Ubuntu 6.10, aka Edgy Eft, has been released this week. Time to upgrade, and indeed, as the most comments say, Edgy starts up quite quickly, thanks to the new upstart init replacement. Edgy also contains - to my surprise - the recently released Firefox 2, which contains spell checking as I see while I'm typing this blog post. No excuse for typos any more :)


I'm a bit surprised that I had to manually change the Ubuntu release to edgy in /etc/apt/sources.list; with the upgrade to Dapper, I remembered the update-manager detected this automatically.


Other goodies : Ubuntu 6.10 server edition is now also available for Sparc.

Everyone knows APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day). APOD calendar list all pictures since 1995, in an easy calendar view.

I'm all hip, young & trendy again, cause I bought myself an iPod. The 2GB black Nano is a worthy replacement for the 512MB Creative Muvo I bought 2 years ago. As for iTunes, GTKPod on Linux seems a good alternative.

This must be one of the first topics I ever blogged about (I started blogging around 2001, so this exists already a while), but somehow the article got lost during a transition from PHPNuke to PostNuke, I guess. Villafanestudios.com is an impressive site with examples of beautifully carved out pumpkins, for all your Halloween decorations.

Newscientistspace.com carries an article with the 10 best clues yet we have which could indicate signs of extraterrestrial life.

Firefox 2 has hit the streets. Download it from getfirefox.com. You can't yet upgrade Firefox through the Help > Check for upgrades dialog, but that will be solved soon : next week, 1.5 users will get an update to 1.5.0.8, which will offer a choice of upgrading to 2.0. In the meantime, here are some interesting Firefox 2 tweaking tips.

The moon, as detailed as you have never seen before.

Zo'n goeie acht maand na het trouwfeest hebben we een mooie verrassing gekregen : twee dvd's met de videoreportages van de mis, recepties en het avondfeest. Wat een leuke herinnering ! Een dikke dankuwel en proficiat aan Jan & Johan voor hun noeste arbeid. Respect !

I'm looking around for a mp3 player with some more space; and by looking around, one cannot ignore the Apple iPod. I still wonder why iPods have so many success : the feature/price ratio of them is way lower than its competitors. I only can attribute the success to the sweet design (though I find the new Nano with its square corners plain ugly) and the combination with iTunes.


Mp3newsire.net features an early Xmas article with a list of the iPod killers; though I cannot really see anything the would threaten the iPod (except maybe the Zune or the Creative Zen Neeon 2).

Even more Vim goodies : Leonid Mamchenkov posted some clear and simple instructions about Perl programming with Vim. Most of it covers the scripts for Perl on vim.org, but it listed some nice vim settings I never knew about (eg the listchars option for vertical indentation).


Only thing I miss from a modern IDE (eg Eclipse with the EPIC plugin) is the option of showing command definitions (foreach, confess, split, ...) with a function key. You can summon Perldoc from Vim, but that does not cover function and statement syntax. Can someone provide any clues ?