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Now that Best Buy sells Ubuntu Linux in their stores, I decided to buy a copy to support this move. What an adventure!

I purchased it online, but good luck finding it unless you have a direct link or use the search box. I checked to see if it was in-stock at my local Best Buy, which it was, so I chose in-store pick-up.

Big mistake!

I purchased it and waited for the confirmation email. It should take 45 minutes, but it took 2 hours - just to tell me they didn't have it in stock! I figured they just didn't know what they were doing, so I drove to Best Buy anyway.

It was sitting on the shelves (3 copies)!

However, it wasn't under OS's, it was just on the shelf in a random location. That's probably why they couldn't find it. I had also looked under OS's. I took it to the pick-up counter to explain the situation - they were very dismissive. To top it all, they didn't remove the protection, and the alarms went off as I left. All this just to help out Ubuntu.

Oh w

I noticed ads started showing up for me today, so I'm thinking my paid membership may have expired, but I don't see anywhere to renew it. Am I missing it?

No, it's not about pre-historic ancestors. I just miss two links that used to be on the V3 home page:

http://osgalaxy.com - for OSGalaxy. I love all the OS Dudes and their comments.

http://osnews.com/staff - while I can select individual blog comments from the OSNews Staff blogs, I like going to the page that has all of them at once. It makes a quick scan possible.

I have bookmarks for both of the above, but I like the link.

I haven't been able to vote + or - on comments under the V4 client for several days. Occasionally it works, but 95% of the times it doesn't. I have to switch to the old client to vote, so I generally don't (too big of a hassle). I am using XP SP2 with a fully-patched IE6.

I don't know if you are still taking bug reports on V4, but I thought I would submit it anyway. Let me know if there is a better way.

I am feeling very Feisty, and have decided to upgrade my Dapper Drake laptop to Feisty. I assume I will have to upgrade to Edgy Eft first. Any ideas/suggestion/words of wisdom (besides backing stuff first, which I will already by doing)?