"First congrats to the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala! It’s the most ever perfect desktop distribution! Cool and fast boot, beautiful login window and new desktop theme, lots of new applications: Ubuntu Software Center, Ubuntu One… You’ve upgraded, right? To celebrate the release of Ubuntu 9.10, I also to give a new updated version of Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.9.2 with a lot of refresh applications and sources for Ubuntu 9.10 only. There’s no doubt that you should upgrade to Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.9.2 too!"
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
I like that they recommend that you get the electricsheep screensaver! Slickest thing ever!!!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Free / Libre Open Source Software, used to refer to software where the source code is available, costs nothing, and can freely distributed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... (used commonly by GNU and FSF)
- Mike Chelen
I am upgrading now as we speak (on my virtualbox).. I might do dual-boot in the future since I got rid of my RAID config two weeks ago!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
i think that posting these things to the Ubuntu feed is good - but more importantly #Linux stuff should be posted to all technology feed - this way you get adoption and not just insiders... :) #pr#marketing!!!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
OpenShot makes me excited to bail on my crashy Mac PowerBook and pick up an Ubuntu laptop. Now if only I could settle on a decent notebook for video editing...
- Joel Zehring
Joel: try something with multiple cores, maybe 64bit with lots of memory. a decent video card chip helps too, what sort of audio or video input and output is important?
- Mike Chelen
I've heard mixed reviews for 64-bit Ubuntu. Is it suitable for a Linux noob like me? Hopefully I'm not too spoiled by OS X. Input: DV camera via firewire. Output: h.264 files and the occasional video DVD. I've been looking at refurbished Dell Studio notebooks.
- Joel Zehring
it's worthwhile to run 64bit if the rig has more than 4gb of memory. most apps can run okay, but it helps to check and see how easy or difficult they are. for drivers, look at the model number, or the chipsets for important pieces like firewire or video cards
- Mike Chelen
Joel: dell studio 15 and studio xps 13 look good, 3d accel is important mainly for live video or playback, for non-linear editing it might not really matter. im unsure if openshot does both? probably cpu and memory will be most important for encoding
- Mike Chelen
Mike: Thanks. I was looking at the studio 15 just yesterday. Currently saving my pennies.
- Joel Zehring
hey mike any guide for setting up a higher screen resolution than ubuntu can detect?
- testbeta
testbeta: it could be the driver or config, do you know what chipset the video card has? could try reconfiguring xorg, there is a pretty good guide here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthr...
- Mike Chelen
Mike: I'm all about the refurbs. Thanks.
- Joel Zehring
Joel: ATI will likely have better driver support in Ubuntu. also id go with AMD but idk really, so check CPU benchmarks. maybe pickup more memory if any supports more than 4gb, or if you get a unit that comes with less. im drooling :)
- Mike Chelen
Mike: I've heard that AMD is second fiddle to Intel at this point. I'll definitely look for a dedicated ATI card. I'm no fan of integrated graphics.
- Joel Zehring
Joel: that is possible, there are so many different cpu chipsets, they can be difficult to keep track of. integrated graphics are getting better, however it seems nvidia and ati still have better support in linux
- Mike Chelen
"This website provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
An eleven-year-old in my class is currently learning PHP, because HTML is too limited for him. Would this resource be helpful to him? Could it help me to engage with him on his level, in his language?
- Joel Zehring
"Real Madrid have announced a net debt of £296m, alongside a record annual budget of £381m for the new season. The club's annual figures include £226m spent on four players: Xabi Alonso, Kaka, Ronaldo and Karim Benzema. Real's debt last year was around £100m. Their budget is some £20m greater than that of arch-rivals Barcelona, whose £361m budget is also a club record. The announcement comes after Uefa approved plans to force clubs to spend only what they can earn in revenue."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Stories like this annoy me. The people who own and run these clubs are adults, why should it be up to UEFA to decide how much they can spend? I have the same problem with American sports, where a team that is willing to spend more is derided for doing what it takes to win. Any company that wants to be dominant has to go out and get the best available people in the industry, which...
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- Bren, Photophobe
And Ronaldo scored immediately after the kickoff!
- Polly Potter
Come one, come all! See THE AMAZING FRANKEN draw these, our UNITED STATES. TWO BITS is all you need, right this way, folks. No pushing, everyone will get a chance to see THE AMAZING FRANKEN and his wonderful PEN OF GEOPOLITICAL BOUNDARIES as he DRAWS, FREEHAND and FROM MEMORY the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
- Andy Bakun
The "at the Minnesota state fair" makes it look like a sideshow. And it is, since I doubt few other Senators could do this.
- Andy Bakun
It's definitely a gimick. This was something practiced, but still very cool for all that. Folks from the great state of Maine might be disappointed in the shrinkage from Franken's hand though.
- Kevin Fox
Well it's a good representation considering this is what politics has become, second rate comics becoming Senators.
- Spencer
That's pretty damn good! I feel much better about voting for him now! ;o)
- Mark Jepsen
Gotta assume he's simply tracing faint lines but I wish i could hear what he's saying.
- Thom Kennon
Most people in the US could not name even most of the 50 States - at least one member of Congress can draw them out! Does not mean much but fun to watch!
- Lester Greenberg
We have a print given to us (and taken) by our friend photographer Bill Hayward of Franken in front of one of these drawings of the US map that he painted. Here's the image: http://www.artcritical.com/badbeha... It's framed and hanging in our bedroom. We didn't think of it as a political statement, just an artistic one, until our conservative real estate agent saw it, and said: "Oh, you're Democrats."
- Ginger Makela Riker
I bet no other elected representative of ANY STATE could draw a sketch of the US that was any where near as good as Franken's. My bet stands for 30 days from today.
