For a while now, I have been concerned about my reliance on cloud services such as dropbox, evernote, google drive and Spider Oak. I have an active account with all of these services and more and more I worry about the fact that I have given so much of my data to these companies. I don't necessarily believe that these corporations are necessarily doing anything particularly evil with my data and I also don't upload anything terribly sensitive to the cloud. But in any case, that's not to say that quite a bit of the data I do put on the cloud I would still prefer to keep out of the public domain. For this reason I have started to look an alternative service, BitTorrent Sync.
For those unfamiliar with this system, it is basically a service developped by the folks that invented torrenting where you use a similar bit torrent protocol to sync data between different machines. The beauty of this system lies on the fact that all this data is stored locally in all machines involved and all data transfer is done in an encrypted manner. Meaning that you are not giving your data to anyone else, it stays withing all the machines sharing this data, and that's it. Not only that, but much like bit torrents, it can download this data in a really efficient way using direct connections to all machines involved. Lastly, one of the major advantages of this service over dropbox and others is the fact that there is no storage limits beyond how much you can store on your hard drive. Now, that's not to say that there isn't a downside of using this service. The downside is the fact that at least two machines need to be online for the data to successfully sync, so people like me that turn off their computers when they are not being used can't keep files updated all the time. For this reason I have devised a solution, which is to use my ubuntu server as a torrent sync server. BT Sync by its nature has no server, all clients just share the data, however if I add my home server to the loop, it will be updated at all times when it is online, serving as my personal "cloud" storage in a way. In this post I will go through the process of getting my server setup.
To start, download the appropriate tar file from the official website, http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/download
note that you need to download the file that correspond to your system, whether it is 32 or 64 bits. To find out what your machine is, type:
$ uname -a
if you see a i386 in the response you are using a 32 bit install, while anything showing x86_64 is likely a 64 bit install.
Once I downloaded the appripriate file, unpak it into a folder where you will keep your executable and configuration files. Note that this folder needs to separate from the folder you intend to share since apparently failing to do that will cause a lot of synching issues.
To unpack the tar ball type:
$ tar -xvzf bittorrent_sync_i386.tar.gz
of course, substitute the name of the tar ball if you are using a 64 bit system. Once that's done run the executable with
$ ./btsync
This should prompt a message indicating even the process id for the BitTorrent Sync application in case you need to restart it. Setting up your shares on linux is done via a web GUI via the default port 8888. One issue I came across the first time I set up my BTSync was that since I'm using a headless server and connecting to it via SSH, I needed to use the web GUI and for some reason could not connect to it right away. Instead, I needed to configure my BTSync to listen to the 8888 port from all ips (0.0.0.0) instead of just 127.0.0.1. To accomplish this you need to type
$ ./btsync --webui.listen 0.0.0.0:8888
Now to use the web GUI, use your favorite browser from a machine that does have a graphical interface and type the your server's ip followed by the port number you selected, in our case port 8888. So if my internal ip is 192.168.0.70 (use ifconfig if you need to find this out), then use
http://192.168.0.70:8888
From there, click on the "add folder" icon and select the folder you would like to sync. Just remember to backup this folder before going further. It's unlikely you will screw up, but just for good measure, you should always back up your data before an action like this.
Once you have added the folders you want synced to your list, click on the "3 dots" icon at the end of the line where the folder is displayed and go to "preferences". There you should see a button to "View Key". Here you will have the opportunity to copy a key for sharing this folder as a "read only" folder, or as a read and write folder.
Install following the instructions once again on another machine you want to sync with your server and this time, instead of clicking on the add folder button use the cog button instead, where you should see the option to "Enter a key..." That's where you will enter the hashed number you saw previously. Find the folder you want to sync and voila.
That's it, it should work and will work over several different installs. One last detail, you may need to set up a cron job or some other way of initializing the btsync executable every time you turn your server online.
edit- One detail I forgot to mention, you will need your clocks to be synchronized for BTsync to work. In case you need instructions on how to do that on your linux machine, use the following link http://www.howtogeek.com/tips/how-to-sync-your-linux-server-time-with-network-time-servers-ntp/
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Download streamed flash videos from the command line
I have just been looking for ways to download streamed videos into my hard drive so I can watch them later when I'm away from my wifi. With the power of linux I really wanted to find a way to do this in a simple way and ideally from the command line. So that's how I came across this tool called "get-flash-videos" which is a pretty descriptive name for the app.
