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Email has become such an important tool, that everyday more and more people wants to have it 24/7 available. Some years ago RIM started the blackberry service, and for years it was the only option available in the market, but that has changed, and now we have other options.

Since Go2linux was born some years ago, has been hosted in four or five different places, it started in my office in a VMWare virtual machine with Debian Edge, then I moved it to shared web servers, but more or less six months ago, I have moved it to Linode.com, and what is Linode? well it stand from Linux node.

Well, actually it was more than a month not writting in my blog, and do not think this will be a permanent situation, but I am with too much work these days, but I have given some time to start reading Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo and Debian mailing list, and also to answer some of the emails.

The guys of MiniVDS ordered a review of their service, first lets explain a little what a VDS/VPS is, It is a Server with some virtualization software installed, like VMWare, XEN, or any other, where there are installed some virtual servers, and you may rent one of them. So it is like having your own private server, but given the fact that you are sharing the resources of a server with others, it is affordable.

Now lets go to MiniVDS review.

Linux is a very versatile Operating System, one of its applications I like the most, is that it may run from a USB key, first there were only a few distros able to do that, Puppy Linux or DSL were some of them, now a days, a lot can, Mandriva, Ubuntu, and more, and more each day.

You can find how to do install and run Linux from a USB key at PendriveLinux, but if you really want to let your friends amazed, get one of this amazing usb keys from La Cie.

Some time ago, I have written this post about human spam, since then I have moved Go2linux to Drupal 6, and have installed mollom on the site.

I have found this video while stumble upon, It has a beautiful acquarium as "wall paper", and the Compiz cube turned on.

Credits go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/sausagenmuff

And here is a small description of him about how to do this.

1. install linux
2. install compiz
3. enable 3d cube, wobbly windows..ect
4. set cube opacity slider BOTH to 25.
5. use a skydome and check off "animate" (panorama's from google images work well)
6. Install atlantis "fish" plugin
you can get it here:
http://gitweb.compiz-fusion.org/?p=fu...
(extract to your home dir, go into that directory inside a terminal, type "make" then "sudo make install"

This post has nothing to do with Linux or technology, but being a Football fan, and as I am from Bolivia, I feel I should write about this historic victory of Bolivia against one of the best teams in the world, nothing more, nothing less than Diego Armando Maradona's Argentina.