tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12820729801759534382024-02-20T10:28:10.903+02:00Rogu's PlaceRandom thoughts, random stuffUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-29261702654920743132010-02-16T09:50:00.004+02:002010-02-16T10:05:32.583+02:00MeeGoSo, <a href="http://meego.com/">bye bye Windows</a>? When Nokia introduced its <a href="http://roguspace.blogspot.com/2009/08/nokia-booklet.html">Booklet</a>, something like this was an expected measure.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/buzz">Google Buzz</a> looks interesting. It would be nice to find some sensible use for this service...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-1956104677352871522009-11-09T10:16:00.003+02:002009-11-09T10:26:12.024+02:00WaveI finally got a <a href="https://wave.google.com/wave/">Google Wave</a> invitation. It surely looks interesting, but at the moment, the whole thing is rather pointless with only one friend :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-65415094533986436442009-09-20T22:45:00.002+03:002009-09-20T22:48:37.474+03:00Picasa WebTaken from <a href="http://picasa.google.com/intl/en_US/web/tos.html">Picasa: Terms of Service</a>:<br /><blockquote>You agree not to access Picasa Web Albums by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google for use in accessing Picasa Web Albums.<br /></blockquote>So no upload to Picasa Web Album from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Spot">F-Spot</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GThumb">Gthumb</a>, etc?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-55886095310081468902009-08-26T09:54:00.002+03:002009-08-26T09:58:40.027+03:00Nokia BookletNokia just introduced <a href="http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/mini-laptop">Nokia Booklet 3G</a> mini-laptop. It is interesting to see if there are plans for a Linux version. With Qt, the underlying operating system should be somewhat irrelevant.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-89276661491530346112009-08-21T15:29:00.002+03:002009-08-21T15:32:57.154+03:00N900<a href="http://mobile-review.com/index-en.shtml">Mobile Review</a> has an interesting <a href="http://mobile-review.com/review/nokia-rx51-n900-en.shtml">review</a> of Nokia's forthcoming N900. It also includes some absorbing speculation about Nokia's strategies.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-31499981511338010762009-07-05T14:52:00.002+03:002009-07-05T14:56:10.316+03:00Maemo goes QtNow it's official: Maemo will switch to Qt. Not a <a href="http://roguspace.blogspot.com/2009/01/newsflash.html">big</a> <a href="http://roguspace.blogspot.com/2008/08/qt.html">surprise</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-60917803854003401052009-06-29T22:33:00.003+03:002009-06-29T22:47:41.952+03:00Ubuntu OneFinally I got an invite to <a href="http://ubuntuone.com/">Ubuntu One</a>. At the moment, it looks like a poor <a href="https://www.getdropbox.com/">dropbox</a> clone. But despite of this, I'm very much interested in seeing the <a href="http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/05/16/ubuntu-one-future-of-ubuntu/">future</a> <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8843">of it</a>.<br /><br />On the other hand, it would have not been a bad choice to call it <a href="http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/community_angered_over_canonical_s_ubuntu_one">Canonical One</a> instead of Ubuntu One. Could you imagine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds">Linus Torvalds</a> selling a web service called Linux One...?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-849701682550348552009-04-17T11:14:00.001+03:002009-04-17T11:17:35.005+03:00FirefoxNew <a href="http://informationarchitects.jp/designing-firefox-32/">design</a> <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_firefox_no_tabs_built_in_ubiquity.php">ideas</a> for <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Firefox</a> look really interesting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-67596693165296321892009-03-01T02:04:00.003+02:002009-03-01T02:20:33.577+02:00TrinidadI kind of guessed it that Nokia is <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/pcs/news/2009/02/reuters_us_nokia_ceo">planning to enter laptop business</a>. After acquiring Trolltech, it makes a lot of sense. Mobile phones, laptops, and internet should work well together. In a sense, Google, Apple, and Nokia are doing the same thing. They all think that this is the future and they want to lock their users to use their services. At the moment, Google is strong in the internet, Apple is strong in laptops/software, and Nokia is strong in mobile phones. Microsoft hasn't been very succesfull in this regards yet, but it is interesting to see what will happen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-37971894720415553752009-01-14T19:09:00.001+02:002009-01-14T19:11:52.162+02:00Newsflash<a href="http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/lgpl-license-option-added-to-qt">Qt</a> goes <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090114-nokia-qt-lgpl-switch-huge-win-for-cross-platform-development.html">LGPL</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-43860678530686645062009-01-10T18:18:00.002+02:002009-01-10T18:50:14.399+02:00BackupDuring the holidays, I though about backupping. I wanted to have a simple backupping system that works automatically. That excluded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks">RAID</a> (too complicated) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd">DVD</a>'s (not automatic). Applications that seem to be useful in this regard include <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/SimpleBackupSuite">Simple Backup Suite</a> and <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Unison">Unison</a>. There is also a possibility to make a backup of the whole disc by using the <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem#From%20the%20command%20line">dd</a> command. However, my solution was to buy an USB disc and do some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync">rsync</a>+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron</a> magic. Pretty much similarly as described in <a href="http://jwz.livejournal.com/801607.html">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-85360918156817115982008-11-21T11:27:00.002+02:002008-11-21T12:18:39.896+02:00ThemesI very much like the idea of those <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/google-to-open-up-gmail-theme-developement--487285">Gmail themes</a> which change their appearance depending on the local weather or the time of the day. This idea should definately be applied to the desktop. With <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz">Compiz</a>, it shouldn't be that difficult to make effects (or themes) that behave like this.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-78587661205474466512008-09-01T21:40:00.009+03:002008-09-04T12:48:57.297+03:00TabbingI have actually always thought that tabs should be handled by the window manager, not by the program itself. Of course, this is one of the fundamental ideas behind <a href="http://modeemi.fi/%7Etuomov/ion/">Ion</a>. It seems that Google is taking a step into this direction with its <a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html">Google Chrome browser</a>. A quick mockup of how the mentioned idea might look in Chrome:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5DXpcNA8khY/SL-tzzlUjgI/AAAAAAAAAkE/J1GofWkYyiY/s1600-h/dlpage_lg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5DXpcNA8khY/SL-tzzlUjgI/AAAAAAAAAkE/J1GofWkYyiY/s320/dlpage_lg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242099596814224898" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-88369626195985978172008-08-24T22:45:00.002+03:002008-08-24T22:57:51.945+03:00Ubuntu themeThe <a href="http://phorolinux.com/ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-alpha-1-screenshots.html">new theme</a> for Ubuntu Interprid is simply awful. It's even worse than the previous one. This <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme">mockup</a> should be the way to go.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-6186913598490693992008-08-19T16:38:00.003+03:002008-08-19T17:13:06.497+03:00QtNokia helps <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-nokia-helps-port-firefox-to-qt.html">port Firefox to Qt</a> (which is great news for KDE users) and Nokia adds <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5207224816.html">Qt to Maemo</a>. These news are not very surprising since <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8066582994.html">Nokia acquired Trolltech</a> last January. Is the long run plan in Maemo to switch completely to Qt? I would imagine that having two toolkits (i.e. Qt and GTK) increases the memory consumption (which is supposedly a bad thing in a mobile device) and also makes it more difficult to get unified look and feel among the applications.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-4348595889275121282008-08-13T15:33:00.000+03:002008-08-13T15:34:22.677+03:00Homer Simpson euroQuite an impressive <a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/articleslideshow?articleId=USL872708020080808&channelName=televisionNews#a=1">work</a> ;)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1282072980175953438.post-27196130547782963042008-08-13T15:14:00.002+03:002008-08-13T15:19:48.583+03:00KnolI really don't get <a href="http://knol.google.com/k/knol#">Knol</a>. It is a site that hosts many articles written in various subjects. The idea is that only the author has the right to modify the article. Granted, other people can rate and comment articles. They can even write their own versions of the article. But still, all articles are based on someone's viewpoint, or even worse, opinion. Does rating and commenting the articles give enough peer reviewing? In my opinion, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</a>'s approach makes more sense. In Knol, 1+1+1=3, but in Wikipedia, 1+1+1=4.<p>If I'm missing something, please enlighten me.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0