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