Ubuntu is 5 years old

Happy birthday Ubuntu!

Using Karmic Beta

I’ve now updated to Ubuntu Karmic Koala Beta release.

The upgrade went without a hitch. It just took about an hour to download all the files and it was done.

I now only have one issue – I don’t seem to have an indicator icon. This is strange – I did have it in previous versions, in all alphas, but now after upgrade it is completely gone. Empathy and Evolution are not shown anywhere on the panel when open, so when I close them – there’s no way to open them again but to do that from the Applications menu. And it is apparent that they do run in the background – it takes split a second to show them to me.

Besides that – very impressive graphic effects on load, nice upstart updates and all the rest. I even like new background.

So now I impatiently wait for the official release :-)

Brushing the dust off

Ok, so I haven’t posted here for a loooong time. Now, I’m cleaning the dust, washing spider webs and getting the new stuff in.

I’m now using Ubuntu Linux (moved from Gentoo to CentOS about a year ago), currently Karmic Alpha 5. So you’ll probably see Ubuntu/generic writing here from now on.

Also I got a bit more involved in various development projects, so you’ll be witnessing  splashes of my stupidity very soon.

Cheers All :-)

Missed feature in Digg

While I'm not that fond of making waves about that or this web service, there's one thing that bugs me with Digg. I'm also sure, that this also is a problem for a new diggers and occasional diggers as well. I'm talking about new submissions.

As many of us use Digg, it has become bookmarking service, and social networking service. People use it to look what are their friends up to. But for a new user or occasional digger, all these things are either unknown or not that important. That leads to a following problems:

1. The new user will probably only see "first-page" items on Digg, which were brought there by heavy-diggers.
2. The new user submission will be buried in a million of similar ones in 10 minutes.

While one of my submissions came through the haze and showed up on the front page, I feel the same problem as well. You post something, watch as it gets 3 diggs, and you never see it again. This sucks.

So here's an idea. Took at the current state of things:

There's no chance that ~17K entries will be seen. I doubt if 1000 of them will be read at least once.

What Digg should have, is a sort of a hint for "digging" for new posts. An example of similar idea I found on Gentoo Forums:

 

This feature would help to some newbies to get some diggin'. That would add to a "social" part, wouldn't it?

What do you think?

KDE4 fork mumbo-jumbo

I just keep stumbling into this online. Why is it so maddening people?

If you don't like KDE4 (in any of its iterations), don't use it. KDE3 is still around.

What's all the fuss??

4th of July

To all Americans among you:

Happy 4th of July!!!