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We’re always on the lookout for good desktop Twitter clients.
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Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, calls on Linux developers to make the presentation layer of desktop Linux applications even more attractive to users than Apple’s Mac OS.
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some i may not agree with, and some ommissions, but a good start:)
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weird doesnt actually come close to some of these..
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With food and fuel costs soaring and the financial costs of global warming becoming reality, a new cure-all prescription has emerged: The average American should eat less.
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At its core a loudspeaker is a surprisingly simple device. The key elements are the drivers, crossovers and the cabinet.
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As much as 75 percent of a home’s heat escapes through the roof and walls. A new European initiative plans to design homes that are much smarter about energy use.
July 2008Monthly Archives
links for 2008-07-25
links for 2008-07-24
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Fascinating read:)
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a fun place by a dark friend…
links for 2008-07-23
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UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it’s no different from a standard install, only it doesn’t need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely.
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It is available in two flavours. First is the compiz enabled gnome version as shown in the screenshot and the second is based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix packages. I use the Ubuntu netbook remix flavour, and it is utterly brilliant! Hardy based.
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Given that a portion of any commercial PC’s purchase price includes software, users may find themselves forced into buying Vista even though they won’t be using it.That is, unless they don’t accept the software’s end-user license agreement (EULA).
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Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 1 debuted a radical new look for Ubuntu with a much darker, more subdued theme than the familiar orange and brown we’ve all come to love or hate depending on your tastes.
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The first of six successful lunar missions, Apollo 11 marked the first time humans set foot on another planetary surface. This image is of the Apollo 11 crew ‘suiting up’ for countdown demonstration test.
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DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn’t be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.
links for 2008-07-22
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No observation in recent history of science has been more disturbing than the discovery of dark energy in 1998.
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Description: What Microsoft can offer, is offered in a better way by Open-Source Communities.
All that glitters is not gold…
…nor all those who wander are lost.
Things are not always what they seem.
We are adamant and ephemeral in our feelings. There are core feelings, deep, abiding tides, then there are the shifting currents of emotion.
We make decisions based on both, but too often, on the latter.It is so hard to recognise what is solid, real feeling, and what is the mood of now.
The difference between depression and being depressed, really.
The currents were rising above my head tonight. I got thrown a lifeline by a simple message that made me laugh with joy, and yet had nothing to do with me except as a shared tale.
Through all that has happened in the last few years, I have struggled with currents. They are just currents though, and I can swim, for I have so many lifeboats in my ocean.
The quote is from Lord Of The Rings – and very apt for my rescuer tonight. A lover of Ents.
links for 2008-07-21
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Time-wasting is not just an irritating habit. According to new research, one person in five now suffers from the problem so badly that their careers, relationships and health are threatened.
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When Mars was still young, more than four billion years ago, a large asteroid sailed out of the sky and slammed into an area known today as western Arabia Terra.
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Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza’s Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.
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the scientific explosion taking place in astrobiology, the multi-disciplined search for extreme forms of life on Earth and for possibly similar, or more advanced, life elsewhere in the solar system and in distant galaxies.
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this poster says it all for me:) linux is my 127.0.0.1!
links for 2008-07-20
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a friend of mine is adding to my penguin collection with his inspiration, and i love it:) thanks mate!!!!
links for 2008-07-19
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It’s really hard to come up with a list of just 10 WordPress plugins that are social media related; there’s so many available now.
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Linux is a powerful and versatile operating system that can be utilized to hack just about any electronic hardware device. To prove it, I have here a list of popular gadgets that are already known to run Linux.
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Little did Bucknell University geology professors Craig Kochel and Jeffrey Trop know, as they were working in Alaska, that they would soon predict one of the most important planetary observations ever made.
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Music streaming and social community Last.fm has redesigned for a more mature experience, adding more integration and ubiquity across a variety of devices. Ars Technica put on some headphones and rocked out with some of the new features.
links for 2008-07-18
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Times critics present the 20 worst endings in film. From the absurd to the underwhelming, these are the closing scenes that have ruined memorable films.
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With memories of rancid portable toilets and primitive outhouses dancing through our minds, we first want to know, how green is this toilet? Actually, I have friends with them, they rock:)
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Ever wanted to master the keyboard shortcuts and get more productive on the web? Here is everything you need – 7 quick cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web. Download, print and stick them somewhere near your desk.
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let’s take a look at 10 of the more common gripes amongst computer users and our humble suggestions for fixing them.
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3rd party Android developers, increasingly frustrated with the lack of SDK updates, were shocked to discover that Google has been secretly making new versions of the SDK available to the Android Developer Challenge finalists under nondisclosure agreements
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the GNOME release team announced a proposal for developing the next major iteration of the open source desktop environment. The plan offers a long-term strategy for moving GNOME development forward and defining future goals for the desktop.
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The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008
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WattOS is a new Linux distribution that’s based on Ubuntu, but designed for low-power machines. It has low system requirements, which means you can run it on older hardware.
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Many NASA projects now have twitter accounts, so you can get up-to-the-minute updates from mission specialists themselves. Here’s a list of NASA’s twitter usernames, and what they’re about.
You can’t expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday’s tools…
…and expect to be in business tomorrow.
This OpenOffice/StarOffice plugin allows you an easy way to export and import your documents from OpenOffice.org 2.0.4+ or StarOffice 8 to Google Docs & Zoho. Also works on OpenOffice3 Beta2.
As usual with Google, it is in Beta. Everything is in Beta, it seems:)
In Ubuntu Hardy & later, to enable the Options, you need to tweak Java, as that is a requirement. Simply go Menu Tools -> Options -> Java, and select the latest Sun Java 1.6 you have installed – mine is 1.6.01. (It needs at least 1.6).
Known gotchas:
Won’t update docs, just upload new ones and download old ones.
Forget any other type of format at the moment but documents – no presentations of spreadsheets at this stage.
There are some other issues and fixes on the wiki page.
