Year: 2007

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How to Enable 3D Desktop Effects on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04

Here’s how to to enable the new spiffy Desktop Effects feature on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).

  1. First, from the Desktop, go to System->Preference. Click on Desktop Effect
  2. Select Enable Desktop Effect, Click OK
  3. Watch your Windows Wobbles as it being moved!

Desktop Effects
Desktop Effects

Note 1 : Some people reported this feature causes serious desktop bug when both ‘Wobble’ and ‘Workspace on a cube’ feature are enabled at the same time.

Note 2: This is not beryl, please refer to HowtoForge’s article :Installing Beryl On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop With An ATI Radeon Graphic Card for that.

[tags]ubuntu,feisty,feisty fawn,compiz,xgl,linux[/tags]

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Finally, I’m able to Install Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 on my Desktop

Finally i had the chance to install Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on my desktop after being swamped out with (paper) work for days.

The Installation was a breeze, the Ubuntu team managed to do a pretty good job here. The LiveCD let me do a lot of stuff during the installation process, such as getting online for IRC, surfing the web and reading my emails.

The LiveCD was able to detect my Windows XP Professional partition, and launched Windows Migration Tool for me to migrate my Windows documents and User account. The Installation itself was a breeze, and I’ve a Linux operating system ready to to use within minutes!

Most importantly, my desktop pc hardware (printer, scanner, bluetooth dongle, card reader, graphic card) are supported out from the box, with no restricted drivers needed.

Feisty Fawn Restricted Driver
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WordPress 2.2 is going to be released, pretty soon!

The next major release of WordPress 2.2 is scheduled to be released around 26 April 2007. This is the next latest release since WordPress 2.1 was made in January 2007.

WordPress 2.2 spot major improvement over the previous WordPress architecture among it :

  • It includes the new ATOM API support for managing post (like blogger.com)
  • Uses phpmailer to handle mail related code
    (reduce burden to wordpress developer to spot bugs/vulnerability)
  • Support multiple comment feed format (RSS, ATOM)
  • Uses the lighter jQuery for JS core library which is lighter (thus faster)
  • Includes Widgetized default themes (Kubrick and Classics)
  • Plugin sandboxing for testing new plugins

The addition of ATOM API and ATOM 1.0 feeds is a much awaited feature for blogging geeks since both of it has been supported in blogger.com, and considered superior to XML-RPC interface and RSS syndication feeds.

p/s : I’ve been using the WordPress 2.0.x branch for compatibility reason with most of my plugins. Since, most of my plugins has been ported to 2.1, may be this is a good time for me to upgrade to the latest WordPress 2.2.x branch after this.

Alternative post : WordPress by Examples

[tags]wordpress,blog,blogger,blogger.com,xml-rpc,wordpress.com[/tags]

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Windows Vista Ultimate Powered by Ubuntu

I got this photo from a guy who’s able to con his dad into using Ubuntu by telling him that it is the newly released Windows Vista from Microsoft.

Suprisingly, his dad found out that the new “Windows Vista” is better than OS X and unaware that he’s currently using Ubuntu in his pc.

ubuntuvista.png

From the website :

Later, when he came home from work, I showed him his new “Vista” install, complete with the latest Office and Solitaire.

Well, it’s been a few days since that and now he says Bill Gates is better than Steve Jobs and brags about how OS X on my iMac is obsolete compared to Vista on his PC.

Original website : degredo.net
Screenshot: Ubuntu Vista

[tags]ubuntu,vista,microsoft,windows vista,funny,humor,humour[/tags]

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Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn was finally released !

The moment that we have been waiting for is here. Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn was finally released today (19 April 2007), despite rumors saying that the release might has to be delayed for a few days.

It seems everybody want a piece of Feisty Fawn right now, the mirrors are dead slow, one can only guess how many terabytes are being transfered this night alone. I would suggest to use the p2p bittorrent solution to download the iso file.

But the speed doesn’t bother me that much compared to the Ubuntu official website which seems ‘weird’ to me after the release.

Take a look at the ‘before’ and ‘after’ screenshot I took :

Before (on 18 April 2007)

ubuntu_com1_tn.png

After (on 19 April 2007)
ubuntu_com_tn.png

Seems like somebody is in a hurry to update Ubuntu.com website or was it a work by a professional cracker?

Anyway, enjoy your Feisty Fawn download :)

Updates : As of 0200 UTC (20 April 2007), the Ubuntu website is back to using the default layout again :)

[tags] ubuntu,linux,feisty,feisty fawn,open source, distro[/tags]