Probably, every Linux user out there knows GAIM, the instant messaging client for Linux.
Well, due to some legal problems with AOL, this great project has changed it's name to Pidgin. The story was covered in slashdot.
They now have a new URL, pidgin.im.GAIM Pidgin is a fast and light IM client, best integrated in GNOME, which I recommend to everyone.
Marco has just blogged about the recent ShipIt status. I was in doubt if Feisty would be freely shipped, since Edgy was not. Well, there is no confirmation, but the ShipIt site says:ShipIt is currently closed while we prepare for the Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) release. We'll be back in a few days.
That seems to be good news, those free cds are always a great way of spreading the word through friends! I'll be hoping to see Feisty available there, so I can get everyone around here trying the last Ubuntu version.
Update:
After login, we can read the following:We'll be back in a few days, shipping Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) CDs.
I'll be waiting!
Yesterday I've won two tickets to the premiere of Dot.Com. I've just answered a couple of questions and received an email announcing that I was one of the winners.
The movie was AMAZING. Everyone was laughed from the beginning, until the end! Portuguese movies aren't usually really that good, but this one amazed me.
The story begins with an engineer who is trying to get the government to build a decent road to a small village, Aguas Altas, to make the beautiful village known. To do this, he registers the domain aguasaltas.com (it is really online), and starts promoting the village through the website. The problems start when Drinam, a Spanish company, demands the domain, to promote their branded water, aguas altas (aguas is the Portuguese/Spanish plural of water).
When a small village takes on a big multi-national company, nothing can go right!
IMDB link
Trailer:
Launchpad, the web interface managing Ubuntu bugs and packages and a lot of other projects, has finally came out of beta private beta. It is all 2.0 now, more usable, but, the most important about web2.0, it looks really much better! :P
Today, someone emailed me an attached .xls spreadsheet file from Microsoft Office's Excel. My surprise was when google offered me the option of opening it in the browser with Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
