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Hippo birdy 2 ewes
Hippo birdy 2 ewes
Hippo birdy dear Ubuntu
Hippo birdy 2 ewes.

And no you can't use the lines for naming ideas ;)

Congrats to all the people that have been in from the start and secondly to all those that have joined. You've made a consistently usable desktop that goes from strength to strength.

My thanks to you all and I'm sure the thanks of everyone else goes with that.

To Quote The Rock "Final the WUBI is back in Ubuntu"

Big shout out to xivulon, evand and cjwatson if you see these guys at any party buy them a drink they deserve it :)

This cycle wubi working with Ubuntu has been the bane of their existence. Now however it's back baby. It's rocking with all of it's goodness and elegant simplicity.

Wubi is the Windows UBuntu Installer it creates a couple of virtual drives in your windows install and then proceeds to install ubuntu (replace with you desktop of choice) into them. This can then be remove from a windows install simply and easily using the windows add/remove tool. But more important means that if you need windows on your machine for work or college or university etc then you can, but you can also have ubuntu on there with out the hassle of partitioning etc.

This is a great tool if your forced to use windows during the day but need you daily hit of ubuntu at breaks on the train etc. Welcome back wubi :)

New, New, New

I thought I would just say WOW!

There are little touches in Karmic that just make me think why wasn't this in before. This has actual got to the point now where I am seriuosly thinking of upgrading my main box.

Quicky on disc control:

When you have a pen drive that you drop on a copy of Ubuntu (insert your choice of desktop) on, wouldn't it be nice to name it and format it nicely and easily. How about we plug in the drive right click on the drive icon add a label and format the drive at the same time? Well karmic has this and boy you take it for granted once you start using it and move back to a jaunty box and don't.

How about faster Browsing:

With Firefox3.5.2 currently in Karmic I have to admit I'm impressed. It's by and far the fastest Firefox release so congratulations to them. But how about something a little lighter for your netbook, well the latest epiphany now has a webkit gtk backend this is easily as firefox but with one big avantage (in my opinion) on ssd drives it uses less disk swaping so it sits there happily producing pages without many hitches.

Empathy has some really nice touches:

I have to admit at first I thought that empathy was far too basic, it had flashes of genius but wasn't quite there. Well thanks to a lot of usibilty work it is now a lot easier to setup and less confusing, there still some work to be done but I have got to take my hat off to the devs this app goes from strength to strength. I can't wait for the full release of this app, I think it will be a really great start for it and Ubuntu, I can't wait to see what extra features get added for gnome 3.

LRL 2009 Hell Yes Baby

It's true, it isn't a myth, It will Happen.

In a film, once upon a time, a phrase was created for just this occasion "If you build it, they will come"

Well we've done our part!

It's up to you to do yours!

Be there or be as square as the Spectrum Font

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Official Ubuntu Server Book

OMG I ordered this book off amazon and I have to say it is a really good read. It is a well rounded book aiming at new sysadmin's but also covering differences between Ubuntu and other server products for senior sysadmins.

It gives a good overall grounding in the description of sometime overwhelming options and puts them in plain English which means the penny drops for a larger number of terms and options in other apps.

There are basic sum ups of the most common services mail, file share, print and web iirc which put everything into plain English once more.

Thanks Guys for this well produced book.

UDS Wow

It's late I know but I was on holiday straight after.

Firstly, my wife and I would like to thank everybody that took time out to talk to her (Sue the woman knitting in the atrium).

Secondly, Wow uds was mad. The talks were great and full of information and laughs. But more important were the general sessions.

I mostly followed the QA track, and I was impressed to see how much thought has gone into the whole process. In general it was based on the process of automated testing and automated bug reporting using checkbox and apport. These are 2 awesome tools that are in their infancy still. By all accounts the if the features get added they will instantly mature the apps into a far more robust tools, hopefully with checkbox/apport integration for auto bugrepporting on automatic testing which will be really cool.

Day 1 and 2 in the Big Brother House UDS

Dear diary,

Today I have been mostly in the QA Track. Hopefully throwing a spanner in the works where possible Helping out ;) Although some of the talks have been slightly more technical for me to get on with on the whole it's been great.

The venue is good apart from room 14 avoid it like the plague (It's like a walk in freezer). The staff and developers are great. I've meet up with some old friends and met new ones too.

It looks like there is going to be a lot of work going on to improve the automated testing suites we currently have and a lot more work going on to import these into checkbox. There should hopefully be some work to get all that info into a database that people can then use in multiple different ways. That's only from the first 2 days, tomorrow is going to be a day I can really get on with as most of the discussions in the qa track apply to me.