I realised, that it’s not clear what operating system (OS) i was talking about on my last post. Therefore, i feel like i need to explain it a little bit more. My linux is Ubuntu 5.10 BreezyBadger with KDE interface. Ubuntu OS with KDE is also know as Kubuntu. Another interface support for Ubuntu is GNOME. They are the same OS with different look and feel.
Ok, i have to admit, i’ve been lazy lately to write my blog. It doesn’t realy matter yo! got more important things to do, such as fixing my linux ;). Yes, since i have to deal with this "scary" OS alone, i fixed couple problems and guess what i am linux lover now.
The great things about linux is the communities. They are a lot of people out there ready to help you and they are actually very very friendly knowing i am a newbie. So far, i got helped my kubuntu to access my other partition, mplayer works properly and installed firefox-updated version.
Some other stuffs i figured out my self (partly followed the instruction from the website) like installing java SDK, JRE and web browser-plugins (i need it for my yahoo chess). Then i figured out how to change user permission, created root passwd and learned new commands.
Today when i turned on my pc, KDE won’t start. The first thing got into my mind: oh shit, i am fucked. So i graped my iBook and started surving. Guess what, it’s fixed within a second. It’s unbelieveable how linux communities work. I am getting more and more convinced of linux and if i could, i would convince people to use linux over windows.
Windows bothers me, the way i can’t change a line in a script to optimize an application for example. Also the way each applications run their own library instead of sharing it, is not efficient. It slows down the system. Last but not least, it costs hell lot of money for a big crap. Compare it with ubuntu (free OS) or macosx (not free, but cheaper than windows) you actually get more of useability.
I am having this problem: i use more than 1 web-browsers just because one web-browser has more advantage than the others. Yet i’m facing a problem that my favorites/bookmarks in one browsers are not in the others. Kinda annoying, don’t you think?
The idea to the world (i don’t trust my self to do this) is to create a "small" code in the programm as an extra feature that allow web-browsers to grab or sent favorites/bookmarks from the other web-browsers - e.g. a saved site in firefox will also be shown in safari or flock or opera and vice versa.
This would mean crossed web-browser platform compatibility needs to be improved. In that way, i think it would be also possible to improve web-browsers different interpretation of codes. Less annoying work to adjust website design for an amature programmer like me.
I really think religion and government should be separated. The more i think about it, the stronger i have the feeling that religion is a poison to the society once it’s forced implemented. Indonesia, my beloved country, is obviously being over acted on preventing people from “exposing” their parts of body. Why would they care about what people wear, when the system is sickly corrupted? It pisses me off. Do they think by preventing people from wearing minimum clothes would help them combat corruption?
Yes according to the Jakarta post if you’re caught exposing parts of you body, which are:thighs, hips, breasts and navel, you would be either punished by paying fine Rp 200 million (US$21,000) or jailed. And you know what, i think it’s discrimination? Only women would expose those parts of body. Even worst, this issue is already covered by existing laws and the Criminal Code. Unbelievable how stupid people can be. Look, this gonna kill our traditional culture as argued by the Jakarta post.
As Indonesian, i can understand where it comes from, but it’s because they are not open minded enough and thought it would be easier to rule by declaring the flag of religion. It would scare off people eventually. But don’t you think they should’ve looked at other religions perspectives as well, instead of using the mask of one religion only? I thought Indonesia acknowledged 5 religions (at least)?
Addition to the article, it’s also strictly forbidden to kiss in a public, living together before marriage and “attractive” dance movements. They must be joking me.
I wonder if such thing exist. I am thinking of getting a template for my keyboard that would make it easier for me to type in both English and German. On top of my head, it should made out of silicon or sth like one of those iPod fancy-colorful-covers. It has to be light, thin, has a shape that would fit over my keyboard with a German alphabet written exactly over on top of each keys. In that way i would “magically” has a German keyboard.
The idea occurred to me since my iBook allows me to switch from English characters to germans, but i of course don’t know where the German characters are on the keyboard (my keyboard is English). Maybe if i were a 10-finger-typist, i wouldn’t have this problem. It bothers me a lot sometimes.
