Uncutsaniflush's Journal

03/31/2011 20:32 #53952

London Calling
Category: polish songs

I first came across Gaba

(Gabriela) Kulka

because she has performed with Czeslaw Mozil (CzesÅ‚aw Åšpiewa). As you might expect of someone who has performed with Czeslaw, this is not a faithful punk rock cover of the Clash song. In fact, I would venture the opinion that her vocal stylings here owe more to Kate Bush than they do to Joe Strummer.

tinypliny - 04/01/11 23:54
I liked this song - sound like it could have been part of a musical theatre. Thumbs up!

(But keep away from Iron Maiden, Gabriela!)

paul - 03/31/11 21:34
This is amazing. If I just heard it alone with no info I totally would have thought Kate Bush covering the clash.

02/20/2011 21:39 #53663

Fedora 14 First Impressions
Category: linux

Well, I installed Fedora 14 from the live cd a couple of days ago and real life got in the way. So I didn't really get a chance to play with it until today.

In terms of hardware, everything just works. But I expected that.

The default install creates a persistent home partition in a LVM partition scheme (that includes /boot). The installer did not recognise the Ubuntu partition. I had the option to edit the grub config that anaconda came up with but I decided not to. I reckoned I could always fart around with it later.

Ubuntu uses grub2 and Fedora still uses grub so adding Ubuntu to Fedora's boot menu wasn't as obvious as it could have been. I actually had to read some grub2 documentation. Egads!

The Fedora 14 splash and wallpaper image sucks. I think I vaguely remember (e:paul) complaining about it at some point. It's not a big deal because it is easy to change.

So far, so good. I'm planning installing planet ccrma

which is the Fedora equivalent of Ubuntu Studio when time and tide let me.

I already like it better than Ubuntu 10.10

uncutsaniflush - 02/21/11 22:37
What I am realizing that I really don't like the Gnome desktop shell at all in both Ubuntu and Fedora with whatever windows manager du jour.

I hate gnome-screensaver. I hate the lack of configurability. I don't want to write a patch just to change the parameters of how a screensaver operates.

Oh, and by the way, gnome screensaver was crashing X today. But that may be my fault in part. I installed a couple of new screensavers today without updating Fedora since installing. Right now, it is installing 348 and counting updates. I'm sure it will be shiny and new on the other side. And yes, my system has reported the problem (something about "microcode") to Fedora.

BTW, I hate the gnome package manager. It is not user friendly. I can't tell if I am installing or removing software. But that could just be me. I'm used to Synaptic. Yum in the cli is ok. To me, it is just another apt-get. I first used yum in Yellow Dog Linux on the iBook a long time ago.

Maybe I'll install E17 by hook (easy_e17) or crook (compile from source). Who knows the cool kids of
Fedora might even have binary blobs.

paul - 02/20/11 22:20
A quick google search seems to suggest ubuntu does support nouveau

tinypliny - 02/20/11 22:13
Does it work with the *buntus?

paul - 02/20/11 22:00
The thing is most people should not need going forward as they now have that open source 3D driver called nouveau which is part of the fedora base package.

tinypliny - 02/20/11 21:53
Yeah, I noticed that display driver tussle about fedora...

paul - 02/20/11 21:51
Ya the wallpaper was so awful (e:paul,52182) My blog was about how that wallpaper won the contest but only like 10 people voted. It was sad because I really liked all of the previous fedora default wallpapers.

The thing that concerns me is that Fedora 15 seems like it is going to go with gnome shell 3. I am not a big fan of that yet. Maybe it will get better by release time but each time I try it, it sucks.

I hope the experience is good for you. It has really been great for me. The one thing that is slightly difficult for new users would be getting proprietary binary drivers like the nvidia driver up and running. I mean, its by no means hard but they do not make it as easy as it is with ubuntu and I am sure they do that on purpose as Fedora is all about everything being free and open.

02/19/2011 18:46 #53652

"Ouaf, Ouaf" ("Woof, Woof")
Category: polish songs

Poland is a weird place. Artists think that they can sing in French and still be loved in Poland. Even more curiousier Mademoiselle Karen

is actually Danish with a French boyfriend. Her Polish connection is Czeslaw

(The-Right-One).html from CzesÅ‚aw Åšpiewa.

I thought about translating this from French but I don't want to piss off the the Quebecois. I know, I'm weird like that. Any old way, I like this song but I suspect that understanding French might be helpful..

tinypliny - 02/20/11 22:15
Nice heels. :)

01/21/2011 22:52 #53472

W Sam Raz (The Right One)
Category: polish songs

CzesÅ‚aw Åšpiewa (CzesÅ‚aw Sings)

is one of my favie newish Polish artists. Like many Polish artists, his output is not easily defined in Western musical terms - there are elements of Polish folk music, cabaret and modern rock music.

Although he is Polish, he grew up in Denmark.

The song begins: "I dream to myself that we are in Seventh Heaven . . ,"

The chorus is
"They tell me to that your heart just wants to laugh
They tell me that that you want more,
what and why, that's what you get for you is the right one. "

01/07/2011 22:38 #53408

Piwko (A Beer)
Category: polish songs

It's Friday night and what could be more appropriate than a video celebrating man's eternal search for beer. Although come to think of it, this video is more about the morning after than it is about Friday night.

This one's by Kazik. It's a cover of a fake folk song. I'm feeling lazy. I'll give more details if anyone is interested.