Blog.ubrious » News http://blog.ubrio.us An Ordinary Web Developer's Blog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:44:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Super Happy Fun Work Time http://blog.ubrio.us/life/super-happy-fun-work-time/ http://blog.ubrio.us/life/super-happy-fun-work-time/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:03:15 +0000 Rob Hurring http://blog.ubrio.us/random/super-happy-fun-work-time/ So I almost forgot to post this up. For halloween my co-worker/friend Sam (at Napolitopia.com) created a video of the pirate cube. If you have no idea what the hell I’m talking about — check this (old) post.

By the way, this is the 1 year anniversary of the Official Pirate Ship Cubicle! (Well, 1 month and a few days or so.. I’m a lazy blogger)

Enough blathering… Give me pictures and video!
Fine.

Napolitopia: Pirate Cube (Pictures, “The Making Of,” and Video!) … Satisfied?

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EDIT (2008-06-12):
Interested in more “crazy cubicles?” — check out this article from iReport.com: Creative cubicles

]]> http://blog.ubrio.us/life/super-happy-fun-work-time/feed/ 1 blogubrious update and the story of my ubuntu http://blog.ubrio.us/nix/blogubrious-update-and-the-story-of-ubuntu/ http://blog.ubrio.us/nix/blogubrious-update-and-the-story-of-ubuntu/#comments Sun, 13 May 2007 18:32:09 +0000 Rob Hurring http://blog.ubrio.us/web/blogubrious-update-and-the-story-of-ubuntu/ Well, it’s been a while and I feel like I should pop up a quick update. The past few months have been mind numbing to say the least, but now I can breathe (somewhat). Anyway, I was bored a couple of weeks ago and was tooling around with ubuntu and got the brilliant idea to install it. I figured a dual-boot setup would be nice so I could keep XP for games and such. Of course, and I should have learned my lesson the last time*, I was a little bit tipsy and it was getting late (file that as foreshadowing). It turns out that I should never ever be allowed to touch any type of partitioning software… ever. After screwing it up a few times I corrupted windows and am now 100% ubuntu (fiesty fawn 7.04). The good news is that I had broken down and bought an external hdd the night before so all important client files were backed up*.

Here is the new system. It’s a 3 year old Dell dimension 4600c (OEM everything with just 2G memory — nothing special) which runs okay. I usually just web browse on this machine anyway so it gets the job done, now it’s just a little bit sexier. This video is choppy, but the real system is incredibly smooth, even with dated hardware :) .

Info: Running Ubuntu feisty fawn 7.04 (Gnome 2.18) with Beryl as the window manager. I kept the effects to a minimum for the sake of sanity, I actually run fewer than this on a day-to-day basis, it was just for show that beryl doesn’t have to be completely over the top to look cool. The video in the background is Sid & Nancy.

Upcoming updates when I get around to it:

  • Adding the sliding sidebars to this OSX theme. (I’ll have to hack through it again to see how exactly I did it..)
  • Ubuntu hacks and cool tweaks
  • More boring stories about stupid shit I do (maybe)

* A couple years ago I was in the same situation — a little buzzed and had a stupid idea to upgrade my OS. I was trying to install a fresh XP copy or something like that and figured since all client files were on a seperate hard drive how could I possibly fuck it up, right? Wrong. I ended up installing a wrong version of windows on the wrong hard drive, effectively wiping 1 year+ of client files (including a 100+ hour flash site. Ouch). Realizing something was wrong when I booted into the same OS I cried a little, ran data recovery and got 90% of the work back. Then I installed the wrong version of windows on the right hdd. THEN I finally got it right and cried myself to sleep. Lesson learned, or so I thought. At least this time I didn’t lose anything valuable (unless you consider windows xp valuable :) ).

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