I don't mean to upset anyone, but I feel it might be necessary to post this journal entry in the hope that someone with influence in the Linux community will be able to come up with a solution.

I promote Linux everyday to everyone I know for almost every purpose, and the biggest complaint and reason I hear for them not installing Linux is the fact that the installation programs that come with the popular versions of Linux (Red Hat, Suse, etc.) is way to difficult to comprehend. You see most people like the fact that the Windows installation procedures have the option for one click installs, instead of always giving a custom install dialog. I think Linux needs to aim towards this standard as well.

An effort needs to be made for the installation process of Linux and programs contained within Linux. Since, like my psychology classes taught me, the first impression is the most important impression when it comes to any new things. Be it a person or technology.

The first impression a person gets when they install Linux is the installation procedures. It doesn't matter how great the smooth the system is afterwards, if they find the installation hard, difficult and annoying, then their viewpoint of Linux in general is adjusted to it being a hard, difficult and annoying OS.

I know from experience that Linux is an excellent OS, but for people who are new to computers or just new to Linux that one problem during the installation can scar their opinions of Linux forever.

So if anyone who does Linux work reads this. Improve the Installation procedures until they offer a one-button flawless installation. Then, I promise you, you will have many, many more people willing to use your product.

This is something I don't think I'll ever figure out. I posted my pic onto hotornot.com a few days ago, and already I have a rating of 9.3 (which apparently puts me into the 90th percentile of males on the site.

Now, here's the problem. I am still single, and really interested in finding a girlfriend. As well, my ex-g/f just up and left me a while ago without any reason. So, why am I having such trouble finding someone.

I don't know.

Seem's kinda ironic to me. (Or absurd if you are a existentialist. :-)

There are times I am surprised by the sheer misunderstandings of people. When someone attempts to note a fact of their life that they don't agree with, they immediately become defensive, and in the process offensive as well.

It's quite humorous actually.

For example, if you review my posted msgs close to the date of this entry you will notice that I make a comment that my time is worth more then nothing. Yet, immediately afterwards people begin to take shots because now they feel that their time isn't worth anything because they are volunteering.

You can volunteer and still have your time worth something, you are just, in a way, donating that time to project, organization, etc that you are volunteering to. Therefore, your time is still worth something.

I have programmed software for free, and I understand why other people do so as well. But I will still acknowledge that the time I spent programming the software is not equal to nothing, but equal to the amount that I feel I put into it. Nothing short of immortality can change that.

As long as I have a short time on this planet to live, my time is worth something to me. Whether I donate it to other things or not is my own choice, but when I donate my time it is still worth something, not nothing.

The point being that everything, absolutely everything in life has a cost. Whether we admit it or not.

I am running low on books to read, so I thought I would provide a list of books for other people to read, and maybe in return some people would give me a good list of books to read:

- Anything by Robert Sawyer
- 1984 by Orwell
- The Man who loved only numbers
- My Mind is Open
- The Search for Schrodinger's Cats
- Schrodinger's Kittens
- Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman. (excellent read)
- Animal Farm by Orwell
- The Elegant Universe
- Brave New World
- Get Anyone to Do Anything
- anything Dilbert
- How to Sell Anything to Anybody
- The Code Book
- Applied Cryptography
- Hacking Exposed
- The Divine Comedy by Dante
- Sun Tzu's Art of War (A good translation is by Samuel B. Griffith)
- Machivelli's the Prince
- Armageddons (Anthology of Stories)
- The Quantum Brain

and so on...

any suggestions for more?

I think the slashcode guys have way too much time. Who the hell needs a journal on slashdot? Anyway, the SunCluster3.0 class is kinda boring right now. Anyone really want to listen to a 1 hour lecture on setting up a terminal concentrator?