I missed this somehow, but twhirl integrates support for friendfeed:
I like twhirl, it seems more stable than alertthingy for now.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
hardy
Just finished installing hardy heron, and the first thing I notice is Firefox 3 Beta 5 as the default browser.
Servers are under quite a load, so apt-get install build-essential is stuck at 0%.
Servers are under quite a load, so apt-get install build-essential is stuck at 0%.
firefox 3 download status
I've been downloading ubuntu all morning, and I like the way firefox 3 (beta5) status bar shows download status:
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
I just liked this tweet by Loic so much, I just copied and tweeted the same:
Also, this comment by Robert pissed me off...
Uhhh... yeah... way to go Robert. Dismiss millions of world wide developers developing great quality software. Software that powers most web servers today.
I could go on forever...
@Scobleizer I really can't find a reason why I should care about Mesh. I am just ignoring it totally :) good night
Also, this comment by Robert pissed me off...
Linux support? What’s that?
Uhhh... yeah... way to go Robert. Dismiss millions of world wide developers developing great quality software. Software that powers most web servers today.
I could go on forever...
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Y Combinator Startup School
Watch live video from HackerTV on Justin.tv
via techcrunch
Their are more videos here with various other talks that didn't show up for me in the video above.
Here is David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals and creator of the Ruby on Rails framework.
Watch live video from HackerTV on Justin.tv
Here is Peter Norvig who is Director of Research at Google.
Watch live video from HackerTV on Justin.tv
Friday, April 18, 2008
feeds, friends and echo
Looks like friendfeed is getting a lot of me too copies. Their is the german version called freundefeed reviewed by techcrunch.
If you have too many social newtorking aggregators (such as friendfeed and socialthing) you can use friendfeedfeed to aggregate them all.
Oh you want to see what the famous memes on friendfeed are? You could probably use almostfamous.
You want more memestuff... try readburner. Heck, if you want to really follow the echo, you must read techmeme, tailrank, rssmeme and readburner. Make sure to rinse and repeat.
Want even more of the same, try meme13. Ok so meme13 was supposed to get feeds that aren't that popular from the techmeme leaderboard, but I'm sure you're already subscribed to these sites, and are dutifully sharing them on google reader, or friendfeed or heck even facebook now. More of the same stories, Yay!
Make sure you follow a lot of people on twitter. You'll get a lot of pointers to much the same articles from all your loyal friends on twitter.
Even companies are echoing. AOL seems to want to echo Yahoo, unless I'm missing something.
Heck even this blog post of mine is an echo of stories about the blogosphere as an echo chamber which started here.
/sarcasm
:->
If you have too many social newtorking aggregators (such as friendfeed and socialthing) you can use friendfeedfeed to aggregate them all.
Oh you want to see what the famous memes on friendfeed are? You could probably use almostfamous.
You want more memestuff... try readburner. Heck, if you want to really follow the echo, you must read techmeme, tailrank, rssmeme and readburner. Make sure to rinse and repeat.
Want even more of the same, try meme13. Ok so meme13 was supposed to get feeds that aren't that popular from the techmeme leaderboard, but I'm sure you're already subscribed to these sites, and are dutifully sharing them on google reader, or friendfeed or heck even facebook now. More of the same stories, Yay!
Make sure you follow a lot of people on twitter. You'll get a lot of pointers to much the same articles from all your loyal friends on twitter.
Even companies are echoing. AOL seems to want to echo Yahoo, unless I'm missing something.
Heck even this blog post of mine is an echo of stories about the blogosphere as an echo chamber which started here.
/sarcasm
:->
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Scoble talks tech with Myspace CTO
via Fastcompany.tv
Robert talks with Aber Whitcomb, CTO of Myspace who talks about their data centers amongst other things. Really interesting to see how large websites such as myspace.com are setup.
I messaged Robert that I was missing technical content in his recent videos and he pointed me to this video. This is exactly what I was looking for. Great video Robert, I'd like more! :)
Spotlight on FOSS show
Noah Gift and Jeremy Jones have put together a show that will highlight a FOSS project in each show. You can read more about it here, or watch their first episode here.
Reading about how they put the show together is an interesting as the podcast itself so you might want to read the article first. Their first interview is with Mark Shuttleworth, creator of Ubuntu.
