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

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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/

Apple 3d Desktop

It seems Apple will launch soon a 3d Desktop ... After Linux compiz, Kde 4.2 and Microsoft Vista , Apple is coming with their new 3d Desktop.



Apple 3D desktop was revealed in their patent filing. But if you are curious just read more here: http://www.macrumors.com/2008/12/11/apple-exploring-3d-desktop-and-application-interfaces/

New Release Open Solaris

Jesus ... is like the Christmas tree. Slackaware and now Open Solaris ? Whos next?

Ok ... Open solaris was released. The last release was in May: Project Indiana.

New features:

1. Time Slider, a Gnome GUI that makes Sun's not-for-the-uninitiated Zettabyte File System (ZFS) functionality, like instant data snapshots, available to all users.

2. Distribution Constructor so users can build their custom software stack depending on how they're going to use the OS and a storage feature called Comstar Storage Framework (?) that lets developers create an open storage server.

3. OpenOffice 3, Firefox 3, NetBeans 6.5 and - good heavens - the NetBeans-opposing Eclipse IDE.

New review: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/10/sun_opensolaris_update/
Get it : http://www.opensolaris.com/get/

Slackware 12.2

I can't belive that ... Slackware 12.2 was released. Slackware was the first distributions what I ever tryed ... in 1997, so I can get some time to announce their release. New features:

1. Kernel 2.6.27.7 + kernel patched with Speakup to support speech synthesizers
2. System binaries are linked with the GNU C Library, version 2.7.
3. X11 based on the X.Org Foundation's modular X Window System. (Only now ?)
4. gcc-4.2.4 as the default C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran-77/95, and Ada 95 compiler.
5. OpenSSH, OpenVPN, GnuPG and Apache 2.2.10
6. PCMCIA, CardBus, USB, IEE1394 (FireWire) and ACPI support great for your laptop
7. Perl 5.10.0, Python 2.5.2, Ruby 1.8.7-p72, Subversion 1.5.4, git-1.6.0.3, mercurial-1.0.2 ... (yummy)
8. New versions of Slackware package management tools make it easy to add, remove, upgrade, and make your own Slackware packages.
9. Web Browsers: Konwueror 3.5.10, Firefox 3.0.4 and SeaMonkey 1.1.13
10. KDE 3.5.10 + Koffice + Kdevelop (wow ... really for Slack)
11. More read here ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/PACKAGES.TXT