Things n' Stuff Thoughts about the universe in general

Mozilla Gecko sucks, what’s new ? I’m doing some AJAX work for my web development framework (more about it much later), and one thing I encountered with the Mozilla browsers (which means mostly Firefox but also other Gecko based browsers such as Flock and of course SeaMonkey) is that they don’t handle the importNode() call that well..

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Late as usual (but starting to catch up), I listened to Novell Open Audio‘s Ted Haeger interviews Nat Friedman, formerly co-founder of Ximian (The GNOME desktop company – bought by Novell and hence the link does a funny redirect) and currently Novell’s VP of engineering for Linux desktop (or something).

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I’ve been using Fedora Core for a while now on my laptop, and also on several computers at home and work. In the past I’ve tested Fedora many times, but only Fedora Core 5 was good enough compared to other major Linux distros that I thought it deserved to be run as a primary OS (mostly due to the GNOME 2.14 desktop, which despite still some annoyances matured enough to actually be a useful desktop). I’ve been running with rawhide – Fedora Core’s development branch for a few months now and I really liked the direction that Fedora was taking and I expected Fedora Core 6 to be even better then Fedora Core 5 – even though the latest GNOME, 2.16, isn’t so much different from 2.14 (as 2.14 was from 2.12) it does fix most of the problems that were still present at the previous version, but more so Fedora have introduced a lot of really interesting technology under the hood, from getting hardware to work better and easier, through kernel 2.6.18 the inclusion of Xen and other interesting tools such as the Sabayon user profile editor, to modern desktop compositing with AIGLX.

So when a friend asked me to help him install Fedora Core on his new laptop – a Lenovo 3000 N100 – I suggested he tries the Fedora Core 6 pre-release: 6 is scheduled to be released sometimes next week, and though he can’t wait till then due to external time constraints, I though that this late in the game there’s no reason the current rawhide snapshot shouldn’t be almost as good as the full release – I have a lot of experience with pre-release distributions – Mandriva and SuSE for example – and in my experience, as the products nears its release date (especially this close), there usually aren’t any major issues preventing a competent user who knows what he’s doing to install and use the product as a primary OS. So I was completely unprepared for what followed next.

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Yes, it can make coffee, but can your operating system manage a swimming pool control system

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Yes, new frontiers for linux.

Just something I had to share 🙂

IE: the bane of our existance
I feel his pain..

I’ve been listening lately to a Linux oriented podcast called The Linux Link Techshow, which is rather interesting – each week they bring in new guests related to Linux specifically and open-source software generally, and they are usually rather interesting (and correction – its not a podcast – as they keep saying, its a live show that you can also download old episodes as podcasts).

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Finishing to wash the apartment, I proceeded to place the furniture and other stuff back into the living room, only I tried to think of a better way to rearrange the stuff we have.

The current setup, for which I have to thank Elad for his ideas, IMO feels better, although it might be a bit cluttered and I still didn’t put in 3 more items that are still waiting in the kitchen.

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Apparently, nothing. Checkout the videos in tauquil.com‘s hilarious Re-Introducing the Real Windows Vista.

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I took advantage of the fact that Karen went to Canada to visit the family, (and got premission to) try to clean up our incredibly messy appartment. This is a progress report (with photos 🙂 – see how our appartment looks right now):

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לכבוד המחשב החדש שקניתי, ועקב זה שיש לי רשת אלחוטית בבית, החלטתי שאין צורך שהמחשב (השולחני) יהיה קשור בחוט לרשת ואולי כדאי להשקיע בכרטיס רשת אלחוטי. המחיר היה סביר: ב”באג” (“עתיד מחשבים”) רצו 140 ש”ח תמורת כרטיס רשת PCI אלחוטי של Edimax, ה-EW-7128g, ובתמורה קיבלתי קופסה אדומה נחמדה שעליה מתנוססים מבחר צירופי אותיות כגון WPA ו-WPA2.

חשוב מכך – על הקופסה כתוב, באותיות קידוש לבנה (ואת זה וידאתי מראש) שהכרטיס החדש שלי תומך במגוון מערכות הפעלה – חלונות 64 ביט, מקינטוש וגם לינוקס: Debian, Fedora ואף SuSE, אמרתי לעצמי – “איזה יופי, במקרה אני משתמש ב-Fedora Lunux”. תמים הייתי – חשבתי שאם חברה שאינה תומכת בלינוקס לא כותבת “נתמך בלינוקס” על המוצרים שלה, אז חברה שכן כותבת “נתמך בלינוקס” אכן מספקת את התמיכה המינימלית הדרושה בצורת דרייברים למערכת ההפעלה.

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