- Jason Miller
I think this is something he's practiced for years. Didn't someone say he did this a long time ago on SNL?
- Internet's Tad
@Dennis O'Neill must be a real Baltimorean - he wrote "The" Chesapeake Bay. Most bays don't have a "the" but we always say "The" Cheasapeake bay.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Let's try that again. This time using a whiteboard. :D
- AJ Batac
Spencer - I guess politicians have evolved from second rate actors to second rate comics. At least comics generally come up with their own material.
- Robert Felty
New post: Don Tapscott: Anybody that thinks we come out of the recession + get back 2 business as usual is deeply mistaken http://www.mediafuturist.com/2009...
"Chelsea have been banned from signing any new players until January 2011. The punishment was meted out by Fifa after the club was found guilty of inducing French winger Gael Kakuta to break his contract with Lens in 2007. "Chelsea are banned from registering any new players for the two next registration periods," said Fifa. Chelsea insist they will "mount the strongest appeal possible" and say the sanctions are "totally disproportionate to the alleged offence"."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Hoping this will lead to an improved/cleaner interface for Facebook...I prefer Friendfeed
- Rick Bucich
so, so sad. I like(d) Friendfeed much more than facebook
- Francisco Kemeny
home run for FF.. Facebook will be able to give developers a treasure trove of data one thing that Twitter is dominating on right now. Twitter has a huge developer community but isn't managing that. Here FB is poised to be huge
- John Furrier
So classic that Robert has the first interview about this...Where's Louis? :)
- Anthony Farrior
How do they plan to mix the teenagers with the geeks?
- Jordi Soler
Amani: I am excited! Facebook has 800 employees and 300 million users. This makes both companies much more important.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
here was a comment on SiliconANGLE blog .. very funny .. "Hey, since we've copied almost every innovation you've had, guess you might as well play on the company softball team!"
- John Furrier
Nice strategic move - Interesting to see how this will integrate and looks in 12 months
- Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
to be honnest I was predicting google offer, then facebook preceed google on this, they are doing well, now rarding FF this is great, the sucess is to know when to pass to something else, the future will make the abtle wave, facebook rude for all geek it is time to code.
- abdellah
You rascal Robert, bet you had wind about FriendFeed and FaceBook merger before today? Yes? Have not used either SM apps. much UNTIL Twitter locked my account. May have been a fortunate mishap as it turns out. Getting to know the beauties of both apps. =)
- SashaKane
do you have a small amount of FriendFeed shares Robert?
- Torsten Eckert
NOOOOOOO. Damnit! I am praying that Facebook doesn't wall up Friendfeed. I was starting to build a site around Friendfeed :(
- beersage
beersage: as Facebook is trying to break their users into a more public world, I doubt that you really have anything to worry about there.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Starting to listen to this now. Hoping you are right, Rob.
- beersage
I hope so to. But regardless, I think that it was in reality necessary for FriendFeed to sell to really put the technology in front of a sufficient number of eyeballs. Facebook is probably the best acquirer that FriendFeed could have. (I would have not felt the same had FF been acquired by Google)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The thing with Friendfeed though is how I can share things outside of a 'wall.' I prominently feature the FF widget on my site. I'm just concerned of losing that capability as I was tinkering with delivering a new site w/ content primarily running through my Friendfeed account. I am to this day unable to do much outside of the wall. I am unable to subscribe to Fan Page updates in Google reader for instance. That is what concerns me about FB acquiring FF given my goals.
- beersage
Robert sounded quite breathless in that interview. Thanks Robert.
- Roberto Bonini
Wow! I'm in shock. I can't wait to hear this interview.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
This deal was about getting Paul and the team and nothing else
- Stephen Pickering
@stephan, are you serious? FB is buying a concept, a technoloie, a structure, a content and a user list
- abdellah
now how could a team that left google resist under a unique perception system, where the leader vision is upon any thing
- abdellah
Unconvincing Paul Buchheit, the team is more exited of being part of bigger story - logical for them to move on
- patrickdh
They want a way to turn their white pages into a yellow pages and the only guy on Earth who knows how to do it, is Paul
- Stephen Pickering
It was only about the technology and the people. Most people are on also FB anyway.
- James Myatt
My guess is that Paul got a tooooooooon of options and will soon be the No.2 guy at Facebook
- Stephen Pickering
Glossing over of that "short term" question by the FF boys. It just seems more about the individuals at FF than it does the users of FF. "Their (Facebook) long term goals" Nice interview, Robert!
- Melanie Reed
Well, it looks as if pass-through of FriendFeed Likes, Comments, etc. to Twitter is down. Will it be for good? Did Twitter do this in response to the acquisition? Or is it just a regular (though curiously timed) hiccup?
- Alex Schleber
this is why your own personal website is always more important than friendfeed, Twitter and all the rest. that's never going anywhere
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
"Kim Cascone earned his bread from digital soundtracks, up to quite recently with Apple hardware and Mac OS X. For cost and performance reasons he made the switch to Ubuntu and is surprised at how good the audio processing is on reasonable priced hardware. Now Peter Kirn has captured Cascone's conversion story on createdigitalmusic.com. Interesting about the article is not only the facts of Cascone's conversion, but the comments accompanying it that contain numerous tips and information on sound processing under Linux. For example, Cascone recommends dropping all the alternative sound systems and using ALSA and JACK together with a real-time kernel."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
Really? I've had problems with audio software in Ubuntu. But that was with 32 bit. Now that I've upgraded to 64 bit maybe that's changed. Time to find out, I guess. I need to utilize this mac hardware somehow.
- Kevin Winn