Have you heard of it? It's a phone Canonical is raising money for that dual-boots Android and Ubuntu, has a 128GB SSD, and a bunch of other cool stuff. I would donate but you have to donate $695 to recieve the phone once it comes out.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge

I just reinstalled both Windows and Linux on my PC, and am now running Fedora and Gnome 3. I have to say, it is very different from what I am used to, but I like it as well, for the most part. It doesn't have the most practical way of switching between applications, and I suppose that's my main disappointment, but I'll probably be getting used to it over time, and it's honestly a lot better than Unity.

What is your opinion of gnome 3?

Fast food, sit down, whatever, post the one you like here!

I like Mackenzie River Pizza Company. It's a pizza place that just opened up here but they're really good. My favorite thing there is the Mack Lovin, a dessert item which is a cookie baked into a small cast iron pan, with ice cream and hot chocolate sauce over it all.

Here are my lastest signatures, both made between yesterday 11PM and now.

SOTW Entry at another forum: Theme (Marval Villians)


Another SOTW entry and yet a different forum: Theme (Wildlife)


C&C Welcome and Appreciated

These guys are awesome.

Dacentec is a datacenter, based in the small town of Lenoir, North Carolina, USA (which Google also happens to have a datacenter in). What's so awesome about them is they sell dedicated servers with really good specs, at a low price, that you own after 12 months of payment. I'm looking into getting one myself, but they have pretty random stock everyday. From what I understand, it's just what they have shipped to them that day.

The only dis-advantage is the rather cheap-o peering (Cogent, Hurricane Electric, and TiNet), so ping may be a bit higher for some. Plus, once you own it, you must pay for co-location or the shipping to have them send you the server, they don't cover the shipping.

http://billing.dacentec.com/hosting/

QUICK EDIT: They've been having site issues recently so don't mind if it looks ugly.

You can buy one from Wal-Mart for $5.

I have one, but it's not activated yet as you must be 18 to have one and I don't turn 18 until the 26th. Just a little interesting link I figured I'd share.

Since it functions as both a prepaid debit card and bank account, you can also activate your PayPal with the card!

Hi, I usually go by Suzaku but am unable to recover my password as I do not know the e-mail and the only other place I can get a hold of DarthApple at seems inactive.

What is the best Messaging Apps? Which one do you use? WhatsApp vs Skype vs BBM vs iMessage vs Viber?

Undoubtedly, social networking has become much more popular in recent times. The popularity of traditional forums seems to slowly be decreasing as a result, and I think that the market for something "new" is growing stronger.

Software options such as Xenforo have been new and innovative, but options such as discourse or oxwall seem to be redefining what forum software is. I will say, I'm not personally a fan of discourse, but I do like the innovation that's going on. Forum software today is just too complicated, and all of the extra features get in the way of pure discussion.

I was thinking about either downloading a very simple forum software solution and modifying it, or building a custom forum software solution to have only the absolute bare essentials. I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if everything about the a forum was centered around discussion, and only discussion. I'd also like to try it as an experiment as far as community management when decisions are all brought to a public petition.

Obviously, this is only an idea, but I would definitely be interested in seeing what could be done if a complete rethinking of forum software were to take place. What do you think would make such an experiment successful? In what ways could forum software today be improved for a modern world?

One of the things that is nice about Picasa is how easy it is to apply popular effects to images. I've been playing around with the posterize features, and for some images, with the right settings, it seems to give a certain "painting-like" feel or a cartoonish look. Of course picasa doesn't do a great job of it, but you can end up with stuff like this:





Both of the above images only use a few colors. The technique seems to work better on some images than others. Does anyone know of any good tools or GIMP plugins for this sort of thing? It'd be neat to see what could be done with more than just picasa to work with. I might try to use some GIMP-based tools soon and compare what can be done.