I've tested it already and it works quite well, but I should note that you shouldn't use this to download anything you are not supposed to download. Just avoid doing anything illegal with this information of course.
Anyway, let's get started on how to install and use this tool.
There is quite a bit of information you can find on how to obtain and how to use this app on the following link --> https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/ ... https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/wiki/Installation
For my own use, I followed the Debian based distro guide which requires you to install
$ sudo apt-get install libwww-mechanize-perl libxml-simple-perl
then use wget to download the .deb file
$ wget http://get-flash-videos.googlecode.com/files/get-flash-videos_1.24-1_all.deb
I've tested it already and it works quite well, but I should note that you shouldn't use this to download anything you are not supposed to download. Just avoid doing anything illegal with this information of course.
Anyway, let's get started on how to install and use this tool.
There is quite a bit of information you can find on how to obtain and how to use this app on the following link --> https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/ ... https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/wiki/Installation
For my own use, I followed the Debian based distro guide which requires you to install
$ sudo apt-get install libwww-mechanize-perl libxml-simple-perl
then use wget to download the .deb file
$ wget http://get-flash-videos.googlecode.com/files/get-flash-videos_1.24-1_all.deb
Lastly, install it via
$ sudo dpkg -i get-flash-videos_1.24-1_all.deb
That's it, as easy as pie...
Now to use this little tool, use the following command to watch a video:
$ get_flash_videos -p http://website.url/video
or alternatively if you want to download the video directly to your hard drive use
$ get_flash_videos "http://website.url/video?f=1&v=1234"
Enjoy... and if you want something specific for youtube, I've heard that youtube-dl is quite good but I haven't tried it myself yet.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Shellshock - your bash may be making you vulnerable
Turns out that if you are a Linux or a Mac user you may be vulnerable to remote attacks via your bash shell. To check whether your machine is vulnerable you can use the following command:
$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c 'echo hello'
if your terminal returns the message "vulnerable hello" than you are vulnerable and you need to remediate that.
You are safe if the message "bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt bash: error importing function definition for 'x' hello"
To fix your system you can update your bash via the command line by typing:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade bash
this command will work on any debian based distro, if you are using another distro, I would redirect you to this link for the appropriate command to update your respective bash.
$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c 'echo hello'
if your terminal returns the message "vulnerable hello" than you are vulnerable and you need to remediate that.
You are safe if the message "bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt bash: error importing function definition for 'x' hello"
To fix your system you can update your bash via the command line by typing:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade bash
this command will work on any debian based distro, if you are using another distro, I would redirect you to this link for the appropriate command to update your respective bash.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Downloading files remotely using PuTTY
Recently at work I found myself in a situation where I needed a file from my home server and I had just replaced my work laptop and still didn't have a linux installation available. After doing a bit of searching I found out that I can use PuTTY under windows to directly download this file through an SSH tunnel. Here is how you can do that.
Open the windows command prompt by typing "run" in the search box and pressing enter.
Once you have the terminal open find the path to the folder where putty is located, on my windows 7 install that equates to C:/Program Files x86\Putty
from there just make sure you have the file pspc.exe available (if you don't know, the command "dir" shows files , but I'm assuming if you know how to use PuTTY you also know how to navigate windows using the terminal.
Run pscp by typing the command
pscp.exe
now enter the command
pscp.exe username@x.x.x.x:/file_path/filename c:\directory\filename
where username pertains to your credentials to log into the server via SSH remotely. x.x.x.x is obviously the ip address of the server you are trying to download the file from. The first path pertains to the path of the file you want to retrieve (yes you have to know this in advance, if you don't just SSH normally and figure it out first). Then the last path is the path of where you want you new file to be downloaded into.
I hope this is helpful for when you can't just use sshfs under linux. If you don't know what SSHFS is look it up, it's basically an SSH method of mounting a samba directory remotely. I may post more on that at some point.
Open the windows command prompt by typing "run" in the search box and pressing enter.
