Things n' Stuff Thoughts about the universe in general

It may or may not be new (I surely haven’t noticed it before), but If you are logged in to Google, and also have a Google Notebook account, then for each link in the search results, in addition the “Cached” and other stuff there, you’ll notice a “Note this” link. Clicking on it will change the text to “Dully noted” and will add the link as a new empty note to your default Notebook (in addition to poping up a small AJAX box that allows you to do other stuff that I haven’t investigated fully yet).

I found its a great way to build a list of links to go over more throughly later.

After recently acquiring Macromedia (and taking over their MacrmediaAdobe Flash business), and due to the large Shopping spree, Adobe has been conducting in the recent years, buying companies left and right (and I have many more links) you’d think that Adobe is trying to corner the computer publishing market or something. Not helped by the Adobe-Microsoft PDF dispute and some Adobe patents which look not unlike Microsoft’s idea of patenting “non-obvious” inventions (no links this time – go look it up on your own), Adobe was starting to look more and more like other computer giants we know and “love” ;-).

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גרסה 2 של הדפדפן המוביל מבית מוזילה – שועל האש (Firefox – או “השוא”ש” לידידיו הקרובים) – שוחררה שלשום להמונים.

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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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