Damn the spam!

When I signed in to my e-mail account this morning, I was shocked to see a spam message in my inbox. Of course, spam messages are a part of life in the online world and a message or two promising “health benefits” or advertising a “completely new technology” and so on would not come as a surprise to anyone.

Why should the poor dog be shot? I would prefer to gun down the spammers!

I was surprised because the e-mail account that I had accessed was the one I have with my Internet Service Provider(ISP). I do not know what filter they use, but my inbox has been completely free of spam. Till now, that is. A determined spammer who wanted me to take a look at his “data recovery software” managed to get through the spam filter of my ISP.

I have had bad experiences with spam over the years. My first e-mail account had to be abandoned because the inbox turned into a spam box. A fate shared by many of my other e-mail accounts. Infact I cannot remember how many accounts I created as I keep abandoning them because of the notorious spammers.

However, many popular free e-mail providers seem to use a pretty effective spam filter these days. And I don’t know about my fellow bloggers, but I think the folks at WordPress seem to have put an end to the spam menace when they made those recent changes.

I hope I have not spoken too soon.

Ooh . . . ooh . . . Ubuntu . . . Ubuntu . . . Ubuntu!

This is a small test report about Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

Unlike the last time, I had absolutely no problems whatsoever in installing Ubuntu. I tried the live CD version first(you can boot Ubuntu 8.04 from the CD itself without installing it on your hard drive) and loved it so much that I installed it immediately. The installation is quite simple. You can boot into Windows, insert the CD and run the installation from within Windows. Once you reboot the computer, you can boot into either Windows or Linux. It is that simple!

Here are a few simple screenshots . . . Click on the images for a bigger picture . . .

Desktop with a minimised browser window . . .

Scientific calculator, sudoku, dictionary . . .

Tetravex, documents to be printed, OpenOffice.org Writer . . .

I did not explore it completely but there are so many applications . . . entire volumes can be written about Ubuntu 8.04! And it is blazingly fast! Everything seems to work faster . . . the desktop, the applications, the internet, even WordPress!

I am completely bowled over by the latest penguin from Ubuntu! To the developers, you have done a great job, folks! Ubuntu 8.04 is the perfect Linux for anyone who wants to make the switch to Linux! To others, do try Ubuntu 8.04, folks! Believe me, you will be hooked!

Okay, I did notice one bug, which I shall send to the developers to fix. But if I have to sum up the experience, all I can say is:

OOH . . . OOH . . . UBUNTU!

Please click on the link if you want to download Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

My other articles about Ubuntu:

Ooh . . . ooh . . . Ubuntu!
A great future for Ubuntu?

Ooh . . . ooh . . . Ubuntu!

The latest version of Ubuntu has been released!!! Please click on the link if you want to download the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS(Long Term Support) Desktop Edition(supported till 2011).

Linux is for human beings . . .

I have not tested it yet . . . not even downloaded it as of now . . . plan to do it as soon as possible . . . will post a report as soon as I test it!

I am going for the penguin!

Bill Gates,I don’t want to pay bills for your Windows that are full of cracks!!!

(I hope Ubuntu 8.04 has drivers for all my hardware components )

(I have written another post about Ubuntu.Please click on the link to go to my previous post called A great future for Ubuntu?)