Ubuntucat

The new release of Ubuntu 9.10 (codenamed Karmic Koala) came out today. It’ll take me a couple of weeks to get my tutorials site updated. I appreciate the patience of Ubuntu users who like and use my site. Thanks!

Rory Cellan-Jones recently spent 24 hours with Ubuntu:

I installed a few applications – including Skype, and a social networking application called Gwibber.

But when I tried to install a free open-source audio editing program, Audacity, it appeared more complex to get hold of an Ubuntu version than the one I’ve used on a Mac.

So it was simpler than this on Mac?

What was tripping you up? Not knowing a sound recording and editing program would be in the Sound & Video category? Or not realizing how silly it is to have to open a web browser to install a program? Do you find the iTunes App Store difficult to use? Because that’s pretty much the same thing, isn’t it?

I very much look forward to reading your next article, “24 hours learning to ride a bicycle.” The wheels must just not be worth the effort.

Further Reading
Know why software installation is difficult on Linux? It’s a secret. I can’t tell you.

Nothing substantive to write. Just wanted to say I’m reading Robin Meyer’s Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus, and it’s the first truly religiously subversive text I’ve read in a long time. Most books about Christianity that I’ve read are other hard-line theologically conservative traditional or hard-line anti-Christianity. I don’t agree with some of the details, but I like his general thesis.

For more on the subject (mainly what is not really subversive), check on the subversive tag on my blog.

Just read an article about the Snow Leopard upgrade bug that erases your main user account’s data when you log out of the main account.

This snippet made me laugh:

Unfortunately, unless you have a recent Time Machine or other backup, your data may be gone for good—unless you’re willing to pay for an expensive data recovery process. But then again, Ars readers are they sort that have regular backups, right?

I’ve recovered so much data for people over the past two years using a simple free Linux live CD and a simple free data recovery program (Photorec). I guess the “expensive” part is just buying an external hard drive to put all the previously deleted data on after it’s recovered. But an external hard drive is always a good thing to have.

Of course not all of the Obama hate is race-related, but a good deal of it is, and here’s a great example:
Secret Service probes anti-Obama message at Lakeville golf course

What Carter was wrong about was thinking it’s all about the South. This was in Massachusetts.