Once you have the terminal open find the path to the folder where putty is located, on my windows 7 install that equates to C:/Program Files x86\Putty
from there just make sure you have the file pspc.exe available (if you don't know, the command "dir" shows files , but I'm assuming if you know how to use PuTTY you also know how to navigate windows using the terminal.
Run pscp by typing the command
pscp.exe
now enter the command
pscp.exe username@x.x.x.x:/file_path/filename c:\directory\filename
where username pertains to your credentials to log into the server via SSH remotely. x.x.x.x is obviously the ip address of the server you are trying to download the file from. The first path pertains to the path of the file you want to retrieve (yes you have to know this in advance, if you don't just SSH normally and figure it out first). Then the last path is the path of where you want you new file to be downloaded into.
I hope this is helpful for when you can't just use sshfs under linux. If you don't know what SSHFS is look it up, it's basically an SSH method of mounting a samba directory remotely. I may post more on that at some point.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Linux distro sampling pt3 - Debian Xfce + Xubuntu 14.04
Debian 7 Xfce edition (VM)
Next I decided to give Debian Xfce a try since I saw that I had already downloaded the torrent for it a few weeks ago. I have had quite a bit of experience with xfce from my previous Xubuntu installs. Once again, using a non-Ubuntu distro makes it so I have to learn quite a few new things, however using Xfce does seem to make it a bit more familiar to me. I think just changing from GNOME to Xfce has the potential to make this experience much better. It appears just as stable and consistent as the other DE, while being much more lightweight and looking much much more pleasing in my opinion. Judge it yourself.
Xubuntu 14.04 (VM)
Next I decided it might be a good idea to see if Ubuntu 14.04 would work well on my ASUS P550C laptop as a VM since I'm too chicken to try dual booting it on this machine. After trying it I realized it wasn't going to happen. Not only unity is extremely sluggish and buggy in this machine as a VM. Besides that the mini toolbar for Virtual box keeps leaving this dark bar where it comes out to, which makes it look pretty sloppy. Removing this black bar seems to require removing the mini Toolbar which I don't want to do either.
Due to these reason I tried Xubuntu 14.04 the Trusty Tahr next. I'm used to Xubuntu from all my other VMs and once again I must say Xubuntu makes for the best VM experience I've had so far. It can look beautiful, it works, it's fast and good on resources. Just perfect really. Plus have I mentioned how pretty your OS can look?
At some point I might put together a nice looking Xubuntu setup and maybe post something about all my setting for folks interested in what I did.
Next I decided to give Debian Xfce a try since I saw that I had already downloaded the torrent for it a few weeks ago. I have had quite a bit of experience with xfce from my previous Xubuntu installs. Once again, using a non-Ubuntu distro makes it so I have to learn quite a few new things, however using Xfce does seem to make it a bit more familiar to me. I think just changing from GNOME to Xfce has the potential to make this experience much better. It appears just as stable and consistent as the other DE, while being much more lightweight and looking much much more pleasing in my opinion. Judge it yourself.
Xubuntu 14.04 (VM)
Next I decided it might be a good idea to see if Ubuntu 14.04 would work well on my ASUS P550C laptop as a VM since I'm too chicken to try dual booting it on this machine. After trying it I realized it wasn't going to happen. Not only unity is extremely sluggish and buggy in this machine as a VM. Besides that the mini toolbar for Virtual box keeps leaving this dark bar where it comes out to, which makes it look pretty sloppy. Removing this black bar seems to require removing the mini Toolbar which I don't want to do either.
At some point I might put together a nice looking Xubuntu setup and maybe post something about all my setting for folks interested in what I did.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Linux distro sampling pt2 - Debian 7 on ASUS P550CA
Recently I got a new ASUS P550C laptop from work. As with most my machines nowadays I try to run some form of Linux on them to accomplish some of the tasks in which Windows is handicapped at performing. Well I will begin this post first talking about my experience with the actual computer first.
