Recovery Act of 2009

What is Recovery Act of 2009? Is a set of measures to increase energy efficiency in the U.S.A (but is better for every one to do that). I found a post from AMD blog: http://blogs.amd.com/work/2009/03/11/energy-efficiency-a-little-can-go-a-long-way/ about this problem. So the main idea is: get new pc's wit more energy efficient cpu's and graphics cards. The example found it on AMD blog post is a very good one: airports. Just read the post and you will understand the problem.

Anyway did you know ATI-Fire pro can be used with 4 monitors in the same time ?

http://blogs.amd.com/work/2009/03/11/energy-efficiency-a-little-can-go-a-long-way/

The most long flame what I ever see

Look here: http://kerneltrap.org/node/5610

It started 3 years ago when someone post several reasons "Why Windows is better than Linux" ... after that they never stoped ... in flame :)

Anyway the reasons why the windows is better then linux are:

1. installing programs is easy ( is easy as apt-get install program )
2. Anytime you try to install or change something on your own computer you have to type a password. (this is why in linux are so few accidental security flaws)
3. Installing anything good in Linux requires an entire weekend ending up in learning how to reinvent the wheel. (hmmmm ... Yes is true ... linux is user friendly ... but is selective with his friends )
4. To truly use any Linux distribution your going to have to either take classes in how Linux works or spend time reading a lot of books and forums. (Is true if you use it as a enterprise server :) )

I can't stop to comment on his "stupid" arguments. Anyway I think someone from Linux community is made that just to start the flame :)

Browsers War - News from the battle zone 4

Safari is the fastest Browser in the world according Zdnet: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-272792.html. They used SunSpider suite of JavaScript tests to determine which browser was the quickest.

In this moment the top is:

1) Safari 4
2) Mozilla Minefield 3.2a1
3) Google Chrome
4) Firefox 3
5) Opera 9.6
6) Internet Explorer 8
7) Internet Explorer 7

Best Road Sign Ever

I think you already read about how to hack the road signs, if not just search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hack+road+sign&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

Anyway this is the best message ever:




Regards

New bugs released by Bill Gates

This time are not software bugs and real mosquito's bugs. That happened on a TED conference where Gates was talking about mosquito, malaria and the other problems in country's with poor medical assistance. Anyway the mosquito's was malaria-free and no other incident was reported.

At least this bugs was for a good cause.

A recorded session of the Bill Gates speach can be found here: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html

Vmware VDI is Open Source Now

Vmware come with another good news for Open Source community.

VMware has open sourced its View Client software which enables connections from Linux clients to remote Windows desktops managed by VMware View. VMware would like to see their partners developing the client for non-x86 devices using operating systems other than Windows XP or Linux.

VMware View(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) ), allows to host Windows virtual desktops controlled by View Manager inside datacenters making them available to thin clients running on a large variety of devices from any location. What is really missing from this VDI is the client for MAC and other platforms, so probably this will speed up development for this platforms.

You can get the sources from Google code site. The sources are licensed unde LGPL v2.1 .

Webmaster Web Tools

I just discovered a very interesting site ... or I can say sites ? In fact are 2 twin sites integrated each other: webmaster web tools and hostmaster web tools.

The tools what this sites provide are:

Backlink Checker
Lookup/reverse and ip/host
Spider View
IP Locator
Alexa Rank Checker
Your IP
Google DataCenter Query
Traceroute
HTML Validation
Ping
Sitemap Validation
Visual Traceroute
Link Popularity
Domain Dig
Meta Tag Extractor
XML Validation
Link Extractor
Html Encrypt
Website Speed Test
Source Viewer

The tools are not extraordinary but I was impressed by 2 tools:

1. Visual Traceroute
2. Your IP

Both based on Google maps are doing a very good job. Just check them out.

I recommend this site.

DeMotivational posters II

Demotivational Nr 2. I hope you like them :)

Browsers War - News from the battle zone 3

Brian Rakowski, Chrome's product manager, wants to release Chrome for Mac and Linux before the first half of 2009 is up. It seems both version (Mac and Linux) are in the same stage of development and soon we will have some beta's.

"That team now is able to render most Web pages pretty well. But in terms of the user experience, it's very basic,"

Now there are three Chrome development trunks: stable, beta, and developer preview.

New features with version 2.0.156.1:

• Autocomplete
• Full-page zoom (Ctrl+ and Ctrl-)
• Browser profiles
• Import from Google Bookmarks site.
• Autoscroll,
• Faster Safe Browsing
• An update of Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine from version 0.3.9.3 to 0.4.6.0.

Cyanide and Happiness

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Most cheap Ipod and Mp3 players

I just found a list with the most cheap mp3 players sale by amazon this week:

Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black)
Price: ~64$




SanDisk Sansa Clip 4 GB MP3 Player (Silver)
Price: ~ 54$






Zune 4 GB Digital Media Player (Black)
Price: ~80$










Archos 705 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (160 GB)
Price: ~346$

Wordpress 2.7 - Coltrane

I promise ... last post from this night: Wordpress 2.7 was released

I told you, Santa Claus is insane ... after OpenSolaris, Slackware now Wordpress relase their newest version 2.7.

Features:

1. New Interface. (Tomorrow I will upgrade my blogs).
2. New DashBoard with drag and drop (At last my greatest creation !)
3. Customizable screen
4. And the last but the most important: "last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again" ... (I heard a lot of this ... look at SMF)



http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/

Good Job Wordpress TEAM and Thank you !

Dell triples Windows XP downgrade tax from 50$ to 150$

This days I'm very happy because I use Debian/Ubuntu Desktops at work and home. Is insane to get 150$ for a downgrade. This is happening for Dell Users:

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40501/140/

At Debian/Ubuntu it is free ... and I think no one will want to downgrade (as linux user). Anyway ... if you want it then you can get it for FREE not for 150$.

But is true ... a lot of Laptops vendors are selling their products only with Vista ... and no support for Linux, XP, Apple.


Another beer and I will sleep on the keyboard.

Browsers War - News from the battle zone 2

Chrome 1.0 was released ... a new war will come ... and the winner browser will be:
THE FASTEST BROWSER ... IE7.

Why ?

Because Microsoft distribute this BROWSER and they have the most OS sold in this world. Firefox will never win ... But it will be always the BEST Browser.

Hmmmm ... I think I drunk to much beer.

Good night.

Will economic crash boost open source desktops?

Probably yes ... but not so much. Anyway it seems HP puts Linux on business PCs. What means that? Not much ... but it happen because of economic crash. So, probably, more people will interact with OpenSource software.

HP says that it is offering SLED 10 on the machine only in the United States, and estimates that the street price of a base PC will come to around $519.

Cheap price if is coming from HP ... :)

Read more here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/hp_linux_biz_pc/