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I'm beginning to get frustrated with certain aspects of the Ubuntu development cycle, and in this post I'm going to try my best to spell out my complaint and what I think should be done about it. My Complaint First, let me say that I'm a huge Ubuntu fan. Since Gutsy (when I first started using Ubuntu) each of the iterations of Ubuntu has made large, important strides to becoming a preeminent OS. Many of the things that annoyed me about the desktop experience have been have been fixed or minimized, and with the release of Jaunty I've had very few complaints about things not doing what I want/expect them to, very few crashes, and less annoyances than at any other time using a linux based OS. As I've written before, Jaunty is the first time a Linux vendor has released a distribution that I'd pretty much recommend to anyone. As you can see, I'm a very happy user. So my complaint then isn't about the great work being done on Ubuntu, its rather an end-user com...

I hope he does sue the US government - and I hope to hell he wins. This is so outrageously unacceptable. 7½ Years For Being Muslim ~ The Story Of Lakhdar Boumediene

Jaunty is very good. Its the first version of a linux distribution that I'd pretty much recommend to anyone to try (with only a few minor caveats about possible hardware issues and the fact that Linux users still can't watch netflix). It has made vast improvements over Hardy from a year ago. Its stable, snappy, and quite a number of annoyances that I onced experienced have been fixed or minimized. Below I go through these in more detail. Now, though I want to focus on what I hope for the next version of Ubuntu (codenamed "Karmic Koala"). Cloud computing is the wave of the future, so I'm very happy this development cycle is making this a focus. But I'm doubtful they will go far enough to really make a lot of difference for most people. What people want now is to be able to sync up there data with various computers they possess and with online services they rely on. To this effect: Evolution needs to sync seamlessly with Google calander, email, and contacts. Evo...

# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=7132a62f-0906-4831-bdc3-f8ba0427ca88 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # none was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=c903185e-8b77-49cd-bdcb-f2e8bc4228bd none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 /dev/sda6 /media/storage1 ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2 /dev/sdb1 /media/storage2 ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2

Here are the posts where I've provided tutorials on how to get things working on either Linux in general or Ubuntu in particular: Accessing your Ubuntu Box from Anywhere My fstab Here are some quick troubleshooting tips I've encountered when using Ubuntu or the software on it: Import Openoffice Spreadsheet into a Writer Table Download Streaming Media on Linux Useful Intrepid Repos TOR Configuration in Ubuntu and Firefox Restore and Backup Virtualbox VDI files

Donnie Davis. Remember him? Well, in 2007 he made quite the splash with his video "The Bible Says" (you can see it here ). Well I just noticed that he's out with a new video. And wow!! The innuendo is much stronger than the last one, but I love it! Donnie Davies - Take My Hand - watch more funny videos Here are the lyrics (as best as I can make them out): Homosexuality . Homosexuality. Homosexuality is a heartbreaking and crippling disease. But there is something you can do about it:.   Will you come ? When you feel almighty power When I reach out to touch you will you come? Will you come inside the gates of heaven? Into eternal glory will you come? Are you bruised and broken Poisoned with deceit Do you stand for nothing Shattered by defeat Are you barely human All but dead inside Just a rotten soul By your own design Even though you're lusting for another man Swallow all your pride Reach up and take my hand And in the face of evil In the face of sin In the f...

Over the past couple of weeks, I have experience a larger number of stubborn problems on my Ubuntu Intrepid machine. Here are just a couple of the problems I've been experiencing: A number of annoying Firefox problems. Two in particular: (1) When I'm downloading files, sometimes firefox will tell me that its got just a few more seconds to download when in fact it has finished downloading. This is annoying because it leaves *.part files all over the place. (2) When I shut down firefox, it has become more frequent that it doesn't fully shut down, and instead I have to go into the system monitor to kill it manually. VLC stopped working for me on *.mp4 and *.wmv files. In fact the only sorts of videos it seems to play consistently are *.mpeg files. And yes, I have all the codecs installed (so fuck off). I have to use mplayer instead. When I insert my flash drive into the USB port, it no longer automatically mounts it. Instead I have to go to Places->Computer and double click...