April Fools Day Fun

03 Apr 2009
Posted by Harlem

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INTRO - Hola todos - welcome back to the Fresh Ubuntu Podcast.  We present to you another episode filled with fun and frivolity as we search the web for interesting April's fool pranks.  Perhaps the greatest internet pranksters of them all is Google.  Peter and I discuss what they did and if Ubuntu tried to one up them:)


BANTER
    * Alan Pope has a birthday in a couple of days; that makes Saturday??
    * Results of the FUP Poll - Do You Dual Boot??
        1 - Yes With XP or Vista
        2 - Yes With Apple OS X
        3 - No.
        4 - No - I have a Ubuntu PC and a <XP, Vista, OSX, Amiga, BeOS>


NEWS

Gmail AutoPilot

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html


Ubuntu April Fool's Jokes?

http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2009/04/01/how-to-unlock-ubuntus-little-april-fools-joke/


Gutsy EOL

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Goodbye-Ubuntu-7-10-107519.shtml


Jaunty 9.04 Beta

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta


Install Ubuntu on a PS3

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/howto_install_ubuntu_and_ubuntu_apps_your_playstation_3



MPM

Slight diversion from normal:

http://lifehacker.com/5194123/display-your-public-ip-address-in-the-shell-prompt



wget -O - -q myip.dk |grep '"Box"' | egrep -o '[0-9.]+'



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