With the new release of Ubuntu's 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" the links that help provide and distribute it are already hot and the bandwidth tells the story. I have DSL with incoming max bandwidth of 700 Kb/s. I had to wait an hour until I got the whole download. Average speeds were 200Kb/s to 350Kb/s.

This kinda tells that Ubuntu is really getting up there.

This new release comes with tons of updates and security fixes. Not only that, it comes with a few new and improved features. Too much to discuss here.

To read about Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex's features, click here. To get the new Ubuntu, click here and choose what, where, and how you wanna get it.

I'll post more about the new Ubuntu once my personal computer stops acting up :)

In a simple battle for the best cigarette, the two top contenders have to be Camel's Crush & Marlboro's Smooth. So which is better?

On Camel's side, they have a hybrid version of a cigarette. The first hybrid cigarette ever. So what makes Crush a contender? Simple, the fact that if you are tired of smoking a full flavor you just pop the little menthol capsule and make it menthol. You kinda have two cigarettes in one. You have a full flavored cigarette with the power to pop it into a menthol.

Sadly for Crush, you can't reverse the menthol flavor. So if you accidentally crush the capsule, that's it. You're pretty much stuck with a menthol until the cigarette finishes. Or if you pop it but then fend for the full flavor, you're still stuck with the menthol.

Now what about Marlboro Smooth, what makes them so popular and a contender here? Well truth being, they are GOOD! Marlboro has a reputation of being classic and having great tasting cigarettes. Though you really don't have a choice weather you smoke a full flavor or a menthol (which is a strong peppermint menthol taste.) The thing now is to get the young ones in this cigarette war. The majority of all people, 18-24 years of age in America smoke a menthol preferred cigarette. Menthol is the new thing now.

Though it might be a new thing, it still has it's bad side. Marlboro Smooth is an icon for rebellious teens that smoke cigarettes. Underage teens at that. That's what probably brings down Smooth here. Smooth also being a one-type-of-a-cigarette cigarette, don't have what the Crush has.

Pros of Crush and Smooth: Crush and Smooth both are a peppermintish flavored cigarette. Though Crush still has a more stronger flavor than Smooth ever will, Smooth still has the power to rake in its smokers.

Cons of Crush and Smooth: Cigarettes are bad, no matter the flavor. Although lights and ultra-lights let smokers inhale a bit less more of the bad stuff, they are still bad. Not only that, teens hunt for the next best thing. Right now it's the menthol and the companies that are fighting to have the top product. When there's a war in the cigarette business, the consumers are always the ones that lose.

Author's note: I do not condone the smoking of cigarettes. I also don't condone the act of smoking under the legal age of your area. Names mentioned here are Trademarks and Copyrighted. Can't do the time? Don't do the crime.

In all sense, God is a mystical creator that has no beginning nor an end. The almighty powerful God can destroy all at a nano fraction of a second. Anything can and will be used, in the imaginations of man. No matter how strong, nor how weak he might make himself seem to be, he'll destroy you. But all in all he loves you. Yet all at the same time, he will ban your happy human soul to the eternity pits of hell... for eternity. Thus not us forget that he shall still love us as we burn in hell.

WOW! Now it seems that MySpace supports Firefox over IE... I wonder what this means for Microsoft.

Well in a late night/early morning bulletin from Tom, Co-Founder of MySpace, he stated that some of the third party music player sites appeared to be down. Apparently the MySpace members who are using Firefox aren't affected. Also, he went on to promoting Firefox. Saying, "...either remove your music player, or switch to Firefox.. and make all your friends switch to Firefox..." That sounds like advertising to me.

Either way, Firefox IS more better than IE. Faster and more secure with almost endless customizations for it. From themes to addons to block ads. IE charges, Firefox doesn't. Did I mention Firefox is more secure?

I don't really think it's bad for Tom to advertise Firefox, even if he says he isn't. It just makes me feel all bubbly inside. He likes Firefox, I use Firefox. :) Ok I'm going over my head on this on.

Fact of the matter is that Firefox is already taking up 42.6% of the browser martket. That's nearly even with IE at 48.6% (IE6 & IE7 put together) for September 2008 usage. No wonder Tom recommends it. Besides, it's securer than IE.

Source of information: MySpace & Tom
Source of browser stats: W3Schools

Honestly, I was looking for a big time messenger that was going to out beat all Yahoo!'s past and other popular messengers out there. That came to an end as the Yahoo! Messenger team abruptly ended the Yahoo! Messenger for Vista project. Apparently, they stopped the process because it was taking resources to make a casual messenger (Yahoo! Messenger 9) better.

People that have commented on the Yahoo! Messenger blog have posted mixed opinions. From blaming Vista, to blaming Yahoo! on being too weak.

