Soon, we’ll be greeted with 11 ton of ex spy satellite material on our heads… potentially.
That thing is going to land somewhere.
The satellite is as large as a school bus, has been powered off and is going to fall.
Some people think about shooting the falling satellite with a missile, but some argue that.
Read more about it here.
A month or so ago, Apple presented MacBook Air to us. Probably the wolds thinest laptop 
it looks to me like a tray, a plateau where you put your food (now that’s a good application )
It’s god a 13″ screen, no DVD, a CPU that was specially made by Intel, a convenient power plug etc.
External USB DVD is an option but you can also use a CD from any computer nearby to you if you install the provided software.
SSD (Solid State Disk) is an option if you’ve got the cash for it (it’s pretty expensive).
You can read more about it here.
I love mint tea 
I drink it every day, usually late at night before going to bed. No sugar, just the tea. It’s really cheap but I’m thinking about getting some leaves in the summer just for fun.
Today I found a good YouTube clip on mint tea
Check it out
This is good news. KDE is ported to Windows/Mac and the users of those operating systems will become more familiar with it.
Although some people think open source programmers should not waste their time on proprietary OSes such as Windows I still think this is a good thing.
The move was eased by using CMake build system. Also, it helped that Trolltech made Qt libraries GPL for non commercial projects on Windows/Mac.
Read about it here and at the KDE website Windows section.
Today we got to see the first public working draft of HTML 5 here.
The most interesting for me were the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and the improvements.
HTML 5 adds support for 2D drawing by using the new canvas element. There are also audio and video elements, new data presentational elements, new types for user inputs (like browser based calendars) etc.
Although this is still a draft it looks promising. Check it out
I read today on Slashdot that IBM got a pantent for charging you for leaving a highway to avoid traffic congestion.
How does this sound to you? To me it sounds absolutely hilarious. I always leave a highway when it becomes congested and now IBM has a patent on charging me (us) for that?
Great
Read about this issue here
Few days ago, I got OpenSolaris DVD from a friend containing various developer tools and I decided to try it out.
The DVD I got is released quarterly and can be found here.
I dediced to try it out. The install process was simple but it lasted forever, I couldn’t believe it was over when it finished. Well actually it wasn’t really finished, because after booting it for the first time it took like 10 minutes to actually start the GUI.
OpenSolaris really isn’t a polished product. At least from a standpoint of a desktop user.
My screen was in the correct resolution, and the nvidia drivers were there but the refresh rate was like 50 Hz instead of 60Hz.
Next, I found out my network card was not working… I searched the internet for VIA Rhine II and found drivers here. Next, I found out resolv.conf file did not even exist
I created one, populated some name servers and set up the default gateway to my router.
But again I was out of luck, dig tool was working but I couldn’t connect to any site on the net. With some googleing I found out I had to copy nsswitch.dns to nsswitch.conf
Wow, talk about a user friendly OS
I found a good package repository run by the Blastwave guys. Check it out.
I named my OpenSolaris Horus. Horus was the Egypt’s Sun God at the time the pharaohs ruled.
Now, I’m running vncserver on Solaris that I use via vncviewer from my Ubuntu GNU/Linux laptop.
Here’s a picture of it through my vncviewer. I’m running fluxbox window manager btw
Open source software and standards are really making an influence on companies.
Today, AOL started using XMPP (Jabber protocol).
This means you can reuse your ICQ/AIM logins and start using them via Jabber.
Numerous people reported the service is still buggy and overloaded but I guess it will get better with time.
Jabber on!
Wow, just wow.
I got this movie, Zeitgeist, from a friend and I thought, whaaaat, I gotta see this German movie?
Well it’s not a German movie, although it sounds like that. Zeit means time and geist I think means ghost.
So it’s actually a ghost of times or something.
The movie talks about rulling people using religion, money etc. It tries to uncover various conspiracy theories.
I’m not going to say the movie is good or bad. I’m just going to say you have to see it to and decide for yourself.
Thank you my friend for giving me the movie
The movie is free, you can see it at http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
I’ve finally started with my own web hosting. I got a reseller account on a Cpanel/WHM box that I’ve installed and still maintain. The box runs the most recent CentOS, version 5.1.
And I got several clients to start with and I want more
The reason I started with the web hosting was a part from frustration with the big hosting companies, like Lunar Pages. I’ve used their services and thought really good things about them but then problems started and they were really not doing their support job right. I have already wrote about them and I will make a separate post about the latest incident.
Right now, I can not offer hundreds of gigabytes of web space like they can but I can offer a professional support and hosting tailored to customer needs. I realized through experience this is the most important thing.
You can just throw away all those gigabytes (which IMO you’re not even going to use, most people have small websites) but when problems appear (and they will, no matter how good a hosting is) you want to know fairly what’s going on and how do you get that fixed. I fit there much more than those shaky support people at big hosting companies.
But to tell you all the truth, I’ve been really impressed with Cpanel support. Really.
They do a wonderful job fixing the issues and they’re that good that I forgive them for their bugs.
Err, maybe not all the bugs but they got credit with me. Keep up the good work guys.
And you can contact me anytime to get a fair offer on your web hosting needs.
Or maybe you want to make a web hosting company? I’m open to do that for you too
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