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Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Pt. 2
So I’ve had 8.10 installed for just under a week now, and so far, all is well 
I have actually been making use of a tabbed Nautilus (yay!) which I didn’t think I would. I’ve also been using my VPS to torrent the desktop and alternate versions of Intrepid (32 bit versions). Stats of that at the time of writing are:
Desktop – Uploaded: 8126 MB
Alternate – Uploaded: 1680 MB
As you may have guessed – the alternate iso has only been seeding for a day or so. But this is what VPS’s are for 
I’ll continue seeding until Sunday night (GMT).
As for what I think of Intrepid on my laptop…well…I love it (as always). The only downside to it that I can complain about is the fact that unless I play my audio at near inaudible volumes (thus defeating the object of audio ). The sound distorts like a music concert recorded on a mobile phone (cell phone for the Americans reading this ).
Luckily – I don’t need to use the sound a lot, I’ve been playing my music from my iPhone and it’s dock, as it has a lineout on the rear of the dock 
All in all – I think Intrepid is a decent release, though I totally understand people sticking with 8.04.1 as it’s an LTS. I mean, I was considering it, but I love upgrading!!
In other news – that isn’t worthy of it’s own post – I’m going to be going to a LUG meeting next week, it’ll be the first time I’ve ever been, so I’m a little nervous, but I’m sure I’ll enjoy it. I’ll let you know
Slicehost
Now, I’m sure a great many of you have at least looked into getting dedicated web hosting or VPS Servers at some point or another, I know I have! The real killer on it for me, was partly cost, and partly due to the fact that I would be limited as to what was on there, as I couldn’t install anything on the server – no company would give you root access for obvious reasons.
Well I found out that’s not quite true! Slicehost give you FULL root access. How or why may be what you’re thinking…well it’s because you actually have a virtual machine on one of their servers. What’s even better is that they’re not slow servers either!
I personally have a 256 Slice as I don’t really need a massively powerful server. I’ll let you read the other types of slices on their website, but the 256 Slice gives me:
- 256MB RAM
- 10GB Hard Drive Space
- 100GB Bandwidth
I personally think it’s a brilliant idea, and it costs me $20 per month (now as I’m in the UK that works out to about £11.50). Some people may have noticed that I’m on IRC 24/7 now too…screen and irssi work great for that I should also point out that all the servers you can install are Linux servers, they offer plenty (I noticed Gentoo 2007.0 got updated to 2008.0 recently) – mine runs…Ubuntu of course
From my (albeit brief) experience, I’d highly recommend Slicehost to anybody looking for hosting of any sort next time you’re in the market for it.
