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Paratroopers song from WWII

digitalx — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:54:46 +0000

Quite a funny song, popular with the 82nd and 101st airborne (504th and 506th PIR)

Is everybody happy said the sergeant looking up
Our hero feebly answered “Yes” and then they hooked him up,
He jumped into the slipstream, and he twisted twenty times,
And he ain’t going to jump no more.

Chorus
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die,
When your hanging from your braces and you don’t know how to fly,
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die,
And he ain’t going to jump no more.

He counted loud , he counted long and waited for the shock,
He felt the wind, he felt the air, he felt that awful drop,
He pulled his lines, the silk came down and wrapped around his legs
And he ain’t going to jump no more.

Chorus

The days he lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind,
He thought about the medics and wondered what they would find,
He thought about the girl back home, the one he left behind.
And he ain’t going to jump no more.

Chorus

The lines all wrapped around his neck, the D rings broke his dome,
His lift webs wrapped themselves in knots around each skinny bone,
His canopy became his shroud as he hurtled to the ground,
And he ain’t going to jump no more.

Chorus

The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild,
The medics, they clapped their hands and rolled their sleeves and smiled,
For it had been a week or more, since last a chute had failed,
And he ain’t going to jump no more.

Chorus

He hit the ground, the sound was “splat”, the blood went spurting high,
His pals were heard to say “Oh what a lovely way to die”,
They rolled him up still in his ‘chute, and poured him from his boots,
And he ain’t going to jump no more.

Chorus

There was blood upon his lift webs, there was blood upon his chute,
Blood that came a trickling from his paratrooper boots,
And there he lay like jelly in the welter of his gore,
And he ain’t going to jump no more.

Chorus

Ubuntu 8.04.1 reviews

digitalx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:40:27 +0000

I just installed latest ubuntu to a USB stick using unetbootin. This is first time trying ubuntu outside of live CD environment since 7.04 and i’m really wow’d and impressed by how far it’s come in the key areas linux is critical of.. simplicity, performance and ease of use.

Simplicity for starters. I’m fairly experienced in linux, with work we operate fedora and centos servers and i know one of the key things that makes average people shy away from linux is terminal and having to access the command line. I’ve been playing with ubuntu for a few hours now installing programs to use and media codecs and stuff and i can only say i’m shocked I have not yet needed to access terminal to do anything. I think they’ve really nailed it in terms of simplicity. X picked up my graphics card which i will say is ATi X850 and it’s running compiz and all the bells and whistles perfectly from boot. It also has my creative 5.1 soundcard working from boot perfectly too which i would have expected more harder functioning or to not even work at all considering the restrictions under Windows Vista it has. This really has been a “just works” experience so far. I’m very impressed by it. I can’t stress it enough that if you’ve ever had a thought pass your mind whether you wanted to try Linux but weren’t sure if you could or were afraid you had to read countless docs and stuff on how to use it you can forget all that with ubuntu 8.04.1. It’s simply amazing what they’ve accomplished with it. If you have a spare CD, hard drive or USB stick around i really do suggest you try this.

Performance now ubuntu when i last tried it felt very glitchy at times with compiz stuff and stuff in general and it felt very much like Vista does currently on my system, it’s hard to describe but it’s like that feeling you get like it’s usable but not small and when you want to just click and get things done quickly you feel like softwares holding back a bit. Anyway, Ubuntu now feels even with compiz and what not all on as smooth as windows xp but with eye candy of vista and stuff. If your a fan of eye candy themes and customizing without getting a draggy system like can happen at times with vista this is definitely up your alley!.

Simplicity is both the above all rolled into one install software and codecs seems to be very simple. Starting with codecs, before on 7.04 i had a hard time getting them and i ended up just getting automatix to install them. Now under 8.04.1, I just opened rythmbox added music it asked prompted me it needed codecs and if i wished to install them which i clicked yes, and all done. Same applys for movies. Very very simple stuff. For those who still want to use automatix but found it doesn’t exist no more, it does and using it is still possible for those on 8.04.1. I gave it a try and still as simple to use as ever you can find it here: Ultamatix

In the end i couldn’t imagine linux done better or more simple and ready to use on a home PC. I very much recommend this to anyone tempted or those who’ve contemplated it in the past but never got round to it.

Try Ubuntu today!.

Digix

The 100 Most Oldest Websites in Intenet

digitalx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:33:59 +0000

Have you ever wondered about the beginning of internet? The sites that early users of internet used to read?

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Your Next iPod May Have Ability To Change It’s Color…

digitalx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:33:43 +0000

Apple’s patent calls it a “Computing device with dynamic ornamental appearance”

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iPhone App Store Games Hacked – All Apps Hackable!

digitalx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:23:17 +0000

Apple’s Fairplay DRM, which protects all the applications you download from iTunes, has been hacked. The method for hacking this has actually been around for a while, but has been recently applied to Super Monkey Ball and distributed into the wild. To do this, you’ll need a jailbroken iPhone and SSH installed.

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An Introduction to the Linux Command Line

digitalx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:23:02 +0000

A command line is a method of interacting with your computer that involves typing commands (that is, words and phrases that have meaning to the computer) to make it do things. Command line interfaces replaced punch card systems back in the 1950’s and subsequently made room for GUIs.

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Women in Linux

digitalx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:22:46 +0000

Women in Linux (or technology in general) has always been a rare breed. I have been very unsuccessful trying to make my female friends or family members getting interested in linux. So in my quest in getting more women interested in linux I have made this list of women who have actively contributed in linux community. This list doesn’t include women in just open source community (like Mitchell Baker of Mozilla Foundation) but more specifically women with notable contribution in linux community. This list is in no particular order.

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CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices

digitalx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:21:18 +0000

The main idea behind CSS-based layouts is offering more flexibility and enhancing the visual experience of visitors. Some important tips and related key-factors can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about

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Apple’s next-gen Macs have something special under the hood

digitalx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:18:14 +0000

A new generation of personal computers on the way from Apple Inc. may sport some of the most significant architectural changes since the Mac maker made the jump from PowerPC processors to those manufactured by Intel Corp., AppleInsider has learned.

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More Call of Duty 4 game modes!!!

digitalx — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:17:51 +0000

After a lot of fan feedback and testing, it seems Infinity Ward are finally going to give us some new playlists to get our frag on.

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