I looked up the German keyboard iBook and it has exactly the same position of keys as mine. It shouldn’t be a problem at all to create such template, no?
I’ve been looking for it since i got my iBook, unfortunately fat luck. Maybe you can help me finding one or maybe someone can tell apple to do this for their users. In fact this idea applies for all kind of computers. Don’t you guys ever have this problem? Hopefully i could get a good feedback for this idea.
Oh wow, it’s amazing… Windows vista is a TOTALY new OS not only the look and feel, but the whole system. Some of the new and mind blowing features is the "major kernel overhaul". This is exactly the point that would make vista better than XP not only because of it’s fancy 3D effects interface (which has been done by OSX by the way), but also the kernel revolution. This would make vista a new born baby-OS. The article from extremetech.com Why Vista won’t suck would explain a lot about advantages on vista.
It will be harder for viruses and trojans to hack vista machine which is to my argument once 2/3 of world wide computer users switched to vista, that’s gonna be it. Another good feature is efficient job of the kernel from the improvement of the cleaned up "heap" fragmentation. Power management queries, as described, sounds to me like you might need a new hardware to switch to vista. If you’re interested on the the SuperFetch technology as the key improvement to the root file system in vista then you can read it here. I believe SuperFetch is a good thought being put in vista.
I also read one forum talking about that article above. Many questioning vista. It’s either gonna be a breaking OS on PCs or a big disaster, which is mostly come from people expectation of having a better OS than XP.
Following my post about microsoft delivers new IE, they are still one step behind. Based on Mozilla technologies Flock is a pretty rockin’ web browser with its cross platform, open source and social browser philosophies. Flock includes such features as blogging tools, feed handling, and integrated del.icio.us favorites and Flickr photo sharing. Download now and help the developers finding bugs.
I installed it in my iBook (G4, 1.2GHz, PantherOS) smoothly. Very quick, not heavy to open, very nice simple basic layout and it asked if i want to export my favorites from Safari. You can also post your favorites online if you want. This is a lot better then the latest Mozilla web browser SeaMonkey i installed 3 weeks ago. For me such web browser is too big, heavy and has most of the extras i don’t use. I only need one email client for example, while SeaMonkey has a build in one. It just slows down my whole system, since i only has a very minum ram capacity (not anymore soon, i hope). So i guess it’s time to flock the world baby… :-))
This guy tries to convince that he wasn’t trying to steal wireless internet connection, but borrowing it instead. He even gives a full description on how to do it your self. One of his comment was: You might get a reputation for being some sick laptop yoga freak, but isn’t free Internet worth it? hehehe… I think some of his arguments are acceptable. Maybe i should try to do it, while i don’t have internet ;-))
Look who’s there… yes!! the new internet explorer is finally catch up with mozilla, firefox and opera… well done microsoft, after so many years you finally made it… wonder where did the developers went on vacation for so long :-))
Anywayz, it has tabs, it zooms, it feeds RSS and it has preview of open tabs… it’s describe as a “new-and-improved internet browser” at cnet.com… OK it’s new for microsoft, but not for me… they’ve surely been sleeping tight and just enjoy their biggest share of internet browser…
It’s open to public and available to download on microsoft website… why don’t you guys try it and put on your comments over here…
Oh btw., it only works with WindowsXP SP2… :-s
This is not a new story tho, cos this lately released beta version (10.02.06) is for the second time… i am just being bored in the library :-))
Just read this interesting article about true love linked to altruistic love from msnbc. Research says that most happily married couple are profiled as more altruistic. What interest me is this is what all kind of religions based on. People who prays every day tend to be more altruistic, then those who don’t and thus are happier and more successful on marriages. There’s some psychological explanation behind it and it’s very logical. However, can we say: “be religious, if you want to have a happy marriage” yeah… i doubt it somehow. I don’t think religion is the ONLY way to find happiness in marriage.
I must be getting old and boring to talk about this on my blog or am i just passing a stage? i don’t know. All i know the article above is a basic common sense that most of us won’t realize unless it’s being described in words. I hope those who reads the article above would understand life more.
