – large transparent bar at the bottom with big icons, clock bottom right etc. Used Compiz for some flashy effects (wobbly windows and so on), but that wasn’t it – it was just the feel of the OS.

I used Chrome in both operating systems, and the only real difference is the font used on the bookmark bar (yeah, Mr Google, when is that bar going to reflect the DPI settings in Gnome? Eh? Eh?) which has zero impact on usability. Unless you have a tiny screen, of course.

I managed about half an hour and then had to go back to Ubuntu for the sake of my sanity. Is Linux really this addictive? I always managed to kick the habit before, and I’ve been playing with it since at least 1996!

Should I get excited with the next release due soon?

Google Chrome OS

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ChromeOr more precisely, ChromIUM OS.

One of the big stories this week was Google’s announcement of the impending launch of Chrome OS along with dedicated netbooks to run it…and the possibility of obtaining free test machines.
But what if you don’t qualify for one of the freebies? What if you don’t want to wait until the middle of 2011 to get one of the netbooks from a store? What about running Chrome OS on your own computer right now?
17 year old Hexxeh has made it possible – just visit his site at http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ and download a suitable image file to put on a USB stick. Boot from said stick, and off in to the world of Chromium OS you go.
With a bit of luck, your particular hardware will be supported, and you can Google your heart out.
Thanks Hexxeh!
(For those of you not in the know, Chromium is the development version of Chrome)