Ubuntu the Linux distro from Canonical has released a new version 9.10. The biggest new features are Firefox 3.5 and access to “Ubuntu One“, online storage space. Every user gets 2GB of free space for backup and sharing. Of course access to thousands of applications and games is available through the software center as well. This release was focused on beautification of the desktop rather than major feature inclusion.

The server edition wasn’t overlooked though, it now includes Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. Organizations that use Ubuntu Server can now take advantage of cloud computing.

• Ubuntu Desktop
• Ubuntu Server

Tags: 9.10, os, release, ubuntu

After reading this article dealing with “bulletproofing” a blog, I started looking at my own blog. Over the past few months as more and more great plugins come out that I depend on now, my page load times had started suffering. A load time of 14 seconds on a T1 was not unheard of, and it could get as bad as 20 seconds on some days. The article by Eric Amundson had a link to a couple of Firefox plugins that looked promising in helping diagnose ailing websites. One is Page Speed from Google. The other from Yahoo! called YSlow.

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Tags: apache, blog, caching, compression, web

If anyone has tried to comment and couldn’t the problem is now fixed. While cleaning my database I accidentally deleted a needed field in the comment table. No big deal I readded it and now up and going again. So if you had a question or comment you should be able to post it now. Sorry for any inconvience.