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I like Ubuntu. A lot. But for 9.10, I think a few things were lost on them. I think removing Pidgin as the default IM client was a huge mistake. I haven’t even bothered with Empathy or whatever it is simply because I need proxy support. If you are going to replace something, make sure it has the same features (or better). Especially with something that absolutely must have internet connectivity, please include proxy support. This also gets me on the Gnome proxy settings soap box. If it is supposed to be “enabled system-wide”, why does it not work? Banshee, Gwibber and Empathy are all guilty of this. Please fix it.

This python script makes a wallpaper made of your album covers of recently listened to artists – heres mine, and you can follow the instructions @ OMG! UBUNTU!.

You are unique, just like everyone else. So much for “Think Different”…

I’ve recently been using and experiementing with FreeNAS in a virtual machine running on my VMware ESX server to backup my Ubuntu laptop via rsync. This has been working out extremely well and FreeNAS is relatively light on resources. There are other countless reasons as to why it is a good idea to have a NAS server for your own personal use or small to medium business. Since my NAS will be containing backup data and I’m obsessive about documentation, I was given the chance to review Learning FreeNAS by Gary Sims. As any good geek, I like to know the nuts and bolts of the OS I’m running. Gary Sims has delievered on this expectation. I think this book would be excellent for an intermediate user who has built their own computer before and has spare hardware laying around or some capability to run FreeNAS in a virtual machine as it is an excellent way to learn about FreeNAS.
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I haven’t used MAMP in a long time, but I do know there is a lot of interest in MAMP’s security (or lack thereof), but poking through referral logs this morning I found a good tip on restricting Apache access to your local machine.

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1. vi or emacs
2. APT or yum or RPM or portage
3. Debian or BSD or Red Hat.
4. KDE or Gnome or flux/black/open-box.
5. Easy to install or get kicked in crotch.
6. Functionality or “my distro only uses 50mb” or obscure.
7. Planned release cycles or whenever they get around to it.
8. You can be a 100% open source zealot or “I can’t live without youtube, dvd playback and mp3s.”
9. My filesystem is better than yours: ext2 or ext3 or JFS or ReiserFS or XFS or NTFS.
10. Amarok or Banshee or Songbird or MOC.

I love w2 – as a simple note taking app, it is nearly perfect. But as my needs grow, I find the features a bit lacking. I’m looking to take it into more of a GTD organizer – I don’t want reminders (yet) or anything too fancy. I really want to add WMD to handle Markdown formatting, folder views (for contexts and projects) and more sorting options. It will be called w2+ and since this is my first foray into PHP hacking/coding this may take some time, but I figure that if I talk about it, I will have to do it since I really can’t be the only one who wants something like this. right?