April 2009

This is going to be an excit­ing month for me. Tomor­row my new video card should arrive from NewEgg, with 1GB of RAM, allow­ing me to run Com­piz across 2 mon­i­tors at a res­o­lu­tion of 2960×1050.

Win­dows 7 Release Can­di­date 1 will be released, as will Ubuntu 9.04, a long-term release that fea­tures a newer ker­nel — which I’ve read has solved a bug that causes Bit­Tor­rent activ­ity to kill WLAN con­nec­tions — as well as the Ext4 filesys­tem, which I under­stand noth­ing about other than that it is bet­ter than Ext3. I will also likely install the 64-bit dis­tri­b­u­tion to take advan­tage of my new 4GB of RAM, and spring for a 1TB hard drive to com­ple­ment these two OS upgrades.

Word­Press 2.8 is also slated to be released, whose fea­tures include these three that I’m espe­cially look­ing for­ward to:

• Add Code­Press syn­tax high­light­ing to Theme and Plu­gin editors
• Allow the dash­board wid­gets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab
• Autosave post/page when press­ing Control/Command+S