Now I hate online advertising as much as the next man, but…
I find myself clicking on Facebook adverts, the targeted ones they have down the right hand side on some pages. I mean, they really are targeted quite accurately. How about this one which I saw the other day??
That’s just an example of a few I’ve seen and this particular one couldn’t be targeted better. Facebook knows I run Linux because it’s probably listed on my profile from when I first set it up.. My eye was immediately drawn by the Tux icon. I keep seeing more and more adverts which are of interest or are relevant to me on the side of Facebook, which proves that “social advertising”, or whatever they want to dub it, is the way forward. To get me, someone who actively blocks adverts online, clicking is an achievement in itself. I’d say the money the company spent there was well worth it despite me not buying anything from them.
Having spent some time studying marketing at university, it’s quite clear to me that Facebook and the like have an edge over other advertising mediums because they can deliver adverts to those who are most likely to click them.. In fact I’d much rather see adverts which might be relevant to me, even if I don’t click them, than this random flashing distracting nonsense which you see on most websites.
I know, how out of date is this post… LUGRadio finished ages ago, much to the dismay of fans. I have obviously neglected the blog as of late and meant to post something about this ages ago. But as a homage to the most brilliant of podcasts, I give you:
Jono Bacon drinking an Ubuntu beer...!
If you’ve ever played Liero, you’ll know that worms-style real time games are a lot of fun. Take that and mix it up with the graphics from Chase Ace 2 and you’ve pretty much got Teeworlds.
There are less weapons than Liero had back in the day, just the close-quarters hammer (which reminds me of when you pick up the hammer in Super Smash Brothers), a pistol, a shotgun, a laser gun (think rail gun from Quake but it ricochets) and a grenade launcher. You can’t make tunnels into the maps either..
There are clients for Windows, Linux and Mac which is always a massive plus for these type of games. The amount of online servers running is decent, you can easily jump into a game (trouble is, they’re all pros and if it’s your first time you get absolutely annihilated as you try and figure out the controls). I changed jump to up, rather than space but whatever floats your boat. I noticed a couple of graphics glitches when connecting to a couple of servers but most of them seem fine. Anyway, it’s really addictive and a lot of fun. Don’t waste too much time on it!!
My friend Max is a curse on Ubuntu. Whenever he’s near my laptop, something goes wrong, something crashes or doesn’t work the way it normally does. It’s okay though, I have the same effect on his Vista monstrosity.
It’s nice that Ubuntu supports bluetooth out of the box, I have had a little bluetooth icon in the notification area since I installed but what does that actually do? Right-clicking it gives some options and a “Browse Device” window which throws up an error when you try and connect to any nearby bluetooth device. Something like this;
“obex://[nn:uu:mm:bb:ee:rr]” is not a valid location.
I was trying to bluetooth a file to my phone and Max’s phone. Well, you’d assume it would be fairly simple, something like right-clicking on the file, then Send To, choosing Bluetooth and then selecting a device. No. Not by default anyway. To get this functionality I had to follow these instructions.
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