It looks like the next release of Ubuntu will be hitting a mirror near you in a few days. According to the main Ubuntu site the next stable release will come out of beta in a mere 12 days.So what kind of new features will it bring?What is likely to break? (something nearly always does! :) )I'm seriously considering doing a completely clean install on my home desktop, as a … [Read more...] about Ubuntu Countdown
Archives for April 2008
Mail Server Oddities – Comment Delays
For the past couple of weeks I hadn't been getting any email notifications about pending comments on this blog, which is why some of them took so long to appear. Since I tend to login to check for new comments every few hours and had also been hit pretty badly with comment and trackback spam, I didn't think too much about it. I logged in just now and noticed more comments in … [Read more...] about Mail Server Oddities – Comment Delays
Custom 404 Gone Mad
Niall pointed me at this.Nice, but insane! … [Read more...] about Custom 404 Gone Mad
(In)Famous (?) At Last?
Steve Jobs has Fake Steve Jobs. Shel Israel has a puppet. Paul Walsh has Walsh Watch. It seems I've now got the next best thing - my own "wikipedia" page courtesy of Mr Eoin Costello. (He was in the news earlier this week when his hosting company was swallowed up) I must say I am impressed. I didn't realise that Eoin was such a talented wit and not a bad graphic artist … [Read more...] about (In)Famous (?) At Last?
Minor Change To Comments Policy
In order to preserve what little sanity I have left I've changed the way comments are handled on here slightly.Since comment and trackback spammers seem to target old posts I've decided to automatically close comments on posts that are 6 months old or older.The old posts that were attracting the odd comment were mainly to do with older versions of Ubuntu etc., so there's not … [Read more...] about Minor Change To Comments Policy