New York New York

After my 6 day trip to New York, I have had a few people ask me to write down the things which I learnt that may help future trips to this amazing city. However this is my first hand experience in June 2011 and other experiences may differ.

Top apps not installed on Ubuntu by default

There are hundreds if not thousands of these "Top 10 linux apps" and "Apps you must have following Ubuntu installation" type blog entries but in my opinion these are useless unless you can identify with the author. To help you identify with me:

• Been using Ubuntu for home use (DVDs, photos, internet) for over 5 years.
• Mainly use open source applications but not exclusively.
• Prefer to pay nothing for the software.
• It should just work "out the box", no command line or extensive "how to" required.
• Could be said I am a Google fan boy

At last Working Ubuntu

• 4 Attempts to try and convert to linux (Once a year!)
• A few sleepless nights (This time not anything to do with Wireless)
• Lots of coffee
• 4 reformats
  
• A a couple of crashes later (Two of which was in attempt to login to blogger)

I have converted to Ubuntu... I am now an official Linux Geek!

Something I read from Google...

"As we move toward the "Store 100%" reality, the online copy of your data will become your Golden Copy and your local-machine copy serves more like a cache. An important implication of this theme is that we can make your online copy more secure than it would be on your own machine."