FreshUbuntu

Intro
 
    Welcome
    Hosts - Me, Peter, Leftyfb
    About FUP-M
    
Banter
 

• Where in the world is Peter Nikolaidis

• Weather Report

• How's life??

• Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, yada yada yada

 
News
 
Best Buy and Geek Squad claim #Ubuntu #Linux causes hardware to break, refuse to fix broken PSU. Avoid.(popey via Twitter)
http://consumerist.com/2009/12/geek-squad-wouldnt-honor-my-netbooks-protection-plan.html
 
Ubuntu 10.04 will bring panel overhaul, social network menu
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/12/ubuntu-1004-will-bring-panel-overhaul-social-network-menu.ars
 
Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15275/shuttleworth_steps_down_as_ubuntu_ceo
 
Plug for Ubuntu MA LoCo event
http://linuxfund.org/projects/ubuntu/
 
Thunderbird 3.0 Released
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0/releasenotes/
    
Google to acquire docverse
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/19/google-to-acquire-docverse-office-war-heats-up/
 
Tech
 
Get Thunderbird for 9.10 via ubuntuzilla
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page#Update_Official_Mozilla_Build_of_Thunderbird
"untuzilla.py -a install -p thunderbird"
 
How do I create changing backgrounds for Ubuntu 9.10?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091206203704AAc6G08
 
How To Easily Share Your Wireless Connection In Ubuntu 9.10
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-easily-share-your-wireless-connection-in-ubuntu-9-10/
 
Skynet TShirt
http://www.nerdyshirts.com/google-skynet-funny-t-shirt
 
Aston Martin
http://theawesomer.com/aston-martin-carbon-black/23932/
 
PN72
http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2009/12/12/all-i-want-for-christmas-2/
 
 
Feedback
 
Good morning Peter and Harlem,  Thank you for the doing show,  Poo-Wee, Its about as high-a tech as it gets here in good ole' south Louisiana.  Seriously though,  I would like to share a recent experience with the Freshubuntu podcast and its listeners.  A few weeks back,  my largest client granted me permission to install dropbox so that I could gain easy access to my files.  I started using portableapps.exe on an old windows 32bit XP machine in the root of my dropbox folder.  I though that was a slick trick.  Later that day I decided to go to dropbox on my ubuntu laptop and try to run portableapps through wine.  Right click,  open with wine, and the screenshot you see is the result.  All those applications run natively through wine/portableapps inside dropbox.  Also,  it may be worth mentioning that the laptop OS is a 64bit version of 9.10 desktop install.
 
P.S.  Evernote doesn't crop my screenshots! 
 
Thanks for reading,
 
David Burgess   
 
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You guys will love this:
 
http://lmgtfy.com/
 
"Let me google that for you"
 
Tired of telling non-tech people how to google?  You enter the search, and then it creates a link to an animation which shows someone how to enter it into the google search box.  It then redirects to the google search result.  I think the idea is to (in a tongue-in-cheek way) teach people how to type something into a search box.  For example:
 
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fresh+ubuntu
 
Buzz Piersol (from California)
 
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Hi-guys,,, 
 I hate Ubuntu!!! LOL!!!! 
While upgrading to 9.10 on my laptop - HP compaq presario V2630....It destroyed my grub!!! 
 Now I can't boot my system.....I've been to my LUG - NO help totally!!! 
Larry at going linux seems the BEST!!  But, using this URL 
 http://stringofthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/grub-error-17-debianubuntu/
gets me no where!!! 
I'm hoping to reinstall 8.10 which I have....Question:  Will that install over itself in the right partition, NOT destroying windows XP and fix the grub crap? 
 Thanks Guys,,,,have a happy Ubuntu!!!  Holiday.. 
John in Dallas. 
 
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Christmas Karaoke
"Deck The Halls (Instrumental)" (mp3)
from "Happy Holiday - Christmas Karaoke"
(Rock River Music)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
Stream from Rhapsody
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Various
"Xmas In My House feat. Motion Man" (mp3)
from "This Is Your Brain On Xmas"
(troublewith2 productions, LLC)
 

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Pink Martini
"Ou est ma tete?" (mp3)
from "Splendor in the Grass"
(Heinz Records)

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