Yesterday Dirk Nowitzki, NBA MVP of this season stopped by the Nike shop to sign authographs and meet his Swiss fans. Sometime a picture is worth a 1000 words…
Two weeks ago my XBOX exploded. All I remember was a loud BOOM and a foul smell in the living room. It wasn’t my fault…well sort of. I plugged in my 120V 60Hrz XBOX onto the European outlet without using the converter…Yeah yeah I know what you will say…but you have to hear my side of this story.
Since we have several US and non-US computer parts my Hubby has a rather sophisticated wire mess in our living room that requires an IQ of 250 in order not to make a mistake. Okay, maybe I am exaggerating a bit but IT IS confusing. So “My Dear Hubby that I love so much” decided to switch the order of some of the cables without telling me. Incidentally I plugged the XBOX and BOOM: hardware crime scene in the living room!
But today life is good because “My Dear Hubby that I love so much” fixed my XBOX by replacing the dead power supply with an European one and I just can’t stop smiling again. I love you ‘oney.
My Hubby comes from the most beautiful corner in the world: The German Alps in Bavaria, with the typical German houses decorated with flower boxes and cute sheeps running around the green grass. Forget about Munich or Berlin, the Allgäu is just drop dead gorgeous. 
The area is so pretty you can only stop and stare. You can even see some inhabitant wearing the traditional lederhose and dirndl. At the same time it’s a great place for snowboarding and serious mountain biking. One of the guy who won 3 gold medals at the Winter Olympics, this year, comes from the Allgäu. So now you know what this mountain fresh air can do for you !
I have been a Linux desktop user for the past 4 years. My Hubby on the other hand despise Linux because he just does not have the patience to fiddle with the OS when he has serious, and not so serious, tasks to do. But really, his main reason is the lack of up-to-date support for all his external computer toys. 
As for me, I ditched Microsoft for Linux. The only thing I really miss is Microsoft Outlook and a few games. Currently I run SuSE 9.3 on my HP laptop, but in the past I was using Red Hat. And now, here I am, at a cross road ,wanting to switch, yet again to another Linux distribution… well not so fast…
There is a big buzz surrounding Ubuntu: Google employees uses it, the Ubuntu support community is friendly compare to the RTFM you would find elsewhere and it is a Debian-based distributions which makes update and software installation pain free. But all of this got me to think about Xandros. When Xandros came out, I quickly installed it on my laptop as a dual boot with SuSE and gave it a fair try but decided to stick with SuSE. From what I can see Ubuntu and Xandros are essentially the same: A Debian based distribution with a pretty interface. But why do people like Ubuntu so much ? Okay Xandros does not use clever names for its releases and does not talk about humanity on its website and yes I’ll admit it, Ubuntu sounds cooler then Xandros but they both offer up-to-date packages, the installation is easy in both cases, the user interface face is clean and pleasing in both cases (one uses Gnome, the other KDE), Xandros has some part that are proprietary but the free version allows the same flexibility as Ubuntu (I am talking from a desktop user point of view not enterprise) So what is it then?
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