Ubuntu 7.04

I admit that I have yet to try Ubuntu in my laptop, and I have never once thought about trying to put it in my Desktop – I hardly use it anyway, so why bother? However, I have been tempted all year staring early January to try and switch to Linux. The main reason for wanting to try Linux is because my brother and his friends often discuss Linux.

Linux is an OpenSource, from what I have gathered since discovering about this OS, and it is generally free aside from those that actually charge you to use their system. The free ones that I do know about is Ubuntu, but the person who wrote the article prefers Kubuntu – I’m not sure what the general difference is between the two, because I do not know anything about KDE. I have tried to install Ubuntu only once and that was a few weeks ago to my laptop. Unfortunately it did not bode well, because my laptop’s disk drive is not operating up to par. Since then I have not tried Ubuntu, but I should at some point because of my curiosity.

Now then, the article discusses the new version of Ubuntu and the writer merely discusses the new changes that it brings – mainly the appearance of the OS and being able to migrate from your old OS to the theirs along with a newly designed help center for new Ubuntu users (something I should check out if and when I finally install it, hopefully by then I have gotten my laptop’s CD/DVD drive fixed).

For those that do enjoy Linux, you may want to check it out. But overall there’s no need to. Linux is all well and good, but there’s no hurry to get the system because Linux constantly improves their system every so often. A new one should be coming around sometime soon.

Internet problems...

Apparently, Comcast is having difficulty in managing its internet service if they are going around calling their customers and warning them about overusing their internet. It is understandable, but being a business should not give them the freedom in dealing with it in such a horrible way. Just calling them once or twice and warning them off, then unexpectedly cutting off their internet without telling their customer on what day their internet will be cut off. It is a bit rude and unprofessional.

Moreover, the part about the customers calling customer service and the representative not even knowing what is going on is absurd! That is what I call horrible service. The company should have given a notice to them, and now the result is having customers unexpectedly having their internet cut off for a whole year. Comcast could have stated a limit, which they did not do, instead of losing more customers to other companies who are willing to host them.

It is a good thing that I am not under Comcast or this could have happened to me. Then again, I hardly download any content that is larger than 1GB, but I cannot say the same for my brother. Movies, TV shows, and music are constantly exchanged over the internet these days and there is no sign of it stopping anytime soon. If we were under Comcast, I am sure we would have been within that group of people that suddenly lost their connection.

If Comcast is doing this, I’m sure that Yahoo! DSL would be more than willing to take their customers – even though their high-speed internet is not as fast.

Universal Default Clause...

The Universal Default Clause is clearly something to worry about if you have trouble paying your bills. I don’t think I knew about it until recently when my mother paid for one of her credit bills late. The interest rate was absurdly high when the next bill rolled around, and when she called the credit card company they told her about the clause. Ever since then, she has been reading all the fine prints before applying to any credit card company. It is always a safe bet to read any contracts before signing for anything, even if it appears inconsequential.

What I did not know about in this Universal Default Clause is having a trigger for “having too much debt” and applying for a car loan or a mortgage loan. That is really horrible for people who are having difficulty paying for their bills. There are factors to consider about why they would even do such a thing – like the fact that they currently don’t have the finance availability due to a loss of a job, or something serious as that.

Analytics

Google Analytics is ideal for business owners and webmasters. Of course, people who simply partake in websites like blogs could benefit in it, but it’s not entirely profitable. It’s helpful for tracing just what, exactly, visitors like about the website based on what they are looking for – colored photographs versus black/white – and in which state/country the visitor comes from as well as which pages they most often look at. It is always useful to know what your customers/visitors enjoy most out of your website so you can focus more on that aspect of your website.

After seeing the site, and knowing about this offer from Google, I feel like I wish that I had it beforehand when I was actually more into website making than anything else. It would have been useful back then so I know what visitors focus on when I was making the website, but I have long since given up on that hobby. Still, I could always just use Google Analytics in the current blog we’re doing or anywhere else I feel like. So far I simply placed one into blogspot.com.