Laptop Review: ASUS P550C (also called ASUS P550CA on the website)
First of all, this laptop is fairly impressive at first glance. It has a nice 15" screen, it has a relatively nice keyboard that features a keypad which I'm very thankful for (no backlight though... I'm spoiled, I know!). It has a nice finish and it is very light in my opinion, which may be a bad opinion since I'm used to my alienware (performance and weight are often mutually exclusive). Right from the get-go I notice some issues with my wi-fi adapter. It would disconnect under windows every 5-10 minutes. I started using a cable because of it. The wifi is also completely not supported by ubuntu so I also had to use a cable under my dual boot Ubuntu 14.04 install I started with. Eventually the wifi completely gave up which I alerted to the it people. After they contacted the Tiger Direct they mentioned that this particular adapter has been giving users some headache. For those curious I'm speaking about Mediatek MT7630E 802.11bgn. Long story short, I just received a new machine.
The other major complaint I have regard the UEFI/booting rubbish that made it extremely difficult to dual boot Ubuntu on my first machine. My new machine so far has been even worst. Every time I try to install Ubuntu 14.04 it basically tells me I can only overwrite Windows. It does not display the "install alongside" option which is a bit scary. For this reason I don't want to do the partitions on my own since I don't want to have to fix the windows booting garbage that is now standard in so many machines.
In summary, I had a great first impression of my ASUS P550C laptop which soon turned into frustration. This ASUS laptop is very Linux unfriendly as far as I'm concerned, so I must give some thumbs down to ASUS for manufacturing a laptop in the year 2014 that simply can't play nice with other operational systems.
Debian 7 (VM)
Anyway, done with my rant on ASUS. Now that I've been scared enough I decided to just install VirtualBox and use linux through a VM on my work machine which is what I was doing before anyway. I decided that before I settle on one distro I wanted to sample a few to see what is the most practical and useful to me for the types of needs I will have at work.
Well the first thing I have to say is that trying to use Debian was the first time I realized how Ubuntu centric my Linux experience has been up to this point. There are so many choices and small differences working with Debian coming from Ubuntu based distros. The most striking for me was the fact that I didn't know how to work under root. As a lot of you know, in Ubuntu you can simply use sudo on everything, apparently Debian requires you to log in as root in order to perform a lot of different admin tasks. Anyway, there it is, I'm a linux noobie outside of ubuntu.
Unfortunately for me there is a pretty good learning curve to migrate to this version of Debian. I can definitely see the appeal of this distro as it seems very stable and full of great admin tools right from the clean install. Unfortunately, it is a tad too new for me at this point. I will certainly consider it when I have a bit more free time to learn how to get the most out of it. The other reason I am hesitant of using this distro on my laptop is the desktop environment, I do not like Gnome very much. For this reason I decided to see if Debian Xfce is a bit more friendly to someone like me... (continued on pt.3)
Laptop Review: ASUS P550C (also called ASUS P550CA on the website)
First of all, this laptop is fairly impressive at first glance. It has a nice 15" screen, it has a relatively nice keyboard that features a keypad which I'm very thankful for (no backlight though... I'm spoiled, I know!). It has a nice finish and it is very light in my opinion, which may be a bad opinion since I'm used to my alienware (performance and weight are often mutually exclusive). Right from the get-go I notice some issues with my wi-fi adapter. It would disconnect under windows every 5-10 minutes. I started using a cable because of it. The wifi is also completely not supported by ubuntu so I also had to use a cable under my dual boot Ubuntu 14.04 install I started with. Eventually the wifi completely gave up which I alerted to the it people. After they contacted the Tiger Direct they mentioned that this particular adapter has been giving users some headache. For those curious I'm speaking about Mediatek MT7630E 802.11bgn. Long story short, I just received a new machine.
The other major complaint I have regard the UEFI/booting rubbish that made it extremely difficult to dual boot Ubuntu on my first machine. My new machine so far has been even worst. Every time I try to install Ubuntu 14.04 it basically tells me I can only overwrite Windows. It does not display the "install alongside" option which is a bit scary. For this reason I don't want to do the partitions on my own since I don't want to have to fix the windows booting garbage that is now standard in so many machines.
In summary, I had a great first impression of my ASUS P550C laptop which soon turned into frustration. This ASUS laptop is very Linux unfriendly as far as I'm concerned, so I must give some thumbs down to ASUS for manufacturing a laptop in the year 2014 that simply can't play nice with other operational systems.
Debian 7 (VM)
Anyway, done with my rant on ASUS. Now that I've been scared enough I decided to just install VirtualBox and use linux through a VM on my work machine which is what I was doing before anyway. I decided that before I settle on one distro I wanted to sample a few to see what is the most practical and useful to me for the types of needs I will have at work.
