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Ubuntu

Das neue Release von Ubuntu bringt mehr Neuerungen, als seine Vorgänger. Auch ohne weitere Einstellungen vorzunehmen, hat man schon ein gut benutzbares System, welches vor allem deutlich fixer arbeitet, als seine Vorgänger. Auch der Startvorgang ist um einiges schneller geworden, was wohl dem nun vollständig umgesetzten Init-Ersatz Upstart geschuldet ist. Zudem fällt auf, dass auch die Installation von Anwendungen beschleunigt wurde.

UPDATE: the current version of direc.tor doesn't seem to work with delicious.com. I contacted the author to see if he's going to fix it. If not I might try to fix it myself. Stay tuned.

the GUI

In this article I will show you how to seamlessly integrate this with Opera. You will never ever want to miss this again ;)

With the new release of Ubuntu 7.04 (aka Feisty Fawn) the Network Manager has become the standard way of connecting to wireless (and wired) networks in Ubuntu.

While this new way has some drawbacks (connection is only established on login, so time doesn't get synced with the internet on startup) it is a great way for all the Linux roadwarriors to easily connect to all sorts of networks. In this mini-howto I will show you how it is done. I will also show you how to automatically connect after the login without needing to enter your gnome-keyring password.

This must be one of the best records I have bought in years. It is so good, I'm even listening to it while writing this post! Ween - Live in Toronto Canada. The feel good record of the spring so to say.

When Ween in 1995 recorded their country-flavoured album 12 Golden Country Greats in Nashville (featuring 10 awesome country songs) they knew taking this release on tour would be hard because they couldn't take all the great country players with them who contributed to this record. They did however manage to get together enough folks to do one gig in New York in mid '96. That gig was supposedly so much fun that Ween and the Shit Creek Boys decided to take this on a 3 week tour.

It turned out to be the most rewarding experience of our musical career. I don't think we played a bad show the whole tour - The 8 piece band sounded like a 747 landing on your house.
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This concert was recorded on cassette by our longtime soundman Kirk Miller and pretty much captures the drunken essence of what this band sounded like on a good night.

This record was on limited release in 2001 and has been reprinted now (again limited). The double LP only comes on vinyl - high quality, heavy, white-marbled vinyl that is. Sound quality is great as expected and it comes with a glow-in-the-dark Boognish sticker!!!

This record is as brown as it gets, so grab it while it's hot and cheap. You can get it on UK and German Amazon, your favourite record dealer, ebay or directly from Ween's very own chocodog label. Get it now.. in a year it will cost you a fortune on ebay!

In other news: After a year of sessions in an old rented farmhouse Ween have collected about 50 songs for their new studio album. Twenty of which have been selected for the new album and are being recorded right now. If you can't wait go and grab some recent live concerts (maybe featuring new stuff?) from the browntracker.

Cheers
Matthias

LOGO2.0 by Stabilo Boss

If you don't know anymore what your buddies and co-workers are talking about when it comes to their online lives... take a look at the following glossary.

This is a bold-faced translation (and slight extension) of a German article by Spreeblick (Per Anhalter durchs Web 2.0) which was just too funny to be shared in the German blogosphere only. So forgive me for stealing this. ;-)

MySpace

MySpace was founded by the music industry and is the largest MMORPG in the world. Kind of like World of Warcraft, but the graphics suck. Everybody who can make up a nickname for himself may join. The goal is to add as many other players (called "friends") as possible to your own profile. The winner is the player with the most "friends". If you leave the game or get kicked out, you also lose all your friends.

Second Life

Second Life is a virtual swinger club for journalists. The platform is financed by the big media conglomerates of the world with the goal to replace editorial staff restaurants, work outings and conference rooms. And also to finally allow sexual harassment at work to the unemployed.

Flickr

Flickr was initially founded by various international lawyers who needed a central place to investigate picture copyright violations. Around 2009 all pics on the Internet are supposed to be registered on Flickr to allow the ultimate researchability.

YouTube

YouTube is the digitalization platform of the movie- and TV-industries. Everyone who collected footage of any kind on VHS or other media over the past decades is allowed to upload their digitized versions to YouTube (providing their IP addresses). The media-gathering campaign is supposed to be completed by the end of 2007. Afterwards the industrie is going to grant access to the repository for a low fee and will subpoaena the original contributers for copiright violations. The final fine will be charged by multiplying the total amount of uploaded minutes with a given rate (minus the self-produced material which exploration rights will then lie with YouTube).

LinkedIn and Xing

LinkedIn and Xing were both founded by the same mailorder companies to show off their suit collections of the past 23 years.

Google Maps

Google Maps is a webcam for people who don't have their own webcam.

Twitter

Twitter is an online self-help tool for suicidal teenagers to prevent them taking the final step to the kingdom-come. This is achieved by submitting them to a realtime-representation of other people's lives so that they can realize their own live isn't nearly as fucked up as they thought.

del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a tool to save and organize URLs you want to look at in peace later on, which you never ever do. It also provides your saved URLs to other users so that, in turn, they can save them and look at them later... which they also never ever do.

last.fm

Originally financed by the international association of elevator manufacturers last.fm has recently evolved to some kind of self-accusation platform of the RIAA (and IFPI). Users can list the songs they illegally downloaded off the Internet.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the largest Star Wars discussion forum on the planet.

Weblogs

Weblogs (also: blogs) are very simple electronic publication- and contentmanagement systems, developed by the CIA. Their intent is to give the average Joe the feeling to have a voice, thereby preventing possibly undesirable real actions. Weblogs are the cyber-equivalent of the right to protest.

Blog-Comments

They are kind of a reserved advertisement space for other blogs. They got the communicative value of a pub brawl but are definately not as entertaining.

AJAX

The term AJAX specifies that part of a Web-2.0-businessplan that does display the investor-captial sure, but doesn't reload it.

VoIP

With Voice-Over-IP it is possible to call someone without having a landline. All you need is a broadband Internet connection that usually comes with a landline.

Web

The Web is a tool millions of people use daily to simulate sensible activities.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is something you will never ever be able to explain to your granny.

Here ends the list, additions in the comments, please.