If you are interested in trying out Linux, you might be pleasantly surprised to hear that you can not only download the great Kubuntu distribution for free, no, they’ll actually send you CDs free of charge too (worldwide).
Go here, sign-up and then select the number of CDs you’d like:
I think it’s the first time Kubuntu is sending out free CDs, although I do remember Ubuntu sending them out before. Great to see KDE enthusiasts finally get something too!
Along with Yahoo’s new design, Flickr has been getting a major overhaul as well.
What I like best? The new organizr:
It’s not as bulky as the old one, and it looks much better too.
There are many more improvements, including new ways of searching and sorting. Your photostream finally has two columns of photos, thus displaying 18 photos instead of 10 up there:
I never really understood why they had the one column look on the first page. Well, I’m glad it’s gone.
I’m happy the people at Flickr show that they still care about what’s to become of the service, even though they could easily let it rot and spend the rest of their days in little bamboo huts slurping cocktails served by scantily clad women (or men, respectively).
By the way, instead of Flickr Beta, they now call it Flickr Gamma, showing off not only their mad Greek alphabet skillz, but also their sense of humour.
My love affair with mp3 provider Allofmp3 lasted only a mere four months. It has now come to an abrupt ending, and for a reason you don’t usually find in a relationship:
They also added they are “working hard to resume the service”. Being stationed in Russia, this could either mean their servers are broken or their servers have been confiscated by the police, simply because they feel like it. Let’s hope for the former.
Payment has been a sore issue with the company for a while now, not least because XRost, a company that provides paysafe cards and works with paypal, has been defunct now for longer than two months. For people who don’t want to hand out their credit card number to either a company with void SSL licenses or one that simply doesn’t validate credit cards, XRost was the perfect solution.
The message in XRost’s payment area is as non-committing as the one on the Allofmp3 payment site.
I do hope that both companies will soon resume business. It’s awfully silent here without them.
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