Well the first thing I have to say is that trying to use Debian was the first time I realized how Ubuntu centric my Linux experience has been up to this point. There are so many choices and small differences working with Debian coming from Ubuntu based distros. The most striking for me was the fact that I didn't know how to work under root. As a lot of you know, in Ubuntu you can simply use sudo on everything, apparently Debian requires you to log in as root in order to perform a lot of different admin tasks. Anyway, there it is, I'm a linux noobie outside of ubuntu.
Unfortunately for me there is a pretty good learning curve to migrate to this version of Debian. I can definitely see the appeal of this distro as it seems very stable and full of great admin tools right from the clean install. Unfortunately, it is a tad too new for me at this point. I will certainly consider it when I have a bit more free time to learn how to get the most out of it. The other reason I am hesitant of using this distro on my laptop is the desktop environment, I do not like Gnome very much. For this reason I decided to see if Debian Xfce is a bit more friendly to someone like me... (continued on pt.3)
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Review of Ubuntu 14.04: The Trusty Tahr is out
I must admit, this was the most anticipated release of Ubuntu so far for me. I had been using 12.04 for a while on my main machine and I was eager to get my hands on this shiny new version of my favorite Linux distro.
After downloading the iso via torrent I installed it and here are my initial comments:
I very much like the aesthetic changes done, including the login screen, the colours and particularly the window resizing overhaul. I thought these would be barely noticeable for me but coming from 12.04 I definitely feel that the overall package looks shinier and more pleasant to look at.
I find it unfortunate that Ubuntu One is closing down but I do believe this doesn't really reflect on the health of canonical in general. One aspect of Ubuntu I think needs an overhaul is the software centre. It has pretty much looked the same for a while and if anything I think it may have looked better a few years ago than it looks now. I personally feel that while the rest of the OS has been evolving into a beautiful piece of software, the software centre still looks the same and it is already looking pretty dated.
*Before I continue, let me say that I have already adopted 14.04 to be my desktop OS for the next while. That's because I really really do like it. However I do have some criticism as well, so I wish that anyone reading this does not get discouraged from trying this distro based on the rest of my post.*
While I was very excited to use the latest HUD from Unity, I felt slightly disappointed so far because while the HUD idea is brilliant to the point of being almost revolutionary to me, it is still not doing what I believe it should be doing. I love the idea of having the HUD where I can not only use to open files and applications in my own computer, I would love to be able to easily pick filters and search engines that can be integrated to Unity that way. From my limited experience so far, it looks interesting but it is far from being what it should be. Part of the problem is that I did not find the HUD to be very user friendly and perhaps having a tutorial would be useful or some other way to really make the HUD intuitive and customizable. Once Ubuntu can do that effectively I would not be surprised if other OSs copied the idea because it is simply brilliant.
Some of the issues I had in the past with Ubuntu such as difficulty installing supported software like "Steam" are still there. I don't know why but when I try to install steam from the Ubuntu Software Centre it doesn't offer me an option to just "install", instead it says "Buy" which eventually leads me to errors. I really hope little glitches like that are taken care of soon because I strongly believe having an OS that works as it is intended all the time is vital if Ubuntu is ever to be a true competitor of Apple and Microsoft.
I've also encountered some problems with my sounds settings. For some reason my earphones only produce sounds from the left side. I know it's not a harware issue since Windows plays sounds fine on my machine. After doing some research I haven't been able to find an easy solution yet and it is a bit frustrating. So often Linux advocates bash new users because they say Linux is too hard to use consistently and this exemplifies what I mean exactly. I know that it is often a result of hardware manufacturers not paying as much attention to Linux, however, in order for Linux to really become popular accross the board, it needs to have issues like this addressed.
While Ubuntu still offers all the customization that it has offered in the past, I don't like that Canonical has disabled a lot of the options that use to be out of the box such as multiple workspaces and things like that. I also think they have made some of the settings a bit harder to access now which is likely an attempt to "dumb down" the OS to make it more user friendly. Unfortunately I do not like having to spend so much time tweaking my distro just so it could run like my Ubuntu 11.10 use to run. But if doing things like this helps to get more users I can forgive Canonical for it, but maybe offer an option during install for "new user" vs "seasoned user".
