William

1. Refreshing my Unix Commands in doing something really simple.

2. Play my PSP again. Oh Metal Gear Acid, how much I love you…

3. Watch Die Hard 4 again.

4. Installing (Going to) Ubuntu on my Parallel.

Had that intention to Dual Boot my MBP to Macintosh and Ubuntu Linux. However, decided to go with Parallel. Since I paid for this software, might as well go max with it.

5. Going to try Ubuntu Server. Hoping to brush my Server skills more..

This is really funny, but I doubt anyone would really want to try..

GUI aka Graphical User Interface. It is the common type of OS which we are using in 2008.  And we take it for granted. Especially, your trackpad and mouse.

I remembered the first OS I had tried and learnt to use was MS DOS. Back then, I’d to learn and memorize command lines because the OS was type-based.Well, I am not that old. Just that Computers technology took a long while to reach Singapore. The pace started to get in line only after the introduction of Windows 95 (which shamelessly copied from OS 7/8).

So allow me to introduce the world first GUI system (not by Apple).

The Xerox Star 8010 was a commercial refinement of the company’s in-house Alto and featured a mouse-controlled graphical user interface or GUI as opposed to the keyboard-controlled text interface common on computers at that time.Announced in April 1981, the machine was also designed to share data over an Ethernet network (Something you must have in today networking).

But sales were dismal, as less expensive non-networked computers were gaining popularity at that time, and the GUI gave the impression of being very slow in comparison to a text interface. It wasn’t until the low-priced Macintosh came out in 1984 that the GUI achieved popularity, which increased even more with the release of Windows 3.0 in 1990. 

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