Kubuntu 10.04 LTS Released Today

As I’m writing this my laptop is upgrading from 9.10 to the new 10.o4 LTS version of Kubuntu. Kubuntu released the new version today.(this also goes for Ubuntu and Edubuntu as well as Xubuntu).

Go here to download the new version or use the update manager to upgrade. Make sure you do all the updates on your current version of Kubuntu or Ubuntu first. This goed for 8.04 & 9.04 LTS releases and any other release in between.

Why Netflix Sucks

In February I decided to act on a free trial offer.  This offer was for a free trial for a month.  I have always wondered if Netflix would be for me.

During this trial I found out it isn’t.  I opted to use the $8.99 a month subscription.  Two DVD’s out at a time and unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows.  I was kinda exited to see I could stream movies to all of my PC’s.  Especially because I have a HTPC(Home Theater PC) hooked up to our TV.  So this should work just like movies on-demand right?

New Adsense Plugin

I just started using a new Adsense plugin. Some of the ad positioning is not where I would like it yet. Please bear with me as I solve this problem.

Shinobi Ninja Bandmembers-Turned-Avatars Find iPhone App Helps Them Battle their Way to Success

Sometimes you find stuff that’s just interesting to see I received this in my mail today and I have to say kudo’s to Shinobi Ninja for going out there and finding a market for there music. A little less Linux related but I think it’s worth a mention….

NEW YORK, NY, February 22, 2010 – These days it is harder than ever for independent bands to get noticed in the music world and break through to the next level.

Apple TV, Boxee Box Or Something Else?

What to hook-up to the TV?

I have several HTPC’s that I’ve build to watch my downloaded content on. How ever in planning to buy a new TV I also want to downsize what is hooked up to the TV. We recently decabled and are now using an over-the-air digital TV box(DTV). This works great as we use a mix of Hulu, Boxee and downloads to get our TV shows. I’m not a big console gamer so we only have two of them, PS2 and Wii, hooked up to the TV. The DTV box we are using is small as well. The biggest piece of hardware in our media center is the HTPC. Which is a 4 HE PC case. I have a couple of Dell Optiplex SX280′s that I can use but I’m thinking of going even smaller.

Busy, Downtime Again, Server Move

It’s been awhile since my last post.  Next to being busy, there where problems again with my Dreamhost account.  That and the fact that Dreamhost started moving server around the beginning of November, causing more downtime, made me decide to move once again.

After only 6 months with Dreamhost I had all the downtime I can take.  I want people to be able to visit my blogs and Dreamhost stopped me from making that possible.  I canceled the Dreamhost PS and moved everything to a new VPS server hosted far far away from Dreamhost.