Lucid Lynx forecast

MadsRH, a blogger with blogspot, has an excellently written and well presented blogpost on what he envisions Ubuntu Lucid will be like. He goes through some of the possibilities based on what has been said at UDS, making it alot easier to see what's coming in 1 centralised blogpost. This is very useful, and while some of the points aren't as detailed as you may like, I'm sure more details will present themselves with time.

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10 good reasons to dislike linux

I have to say I really enjoyed this article, being an adamant linux user, I really think he hits home with some really hard hitting points. Of course, the article is written about his personal experience as someone working in IT, so some of his points may (and probably won't) be a factor for you. My favourite point is point no.10 where he comments on a serious (but in my opinion, inevitable) issue with free software and business.

10. Stability - For eight years, I owned and operated a computer consulting business and whenever I converted parts of my client's infrastructure to Linux, I basically hurt myself. I hurt myself by giving them something so stable and unbreakable that I found myself wondering why I had done such a silly thing.... It wasn't until I had several of my clients on Linux that I realized what I had done. I was killing my business.

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Chrome OS now offered by Dell for MINI 10V

Good start for chrome OS as dell offers custom source code for their mini 10v. From what can be seen, not much has been changed, but it supports wifi out of the box and comes in the form of a USB image for easy installation on netbooks.

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Of course you don't need this netbook to try out chrome, you can also install it on a virtual PC without any change to your hard drive. This has been well documented, but there's a great easy to follow guide here.

MiKandi offers "adult" app store

Rob Jackson on pharanoid has an article titled "Android Porn Market from MiKandi", due to MiKandis new adult themed market. Great article, but I'm having questions about the title. An adult themed market doesn't need to be porn, indeed there's only so many games that can be porn related, and if people want porn, an easier and cheaper option would be to simply download it for free. On the adult side, any app or game that isn't entirely pg could be included, more ethnically questionable apps such as a juicy bittorrent client, or a particularly "gory" game. And what else could this app store be used for? well I don't see why they don't extend their app range to every app that would be rejected from the market. If developers realised they could make an app about anything with fear of rejection from the market, then this site could be huge success.

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Day 3: Everyman 2 sleep schedule

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Day 3, half 6 in the morning, got up at 5.15.

How I feel

At the moment I don't feel tired at all, getting up was a bit of trouble, but an hour later I feel energetic.

1st nap yesterday For my 1st nap yesterday morning I had the weirdest dream I've ever had. It was like I was high. My body felt like it was floating or falling, but only at will. At 1 point I felt like I was beside a waterfall and I could hear the river bashing against the water, I knew I was dreaming, but was unable to make the noise go away. It was extremely odd, it took me picturing myself inside my bed to convince myself that I wasn't infact at the bottom of a waterfall. I wrote this after getting up after the nap so it's a fairly accurate description

Thoughts

Feeling alot less tired, as I did on day 3 the 1st time I tried the everyman 2 schedule.

Ubuntu 10.04 re-introduces 100 paper cuts

100 paper cuts is such a great ui improvement idea that it's actually embarrassing that it was never thought of before. The problems are so simple, but if they were fixed they would provide a seamless and professional initial experience. If you don't know, a paper cut is defined as:

a trivially fixable usability bug that the average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a brand new installation of the latest version of Ubuntu Desktop Edition.

So any issues you or someone you know runs into in their 1st day, you know the "this is stupid, why did they do that" issues that we may no longer notice, and that are so small nobody bothers to report them. My personal favourite example of this, is the error you used to get when you tried to run apt-get with synaptic open, you know the one ;)

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Google launches coupons in local search

This is a handy little story, that seems like a win win for everyone. Google now include coupons for shops, restaurants, bars and more in it's localised search. We get cheaper goods, google gets more business, the companies get more business. Good move by google.

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