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Sunday, 11 May 2008
AloeVeras' Base Archive
Sunday, 13 January 2008
$399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google
Wal-Mart To Sell $399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google Operating System
Happy days:Everex, whose $199 gOS-based gPC desktop sold out at Wal-Mart in record time late last year, has now introduced a gOS-based 2lb ultra-mobile laptop that it plans to sell at Wal-Mart for $399 starting January 25.
The Ubuntu Linux-based gOS operating system from Good OS LLC (www.thinkgos.com) includes so many Google applications like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News Google Maps and YouTube that it's often referred to as the Google operating system. It also includes Firefox, Skype, Facebook and OpenOffice 2.3.
Read the full article here:http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/484595.htm
Recent Moon Posts:
our-teddy-is-wrong-colour
Thursday, 6 December 2007
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Our teddy is the wrong colour!
Our teddy is the wrong colour!
No sooner had we attempted to increase our understanding of the HairyMammals of Earth, by getting our very own teddy bear - Tolerant Teddy. I know it's potty to give it a name, but we're training to be humanoid, okay?
Where was I? Oh yes - we discovered this news item which has further undermined our limited confidence in matters humanoid:
A British woman has been arrested after running into a crowded marketplace with a teddy bear concealed under her coat. "It was strapped to her body in a most subversive manner," explained PC Mandellsonn.
The town centre was evacuated and all state resources diverted from the fight against global environmental catastrophe, people trafficking, escalating drug abuse and social decay to deal with the emergency.
A spokesperson said "Some people have no sense of social responsibilty. Some of them can't even spell it."
The British Labour Party has formally protested that the teddy was not red.
The British Conservative Party has formally protested that the teddy was not blue.
The British Other Party has formally protested that the teddy was not their colour, adding they are still debating what colour this should be.
The B.N.P. has informally protested that the teddy was not wearing a union flag.
The Anglican Church has politely protested that the teddy, which was in very close proximity to the lady, was not wearing a condom.
The Catholic Church has even more politely protested that the teddy, which was in very close proximity to the lady, was wearing a condom.
An Irish bystander swears that he heard the teddy refer to him as 'Paddy'.
An English bystander swears that the teddy looked at him in a funny way, and is prepared to vouch for Paddy's tale, provided Paddy will vouch for his.
Similar whimsy
http://www.aloeveras.co.uk/2007/11/cameras-photos-and-memory-cards.html
http://www.aloeveras.co.uk/2007/10/plum-pudding-or-bomb.html
http://www.aloeveras.co.uk/2007/09/thanks-for-invite.html
recent posts:
moon-base-archives
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
Moon Base Archives
We now have a proper archive, and this months' have been completed early (!) so they are already out of date :(
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
new photos, but not of the moon
Pendleton Frick said...
So this are why no new pics. i thot is fingers weret too palsied to hol the kamra
The typist has posted two today, as it happens, but they are all from last summer (remember the warmth?). Hopefully the camera will respond to the threats ...
archives-autmun-2007
this was The Typists idea of AUTUMN, I suspect :)
Maybe there is a autmun?
Recent posts:
http://www.aloeveras.co.uk/2007/09/northern-rock-sand.html
http://www.aloeveras.co.uk/2007/09/playdoughs-republic.html?
Monday, 19 November 2007
cameras, photos and memory cards
cameras, photos and memory cards
Not much has changed here - The Tescos open cast cheese mine is working 24/7, the robots that do the work are breaking down with increasing frequency and the brass monkeys employed in the MicroLimp 'dedicated' customer support centre are becoming friendly with the cheesy robots, due (sadly) to their mutual loathing of their employers :(
The Typist's endeavours with poems and songs and short stories have been slowed down by his attempt to catch up on admin (and about time too). We hope he'll get his skates on now!
He did persevere with photos, following encouragement from Lord Douchebagge, but his camera died when he bought an SD card to boost the memory. The optimum combination of carrot and stick will no doubt revive the camera one day soon! (it's already worked once, but he tried the SD card again - wot a pudding!).
Recent posts:
http://www.aloeveras.co.uk/2007/11/open-source-aliens.html
http://www.aloeveras.co.uk/2007/10/plum-pudding-or-bomb.html
Monday, 12 November 2007
Linux help at Blogspot
If you need any help with any aspect of Linux, try this blog:
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/
I just used to help add the Opera browser to Ubuntu. The articles are very clear.
#14
Open Source Aliens
Open Source Aliens
Following the recitation of seemingly hundreds of digits, Microsoft permitted us to reload our computer with the operating system (Windows XP). We then installed oodles of necessary software from CDs and the system didn't even last a day. The problem seems to Microsoft.
So, we tried Ubuntu Linux. We put in one installation CD, once, and the job is done. All the extra programs are downloaded from Ubuntu servers, for free, and everything is working well :)
We were impressed by the principles of the Ubuntu community as the technical expertise.
