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Finally after spending some precious time procrastinating, I finally upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. New features that I immediately found helpful are :
This could mean that I’ll be posting more regularly. Btw, sorry for the hiatus, I’ll be updating this blog more regularly after this.
Though the main focus of the upcoming release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) is for long term support and bug fixes of existing features, Hardy Heron still packs quite a few notable features to look forward to :
Wubi and umenu
Installation without creating a separate partition for Ubuntu Linux is made easier with Wubi! Inserting Ubuntu CDROM will display a start up application which enables you to install Ubuntu on your windows partition using a loopback device.
After installation, Ubuntu will be added as one of bootable operating system in your Windows boot menu.
Install Ubuntu without the need to repartition, format and hassle.
Fine-grained User Permission Control
Ubuntu Hardy Heron integrates PolicyKit on administrative user interfaces. This allows you to have better control over user access on specific administrative task. For example, you can assign privilege for one user to access network controls but not software installation.
Easy to use host-based firewall
The new Ubuntu release, Hardy Heron also includes ufw (uncomplicated firewall) that is easy to setup and use by end users without bothering network admnistrators.
New default bittorrent downloader
Transmission replaced Gnome Bittorrrent as the default bittorrent downloader in Ubuntu Hardy Heron LTS. Transmission is a lightweight bittorrent client with automatic banning feature and protocol encryption.
Additionally, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS also includes GNOME 2.22 and Firefox 3 Beta, which is better integrated with GNOME desktop environment. I’m looking forward for the next Ubuntu release, due on April 24th, 2008, that is three weeks from now!
Heh, my girlfriend’s kucing is so gatal he refuses to get off the bed from my gf’s bed
btw his name is belang, and my girlfriend’s is Hazyati.. see you soon :)
I’ve seen few photos taken from a GPS capable camera and the photo can be traced back to its original location using photo-navigation capable GPS devices.
These GPS coordinates are stored inside JPEG files which comforms to EXIF specification (using GPS IFD). However, I found out the f-spot photo manager while capable of reading EXIF metadata from JPEG, it can’t display the GPS coordinates properly upon reading the JPEG files.
This is rather annoying to me as I can’t possibly know the location where the photo was taken.
exifprobe to the rescue
Fortunately there is exifprobe. A CLI tool which able to display GPS coordinate on JPEG files among other things. The displayed coordinate from EXIF probe are in this format
degree, minute, second
so this output
Latitude = 5,47,39 Longitude = 100,24,10
would become 5° 47′ 39″ N, 100° 24′ 10″ E which you can enter on google maps to get its location.
Easy isnt it
p/s: btw, The location is within Gunung Jerai camping area where it is a popular camping spot for locals and tourists in Kedah (Malaysia).
Some of you may encounter the message 403 Forbidden during Ubuntu Gutsy Security update, especially when you does your update using “sudo apt-get upgrade”.
The message was displayed because the Ubuntu team deliberately block security updates from the server side following reports that the updates are breaking xorg-server package (this very same incident also happened last year, during Dapper release).
Thankfully the issue has been handled by the Ubuntu team, and now you can continue updating your computer without any interruption or side effects from installing the security updates.
Was Ubuntu the only distro affected by this problem?
Credit to enforcer, now I know there are several other distro (OpenSuSE, Gentoo, Debian) besides Ubuntu that experienced this problem.
Should I install any security updates ?
It highly advisable to install security updates whenever they are available from the update server. Failure of doing so may expose your system to various security holes and vulnerability which can lead to your system being compromised by malicious party.
I guess you all have heard the news now. Sun Microsystem is going to acquire MySQL AB, the company behind the most popular open source database server, MySQL anytime soon.
After this acquisition, Sun would control the Java platform, JavaME embedded programming platform, SunOS/Solaris operating system, workstations, StarOffice suite, and now MySQL.
Seems appropriate to say “Everything under the Sun” now.