My opinion on all this is the following. I think the Yahoo! Messenger team WAS too weak. The fact that creating such a powerful messenger was just too much for the team. Not only that, I think the "team" is just a few members, 10 at most. Though it is hard to build a software from the ground up, it must have been done. Yahoo! is the last messenger giant that I'd expect to back off. This really puts them on a low spot, starting something millions of loyal users found interesting and used then just scraped it. This is a low move for Yahoo! Messenger.

You know, I'm agnostic/deist with very weird point of views. I currently land on the categories of Agnostic, Deist, and somewhat an Atheist. It's not strange to have people look at me with a raised eyebrow when I tell them what I think about religion. Actually, when I start talking to them about what I think and how I feel about it, they end up learning a bit more.

Am I anti-christ for preaching against God? No, I really do respect that preachers that preach about God is a good thing. Faith makes up what people are now-a-days. Is it wrong how I think? I don't think so. Everyone is granted the freedom to choose and how to think.

So I don't really know how to start off so I'll do it the way as if you were asking me.

The Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Beta is out!

Ubuntu, there's alot to say about it. When I first got Ubuntu, it was in the 7.10 area. Now it's going up a full version. As for the moment I just have 8.04 LTS. I don't really know much about Ubuntu but here's what I CAN tell you, the reader.

If you have no idea what Ubuntu is, it is an open software that operates your computer. What do I mean by that? In simple terms, it is an operating software. Like Mac, Windows, Linux. But it is on a Linux platform.

What do I mean by an open software? When you get a PC with Windows installed, you don't own the Windows installed. What you own is the computer's hardware and the license to run the Windows software. Kind of a bummer huh? With Ubuntu, EVERYONE owns the software. Meaning if you don't really like how it is running your computer, you can change the kernel (code base of the Ubuntu software) if you got the know how.

That's why I have it. Plus it is free. With thousands of good people that are making Ubuntu better, faster, and more free than ever, you just have to try it.

Well I'm not here to convince you into getting it, but I am here to let you Ubuntu user's know that the new Beta of Ubuntu 8.10 is out and the full release version should be coming out some time late October of this year (2008).

You can get more information from our info source site Softpedia. Or you can click here to go directly to their article on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.

Sarah is more inexperienced than Obama, and she made it to the Vice President ticket. DAMN!!! If McCain becomes president, and dies from old age. We're all doomed!

8 years we've been ruled by the most dumbest, most ignorant president ever! Why do we need an older version of him in the office? McCain to me will be just like Bush. I'm tired of the Bush ways.

Look at the Republican's history and compare that to the Democrats. That should tell you more than enough. Hey, not to mention the money that the past Bush's have chunked out from us. The current Bush last chunked up at least $700 billion from taxpayer cash to help out local and international banks. I'm sure there was another way than doing that.

I'm looking for a change. I don't need our president to give the rich tax breaks while us middle classers struggle to buy milk and eggs.

I don't care much about the war in Iraq. I'd just say to stabilize the crap out of Iraq and send all our troops from Iraq to Afghanistan and do what we were supposed to in the first place. Find that damn 10 foot tall diabetic Arab.

I sense that Obama will do what he says he'll do. Only thing he has to do is fight through the super hypocritical Christians that claim that he's from another country. Truth is that he was BORN from a Muslim man and a White female from America. Half white, half black. Nothing else. Remember, you have to be born in America to be president. Muhammad Ahmed can't just come into America and become president.

All in all, I'd say look at what both have to offer. Compare what you've found and make your decision. Just, please vote. Vote for Spongebob, just cast your vote.

Haven't you just had some annoying little perv messaging you, even from different MySpace accounts? How about some stalker that knows everything about you and messages you day and night? Got pics that are downloaded from you and posted as their display? Well I have a simple, but effective, solution.

Before you get all happy thinking that there is ACTUALLY a program to track MySpace users, don't. There isn't one and probably won't unless MySpace makes it. What you'll find here is just some tips you can do to tweak your MySpace privacy settings.

Ok, well first thing, you have to have a MySpace account with a "hater." Once you got that, you are ready to do a lock down! Sign in to you MySpace as usual. Now depending if you got the new MySpace homepage or the classic, you'll have to do either click "Edit Profile" or Account Settings. If you got the classic homepage look, click "Account Settings" it should be the second link just to the right of your display pic. If you got the new hompage look, click on "My Account" and that link should be just to the left of the "Sign Out" button.

It is simple to make a plan, but it isn't simple to execute it. And well I know some of you have ideas on what you would do. I'm talking about the actions you'd do to those responsible and fixing the issue. Now, what would I do?

First, I'll need the power to do all of the following...

I'd get a super plan with popular support to increase taxes momentarily so that I can have funding and so American's can pay less for what they buy. High prices now are part of the reason why we are in an inflation. Once the increase on taxes is put forward, which it would only be about a 10% increase of current taxes (if your taxes are 8%, just add 0.8% so it'd be 8.8%), the economy will be benefited later. I'll talk later about the amount collected. And that should solve the first part.