YouTube is assembling a symphony orchestra. The applications are submitted through The YouTube Symphony website. They will be taking submissions until January 28th, 2009. This is the kind of project that I’d like to see a lot more of from these developers!
All of my computers are now on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). That’s a Dell D820, a Precision 650, the GQ computer that I picked up at Fry’s a couple years ago, and even the One. I’m usually cautious about moving from a LTS edition to a newer version, but for some reason I decided to pull the trigger on upgrading each of my systems instead of performing complete reloads. All four machines upgraded without catastrophic failures. I did have to reload the kernel modules for my sound card on the Aspire, but it’s not a big deal. On the Precision, some lunkhead sysadmin (who is reamining nameless) forgot to move /home to the second drive last time. All I needed were these instructions and I was back in business: http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/29/move-home-to-its-own-partition/