Wubi Tuesday
By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial
Posted in operating systems, Windows Vista, ubuntu, linux on
“The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things: of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages - and kings - and why the sea is boiling hot - and whether pigs have wings.”
Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poetry may have come straight from the shores of North East England, but it’s inspired much of the language -and grammar - of IT.
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Loading ...Comment by Johann Tienhaara - September 25, 2008 on 3:58 am
Oxford in “North East England”?
“What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?”
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
“They are merely conventional signs!”
Comment by Create Forms - September 25, 2008 on 4:28 am
I enjoy using WUBI but the main problem is that it mess with the clock of the operating system.
Or is it the bios clock?
As a result, I only use Ubuntu under VMware. Totally contained and will not touch anything on my PC.
Comment by Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe - September 26, 2008 on 8:41 pm
@Johann - actually most modern Carrollian thought puts the inspiration for Walrus down to his childhood near Durham, with the beach being one near Sout Sheilds, and the walrus being the first one seen in the British Isles, which was kept at the museum in Sunderland. There’s a statue of it in the Winter Gardens there to this day.
(I heartily recommend Bryan Talbot’s “Alice In Sunderland” for more on Carroll’s north-eastern childhood and roots)
Comment by Johann Tienhaara - October 10, 2008 on 6:08 pm
Re: Alice in Sunderland
Intriguing, thanks for sharing Simon + Mary!
(To my pleasant surprise it’s even available from my public library.)
I probably would have been dismissive of an historical graphic novel before reading Chester Brown’s comic strip bio of the Canadian revolutionary Louis Riel — but now I’m very much looking forward to Alice in Sunderland.
Thanks for the enlightenment! 
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