News Headline in Sydney Today: "There was massive confusion today about whether daylight saving had ended or not. Whilst it did not, many gadgets and computers tried to tell us that it had, causing many people to be late for work and other commitments".

I am not going to go into a long and lengthy blog post about this, but if you haven't heard, OOo 2.4 has been released. If you want to read more, go to the OOoNinja blog post about it. I really hope there is an update released for Ubuntu soon, as I really, really, really want to try out those OpenGL impress transitions!

You either hated it, or loved it. Automatix that is. Many people said that it wrecks your system, others say that it is great! Whatever you thought of Automatix, it is no longer, as development has ceased. This means there will be no Automatix version for Hardy!

I have to say I was a bit unsure about Pulse Audio when I heard it was going to be in Hardy Heron.

"PulseAudio is a sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server."

I don't really like proxies, and that probably put me off real badly. That said, it is nothing like using a web proxy: It actually works, and works well.

I love the Virtual Machine program Virtual Box, but I have never been able to get USB working, until today. If you are in the same boat as me, follow these easy to follow instructions to get it working!

Microsoft bluffing on patents, Kubuntu/Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 4 (sorry, podcast was delayed), ASUS preps $500 iMac killer, How to install linux over a network AND backup with TimeVault. This week, er, month on this (delayed) episode of the Ubuntu Podcast!

My laptop really needed a re-installation, and a format. I decided while I was at it, I had may as well try out Hardy Heron and see how it is coming along.

Another thing is, this is my first foray into 64-bit operating systems -  my laptop came with Vista 32 bit (which i obviously don't use, and removed straight away), so I assumed that it was a 32 bit processor, but I later found out otherwise.

For those of you who don't know, Lotus Symphony is a Office Suite from IBM, based off both OpenOffice.org (though an old version), Eclipse and a few other things. It supports ODF as the main format, which is a great boost, runs on both Windows and Linux, and is also from a well known company - meaning businesses have no excuse not to pick up OpenDocument Format! Setting it up on Ubuntu, or any other Linux distro, can be a bit tricky. This HowTo will walk you through all the steps!

If you haven't seen the new Ubuntu Mobile, in one work... awesome. Unfortuantly, I am not able to deliver a review for it, as a mobile device is needed, and potentially a mobile device that has it pre-loaded, and I don't think there are any of them yet. A quick lowdown, it is nearly a full computer system for a mobile device. Nearly. As it is Open Source, it is completly customiseable, and can support many applications.

As you may have noticed, UbuntuOS has moved! We have moved from Wordpress, which is great if all you want is to blog, to Joomla!, which is great if you want to blog, podcast, have tutorials, videos, news, forums, and all that other stuff that we want to have and we want to work.

Yes, we missed an episode. Yes, this episode is a bit late. Yes, we didn’t return when we inteneded. Yes, we are BACK!