Anyway, enough of my reminiscing! As ubuntu-geek posted earlier in the week, there’s a new LoCo Administrator on the forums. I know this is basically a repost, but I felt I should actually post it myself.

Many thanks first of all, to the Forum Council who agreed to give me the position in record time after I fleetingly suggested that I’d be interested if there was no other volunteers!! Secondly, to any LoCo teams, as Ryan said, don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need something sorting out with your forum, or need one creating. (I’ve even gone so far as updating my contact details on my wiki page!).

Fact is, I procrastinate…a lot…and it’s all too easy for me. So I’ve decided that when it comes to University work, I’ll actually try and do it instead of sitting idling on IRC, browsing the forums, or going on Facebook. I mean…obviously I’ll still be doing those, but it should be in between doing work. Not doing work in between doing those things.

I think this partly means I have to use Ubuntu more (yay!). Because I can never be bothered to fiddle with it all that much, but the main piece of work I have for Uni right now is to write a unix shell, so the 2 go hand in hand So that’s my plan, and I’m sincerely hoping I stick to it.

Either way, there’s now public evidence of me saying it, so we’ll find out soon enough!!

So Ubuntu 8.10 was released to day – as always, downloads were slow, websites went down, torrents were seeded, the usual (yes the forums went down too – in fact they’ve just come back online ).

I’ve in the middle of installing Intrepid on my laptop as I write this, so far it looks nice, not to different visually from Hardy when you first boot the live CD, but there are some differences that I think are noticeable when you finally get around to using them.

Anyway, I’ve got stuff to be doing and /home directories to be restoring, so I’ll post back in a few days when I’ve been running Intrepid properly!!

A few links you may find useful:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10/
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://ubuntuforums.org

Unfortunately, I can’t try it out on Ubuntu just yet, as there’s no Linux builds, and trying to build it from source won’t work, many have tried. People were hopeful that it would run in wine…No dice. So we’ll just have to wait. Until then, I can continue merging and moving threads about on the forums. Which have been literally inundated with threads regarding the browser, so there is now a “Google Chrome MegaThread” :p

I have to say, I actually quite like it…now that the EULA has been revised that is. And it renders very quickly (Yes – faster than Safari, which according to Apple is “the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world” – perhaps they should rethink that statement?).

As this blog seems to be getting a lot of hits still concerning Acid3, I tried Google Chrome from the same acid test website. And it gets….78/100! I think that’s pretty respectable, though it fails the LinkTest (screenshot supplied below).

Anyway – more on this later, possibly when there’s major improvements or a Linux version

Update: I forgot to add the screenshot of the Acid test, here it is!

Acid3 Test Results

Basically it’s like Twitter but it’s Open-Source, and has a large following from the Ubuntu community, a lot of the members from the Forums are on there too As well as being open-source, it supports OpenID which means you can use 1 login across multiple websites (read the link for more info).

In all I actually prefer it to Twitter (I deleted my Twitter account). You can find me at http://identi.ca/Joeb454

It’s really good, I’d recommend it to anybody for a good backup solution. I’ve backed up my entire home folder to it (but not onto the samba share ) I thought about that one!!

I’m now looking for another mini project, SVN was considered, but I guess it’s a little overkill. Still, I need something to do!

Also the other week I decided to go for Ubuntu Membership, and the meeting was last night (I thought it was the Friday night…I decided to go through the Americas board, to guarantee that I would be home, and lets just say that the timezone’s got the better of me

I got accepted as a member, which means some of you may well be reading this blog post from http://planet.ubuntu.com (o hai!!1!) So you’ll occasionally see some stuff from me there.

I think that’s all I have to say

I noticed last night that the Xbox Live issues everybody has been experiencing over the Christmas season still haven’t gone completely, which is annoying…and there’s still no news on that free arcade game.

Also there’s been a lot of people on the Ubuntu Forums posting in “Internet Speak” e.g. lyk this n its hard 2 read sumtimes LoL!!1!  I’ll be honest, and I’m sure I speak for most…it’s annoying…don’t do it I’ve been doing my bit to help all the newcomers that we’ve had over Christmas, so try to help us, and make the posts’ readable