David Pogue pe ted.com
Majoritatea prezentărilor de pe ted.com extraordinare, și cam toate au momente amuzante. Totuși din cele pe care le-am văzut până acum niciuna nu se compară cu cea a lui David Pogue despre crearea unor tehnologii și gadgeturi simplu de folosit. David Pogue reușește să creeze un moment distractiv și în același timp să atragă atenția asupra problemelor tehnologiei greu de utilizat. Prezentarea Simplitatea se vinde (Simplicity sells) poate fi văzută online pe siteul TED, distracția este aproape garantată. Pentru cei interesați să citească ce mai scrie Pogue, vă recomand blogul lui de pe siteul New York Times.
Ubuntu 8.10
ACTUALIZARE: Se pare că Ubuntu și-a actualiat siteul și acum Ubuntu 8.10 se poate descărca. Pentru cei care au Ubuntu 8.04 acasă, recomand Alt+F2 apoi tastați update-manager -d pentru a putea actualiza la 8.10
Astăzi este ziua în care se lansează Ubuntu 8.10. Imaginea pentru descărcare va fi disponibilă în cursul zilei de azi pe ubuntu.com
Moise site halloween theme
Thanks Vali for the good and fast implementation. I believe that moise site should be appealing to teenagers and this implies a lot of updating and cool upgrades, the new theme, halloween theme is just one of those things making it appeal to teenagers. Here's a screenshot from my iPhone.
Twitts
- @busaco highschool is like that all the time in reply to busaco #
- ArLUG now has an official Ubuntu archive mirror. (add that to official Fedora and Slackware mirrors). #
- @VladGeorgescu you can't it is impossible in reply to VladGeorgescu #
- "It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds." - Michael Moncur #
- @ijustine defended you ( http://tinyurl.com/57rhto ) in reply to ijustine #
- Algebra test turned out ok. #
- Reading stuff... #
- Home after spending some time with Vali working on moise site. #
- finally found a twitter client for desktop that seems to suit my need. TweetDeck works on Adobe AIR Runtime so it is cross-platform enough.. #
- @VladGeorgescu
) didn't know about it. I guess it's one of the advantages of Open Source software to be able to make jokes like that in reply to VladGeorgescu # - experiencing problems with pidgin, that's a first #
- Going to sleep thinking of the two Steves story... #
- blog housekeeping #
- Thinking of life and death and how insignificant we are as individuals... #
- Learning French #
- More french #
- Bad day for french... #
Twitt-uri din 2008-10-22
Twitt-uri din 2008-10-21
- ArLUG now has an official Ubuntu archive mirror. (add that to official Fedora and Slackware mirrors). #
- @VladGeorgescu you can't it is impossible in reply to VladGeorgescu #
- "It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds." - Michael Moncur #
Defending a fellow blogger…
Reading the Twitter updates I noticed a link to the article here discussing the blogging/livecasting style of Justine Ezarik or iJustine for those who know her that way. This post is intended as a reply to the article I mentioned in the beginning. I will start by stating that I am a fan of iJustine. That being said let's talk a little about how useful is iJustine's blogging activity.
Leaving aside her beauty and her sometimes excentric behavior we're left with a girl who knows STUFF about technology and gadgets, who gives talks at all kinds of conferences and is an Apple fan. Do you know how that's spelled? It's GEEK, with capital letters. While a lot of her video posts fall in the category of "hey guys, i'm in #location name#" and tend to be just entertaining, some of them sometimes offer some form of useful information (availability of iPhones in stores, good clothing shops, athmosphere at conference x, obvious things not to do while in jungle and so on).
Regarding the fear that iJustine will become a role model for young teenagers, what's the problem? Most of her videos are of a good quality (not trashy webcam-quality posts), her english is good, she seems to have a good taste for clothing and some of her video posts are even done in a studio. I wouldn't mind young teenage girls thriving to do studio quality video posts.
Next point. iJustine is the ONLY beautiful geek girl I know of out there, I know some cute ones, but none is beautiful. If crazy youg teenage girls were to follow her in masses, in two years we'd have solved most of humanity's problems. Unfortunately they don't, but some do. And more important than that iJustine's look and style help erase the bad image geeks have. "Geeks are never cool, how could they be?", well iJustine does just that, she's a cool geek. Kudos iJustine for showing poeple that geeks can be cool!
Last argument (till now), iJustine is an amateur photographer. Am I alone to thinks that photography is a better hobby for teenage girls than nail polishing? You decide, here's a picture hotlinked from iJusine's site:
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Ubuntu mirror in Arad
Starting from today ArLUG's Ubuntu archives mirror is an official Ubuntu mirror, listed on the Ubuntu mirror list. More about the ArLUG mirror can be found here. The ArLUG server is also an official mirror for Fedora and Slackware linux distributions. What this means for linux users in the western part of Romania is that they now have a closer to home server to pick up their updates from and from time maybe at higher speeds. I hope this mirror will help promote linux in my part of the country....
Ubuntu Updating from Arlug Mirror
Twitt-uri din 2008-10-20
- @busaco highschool is like that all the time in reply to busaco #