Am I Blind

Sometimes you wonder how you simply don't see the obvious.. I'd wondered how they cook such names for every Ubuntu release. After announcing the name of 9.10 (9.04 not yet released), I got some help seeing how they come up with such names.
here's the list from the fourth release:

4. 6.06 Dapper Drake
5. 6.10 Edgy Eft
6. 7.04 Feisty Fawn
7. 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
8. 8.04 Hardy Heron
9. 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
10. 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
11. 9.10 Karmic Koala

See the pattern? The names are in alphabetic order from D to K. The names start with an adjective for the animal which is the second name. The releases in same year have same number and the value after decimal point is the month of release.

Tips of the day

1. Hidden files in linux start with '.'
Example: .Trash is the usual hidden trash folder name. Similarly .themes for the themes and so on.

2. Many files do not have non-administrative user access. You need to be root user to access those files. It might seem easier to sign in as root but not recommended (In ubuntu signing in as root is prevented by default which can be changed.)
So for root access in commands in terminal, type sudo before the command.
In case you have to access a graphical application, type gksudo
Eg. gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst to edit the menu.lst file

3. Having used Gnome, KDE and Xfce desktop environments in recent past, I got to learn some facts that might be useful while switching among them.
The file manager (program doing the same function as explorer.exe in Windows) in those desktop environments are:
Gnome - nautilus
KDE - dolphin
Xfce - thunar

The basic text editing softwares (corresponding to notepad in Windows) are:
Gnome - gedit
KDE - Kate
Xfce - mousepad

4. Opening the file manager with gksudo might be a good idea to open/edit or cut-copy-paste restricted-access files the graphical way
eg. gksudo nautilus

My Desktop

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Thought I'd upload how my desktop looks like now..

Customisation Details on Ubuntu 8.10 base:
Xfce desktop environment (Xfwm4 compositing window manager)
Gnome applications
Avant window-navigator (that's the dock at the bottom)
Tweaked a lot with themes (not sure how it's mixed up now:-)

All this in AMD Sempron 2800+ processor, no external graphic card, with 768MB of RAM including Integrated Graphics memory.

CPU usage around 50% and memory usage just 384MB with firefox and songbird running.