Reading about how they put the show together is an interesting as the podcast itself so you might want to read the article first. Their first interview is with Mark Shuttleworth, creator of Ubuntu.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Adobe AIR for linux Alpha
I've been very impressed with Adobe AIR, mostly because of the two applications: twhirl and alertthingy. Also its really easy to get AIR applications installed on Windows and Mac OS X.
The installation is quite manual so far in Linux. First go to Adobe labs and download the alpha release.
Run the commands in the above image to install the runtime. Once installed go to twhirls website and download twhirl.
I clicked on the "Open with Adobe AIR Installer", and from their AIR handled the installation prompting for a few options. The applications got added to the desktop, but didn't show up in the KDE Menu. Once started their are some display issues as you can see below:
I guess the black area around the window is where the shadow for the window should be.
Not as easy to install and get going as in Windows/OS X but the experience is not that bad at all.
The installation is quite manual so far in Linux. First go to Adobe labs and download the alpha release.
Run the commands in the above image to install the runtime. Once installed go to twhirls website and download twhirl.
I clicked on the "Open with Adobe AIR Installer", and from their AIR handled the installation prompting for a few options. The applications got added to the desktop, but didn't show up in the KDE Menu. Once started their are some display issues as you can see below:
I guess the black area around the window is where the shadow for the window should be.
Not as easy to install and get going as in Windows/OS X but the experience is not that bad at all.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
kubuntu-kde4 problems
The alpha for kubuntu-kde4 refused to boot on the machine I mentioned in my last post, and the cd I burnt the beta release on was bad.
I successfully installed the kubuntu beta in virtualbox, and kde4 is beautiful. The first thing I did was "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; reboot". This installed a bunch of packages, and the system rebooted. I login, and their is no kde panel at the bottom of the screen. Turns out klauncher segfaults.
Since I haven't got the beta to install on the desktop yet, I'm not sure if the segfault is a result of the virtual machine, virtual machine additions, or a problem with the kubuntu beta.
Update: Ok this combination seems to have worked for me. Install OS, do "apt-get update/upgrade", reboot. Install virtual machine additions, and then follow instructions on the following page to get the video to a resolution greater than 800x600.
I successfully installed the kubuntu beta in virtualbox, and kde4 is beautiful. The first thing I did was "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; reboot". This installed a bunch of packages, and the system rebooted. I login, and their is no kde panel at the bottom of the screen. Turns out klauncher segfaults.
Since I haven't got the beta to install on the desktop yet, I'm not sure if the segfault is a result of the virtual machine, virtual machine additions, or a problem with the kubuntu beta.
Update: Ok this combination seems to have worked for me. Install OS, do "apt-get update/upgrade", reboot. Install virtual machine additions, and then follow instructions on the following page to get the video to a resolution greater than 800x600.
SP1 improves Vista driver support?
I have an old old desktop machine that I use for test purposes. I generally use it to test software in Ubuntu before I move things to my Ubuntu server. I've also tried Vista on it since Vista RC days. Vista was a problem on this machine. The network card (a 3com 3c905b card) didn't have drivers. The sound card (Creative SBLive) didn't have drivers. Older drivers wouldn't work on the machine.
Recently I decided to try Windows Server 2008 on it. As usual the network card wouldn't work after the OS install. However, older drivers for the network card got installed. After running Server 2008 for a month, I had no problems with this machine running as a file server. Windows Vista SP1 uses the same kernel as Windows Server 2008.
I figured that if the old driver worked in Windows Server 2008 it would work in Windows Vista SP1. I installed Vista SP1 on the machine today, and what do you know it worked. I had Windows XP drivers for the 3com card on a USB key, which got picked up without a problem. And not only that, Vista even picked up drivers for SBLive online (after complaining that the card was unsupported).
The machine is a 1Ghz, 512MB Ram system, and the system seems quite snappy. Ofcourse I don't have that many applications installed on it yet. Who knows how long Vista will last on the machine. Its a test system after all and Hardy is right around the corner! :)
Recently I decided to try Windows Server 2008 on it. As usual the network card wouldn't work after the OS install. However, older drivers for the network card got installed. After running Server 2008 for a month, I had no problems with this machine running as a file server. Windows Vista SP1 uses the same kernel as Windows Server 2008.
