LeeNukes

The Ubuntu forum now has an announcement on its front page:

The Ubuntu Forums have grown tremendously over the years. While we regret that we are discontinuing our Other OS Talk category, this gives us an opportunity to help other Linux distributions grow by directing traffic to the websites of these distributions.

Here is a list of the official websites for the operating systems that used to have individual forums here. We hope you are able to find further assistance from there.

* Arch
* Debian
* Fedora/Red Hat
* Mandriva
* Slackware
* OpenSuse
* Gentoo
* BSD
* Windows
* MacOSX

And finally, if you haven’t yet found what you are looking for, we suggest you look for information on the DistroWatch website or you might try the multi-distribution LinuxQuestions forum.

This makes sense, but some people may feel a little lost now as the Ubuntu Forums have often been heralded as a great source for support. Will this move more people over to Ubuntu?

Well, Google Streetview keeps on pumping stories into websites which have nothing better to post……erm….nevermind.

The news has a few posts about a Victorian Ghost around the Cardiff Millenium Centre but I can prove that its just a person dressed up in Victorian Clothing (OF COURSE)!

This is one such site

The view from their site:

A view from Google Streetview, just one step before:

Victorian Ghost on Google Streetview

Interesting Stats from Analytics

I’ve recently installed Google Analytics, interesting stats from the top. I’d have expected more Internet Explorer users given most of my traffic is to the Thomson Router page.

Was browsing Google Street view and found someone chasing their Doppelgänger:

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Pretty cool, I first heard about this robot on Radio 1 of all places, not knowing then that it runs a tinkered with version of the real time Linux Kernel.

The one problem I have with the robots, is why do they always walk like they’re busting for the toilet?

Google Streetview is live in the UK, and it goes right up my street and right outside my house (I really should paint those window sills).

Its weird, pretty cool though.

Well, its that time of year again. Where sites change their logos to greenies for St Patrick’s day.

Ones I’ve seen so far:
YouTube

Google

BBC

Any others?

With the release of Gnome 2.16 I have to wonder if its time that Gnome started making serious effort on Gnome 3.

KDE has already shown their hand with KDE 4 but Gnome has yet to produce anything that is a bold step away from its Gnome 2.16 release.

Come on Gnome, make your moves towards Gnome 3, or 2.30 as you may be calling it.

Well, I finally got sick enough of my 20Mb internet service running consistently at 5-6Mb on a good day and sometimes as slow as 1-2Mb on bad days for me to call Virgin Media.

Its been a while since I called them, last time wasn’t a great encounter, after I’d managed to get through to the girl that I knew what I was talking about and the internet keeps going off, it fixed itself, as expected the next day.

Anyway, now, when you approach the on hold state, it asks you what music you want, cool.

Press 1 for POP, 2 for Dance, 3 for Indie, I didn’t listen to the rest, 3 was already pressed and I was given some Iggy Pop.

Nice.