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 ...
11 Jun 2009
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 :)
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.
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.
25 Jan 2009
Windows 7 = Vista
I've been test-driving Windows 7 on my laptop, in one disk that I have putted away.
The first impression was good, besides all the eye candy, which is nice, it really felt a little less bloated than the usual Vista.
It has this new "super taskbar" which changes a little the taskbar functionality for the best.
I felt so comfortable with it that I installed my last purchased game: Rainbow Six Las vegas 2, that i bough on Steam (on sale :) ). And then it happen, the Vista flashbacks:
I can't go online with my laptop if i connect it through the Ethernet cable!? It works flawlessly if i connect through the wireless?!
After going over all the firewall settings (which are numerous), i could not connect through Ethernet, even if I disabled the firewall.
I have some friends with Vista that have the same problem in reverse.
It's my guess that Vista and it's brother 7, differentiate the two connections to which level, still eludes me.
Windows 7 the good:
Don't fool yourself, Windows 7 in side it's all Vista . And of course it's a Beta, but this excuse works both ways: They haven't shoved all the functionality/bloatness/DRM manager in to the OS.
The first impression was good, besides all the eye candy, which is nice, it really felt a little less bloated than the usual Vista.
It has this new "super taskbar" which changes a little the taskbar functionality for the best.
I felt so comfortable with it that I installed my last purchased game: Rainbow Six Las vegas 2, that i bough on Steam (on sale :) ). And then it happen, the Vista flashbacks:
I can't go online with my laptop if i connect it through the Ethernet cable!? It works flawlessly if i connect through the wireless?!
After going over all the firewall settings (which are numerous), i could not connect through Ethernet, even if I disabled the firewall.
I have some friends with Vista that have the same problem in reverse.
It's my guess that Vista and it's brother 7, differentiate the two connections to which level, still eludes me.
Windows 7 the good:
- Felt more lightweight (almos like Windows XP)
- Nice eye candy
- Taskbar with no labels ( i use my windows xp taskbar on the right of the screen, cutting the labels too, unfortunately windows 7 taskbar on the right looks bulky)
- Game performance is better than Vista, but not as good as in XP (Rainbow Six Las vegas 2 )
- Unexplained connection problems: Can connect through wireless but not Ethernet?!
- Can't access OSX Leopard "windows" shares (protocol change? Does not accept previous version of the protocol)
- Huge control panel
- disperse network settings, even redundant (you can go to the same settings in 5 different ways)
Don't fool yourself, Windows 7 in side it's all Vista . And of course it's a Beta, but this excuse works both ways: They haven't shoved all the functionality/bloatness/DRM manager in to the OS.
15 Jan 2009
Mitgrate intrepid to ext4
I want want to boot faster too :)
Soo i followed the instructions provided here.
And this is the result:
Soo i followed the instructions provided here.
And this is the result:
12 Jan 2009
Msn protocol change
15 Dec 2008
First Post
Hi there!
One more blogger to feed :)
Objective for this blog:
- In one year from now, i can quit my job and just blog as a job.
That's all!
PS: If you can't see the black borders on this site, you have eye problems or your monitor is not properly calibrated.
One more blogger to feed :)
Objective for this blog:
- In one year from now, i can quit my job and just blog as a job.
That's all!
PS: If you can't see the black borders on this site, you have eye problems or your monitor is not properly calibrated.
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