May I see your ID, please?

Leonardo Gomez posted an image to his blog of some great Ubuntu IDs that look so good I’d like to get one for myself.

Thy’re heeeere!

Less than a month ago I told you that you could order your free Ubuntu Hardy LiveCDs. Guess what. In what must be a new record, I got mine yesterday!

Ubuntu users: You need to update your SSH keys

A bug was discovered that made the random number generator that helped create your .ssh/id_rsa key less random than it should have been. What does this mean in plain English? It means that if you created an SSH key with Ubuntu Feisty, Ubuntu Gutsy, Ubuntu Hardy or Debian Etch you need to update an important OpenSSL file and regenerate your key ASAP.

WeatherBug finally shows some penguin love

When I was a Windows user one of the apps that I loved was the WeatherBug. There are some Linux tools for getting weather information, but none of them rise to the level of information provided by WeatherBug. but now I find out that WeatherBug is adding a Linux version to their Mac and Windows offerings.

Amarok Neon, blog bot, Do and new tees. Oh my!

I’m going to roll three bits of info I saw on Planet Ubuntu into one post, and I think I’m going to have something for just about everyone.

Fixing the OpenOffice.org grammar glitch in Ubuntu Hardy

Last year Nanci posted that there were grammar checking tools for OpenOffice.org, the wonderful open source office suite, that takes care of one of the most glaring omissions and deal breakers in people looking for a cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Unfortunately there seems to be a bit of a glitch with it in Ubuntu Hardy. Luckily there is an easy way to fix it.

Google rolls out a beta of Google Earth 4.3 with some great new features

[Corrected the info on using Street View in Google Earth. - Peng]

Google released the beta of Google Earth 4.3 a couple weeks ago, and there are some very nice features added including the sun and atmosphere, a new set of navigation tools, and even an implementation of Street View, although the GE Street View isn’t as easy as the one in Google Maps.

Woops! I missed one

My quartet of Linux links should have been a quintet, but somehow I had forgotten to flag a post I wanted to pass along. My bad.

A quartet of Ubuntu links

In the spirit of Nick Ali and Jeff Waugh’s daily Planet Ubuntu posts of links they’ve discovered in their surfing, I just went through my RSS feeds for the morning and have four links that I simply have to pass along.

A big thanks to Ubuntu contributors

As Ralph Janke points out on Planet Ubuntu, Thomas David had created an awesome thank you to everyone who contributed to Ubuntu Hardy. Awesome job, Thomas!