Wonders of Weather - WOW ...

In the offiicial birthplace of Aviation as they say it - the neighborhoods of Columbus, Ohio seems like a place where the " Wonders of Weather ( wow) " ** seem to happen every day. God seems to be so confused as in what needs to be done here.

9:00AM : I get lost in the cool ( better say COLD ) breeze which took me to places I didn't know.
10:00AM : Its raining !
11:00AM : Took my umbrella out and decided to go out. My mistake. Didn't look out of thee window . Its SUNNY . That won't really say it. Its so hot that I head back in for my sunscreen lotion .
I am back home now. I wonder what the weather will be like around 4:00PM ;-)

Happy labor Day to all..

Ubuntu Rebranded

Ubuntu, the Linux distribution is going for a major revamp with the new release touted for April – Lucid Lynx. They are giving up the brown – yes , you heard it right . They are replacing the base theme from Human to “Light”. The move , which was highlighted in the Alpha 3 ( I suppose ) should be their answer to the long prevailing outcry “ Out of all the colors , why Brown ? “. But , being used to it from a while , I am rather ok with brown – seems a little more human ;-)
But the new logo which they have published has had some issues in the internet world which made comments which Mark or Matt Asay would never have thought about- Racism . It is too heavy a topic for me to dwell into. Some are claiming it as the narrow-mindedness that many people have about these stuff and as an attempt to deface the move. Canonical was already under fire over their switch from Google to Yahoo as the default search engine in their next release. Coming to think of it Lucid Lynx ends up being very important for many reasons. LTS (Long Term Support) – will be supported till next LTS comes in and updates will be available without any issue.

• Rebranded Ubuntu - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand
• Search engine from G to Y!
• Matt Asay as the new COO.
• v Ubuntu Music centre with 7digital integrated to Rhythmbox.
• Iphone and Ipod touch working without tweaking, without jailbreaking, without patching - with Nautilus and Rythmbox. ( Already working in Alpha 3 as I heard ) – That’s a good one ;-)

Edit : Forgot to add this one. Shuttleworth was approached by the LXDE team earlier last year with a proposition of adding a light weight Ubuntu ( Xubuntu is a waste - though its called light weight ) and it seems to have materiliased since the repos already have a "lxde-desktop" added. I tried the same and found it awesomely fast .

I didn't like one thing though - the default GNOME network manager gets replaced by LXDE one . ( not sure of the name though ) - Could be purged and gnome network manager can be added without much issue. But I didn't like the default behavior.

A Day set aside !

I have never ever come to terms with seting aside a day to celebrate things in your life other than some festivals or your birthday.The word women , to me at-least , means warmth - a mother's , a sister's , a lover's LOVE. Why do you need just a single day to recognize it and celebrate it? - I know the counter-arguments to it - " Like we do celebrate or recognize even if the day is set aside for it ".Still , look around and pass a smile if you can't really go verbal about it.

Happy Women's day .

Five Greatest Warriors

I am die-hard Matthew Reilly fan and I was waiting for this to be available. But I completely forgot the launch dates in here and a recent flier from landmark made to my notice that the same is available now in India. His books have always been "step-on-gas-action-thrillers-from-word-one" sort and to my amazement , I have grown fond of it. The Jack West Jr series was left hanging in the prequel - Six Sacred stones and I nearly went to Oz to kick open Matt's door to steal the script( or notes of the sequel). But , the landmark store here in Bangalore is still to get a copy of it . :-(

Ubuntu updating every sec ?

Recently I am having some trouble in Ubuntu with updates. Feels like they never get updated fully. Even if i have updated it a second back , i will have some packages or source or something getting updated the very next second. I am confused !! Conspiracy , says my roomie ;-)

A few lines of bash script and I am downloading the entire LO podcast from episode #1 ;-).

What I am upto

It's been a while i have written something over this space. Not that I didn't get any time for it. Just being plain lazy.Life remains monotonous other than for a few moments where you are elated or dismayed due to a reason or another.

• Tried Lubuntu-desktop over the gnome installation and found it to be faster as they say . Xubuntu sucks to be honest. Too many of *buntu's to choose from.
• Removed Windows for good after some thought. Yes , I do have the privilege of 7 running in another machine which is used only for syncing my Iphone and running that wretched software of Apple's called iTunes.
• Valentine's day is over and our old friend Muthalik was back making special appearance at some places. My question towards both the lovers and Muthalik - Why one day ? ;-)
• My i(Phone & Pod) are getting fast filled with high quality podcasts than songs.If you see me laughing over nothing with the earphones plugged in - be sure I am listening to Fab & Dan. They are Effing Awesome.
• Downloading a lot of free songs from Jamendo these days as the quality of songs has been on the higher side . If you love the service , do drop a dime - Though they aren't pleading for donation ( even when they need it - seems stupid )
• Hathway seems to have decided not to restore ESPN & Star Sports to their channel list .They will have some angry customers. I have been knocking the door ( well, breaking would be the apt word ) of the local Hathway customer service and they are blurting one thing only - " One more week sir. Committe meeting . New Packages - Surely sports channel included ". Guess I need another service.
  
• Standing at a total weight loss of 32.5 kg after an year ( not the best ones if you ask me ).
• iPad - Why Jobs? Why ?
• Pros of taking a call which you know is from a customer care number - Airtel upped my broadband speed to 1Mbps for an added 100Rs into my account .I don't see the catch till now.