I have recently obtained an older Dell laptop and thought it would be fun to install Fedora on it. After almost a week of fighting with drivers and software it was suggested that I give Ubuntu a try. Now I know that it’s the new game in town when it comes to Linux, but it looks pretty good so I think I’ll give it a try. I’m currently burning the ISO and about to start loading it up. I’m hoping that it goes better than Fedora, and who knows, maybe they’ll get another convert.
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Time to hop on the Ubuntu bandwagon? 11 July 2008 at 10:01 am by Jason 140 views
+ Daily del.icio.us Bookmarks for 07/09/08 By Jason 09 July 2008 at 8:01 pm 180 views No Comments
These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 07/09/08 … please enjoy:
LEGO Hamster Lift Might Actually Be More Cruel Than the Wheel | Gizmodo
The hamster wheel… on one hand, it keeps the hamster in shape. On the other, that hamster going nowhere. This elevator leaves us, again, floating in moral ambiguity. One one hand, it’s a LEGO elevator. On the other…well, just watch.
A Perspective on 3-D Visual Illusions | Scientific American
In this illusion, two identical side-by-side images of the same tilted and receding object appear to be leaning at two different angles.
Linux for housewives. XP for geeks. | ZDNet
The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 ?netbooks? like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And some surprising things are happening. Like housewives on Linux.
NASA sets date for final shuttle mission in 2010 | Physorg
Following a detailed, integrated assessment, NASA selected target launch dates for the remaining eight space shuttle missions on the current manifest in 2009 and 2010. May 31st, 2010 will be the final launch for the time being.
Apple Just Gave Out My Apple ID Password Because Someone Asked | Consumerist
All the security in the world can be rendered useless by human error, it seems. Marko Karppinen, a software designer, says Apple gave his password to someone who simply emailed them and asked for it.
Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP | Gizmodo
We came across this jewel from 2003… this is a leaked memo from Microsoft, it’s several pages of Gates just laying into his design and programming staff for his personal experience when trying to install Windows Moviemaker.
Come back for more links tomorrow!!
+ Would you like some Wine with your cake? By Jason 18 June 2008 at 1:50 pm 1,244 views No Comments
Hot on the heels of FireFox 3.0 being released (have you downloaded it yet??), the Wine team has announced they’ve finally hit version 1.0!
The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!
While compatibility is not perfect yet, thousands of applications have been reported to work very well. Check http://appdb.winehq.org to see the details for your favorite applications.
Congrats guys, it was a long time coming!!! For those who don’t know, in short, Wine allows you to run Windows programs in a Linux environment. Right from their about page:
Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop.
The Wine project started in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Bob Amstadt was the original coordinator, but turned it over fairly early on to Alexandre Julliard, who has run it ever since. Over the years, ports for other Unixes have been added, along with support for Win32 as Win32 applications became popular.
Cool, huh? Speaking of cool, check out the cake that Microsoft sent over to the FireFox crew:
Now that’s class! Those of you may remember that this same thing happened for the launch of FireFox 2:
Gotta love the sense of humor these guys have!
