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Funny clip from “The Colbert Report” (The DailyShow”) on telecom deregulation in the US … Cingular At&t merger.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8272904305020506182

I remember seeing it a while back, and wanted to look it up for some friends. It took me a while to find it though. Most of the links on YouTube or Google Video didn’t work for some reason. So I hope this one continues to work for some time.

Looks like a serious upgrade, 7.10 More Info | Ubuntu.

The servers seem a bit slow to download right now. I’ll try getting it a few days later.

I’m hoping that device driver enhancements, will fix some of the graphics problems that I’ve been to lazy to figure out on my notebook (Lenovo T60p.)

I now have blog-by-email fully working in order run the update script
automatically.
Every time I send a new blog by email, the script “wp-mail.php” needs to
be run to update the blog with the new entry. In order to have the
script run periodically, I used the ‘cron’ command
to invoke the script every few
minutes. The command I used to invoke the script was the following:

wget -O /dev/null http://fakebucket.com/blog/wp-mail.php 2>/dev/null
wget: is a command to retrieve a web and saves as a file.
‘-O /dev/null’: means save the the retrieved page to ‘null’, or in
otherwords, get rid of what has been retrieved.
‘2>/dev/null’ means cron should through away the command output.