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I tried the weather wallpaper in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. They have a deb package for Ubuntu, so the installation went fine. The instructions though were not clear on how to use it. Once I installed it, I tried starting the weather wallpaper. It didn't start. I had to reboot the system to get it started. The .weather-wallpaper directory gets created only after you run the weather wallpaper first time. You won't find the folder if you want to change the conf file before you start it the first time. Another issue is, the weather is being displayed in Celsius. I couldn't find any option to set it to Fahrenheit. The wallpaper worked fine once I rebooted the system and modified the conf file.

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You might have already read my blog post titled One more proof of Microsoft's ugly face where I quoted the news report that Microsoft gathered a bunch of partners to vote for OOXML in Sweden. Microsoft now admitted openly that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.

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I wrote many times about X server failed to start properly while using the Live CD and I blogged yesterday about X server failure in Gutsy Gibbon using Live CD and also using alternate CD. Live CD failed to start X server in both normal mode and safe graphics mode.

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North Rhine-Westphalia, a German state has selected Novell for the supply of its IT infrastructure. Novell already supports 300,000 students in the states of Bavaria and
Thuringia; the new deal will add another 560,000 students and thousands
of employees.

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I installed Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 in my Acer Travelmate laptop few weeks back. The X server stopped working couple of weeks back after the regular updates. I reinstalled Tribe 5 last weekend.

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Ubuntu has named the next release (after Gutsy Gibbon) Hardy Heron. This will be released as Long Term Support (LTS) release after Ubuntu Dapper and will be supported for 5 years on servers and 3 years on desktops. 

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OS/2 World reports that 23 new companies applied yesterday to Swedish Standard Institute to take part in the voting on OOXML and as expected, most of them voted in favor of OOXML. What happened was that Microsoft gathered together a bunch of loyal partners that would vote yes to their standard without any questions.

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Wordpress team has released their first beta of Wordpress 2.3. Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update
notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and
SEO-friendly URL redirection. It's still in beta, so it might be little rough. If you want to test the beta, you can download it from here.

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Acer computers is planning to buy Gateway in a $710 million deal. This deal, if it goes through, will make Acer the world's third largest PC vendor.

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Yahoo Mail is coming out of beta today and sports some new features like free SMS from Yahoo Mail to cell phones. According to CNet, It's supposed to show a button on top of the page with an option to send email or chat or send SMS. I logged into Yahoo Mail today and the beta tag was still there. I have only Email and Chat option in the menu. I couldn't find the SMS option, but Yahoo said they are rolling this feature out for the next six weeks, so I might get that option sometime in the future.

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