Three Wise Men

Rolling Release Ubuntu is something a lot of people are talking about. Not so long ago it was announced that Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin will be an LTS release with support extended to five years for Desktop edition. Desktop edition was usually supported only for three years. Community has stirred again and again we have people crying out for a rolling release distribution. Something very well-known among Gentoo and Arch Linux users. Read on if you’d like to know why a rolling release would be a bad, bad idea. In fact it would be terrible idea.

Installing Oracle Java SDK in Ubuntu is a pain because not so long ago Oracle decided to change licensing of Java. Which in the long run will hurt only users. Distributions can no longer make automated installs of Oracle Java, users are required to agree with the license displayed on Oracle’s web site. Installing Java SDK in a ‘proper Ubuntu way’ is now a little bit tricky. Read on to learn how to do it.

If you are using Ubuntu (and probably other distributions too) and you have an on board Realtek RTL8168/8111E PCI Express network adapter you might find your network not working as it should. Slow connections or no connection at all and your logs full of messages like these:

Oct 02 09:13:25 machine kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link up
Oct 02 12:45:17 machine kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link up
Oct 02 12:45:20 machine kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link up
Oct 02 13:15:12 machine kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link up
Oct 02 13:15:13 machine kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link up
Oct 02 13:22:13 machine kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.0: eth0: link up

Read on if you want to know why this happens and how to solve the problem.

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

A while ago I got my Xelocian Hantari Cruiser Class models for Firestorm Armada space ship combat game from Spartan Games. Model is a part of The Alliance of Kurak and can be fielded in their support fleets. Although the rules for the models that will be released for The Alliance of Kurak are still not finalized the model will cost about 65 points, with quite decent movement rating, shields and decent firepower for a cruiser class vessel. Assembled model is presented in the picture on the right. If you would like to know how to assemble the model then read on.