Monday, September 29, 2008
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
I wish we would see this work on some of the distributions out their.
At the Linux Plumbers Conference Thursday, Arjan van de Ven, Linux developer at Intel and author of PowerTOP, and Auke Kok, another Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds. The hardware was an Asus EEE PC, which has solid-state storage, and the two developers beat the five second mark with two software loads: one modified Fedora and one modified Moblin. They had to hold up the EEE PC for the audience, since the time required to finish booting was less than the time needed for the projector to sync.
I wish we would see this work on some of the distributions out their.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Nice laptop for a developer running Windows Workstation 2008 - Peter's Gekko
Nice laptop for a developer running Windows Workstation 2008 - Peter's Gekko:
"The downside of the machine is that Hyper V disables all power management functionality like sleep mode or hibernation. Booting takes a couple of minutes. How long exactly depends how many virtual machines are booted at startup."
Something to consider when considering Hyper V on a laptop. Might be a better idea to run VirtualPC/VirtualBox for your virtual machines if you want suspend-to-ram or suspend-to-disk for your laptop. Haven't looked into this myself though.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
My Google Chrome experience thus far...
has not been great.
The first machine I tried to install it on is a Windows Vista Enterprise system behind a proxy server. The Google Chrome installer is pretty slow in initializing... can't find an internet connection and dies. All other browsers (firefox, safari and internet explorer) work fine on the system and are configured to work with the proxy.
Second try is on a Windows Vista SP1 Ultimate system running on a tablet machine without a proxy. This is a fresh install of Vista. The Chrome install went along fine, and I managed to browse for ten minutes. A driver install required a reboot. After reboot, the browser would start up but give an error, leaving a sad face in the open tab. Looked to me as if the render process for the tab would die. After trying various things that I could think of... I uninstalled the browser and installed firefox instead.
Third machine I tried was a Windows XP Professional system which was running behind a proxy server. The proxy server is the same. Their are differences in the network connections (the Vista machine used a wifi connection, the XP machine used ethernet). The installer worked fine here, and the browser installed. I've been using the browser on a machine for a couple of days now. Google Reader and Facebook pages won't load in Google Chrome. Techmeme and Sitemeter load up fine. I guess this has something to do with the proxy. These pages loaded fine when the second system worked briefly.
One thing is for sure... Google Chrome is beta software.
The first machine I tried to install it on is a Windows Vista Enterprise system behind a proxy server. The Google Chrome installer is pretty slow in initializing... can't find an internet connection and dies. All other browsers (firefox, safari and internet explorer) work fine on the system and are configured to work with the proxy.
Second try is on a Windows Vista SP1 Ultimate system running on a tablet machine without a proxy. This is a fresh install of Vista. The Chrome install went along fine, and I managed to browse for ten minutes. A driver install required a reboot. After reboot, the browser would start up but give an error, leaving a sad face in the open tab. Looked to me as if the render process for the tab would die. After trying various things that I could think of... I uninstalled the browser and installed firefox instead.
Third machine I tried was a Windows XP Professional system which was running behind a proxy server. The proxy server is the same. Their are differences in the network connections (the Vista machine used a wifi connection, the XP machine used ethernet). The installer worked fine here, and the browser installed. I've been using the browser on a machine for a couple of days now. Google Reader and Facebook pages won't load in Google Chrome. Techmeme and Sitemeter load up fine. I guess this has something to do with the proxy. These pages loaded fine when the second system worked briefly.
One thing is for sure... Google Chrome is beta software.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive The Superbowl of Startups «
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive The Superbowl of Startups «:
"Blogging is NOT reporting. It’s the single voice of a person. When you read me here you are reading me the way I’d talk to you at a cocktail party. You’re hearing my opinions. If I’m doing ‘reporting’ then you’ll know, because of how I source it."
I really like this explanation for blogging. Maybe we need "Blogging is NOT reporting" T-shirts.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Spore is out in Australia!
Duncan Riley gets to play Spore!
He has some screenshots... but what I'm interested in is the multiplayer portion of the game!
He has some screenshots... but what I'm interested in is the multiplayer portion of the game!
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Hands-on with StarCraft 2: new technology, classic play
Hands-on with StarCraft 2: new technology, classic play:
"If you were looking for something new and shocking, I'm sorry to disappoint you. If you want your StarCraft updated, improved, and given a 21st century look and feel, you're going to be a very happy gamer... with a long wait in front of you. "
It feels like I've been waiting for this game for centuries!
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
KHTML, Webkit and Chrome
Just wanted to give some props to the KHTML guys...
Wikipedia:Webkit:
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I remember using KDE2 years ago, thinking how great the KHTML based browser (Konqueror) was, and wondering why their was no one talking more about this browser/engine. Glad to see I wasn't the only one noticing how good the engine is. All the articles covering Webkit/Google Chrome keep taking me back to that time.
List of KHTML and Webkit-based browsers.
Wikipedia:Webkit:
WebKit was originally derived from the Konqueror browser’s KHTML software library by Apple, Inc. for use as the engine of Mac OS X’s Safari web browser, and has now been further developed by Apple, Nokia, Google and others.
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KDE 2.0 was the first KDE release (on October 23, 2000) to include KHTML[16] (as the rendering engine of the new Konqueror file and web browser, which replaced the monolithic KDE File Manager).
I remember using KDE2 years ago, thinking how great the KHTML based browser (Konqueror) was, and wondering why their was no one talking more about this browser/engine. Glad to see I wasn't the only one noticing how good the engine is. All the articles covering Webkit/Google Chrome keep taking me back to that time.
List of KHTML and Webkit-based browsers.
Monday, September 01, 2008
Where the Linux laptops live | Open Source | ZDNet.com
Where the Linux laptops live | Open Source | ZDNet.com:
"Almost one-third of the 25 top-selling laptops at Amazon.com are sold with Linux. (Shown is their top-selling Linux laptop, an Asus EEEpc 900 unit.)"
Amazing how far Linux has come...
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