I just finished installing Xubuntu (a linux operating system derived from ubuntu) and finished downloading BBC’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (using torrent).
Xubuntu: I like linux (except for its complexity) because its stable (my windows xp always crashes) and never hanged on me during normal usage (i get screwed every time i tinkered with the settings, its very different than microsoft windows). Also, the eyecandy that you can optionally install makes closing/oppening/etc a window fun. Watch it in work in http://www.youtube.com ( <–click this stupid..). fun!!!
BBC’s hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: I first found it as text-based-game in www.abandonia.com. I did’nt like the game but i liked the story. I didnt like the game because it like controlling a character using command like "go left","talk to peter","look under bed". No graphics whatsoever. These kind of games was popula r back in the days where DOS/(and similar os) were the only operating system for pc’s. I never got the chance to finish the game (did i already said i did’nt like it?) so i tried to find a complete transcript of the game and found out that it was broadcasted on BBC’s radio station on 1979!!! So i tried to find an uploaded book scan and i accidentally stumbled on the original recording on thepiratebay.org, What did i do? I download it ofcourse!!!!, here’s a bit more info from wikipedia.com:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4
in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years
it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon.
Adaptations have included stage shows, a series of five books first published between 1979 and 1992 (the first of which was titled The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC Comics
between 1993 and 1996. There were also two series of novels, produced
by Beer-Davies, that are considered by some fans to be an "official
version" of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as they include text from the first novel.[1][2] A Hollywood-funded film version, produced and filmed in the UK, was released in April 2005, and adaptations of the last three books to radio
were broadcast from 2004 to 2005. Many of these adaptations, including
the novels, the TV series, the computer game, and the earliest drafts
of the Hollywood film’s screenplay, were all done by Adams himself, and
some of the stage shows introduced new material written by Adams.
