Jun 16, 2006 - 19:43 | + 5 - 2 MS Office does something right!
Today I discovered the ability of Microsoft Outlook 2003 to sort inbox views "by Conversation". Finally a concrete reason why I should upgrade from Office 2000: comparison matrix. Of course, I wouldn't pay for it if my company didn't provide it. If it was up to me, I'd be using openoffice with Mozilla Thunderbird for free :)Jun 06, 2006 - 17:47 | + 7 - 4 Ubuntu 6.06 on a Thinkpad T30
Yesterday, I installed the new version of Ubuntu (6.06) on my Thinkpad T30. There are alot of reviews of the distro floating around on the net so I won't get into much detail, but I did want to say that Ubuntu is now the easiest Linux distro to install. All I had to do is pop the CD into the drive, boot the computer, wait till the CD loaded me into a fully usable GNOME desktop environment, and click on the install-to-HD icon. After that, I answered a few questions, selected the appropriate partition to install to and off it went. The installer even detected that I had Windows 2000 installed on another partition and setup a dual boot environment for me.... very nice!
After the install, most of the hardware worked out of the box, but I did have to get a package called network-manager to complete the setup. With network-manager running, the laptop automatically manages what network connection it will use (wifi, lan) without much input from the user. We'll see how the distro behaves after a few weeks, but for now I'm happy :)
PS: Make sure to grab the gstreamer10-mp3 playing package to get mp3 playback!
