Shameless plug follows (this is my site, I can do it, if I want to ):

You can also do your bit. Take a look at Jono Bacon’s post and see how.

sudo apt-get install bash-completion

After this small step my quality of life significantly improves.

(This didn’t seem to be installed by default in Ubuntu Hardy)

Yesterday, after reading about the release of Hardy Heron beta release ( announcement), I decided to try out the iso torrent download to see how fast it would be, as compared to a normal http download. I have to say I was extremely happy after seeing it pushing my network connection to its limits. Download your Hardy beta here

This was the making of a great Saturday, because I decided to burn the newly downloaded iso, and took the Hardy Heron for a spin on my test computer.

The install was a mixed feelings operation, since I didn’t like the new pan feature of the world map, when selecting the timezone. Also the timestep effect when selecting the keyboard is a non-feature, just confusing. But besides that, it’s as clean and as fast as I ever saw the ubuntu install (ubiquity).

After the install, I was blown away. The new theme is very slick, and easy on the eye. The Heron desktop background is both pleasing and modern, making me a happy guy. Everything about the system feels good. I installed this on a fairly old machine, an athlon XP, with 512 ram, and a very inexpensive Radeon 9250. And boy is it fast, even with compiz (which is enabled by default). It feels faster than Gutsy, and everything seems to just work.

It leverages Gnome 2.22, which was released not so long ago, and seems quite nice. It has some nice features, as you can see in the release notes. I haven’t tried the world clock yet, but i definetely will, along with all the other new gnome features. I also found Firefox 3 beta 4 to be a very nice experience, even though I am an Epiphany user myself.

It looked so fast and rock solid, that I felt the immediate urge to install it on my production machine, where I live 90% of the time (my Thinkpad T60). It’s installing as we speak, since I had to do some backups first.

I would recommend that everyone update to the Hardy Heron as soon as they can. It already feels rock solid, it is blazing fast, and if you catch a bug, you can help out by reporting it on launchpad.

I blogged a couple of months ago, way back in 2007 as it seems, that a new wordpress all original theme was in the pipe. Once again my need to GTD is overwhelmingly demonstrated. After completed the bulk design, the theme fell through the cracks of my ToDo lists, so I only picked it up again a couple of weeks ago.

It’s still not ready, but using the default theme has blocked by post writing abilities (if I have any). So I’m gonna push this out the door and hope for the best, along with friendly bug reports and suggestions.

The idea behind the theme is that it is clean, easy and dark. As I like them. I’ll probably make a package and release under Creative Commons in the near future.