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Happy Festivus to everyone! Such a classic!

Both awesome and incredibly dumb. Well done!

Ubuntu’s Ayatana team is creating a new enhanced GTK+ to enable RGBA support. This would allow themes much like Window’s Aero Glass to be created. Furthermore, if testing goes well, this theme could be the default theme for Ubuntu installations. While some may not want Linux to be a Windows clone, many users have become accustom to the eye candy the Aero Glass style presents and Ubuntu’s current brown and orange theme is not the most appealing. Ubuntu’s goal is to chip away at Microsoft’s marketshare and making the default look better is one way to accomplish that goal. Here is a preview of what the theme could look like:

Full Article: OMG!Ubuntu!

I’m not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, this dude is clearly lazy. On the other hand, she is pretty crazy and she doesn’t need to resort to this kind of destruction to get her point across. She should just dump him. Nonetheless, it is entertaining.

Well, scientists have finally proven the obvious! I guess every project can get grant money any more.

In another step to control the entire internet, Google has launched public DNS servers for everyone’s use. DNS servers are used to lookup on what IP a particular domain or subdomain is located. For instance, ATBNet.us has the IP of 76.10.210.37. So, the DNS server will lookup ATBNet.us and find the correct IP and then your internet connection will connect to that IP and presto – you’re at this site.

Why would you want to use Google’s DNS servers? Well, for one they are very robust. Instead of having just one or two servers handle the DNS service, Google uses anycast which means many servers can handle this task. This also means a DNS server can be fairly local to you instead of jumping halfway across the world. Another reason why is that many ISPs setup redirection on their DNS servers which will take you to a generic search site if you mistype a URL. This search sites are just ways for ISPs to earn extra revenue and can often confuse users rather than help them find the right URL. Other than that, there are no major reasons to switch to Google’s DNS service. They don’t offer any way to block known malware and virus sites like OpenDNS as they do not wish to be in that business to block off parts of the internet even for good reasons.

So, if you are willing check out the Google DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. They are pretty easy to remember.

Full Article: Google Blog

Never officially shown and you can see why.

After AMD and IBM announced they had produced the 50 millionth GPU and CPU for the Wii, it was only a matter of time before Nintendo would announce it had produced the 50 millionth Wii unit. I wonder if they will still claim there is a shortage? Either way, Nintendo has done a great job with their console to prove that they still have it.

Full Article: Joystiq

Kevin Rose on Diggnation has proclaimed that the next iPhone OS, iPhone 3.0 will finally incorporate copy and paste into its software. Kevin goes on to say that this release will bring the interface up to the level of the Palm Pre. Check out the link below for the video of his predictions. Or you can just wait until the 17th and see if his predictions are true.

Full Article: 9to5mac

This is definitely not good news if you are an AMD fan or just someone hoping that AMD can stay competitive with Intel to keep prices down. According to the road-map, it looks like AMD will be riding the 45nm wave for their CPUs through 2010 until these chips featuring its new micro-architecture. This means that AMD will be at least 1.5 years behind Intel in getting 32nm products to the market. However, there are a lot of promises in store for these new chips including a complete redesign which will bring about considerably higher performance and the SSE5 instruction set. I just hope I can wait that long to get some great chips. I’ll take an Istanbul 6 core chip to hold off though!

Full Article: Xbit Labs