Frederic, I’m also looking for LCD/CRT monitor suggestions. My 19″ DV19NF died recently, and I’ve been looking around for an LCD or CRT replacement. It was really great - I don’t think I would buy a CRT that couldn’t provide a sensibly high resolution (1600×1200 or greater) at 85Hz. Anyone have recommendations, LCD or CRT?
Opportunism at it’s down-and-dirty best: “Project Mad Hatter to Provide Relief to Massive Security Hole in Windows Operating System [...] Sun’s open standards-based desktop, addresses the risk and expense associated with Microsoft Windows and Office platforms by engineering security into its infrastructure from the start.”
Sayamindu Dasgupta’s review of GNOME 2.4, before we’ve even hit beta! Sweet! Very rocking preview, though it probably would have been quicker to write had he used GARNOME.
Unfortunately, Sayamindu has caught the highly infectious Ugly Desktop Font Syndrome from Glynn. We have yet to discover whether this serious condition is curable, or even [...]
Oh man, it always sounds arsey when the big guys start speaking for your little-guy buddies… at least the sometimes off-kilter Ximian pitches were familiar. GNOME is not mentioned by name at all in this interview with Novell CTO, Alan Nugent. What an interesting point of view: “The strong points of Ximian Desktop are that [...]
Thanks very much to Luke Stroven, inimitable editor of FootNotes, for providing some fantastic new Hacker Heads for display on Planet GNOME. (Let me know if you don’t want your mug on PG, I’m happy to take them down if you have privacy issues, etc.)
Thinkin’ of you’s workin’ up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin’ sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
And the thought of lovin’ you is getting so exciting
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Ahhh, ahhh, afternoon delight
According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary, New Edition, 1976:
fetish n.
Inanimate object worshipped by primitive peoples for its supposed inherent magical powers or as being inhabited by a spirit; principle etc. irrationally reverenced; (Psych.) abnormal stimulus, or object, of sexual desire
Good news in IBM vs. SCO land. But meanwhile, bad news in patent land. This is not just kernel stuff: “IBM said that four SCO software packages violate four of IBM’s patents. The patents cover a data compression technique, a method of navigating among program menus using options arranged in a graphical tree, a method [...]
The GPL goes to court: “IBM, in its countersuit filed in federal court in Utah, alleged SCO had breached the general public license for Linux and infringed on IBM patents, according to the court documents.”
Gotta love The Register sometimes: “Wall Street has a very clear idea of this, make no mistake: the hardware is created by Intel, the software is created by Microsoft, the support calls are fielded by ambitious Indians who’ve been trained to speak English with an Alabama accent, and the 28 per cent return rates that [...]
