Here is wishing you a very safe and Happy New Year!
My New Years resolutions:
Merry Christmas!
Happy Hanukkah!
Happy Kwanzaa!
Happy Eid ul-Adha
Here is wishing you and yours a very happy holiday and a happy new year!
I was actually surprised to run across an article from PC World, which is mostly a Microsoft information site, post an article about dual booting Windows XP and Ubuntu on a PC. The article, like many other articles from PC World was well written and easy to follow. A lot of good information for those of you wanting to install Ubuntu without killing Windows on your machine.
You know Ubuntu is on its way when you read articles from big time PC news sources (at least PC World is pretty popular in the US). I know they have written Linux and Ubuntu articles in the past, but actually writing a how to is new to me from them.
After a massive attack at some documentation today, I finally got around to a break where I got to read some Google news. I inputed Ubuntu and came up with some exciting news this evening, now morning. One of the articles I will do a write up on for the Fridge here in a bit. The other, damn close to Fridge worthy, and could possibly be, but I just couldn’t wait. It seems that Santa has come early this year however his sack is not filled with stuffed animals, dolls, or choo-choo trains. No, not at all. Instead Santa is delivering Ubuntu, Christmas style!
Ubuntu Christmas Edition is a joyfully fun distribution. Myself not being a GNOME afficianado actually took a liking to it. Why? I guess the festive feel overwhelmed me, and also because the latest daily of Ubuntu Feisty unmounts my CD-ROM at the “Checking CD-ROM” section. As I am writing this, I am looking at [!!] Detect and mount CD-ROM. On the other hand I am also looking at a wonderful Christmasy felling wallpaper as well. Screenshots are here.
Here is wishing you and yours a very happy holidays.
And just so I don’t forget those of you who celebrate a different holiday this time of year.
MERRY CHRISTMAHANAKWANZAKA!
nixternal.com! Finally, I have went ahead and purchased my own domain. Ya ya no big deal right? It isn’t, but with the offer that Matthew East proposed this past weekend, I couldn’t resist. Plus I had a few extra bucks sitting in a stale PayPal account.
Joey Stanford! Thanks for all of the fish brother, and if there is ever anything I can do to help you, I would be more than glad to do so! I owe you big time for letting me Ubuntu Rock it with you. By the way, how in the hell do you grow rocks again 
Plans for this week and the following:
Until next time…
Those of you who are familiar with the “Super Fans” from Saturday Night Live probably remember “Da Bears.” Well, “Da Bears’ was referring to the Chicago Bears, our NFL (National Football League) team back in the mid 80’s after winning the Superbowl.
“Da Bugs” is tonight, a night of bug triaging in Ubuntu. A couple of the members, Freddy Martinez and Andrew Bassett, have recently been bitten by the bug, and now have proposed a night for the Ubuntu Chicago Team to gather on IRC (chat.freenode.net) in #ubuntu-chicago and do some Ubuntu bug triaging. As it stands, the team will be meeting from 7pm until 11pm CST (-0600) in order to try and knock down the bug count.
If you are a Chicagoan, love the Bears and the Cubs (boo White Sox), you are more than welcome to stop by and learn a little bit of the “behind the scenes” stuff in Ubuntu. I will be on hand as well as other members from the team to field questions you may have, guide you in some triage work, or just chat about our love of Ubuntu. Thanks to Freddy (Admiral_Chicago) and Andrew (awbassett) for setting this up, and we hope to see you there.
NOTE: Well it is over with. Fours hours of mad triaging. Seems we have confirmed, requested further info, closed, or committed to many bugs tonight. Not to shabby considering there was three of us working on it. Yay for deciding to do this on a Saturday night
