The new Ubuntu wallpaper/desktop backgrounds are awesome. It’s really a fantastic collection of some stunning images/photos.

I really don’t mean to be partial, but I think that the images that we get for Ubuntu are normally a bit more fascinating than the ones we would get from Microsoft. Microsoft is corporate based, life is restricted, there’s rules and regulations, and they can’t favoring anything. Whereas I think Ubuntu has more levity.

Ubuntu is open source and these types of things are donated, and that’s awesome.

I’ve been playing with Ubuntu really like it and I wanted to share those new images with you.

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With Windows Live Writer 2010 looking like it’s going to be a few more months away from release, it’s looking unimpressive right now.

Windows Live Writer is the best blogging tool out there, but it’s development is so slow; it’s depressing. It’s no wonder Internet Explorer is taking such a beating.

If you were paying attention to the Twitter world this evening you’ll see that some more screenshots of Windows Live Writer 2010 were published and besides the change in the GUI, not much has changed, and there’s no details from the developers to say different.

Everything is hush right now.

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When I loaded Ubuntu a month ago, it was mostly painless. The thing you need to understand, it’s not Windows and while Windows has many applications to do what’s considered a common place function, like playing music, doing things in Ubuntu are a bit different.

But once I was able to get Ubuntu where I wanted it, I need a music player…

Enter Amarok…

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This has got to be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen. There are a lot of people hitting Digg everyday [a lot of them smart] and just about all them using something other than Internet Explorer.

Every IT Administrator/Consultant and web developers all over the world is trying to avoid Internet Explorer like a plague. They freakin’ hate it.

There are so many article about the issues with Internet Explorer. And the fact Internet Explorer performance can’t compete with open source browsers and how a chrome plug-in can out perform the base install of Internet Explorer.

Face it, if your using Internet Explorer 8 right now, your using a browser that’s equivalent to Windows 3.11

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I was in a discussion the other day with some friends and it was so interesting that it deserves to be written down and shared.

I’m not disgusted with Google and I don’t totally distrust them, but they do control or have access to a lot of information. I mean a lot of information. And when your talking about a company that deals with a lot of information, you really need to ask yourself, ‘what are they doing with it?’ or ‘what can they do with it?’

It’s a troubling thought.

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If you do a lot of printing that you know that printer ink is costly.

In most cases 4 ink cartridges will have already bought your printer; in some cases twice.

So the goal becomes conserving ink and money- Enter ECOFONT. The Ecofont is based on the Vera Sans, an Open Source letter, and is available for both PC and MAC.

Once you have downloaded Ecofont you can install the font into your local fonts folder. The Ecofont is based on an Open Source font and is free to use. If you no longer want to use the Ecofont, you can remove it from your fonts folder without any problems.

Please note:
The font is called ‘Spranq_eco_sans_regular.ttf’.

The font has holes in the characters and by not filling the holes in the characters it saves x amount of ink for each character and that equates to about 20% less ink.

The characters don’t show/display with holes in them. The characters are so small  the ink will fill those holes simply by the ink spreading to the paper.

I idea is simple and if the font can maintain the readability then there’s no reason not to use it.

For those of you that is trying to save money, save the environment and stay inside you eco-environmental foot print; this is a good start.

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I keep checking on the latest versions of Firefox ‘Minefield’ and in some respects that’s what it is a minefield.

Firefox is no doubt well established and has a wide array of plug-ins that make it super adaptable to just about anything and everything you need to do with your web browser. And all these functions and nifty features are based on people that were nice enough to donate their time and code to making it that great.

But there’s a problem, Minefield is having to put these same open source loving people back to work to revise or recode their extensions to handle a 64-bit world. Firefox is the most popular browser in Europe and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has shown poor acceptance since it’s release; even with Microsoft pushing it as a ‘CRITICAL UPDATE’ for the Windows Operating System.

It’s no lie, 64-bit is here to stay and by no means is it on it’s heels. No; it’s got it’s running shoes and and it’s digging in for a nice long run if the 32-bit era has any example to throw to this. We won’t see 128-bit systems for a very long time.

The thing I love about Minefield it’s fast and it’s Firefox; and faster than Chrome. While it’s wrong to simply come out and cry foul cause there’s not all the popular plug-ins for Minefield, there are some coming in slowly. And you’re not going to get me to switch to Google’s Chrome. Even on my site, I only have 1% of the traffic coming to my site using Google’s Chrome; it still has a long way to go.

The market is steadily being flowed with 64-bit systems and while some systems run fine, running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit Operating System, other have disruptive problems and it’s usually the squeaky wheel that gets the grease, but not before.

I’ll keep watching…

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When you’re working with as many different pieces of software automated basis as I am, you don’t really want to inundate your system with a bunch of orphaned registry entries and ghost software folders that have been tried and partially removed.

What you want to be able to do is load software in a test environment. You want to have the software load onto a temporary system that if any changes are made to the environment they’re not carried over to your personal PC.

The repercussions of testing software on your personal PC can be severe. You never know when someone’s going to create a malicious piece of software or if the software is going to perform in an adverse way.

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