Ubuntu 10.04, A Retrospective

After playing with Ubuntu 10.04 for about a week, I've decided to write a follow up article. It seems that the extremely fast boot time was merely a one-off thing. I am more or less booting at the same speed as I was with Ubuntu 9.10 now. My Wifi connectivity became flaky and completely useless as soon as I upgraded, even after performing several "Fixes" for my problem.
  Now that I've got all the negative thoughts out there, I have many good things to say! The ease of use and stability of the operating system have not been compromised, nor has the overall shininess. In fact, it appears that the eye candy has been upgraded without much performance compromise. Suffice it to say, I still like it!
Side note: Ads i was writing this article, the update manager popped up, giving me the required driver updates to fix my wifi. Okay, bye!

On Reach and it's codes

This is just a quick blog post for all of the poor souls who didn't get a Halo: Reach early access code. Seriously, folks, the beta starts in 2 days, you can wait until Monday. Yes, it would be sweet to get in now, but please stop whining about it!
If you really can't wait to get into Reach, why don't you just play a little Halo 3? Sure, there aren't any armor abilities, or extra spiffy grafix, but at least you will probably meet someone who is just as excited for the beta as you!

Ubuntu 10.04 First Thoughts

As you may know, I use Ubuntu as my primary operating system. I love the stability, ease of use and the fact that it's open source. Of course, my experience with Ubuntu has been entirely with 9.10, also known as Karmic Koala.
  Yesterday, that all changed. As I was checking my email, the update manager popped up like it always does, but this time, I noticed the availability of Ubuntu 10.04, also known as Lucid Lynx. Thinking to myself "Why not?" I accepted the download. After an install that took longer than I expected, I rebooted.
 To my surprise, my PC started in approximately half the time it normally does. I was then greeted by the familiar login screen, not much change here. After I logged in, I noticed that the close window button had moved to the left corner. After installing flash player, I saw a noticeable improvement when playing HD content on Youtube. Yeah, I don't know the numbers or anything, and I don't feel like looking them up, either. Suffice it to say that I think 10.04 is "Nifty".

Reboot!

As you may have noticed, I haven't posted on here in around a month. All that is going to change starting now! I will post at least 3 times per week in an exciting new way!