I'm sure you've heard that the latest version of Ubuntu - Hardy Heron hit the servers on 24th Apr. After abandoning ubuntu for one full release (Gutsy Gibbon), I'm back to it.And I'm loving it! I'm just pleased to see Ubuntu getting better with each release, especially since I'd began using it since Breezy, way back in Apr 2006.I started out with Breezy, and the experience was anything but breezy. But, I'm happy with the fact that I started with that release, coz I got to learn a lot, as most of the stuff wasn't as easy as it is today. But the reason why I'm back to Ubuntu is something unrelated to Ubuntu. My Gmail was hacked recently, and repeatedly. Paypal was linked to it, and so credit card information was misused too. Though I don't want to explain much of it here, I could say that s.o.b created a mighty mess, and I'm still 1/3rd drowned in it. I got to say, he gave me an entirely new picture of security on the Internet. Now I know its f*cking easy to mess with public systems like Gmail and Orkut. I've decided to take Google out of my diet to the maximum exten possible, and have almost completed the task. No details here. Someone suggested that the hacker might have installed s/w on my Vista, say, a keylogger or something. And that was when it struck me. I had actually tried the Beta a few days ago, so I was aware that there was the Final releasing sometime soon. I checked the Ubuntu site, and there it was, the Final version of Hardy up for download. I now don't use Firefox for anything related to Google (Orkut). Its a security hole.. It is. I've had no instance of a hack/ password change since, and you can guess the rest of the story.

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