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Ubuntu Server
I’m downloading Fiesty Fawn (the latest version of Ubuntu), to put on my laptop when my new hard drive comes. (UPS, where are you?!)
I just noticed, while on their site, Ubuntu Server. And I’m itching to play with it. I’m currently running Gentoo as my server, because I’ve come to the conclusion that, even though I’m not a professional sysadmin, I’m way, way smarter than RPM is, and way, way smarter than cPanel is. Gentoo isn’t the easiest-to-use, but the easy-to-use tools I’ve worked with aren’t 1/10th as effective as the difficult-to-use tools that I’ve learned.
Except for Ubuntu, which is “stupid easy” to use, yet works great. Even though I’ve got lots of experience maintaining Gentoo, both as a desktop and server, my ‘new’ laptop installations will run Ubuntu, not Gentoo. (Windows is sticking around too, though.)
So I’m itching to try Ubuntu Server. It looks like setting up a webserver consists of clicking a couple things, rather than emerge‘ing 10 packages, wading through all sorts of config files, and so forth. And yet it’s based on Debian, and comes with nothing running by default: did they just design an OS that was secure by default and easy to use?
Anyone here have any experience with it? Does it hold up well, or can my semi-well-tuned Gentoo machine run circles around it? I’ve come to equate “simple” with “mediocre,” but Ubuntu’s the first thing that’s made me reconsider. (Well, actually, Apple too, but that’s neither here nor there.)
iGoogle
I use “iGoogle” as my homepage. (google.com/ig). You can add widgets for all sorts of stuff. I fire up my browser and can see my most recent GMail messages, the weather, news headlines, Dictionary.com’s word of the day, quotes for some stocks I watch, etc.
Now, you can have custom skins for it, too. Although I was a little unnerved giving a non-Google module access, it works great and looks great. If you’re using iGoogle, you should take a look. (And if you’re not using iGoogle, you should be.)
Hilarious Video Roundup
Here’s a collection of some of the most hilarious videos on YouTube and the like:
- Crispin Glover on the Letterman show: part of Cracked.com’s collection of “The 5 Most Obviously Drug-Fueled TV Appearances Ever“… Despite being #5 on a list of 5 things, this has to be the funniest.
- The Borat Guide to Politics: the whole thing is wildly insane, and I can’t fathom why Broadwater never had the thought, “Maybe I shouldn’t bring this guy campaigning with me.”
- Borat on the Letterman show: What can I say? Borat is hilarious.
- : A++++
- I have a hardtime believing is real, but it’s hilarious either way.
- Ibid.
- : old, but classic and hilarious.
Oopsies
Bank Robbery in Style
This guy is my hero.
Bank robbers aren’t normally my heroes. But, but, well… Just read it. And watch the video.
Link Roundup
Here are some links I think I should share:
- Association of International Glaucoma Societies: their website still cracks me up. Largely because of the heads in the upper left. Partially because of the creepy eyeball. Partially because of the Glaucoma hymn.
- This Is Broken, a site which I love reading.
- Subway receipt, possibly the least-helpful one ever
- “Blue is land,” now not just something Buster says
- Sometimes it’s not so much broken as just really, really strange.
- But more often than not, it’s really broken designs.
- They often reflect a complete lack of thought.
- Or are just hilarious bizarre.
- You can use iTunes to organize your PDFs.
- If you need to create PDF files, here you go.
- Unadvertised deals on Amazon.