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Man! I just got an information from a friend of mine (who happened to have introduced me to Linux) that on that holy April 24 two days ago, Ubuntu’s server was down several times due to overaccessed. People from around the world accessed ubuntu.com, I think to know more about Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron or because too much people downloaded the iso.

Well, this friend of mine also said that this is the first time that Ubuntu’s release absorbed people’s attention, people-from-around-the-world’s attention. Seeing this phenomenon, it occured to me how people welcome Ubuntu more than they have ever shown. Forums show how people consider Ubuntu as a user friendly Linux, the Linux for newbies (in Unix-based OS), the most down-to-earth Linux, the Linux in which Terminal is (almost) not a must :D. Seeing this trend, we can say that it is impossible that more people will turn to Ubuntu when they find that buying a licensed Windows becomes an expensive thing.

Yeah… let’s wish for the best. I mean, let’s wish that Ubuntu can be as user-friendly as Windows (without loosing its stability) so that we don’t have to spend several hundred dollars only to buy a single compact disc.

These days, amidst all things that keep me busy, I realized how there are lots of free stuffs in the Internet. They include lots of open source software, services, opportunities to earn money and all. At this very moment, I can tell several open source program like AVG antivirus, Linux programs, WordWeb dictionary (one of the greatest invention on earth, a very small but powerful dictionary and thesaurus). From the range of services, we can find free email services, free web log hosting services, free website translation services and free document convert (especially from Office 2007 documents to Office 2000-2003 documents) services.

And now, after getting a free webhosting, I bought a domain called www.4-free.cn to inform people about free stuffs in the Internet. I just hope this site will be helpful for peopele who wish to get the most from the Internet without having to spend lots of money.

Last year (and the years before), April 24 didn’t mean anything to me. I would do all my activities like the other days. But now, April 24 is different. Okay, I think you know the reason now. It’s because since for months ago I have been using Ubuntu (it was Ubuntu 7.10) and I have been informed that Ubuntu is released twice a year, in October and April. And in April, it’s on the 24th.

Since early last month, I have heard from my friends that Ubuntu would launch its newest version, called Hardy Heron, on April 24. I became excited and planned to have the newest version. And this morning, when I arrived at the office, a friend of mine told me that he had already downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Wow! As a newbie in Linux, I was very excited and I wanted to know what difference Ubuntu offers this time (last year, I was happily  surprised to know Ubuntu’s visual effects, called Beryl).

However, because I got some troubles while installing the OS in my office computer, I decided to bring it home. And at home, I installed it in my laptop. And you know what? It worked. Very much. Well, it runs smoothly and faster. Much faster than Windows XP, for me. So, I think I’m gonna enjoy my days with Ubuntu more and more. 

I just received an email from PayPerPost. The email says that my blog has been approved. Wow. Being approved in this program is one of my agendas for this month. I’m so happy with this. It’s true that I have been rejected previously. But it was all because of my fault. My blog was still to young to join PayPerPost then.

I knew this program from a friend of mine. He joined the program about four months ago and he once showed me how one of his posts got approved and he got $ 20 for that in his paypal account. Wow, man! That’s great. Writing a short review about a product or a website to get $ 20 is great is a great thing. I told him, “Okey, Man, I’ll sign up for the program and I’ll show you that I can also get some money from blogging.”

And now, with my approval, I’ll try to prove that actually I can also earn some money from writing a review.

Actually, I’ve got my own plan with the money (which I hope will come to me in no time). I want to buy a Computer Assisted Translation Tool that costs around $600. I do hope by writing a lot and well, I can get some money each week. And if things happen like what I expect it to happen, I think I can get that $600 in two months. Let’s see what I can do. Just pray for my success in PayPerPost, okay?

I think I’ve started to enjoy firefox more than I used to. When a friend of mine showed Flock for the first time and I knew that it has a special addon that makes it possible for us to send our writing into our blog(s) in one hit, I became amazed. And I started to leave Firefox ever since. However, soon enough I found that Flock eats up lots of hard drive space (and my laptop is not “spacious” enough) and takes a bit long time to start, I got back to Firefox (although I actually didn’t want to leave its blog-friendliness and its addon that shows us whether we have a new mail in our inbox (gmail or yahoo or else).

However, I then realized that actually Firefox is a rich browser. I tried to search addons for Firefox and I found Deepest Sender, the addon that sends my writings (including this one) to my blogs. However, since there’s some time parse error, I still cannot send writings directly to my blogger blog, it would only be cooperative to blogs other than blogger. For my other blog that uses WordPress, I don’t find any problem. And, another good thing is that I also find an addon called Gmail Notifier, which notifies whenever we get a new message in our inbox. So, now, I find the most valuable services a browser can ever give.:D Hehehe…