Go Go Geekboy

I tried Kubuntu when Jaunty was the current release of the Ubuntu OS derivatives and I had some issues with ripping CD’s. Looking back I think it was more my fault, but who knows.

Now that Karmic has been released. I have played with normal Ubuntu and ran into a slight issue with some of the software I ran just stopped working because of other things I tried to install that must have broken the dependencies for some odd reason. My fault, not the software.

KDE always impressed me with it’s visuals and I think the plasma theme system is a lot “prettier” than GNOME’s default look. Albeit GNOME is meant to be simplistic in it’s appearance it would help to have some easier way to work with the panels and transparency (unless I am just using older themes that don’t work right with it or the author of the theme was not adding anything to allow transparency to the look).

My reason for giving KDE and Kubuntu a second chance? It got to the point I needed to start from square one anyway, because I could not figure where I went wrong with the installation of software I wanted to check out. I bet it was something with Python that really screwed it up.

I ran the installation for Kubuntu, did the updates, added the necessary things to play MP3′s and movies (which Kubuntu prompts you for but does not install all of the kubuntu-restricted-extras so I did that in Konsole) and installed things I needed right away, like gPodder and all the dependencies it needed for the other functions within it to work right, and ssh. I installed the firefox that shows an installer in the Internet section of the applications, and added Chromium as my secondary browser of choice.

While I was at work I ssh’d into my machine (did not set up remote access through VNC under KDE as of yet) and installed some other things I felt I needed to have on my machine to work right.

• The Gimp – So I can do some graphic work
• Inkscape – The perfect choice for Illustration work and some Web design as well.
• Daisy (trying this out)
• Audacity

I also did some more updates and will be adding more later today. But so far I have not attempted to Rip a CD to MP3. The reason for MP3 is because I listen to my music on an iPod Nano that I can’t use OGG on. And the rest of my music collection is in MP3 anyway. So that will be my first test, getting the elusive MP3 encode to work with the CD Rip.

Also Amarok I saw that I am able to subscribe to podcasts, but I am trying to figure how the heck do I sync them to my iPod properly. gPodder syncs REALLY good and the backup service is something I really like because I have reinstalled from scratch a few times and didn’t have to load each show individually by hand, just logged into the feed backup and voila! The entire list of 50 or so shows I subscribe to are loaded then the latest one is marked for downloads (which I have to manually go through and stop ones I already listed to).

So a few things this weekend I am going to figure out. Podcast in Amarok, CD Ripping… And yes, of course I will be trying to get a new episode of VooDooRadio recorded and available for you to listen.