Syllable – News
Update on this OS.
Okay. I downloaded the live cd and burned it to disk. Rebooted the machine and after a short wait (much quicker than I have ever seen on this machine running any os) got a desktop of 640 x 480.
Found the display control and selected 1024×768 as the closest to correct for this flat screen display (which I need to put something up about) and made the switch. Res looked fair so kept it.
Then tried to get a network connection but gave up after a few minutes of not getting what to do.
Probably just me but I don’t think this is a ready for prime time os. Will look at the network setup and see if I can find a way to get the full 1440×900 out of the monitor setup. If I can get these two items working, will certainly give it a try and see just what all will or won’t work.
Enterprise Mac | InfoWorld | Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X? | August 22, 2006 10:27 PM | By Tom Yager
This link from Steve. Thanks Steve!
After taking time to read this a couple of times it seems he says it all. Mac is safer than Winblows 24 – 7 – 365/366 because they are built different from the ground up. And from what I have seen with a fairly large sampling of Linux and Unix distros they are also lightyears ahead of any of the Window$ family of crappy os’s. But don’t take my lame ass word for it, go and read the article.
NewsForge | Syllable: A different open source OS
Sounds like a distro to keep an eye on. Will have to try it soon.
WIKINDX 3
WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.
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Looks interesting.
TrackMeNot :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software
This is one hell of a good idea. Have installed it and am cleaning out my tabs so I can restart Firefox.
Tiny Tiny RSS – Trac
Looks interesting. I would rather read my news on the web anyway and it makes sense to me to have the reader on my site so that any computer I am on has the same history of read and unread feeds. Gonna have to see if I can install it on technoprimitive.org.
grml.org – Linux Live-CD for sysadmins and texttools-users
From what I read somewhere (lost the link) the grml Live-CD has just about everything you need in a recovery disk. Looks interesting enough to download and burn anyway.
Nomadic Research Labs
Been here and posted about it before but another link can’t hurt. Neat stuff!
Pericles Hardware (2) – Bobulate
Well I thought the hard drive in my iBook had gone tits up 3 different times now. Each time I let it and the iBook cool off and everything started working fine again. Keep waiting for it to go out completely but so far seems fine. After cooling off. And I’m not sure that it is the drive. After some of the things I have seen I am suspecting the power supply instead.
FreeGuide – your TV Guide
Have not tried it but looks interesting.
raldz.dot.tech: SimplyMEPIS 6.0: Linux Desktop on Steroids!
Review of SimplyMEPIS that I haven’t taken time to read. Need to reboot the machine and am trying to get the backlog of tabs out of the way…
Wireless in the Himalayas
There are some interesting pictures about the wireless setup as well as of the country it is being installed in. However the picture that the above link points to is of a sign that has me wondering. Hand lettered and advertises a Cyber Cafe – that has an ATTACHED TOILED and is 100 mts. AHead. I am assuming that the toiled is a toilet but what is the mts.? Is that Meters? or Mountains? or neither?
Vienna
Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.
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Need to give this a try on the iBook now that Shrook has gone to a subscription system.
OpenCyc.org
I have no idea yet but am downloading it to see just what the hell it is.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Never run this. Read about it time and time again and guess it’s about time to download and try it now that they have a live cd. 😉
Bill Gates’ piracy confession – Computerworld Blogs
Well, well, well… Mr. Gates the MPAA would like to talk to you about this. 😉
APC Magazine » Top 3 Linux distros you’ve never heard of
Not sure that I will play with any of these but they do look like the answer(s) for some linux distro needs.
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