"An update to the Windows kernel to bring the Vista kernel (version 6.0) up to date with the version in Windows Server 2008 (version 6.1)."
I figured that if the old driver worked in Windows Server 2008 it would work in Windows Vista SP1. I installed Vista SP1 on the machine today, and what do you know it worked. I had Windows XP drivers for the 3com card on a USB key, which got picked up without a problem. And not only that, Vista even picked up drivers for SBLive online (after complaining that the card was unsupported).
The machine is a 1Ghz, 512MB Ram system, and the system seems quite snappy. Ofcourse I don't have that many applications installed on it yet. Who knows how long Vista will last on the machine. Its a test system after all and Hardy is right around the corner! :)
friend feed client - alertthingy.com
A new friend feed client called alertthingy is out. I had a little problem going online, I think the username is case sensitive.
I love the ease with which Adobe AIR applications can be installed. The two apps I have running right now are twhirl, and now alert thingy. Their is an "install now" button on the web site, which you click. Go through the wizards, and the application is installed. Nice.
Too many places to post though. Their is myblog/marsedit, twitter/twhirl, and friendfeed/alertthingy. Where do I post.
Thats one less tab in my browser.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Watching hak5
Watching hak5live with Hak5Darren (from the right), Jenn Cutter, Hak5matt and Hak5Paul setup for their live show at ustream.
Friday, April 11, 2008
businessweek on windows 7
Reading this business week article, I came across this line:
Now you know why Windows Vista has so many problems. Its kernel-less!
Windows 7 is going to be kernel-based, so at least it will boot! :)
While Microsoft struggles to bring a kernel-based "Windows 7" to market in 2010 ...
Now you know why Windows Vista has so many problems. Its kernel-less!
Windows 7 is going to be kernel-based, so at least it will boot! :)
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Javascript in SG1
Ajaxian has this post where they show SG1 using Javascript.
Interesting to see that JS1 is used in the future ;)
SG1 is supposed to be current time, not the future. :)
via Dion Almaer
Some notes on Google App Engine
The Administration console doc notes that if you have a Google Apps account, you need to go the following URL:
http://appengine.google.com/a/your-domain.com
Please replace the relevant parts of the above URL.
It also notes that you can upload your apps using appcfg.py in the SDK.
Speaking of the SDK, the app engine SDK includes a web server that simulates the app engine python environment. More here.
The python runtime is restricted, which is why you should test your code with the app engine SDK. Some modules such as marshal, imp, ftplib, select, socket are empty. More here.
Logging is allowed, and can be viewed in the Administration console.
Google App Engine looks to be tweaked for running web applications only. Application code only runs in response to a web request. This is unlike Amazon EC2 where you can build/upload an image for data processing. If a request takes too long (this is vague, it says more than a few seconds) its terminated and the server returns an error code. Using the Datastore, you have 500 MB of persistent storage space. You also have bandwidth for about 5 million page views.
Python extensions in C are not supported.
During the preview period you can register up to 3 applications.
Currently a query is limited to a 1000 results.
Here is the official Google video on the release:
Monday, April 07, 2008
Google App Engine released
Google released google app engine today.
Sign Up (It says its limited and asks you to sign up. I did, and I just got an invite to start using Google App Engine :)
Here are Scobles videos of the announcement:
(They demo creating an application, plus Python creator Guido speaks)
I haven't had a chance to read the documentation as I was having problems getting to it. I tried signing up for the service
, but its limited right now, but you can download the SDK to start getting ready. You need to know Python (which isn't a problem, I do most of my stuff in Python anyways :). The SDK is licensed under the Apache license as you can see above. Their are version for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
The readme in the SDK says you have to have Python installed. Once the SDK is installed you can start the dev_appserver in a command prompt:
Here is the simple guest book sample application running. The guest book looks like a Python WSGI application (at first glance)that gets run on port 8080.
Their are more application you can download from the Application Gallery.
Update: I just got an invite to start creating applications:
Update 2:
I have some more notes from the docs here.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Hak5 releases Season 3 Episode 9
Get more options for download (mp4, Xvid, wmv) and show notes here.
They cover Yahoo Pipes, Powershell GUI and an open source forensics toolkit called Helix.
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