Ubuntu hangups

Ubuntu has been awesome to me. It's stable, never crashes and lightning fast.
But yesterday I found myself booting to windows.

• Linux needs Photoshop. Or atleast GIMP needs to be far better. Right now, it's a ugly piece of software that runs too many windows and everything just gets in the way. Photoshop is by far one of the best softwares I've used(under any category).
  
• Great iPod support. Rhythmbox is nonsense. Last time I opened Rhythmbox when my iPod was connected, I lost all my album art. Songbird is by far the best song player software I've used. BUT, it doesn't have album art support for the iPod. Sad!
• Chrome. Firefox is good. But sometimes, for some quick browsing, Chrome is just fast and gets the job done. Opera tends to be buggy on Linux. I just don't like seeing my page size shoot up on Linux.
• More "slicker"! Jaunty is amazing. But sometimes, the fonts don't feel as slick. I always have this weird feeling that everything in Ubuntu is oversized. But Jaunty is miles ahead of the previous distros. I like the dark gray themes.

Admittedly, software options on Linux aren't as much as that on Windows/Mac. But considering it's free as in speech and beer(libre and gratis), you can't beat it.
If only I had a fast processor and truck loads of RAM to use VirtualBox + Photoshop...

Burnt by the Gods

I came across this.

"14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite "

What the!

Gerrit Blank, 14, was on his way to school when he saw "ball of light" heading straight towards him from the sky.

A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground.

The teenager survived the strike, the chances of which are just 1 in a million - but with a nasty three-inch long scar on his hand.

That is just insane.

The bright side is, he has a super cool scar. There isn't an image of it, but I can almost imagine Harry Potter fans aligning their foreheads for this one!

This one is totally incredible:

The only other known example of a human being surviving a meteor strike happened in Alabama, USA, in November 1954 when a grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a house, bounced off furniture and landed on a sleeping woman.

What the! If painful scars aren't your thing, then the above is just the right meteorite delivery system.

The only meteorites I'll ever get to see are shooting stars. It's nice that I've seen three in NITK. I used to think it was impossible to see them and you have to be totally jobless to see them. But I've caught all three when I was randomly staring at the sky.

However, I still haven't managed to see the Milky Way. Some people say you can see it, especially the Star Gazing Club nuts. But I can't see a thing. It all looks like black background and white dots. No white band anywhere.

Maybe you need to go to a dark place to see it like this