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It’s been 6 months since I last updated my computer to a new version of Ubuntu. Now today I get to install Ubuntu 8.04. The download was not made available until after 8ish this morning. So I couldn’t download it over night like I was planning.

You can download Ubuntu 8.04 at: www.ubuntu.com

[11:10 am]  Currently Downloading ISO Image…. 63% (445MB of 699MB)

I think I started around 9am. Can’t remember I was half asleep when I started. I do remember that I couldn’t get the Georgia Tech mirror to work.. so I moved to MIT’s.

[11:24 am]  Still Downloading ISO Image…. 68% (479MB of 699MB)

I’m not sure if it’s the stress on MIT’s mirrored server or my sucky Comcast connection but I can only download at a rate of 70KB/s. Which is really bad. Most disc images I download I can get up to around 500KB/s. And of course I’m using DownloadThemAll. Ahh.. the suspense is killing me!

[12:34 pm]  Still Downloading ISO Image…. 88% (620MB of 699MB)

[1:14 pm]  Download Finished!

Whohoo!

[1:14 pm]  Burning ISO to CD

In Ubuntu to burn an iso file, just right click on the file then click Burn to Disc.

[1:20 pm]  Burning Complete.

[1:24 pm]  Starting the Installation

Booting Computer from Disc:

I’m installing Ubuntu 8.04 onto a 3 year old Compaq Presario SR1603WM. The key stroke to boot this computer from a CD is F8. 

Selecting Language:

If you are reading this blog you will probubly want to select the English language option by hitting Enter. If you don’t select anything within 30 seconds the live CD will load.

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The ReadBurner website is back and has been updated to full blown glory. If you don’t know what readburner is, it is basically a site in which shared items in Google Reader of well known bloggers are comprised together to form a digg like news site. Only instead of diggs, it is read by the number of people that have shared that article. I of course have added my shared items to the site also.

The new update consists of a new and better design and categories like Popular, Upcoming, and Most Recent, with subcatagorys lik All, Web, Desktop, Mobile, and Apple (where’s the linux love?). Overall, it looks like it will be a cool site. That is as long as it doesn’t end up getting spamed.

The Howard County public library, in Maryland, has been running all open source since 2006. They have over 284 computers running an Ubuntu based OS with OpenOffice. I mean how great is that. Just imagine how much of our tax dolars would have been spent to install Microsoft’s Windows and Office suite. Umm… thousands! I’m really excited to see an embrace of community driven Open Source software being used so close to my home. Tear…

Well all of this means that us at SnyderBlogs are taking a field trip this week to the Howard County Library. We hope to give you an update later this week after visiting. In the mean time you can always check out OpenOffice.org and Ubuntu (Hardy is comming out soon!).

-=Howard County’s Open Source Page=-

I have just seen the new season 4 premiere episode on my computer and I just got to say, it was awesome! The story was interesting and the background music was really.. epic. I liked it. There was also a refreshing new theme song sense the last few seasons, which is actually good because the old one was stuck in my head for way too long. There is one BIG surprise at the end of the episode, but I’m not going to say anything…. *cough* left…

If you have BBC or even live in the UK, you must watch this episode. Or if you don’t have BBC, you could always just download it.

Today I installed ScribeFire into Firefox. Basically ScribeFire is a firefox extension that lets me post blog post at any time right from firefox, without actually going to the site. So far this extension looks pretty sweet. When I open it up it comes up as a bottombar of the window. This is cool although, I would like the option of opening it as a sidebar instead. I feel like I’m wasting a lot of presious firefox real estate.

Also, they have a bookmarking feature, but its del.icio.us, not google bookmarks. Now there is a way to add add-ons to this extensions (add-ons of an extension, hehe), but when I browse for them I can’t find any. Oh well. Overall, it’s pretty good. I hope its good to me in the future.

Download: ScribeFire