New computer celebration.

Today is not the happy day that the title of this blog post suggests. Rather, this last Saturday was. My parents and one of my brothers came to visit us. Since my brother and I both recently had our birthdays, an attempt was made at celebrating us. Boy, did that attempt succeed. Up until now I've been using a netbook for all production involved in the multi8it project. No more I say. I got a new laptop!

It's a Toshiba one, pretty cheap, so it's still true to the mission of the multi8it project, which is to show that you don't need expensive stuff to do fun stuff. As I had unpacked the computer I felt sorry for it. Forcibly infected with Microsoft Windows. My netbook runs Ubuntu, simply because of the immense software library that's available. I thought I would take this impending act of liberation as an opportunity to try out a new Linux distro. I chose between Linux Mint and Fedora, and finally decided to go with the latter.

Now, I'm used to sitting on a netbook, but boy it's snappy. Everything is working out of the box. The main obstacle to this point is that Fedora by default uses another package manager, namely yum. I'm used to apt on Ubuntu, but I'm up for the challenge. It's not like it's difficult, it's just different, and the answer is never further away than "man yum".

So why did I choose Fedora? Linux Mint does indeed have a lot preinstalled, both aplication and codec wise. That is part of the problem for me. I don't want a cluttered system. I believe Linux Mint would have a lot of stuff that I'll never use anyway. The mission of the multi8it project is doubly freedom focused, we're looking for both free as in beer and free as in freedom solutions for music production. Since Fedora contains free software only (as far as I know), it's a good place to start.

Now I must admit I'm a total Google junkie. I use Gmail, Google Calendar, Google+, YouTube, Blogger, well... pretty much everything Google. It comes naturally that I also use Google Chrome which is not free software. I hope you'll forgive me for that.

Until next time,
peace!

To tweet or not to tweet...

...that is the question. As usual, I wanna apologize for not putting up videos as often as I would like. Now, the matter at hand. I recently signed up for Google+, and I've loved it ever since. My issue is that I'm not the best social media socializer in the world, and keeping more that one account running at the same time is quite a lot to ask from someone like me.

There's no way I'm leaving Google+, I think it really has the future ahead of it. Face book is no option, since I'm rarely there anymore. I'm actually considering deactivating my account there altogether. Identi.ca is not an option either, since I want the "on the go" ability. There simple aren't any Identi.ca apps for Android that I feel comfortable using (the Google+ one kicks ass). This brings me to twitter. I do have an account there (@multi8it), and I've used it to some extent. Still, with the advent of Google+, there really is no reason to keep multiple "public social media" services going at the same time. I might reach a few more people, but since the multi8it project is so niched anyway, people who want to follow me will probably do it anyway.

So, if you're a twitter user, and better yet, if you're following me on twitter, I'm so sorry to announce that I probably will be even less active on twitter than I've been up to this point. I really urge you to check Google+ out. If you want to sign up, feel free to follow me there (http://gplus.to/simonwessel). The nice thing about Google+ is that you don't have to sign up to follow anyone there, so it's up to you.

Anyway, see ya around! Peace!