Previous posts:
http://www.aloeveras.co.uk/2007/09/our-adventures-on-earth.html
http://www.aloeveras.co.uk/2007/09/calamity-in-devon-piano.html
Thursday, 4 October 2007
Plum pudding or bomb?
Plum pudding or bomb?
Sometimes we look down on the world of the HairyMammals, the Planet Earth, and I imagine it with a lighted candel on top. The plum pudding of creation or fruit of evolution, as it were.
After listening to your news broadcasts I imagine it's a lighted fuse on top, and the world is a bomb...
Oil painting of The AloeVeras Base on the Moon
Friday, 28 September 2007
calamity in Devon - piano
Oops! Careful chaps ...
There has been a calamity near where the typist lives in SW England!
But with a happy ending.
Quote:
The organisers of a Devon music festival have been given a new grand piano - after delivery men dropped the first one off the back of a lorry. Supporters of the Two Moors Festival had raised twenty-six thousand pounds to buy the ill-fated instrument at auction. Now the company that made it -- Bosendorfer -- has agreed to provide a new replacement -- worth eighty-five thousand pounds.
What can we drop colleagues?
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
archives autumn 2007
Archives Autumn 2007
September 2007
plum-pudding-or-bomb? the Veras view, and a painting.
calamity-in-devon-piano with a happy ending.
Monday, 24 September 2007
Our adventures on Earth:
The typist (so called) has attempted proper archives on the tale of our adventures with earthlings. I fit doesn't work (if!) blame him.
Funny Fiction: September 2007 archive
July and August also done :)
Friday, 21 September 2007
Funny Fiction: A Life-form Based on Water?
A new episode of our adventures visiting/spying on Earth:
Funny Fiction: A Life-form Based on Water?
(please follow the link for the story)
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Playdough's Republic
Playdough's Republic
#11's diary
#11's diary
Yesterday I read a ripping yarn called 'The Republic' by a chappy named Plato. It was translated from Greek (fortunately!)
There didin't appear to much reference to current life on Earth, which puzzled me...
*
Number 14 heard a murmuring from Number 11’s room. It stopped to listen.
‘Okay,’ said Number 11. ‘We’ll try inventing an ideal society by having two characters arguing.’
Number 11 modelled its Playdough into the general shape of a philosopher, reclining on a model couch, and looked around for a suitable combatant. The chess pieces liberated from Number 12 were too small to stand up to Playdough, so Number 11 rummaged in its collection for goodies retrieved from the HairyMammals’ party in Smogdale.
‘This jar of pickled cabbage will do,’ it declared, and attired it with a piece of cloth to act as a robe.
Number 11 shut off its internal blather relating to serving tea and settled into imaginative overdrive.
Playdough: ‘No man is an island,’ declared Playdough.
Sauerkraut: ‘True,’ conceded Sauerkraut. ‘But what’s your point?’
Playdough: ‘My point is, one man (or woman) could build a shelter and grow or catch their own food, thus becoming self-supporting. Likewise, a small group could do this, hence being able to rear their children and perpetuate their species.’
Sauerkraut: ‘That is undoubtedly true.’
Playdough: ‘No doubt they would occasionally meet other such groups and exchange some seeds, tools, livestock breeding techniques, …’
Sauerkraut: ‘That seems inevitable, unless they were particularly hostile or paranoid. Not that I’ve ever been too sure what the difference is. Don’t the livestock have their own techniques?’
Playdough: ‘I can foresee such a society surviving and probably improving their food gathering techniques over the millennia. And I meant genetics!’
Sauerkraut: ‘Agreed. But I can’t imagine them doing much else.’
Playdough: ‘Precisely. A child born with artistic talent, or a facility for invention, would be obliged to spend most of their time providing food or shelter. Materials would not be developed for writing, painting, insulation and so forth. They’d probably spend half of each day collecting firewood during the colder months.’
Sauerkraut: ‘A hard life and not terribly fulfilling.’
Playdough: ‘Exactly, hence the urge to build tractors and brick factories. In Britain, of the nearly sixty million HairyMammals, only about two hundred thousand work in agriculture. One person in 300.’
to be continued
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Northern Rock (sand?)
Northern Rock (sand?)
Peering down at Planet Earth we see the British government have guaranteed the deposits of investors in Northern Rock Bank. The share price is now recovering, yet people are still queueing to take out their savings. Don't they trust the British government?
Monday, 17 September 2007
Housing as slavery and gambling
Today, the brass monkeys are malicious, the MikroSoft dedicated customer support is on strike (even the robots) and the open cast cheese mine is working full tilt.
Today we are puzzled - as ever. It seems the housing market has gone bananas in the UK, again, and people are queueing to take their money out of Northern 'Rock' building society.
Hmm ....
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