“No doubt you’ve heard the prediction before — ‘this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop’. At the risk of being repetitive, though, I’m going to go ahead and say it: 2008 really could be the year of the Linux desktop.” — Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, Is 2008 the Year of the Linux Desktop?
So if […]
”Heroes” creator to fans: I’m super sorry
”The message is that we’ve heard the complaints, and we’re doing something about it.” — Good news from Tim Kring on the fairly lacklustre performance of Heroes, Volume 2
(tags: television heroes timkring)
Android - under the hood
“I’m really interested in finding out what is happening underneath the sheets on the Android platform.” — If […]
Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/11/09
Wonderful to see the Mozilla Foundation funding efforts to improve FLOSS desktop platforms, with particular attention to accessibility infrastructure, including Orca/pyatspi and AT-SPI/D-Bus. Thanks very much to MoFo!
(tags: mozilla gnome accessibility at-spi d-bus orca pyatspi floss desktop)
I love it when things Just Work
“To my astonishment [the printer was autodetected] and […]
Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way)
“Experts have already built and optimized an installer that integrates with the rest of your system. And by ‘experts’, I mean ‘people way fucking smarter than you’.” — Mark Pilgrim points out the emperor’s lack of clothes in his usual, inimitable style.
(tags: apple debian ubuntu macosx mysql markpilgrim)
Textmate-like Gedit in few […]
… updated her profile. She is now looking for friendship and networking.
… went from being “single” to “in a relationship”.
If I hadn’t already known offline, let alone been waiting for it to blossom in excruciating pain for months, this would have been one of those “$TECHNOLOGY is changing the way we view the […]
