Another one bites the dust

I use Google reader, i use it a lot, so much that I am cutting down on my feeds :) takes ten times more times to read all the feeds than my mail :).
This one post on dig got me thinking....
A little background before:
How many company's have seen some form of their products being included in Windows X(*)?:
1 - Internet browser
2 - Firewall
3 - Malware remover
4 - partition software

Well, maybe more... and some of my choices are debatable, but one must think:

1 - If comes with the system why buy another product?
2 - The system provides only the basic operations for these applications

Looks like Microsoft, will be closing more Software companies: Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software. This being true who will need to actually buy this software anyway? Not home users ....

Again, sure it will be a basic feature, but it is one less product that other software companies will sell...

One can argue that MS, it's only making their system more secure, which means it's not as secure as they say on each product launch, and we don't see Linux distributions (you can insert MAC os's here too) coming out with firewall/malware/anti-virus pre-installed?! That really talks a lot about these system security.


(*) x stands for 3.1,95,2000,XP,Vista all the server ones ...
PS:Lol 3 post in one day ...

Song bird + Daap + Firefly

Who doesn't a have a huge collection of music in all your computers at home?
I was tired of copying, or pointing my media players to some shared folder on the network.
Lately i started using Songbird to listen to all my music.
But, keeping my media synced in all computers/platforms was a pain, so i used my Mac Mini Ubuntu server to run Firefly a Media server, that uses the DAAP protocol it is a protocol used by Apple, but hey! who uses Itunes anyway?! (hint: not me).
Instead one can use the SongBird plugin Songbird Daap Client to the same effect.
As the protocol uses broadcast, Songbird will pickup servers on your current network.
Firefly can be customized to use playlists, through it's own Web UI. (RTFM)
Problem solved :)

E3 thoughts

Two games caught my attention in all the E3 Videos:
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories:

It's coming up on the WII, this is the type of title that totally works on the platform. My favorite WII game is Resident Evil 4, though it is a Game Cube remake, I've never played it before, and I just had to finish it! An lately no game has made me want to go to the last final level....
Seems like a horror movie, and the number of games that can put fear to the gamer are a only few...

And Splinter Cell: Conviction:

Reminds me a little of Las vegas 2, i Think it is the same game engine. This one takes it a little forward, the "mark and execute" is just beautiful :) i wonder if it kill the marked targets automatically or not... when Sam executes the "mark and execute" it's like you are in a movie just excellent. Another cool Tom Clancy game.