I just finished installing Ubuntu 8.04_1 LTS on a friends computer. They have had enough with Windows inparticularly Vista. The installation went smoothly. No hiccups from the wubi installer. In no time my friend had ubuntu up and running, and boy she loved it. She adapted easily to gnome the desktop, found OpenOfiice 2.4 easy to use and was using firefox 3 to do her browsing.
So phase one is now complete. She plans on spending the next couple of months getting use to the environment and is willing to put in the time to save her multiple hours she would have lost on Vista.
Phase two will be a complete removal of Vista. Running XP in a virtual machine for must have software.
For those who are now on Mandriva 2009.0.
My latest personal build for Icepodder for Mandriva 2009.0.
It is a simple aggregator and feeds are easily added. The Icepodder team have removed a lot of the old dependencies; pyxmms, python, libxml2.python. Updated from wxgtk2.6 to wxPythonGTK 2.8.
RPM: Mandriva 2009.0 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 68
SRPM: Mandriva 2009.0 Icepodder 5.4 personal build revision 68 source
Today I found that I had another DNS routing issue from my webhost MDwebhosting. My site is hosted on their Australian servers.
First I had problem when my account which was created on the 10th February was lost after a server outage, which resulted in the installation of new servers in the data centre. At this time my credit card had been billed. I had not been informed of the problem and subsequently had to call to find out why my credit card was billed but no existing service was available. They apologized for the outage. So they were able to recreate my account and issue me with a new set of name servers.
On the last three ocassions in the last 30 days, I have had 3 outages caused due to problems with DNS routing with my name servers. This also affected everyone else who was hosted on the same server. Each time I have had fairly quick resolution. The problem; why is this constantly happening? What are they doing? Who in the company keeps playing with the DNS settings?
I have never had any issues with my old hosting in Sydney SISgroup, on their Sun Debian servers.
They have one last chance and then I’m hunting for a new host.