Overall though, I am extremely excited to be finally running Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. I have been waiting for this version for a while and I am very impressed with what I have seen so far. After attempting to use quite a few other distros like Xubuntu, Mint 16, Kali, Debian and Ubuntu Gnome, I still feel that Ubuntu continues to deliver the best experience of all of these. Mint has climbed significantly in popularity, but to be perfectly frank I don't think it offers any more user friendliness than Ubuntu does. I strongly recommend Ubuntu to anyone wanting to try Linux for the first time as it is a great system, and I would love to see some of the more persistent problems with the distro disappear so that Ubuntu can really make an impact on the desktop market. Unity may be a source of a lot of differences of opinion, but in my opinion Unity is the most inovative, the most attractive and the desktop environment with the most potential to become the new standard in the future. Keep up the good work Canonical.
After downloading the iso via torrent I installed it and here are my initial comments:
I very much like the aesthetic changes done, including the login screen, the colours and particularly the window resizing overhaul. I thought these would be barely noticeable for me but coming from 12.04 I definitely feel that the overall package looks shinier and more pleasant to look at.
I find it unfortunate that Ubuntu One is closing down but I do believe this doesn't really reflect on the health of canonical in general. One aspect of Ubuntu I think needs an overhaul is the software centre. It has pretty much looked the same for a while and if anything I think it may have looked better a few years ago than it looks now. I personally feel that while the rest of the OS has been evolving into a beautiful piece of software, the software centre still looks the same and it is already looking pretty dated.
*Before I continue, let me say that I have already adopted 14.04 to be my desktop OS for the next while. That's because I really really do like it. However I do have some criticism as well, so I wish that anyone reading this does not get discouraged from trying this distro based on the rest of my post.*
While I was very excited to use the latest HUD from Unity, I felt slightly disappointed so far because while the HUD idea is brilliant to the point of being almost revolutionary to me, it is still not doing what I believe it should be doing. I love the idea of having the HUD where I can not only use to open files and applications in my own computer, I would love to be able to easily pick filters and search engines that can be integrated to Unity that way. From my limited experience so far, it looks interesting but it is far from being what it should be. Part of the problem is that I did not find the HUD to be very user friendly and perhaps having a tutorial would be useful or some other way to really make the HUD intuitive and customizable. Once Ubuntu can do that effectively I would not be surprised if other OSs copied the idea because it is simply brilliant.
Some of the issues I had in the past with Ubuntu such as difficulty installing supported software like "Steam" are still there. I don't know why but when I try to install steam from the Ubuntu Software Centre it doesn't offer me an option to just "install", instead it says "Buy" which eventually leads me to errors. I really hope little glitches like that are taken care of soon because I strongly believe having an OS that works as it is intended all the time is vital if Ubuntu is ever to be a true competitor of Apple and Microsoft.I've also encountered some problems with my sounds settings. For some reason my earphones only produce sounds from the left side. I know it's not a harware issue since Windows plays sounds fine on my machine. After doing some research I haven't been able to find an easy solution yet and it is a bit frustrating. So often Linux advocates bash new users because they say Linux is too hard to use consistently and this exemplifies what I mean exactly. I know that it is often a result of hardware manufacturers not paying as much attention to Linux, however, in order for Linux to really become popular accross the board, it needs to have issues like this addressed.
Overall though, I am extremely excited to be finally running Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. I have been waiting for this version for a while and I am very impressed with what I have seen so far. After attempting to use quite a few other distros like Xubuntu, Mint 16, Kali, Debian and Ubuntu Gnome, I still feel that Ubuntu continues to deliver the best experience of all of these. Mint has climbed significantly in popularity, but to be perfectly frank I don't think it offers any more user friendliness than Ubuntu does. I strongly recommend Ubuntu to anyone wanting to try Linux for the first time as it is a great system, and I would love to see some of the more persistent problems with the distro disappear so that Ubuntu can really make an impact on the desktop market. Unity may be a source of a lot of differences of opinion, but in my opinion Unity is the most inovative, the most attractive and the desktop environment with the most potential to become the new standard in the future. Keep up the good work Canonical.
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