From Google Video, its a sales rep from Yellowsheepriver Municator Inc., based in Macau (the other territory that was turned over to China back in the late 90’s), here to tell the folks at CeBIT ’06 about his company’s “‘Municator”, a mini PC (yes, you can probably say “Mac Mini knockoff” as well) that runs on MIPS-based CPU’s which *****they’ve made themselves*****.
Their slogan: SAY NO TO WINTEL.
And its cheap. US$146/123 Euro. Check it out.
LJ doesn’t do embedded flash videos, I suppose… 😦
That’s right. No more hard drive partitions on my part. That is, not until ReactOS or Haiku are released.
I’ve realized that, since GNU/Linux was made to directly emulate Unix, a server-centered operating system from less than half a century ago, and since I’m not running a server, GNU/Linux has no reason to be on my (or *any*) PC.
Well, except for maybe Gobolinux, which, for once, isn’t based off of any pre-existing Unix filesystems.
However, since they’ve said that Gobolinux is similar in concept to BeOS (which I’m sure some of you have heard of back a couple of years ago), I guess that I’ll just wait until Haiku, the open-source continuation of BeOS, comes out.
Or hell, I could just wait until ReactOS is released. They aim to be binary-compatible with Windows NT (from 1993), the core component for every Windows that has come out ever since (including XP and Vista). The way things are at Microsoft, I could stand to wait for the ReactOS team to put MS out of their misery (and set lots of developers, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS free in the process).
Yep, I can wait with all this ingrown hair that I’ve plucked out of my face. Bastards…
Oh, and I guess I’ll stay back on for the time being, too.
Meh.
As I told lordsathien in an email, I don’t think that I’ll be online that much anymore. At least, not on LJ or IM (of any kind).
Why? Because, to be blunt, the need to be online is no longer as apparent to me as it was less than 9 months ago.
I’ve become distant from those with whom I have possessed almost any varying degree of familiarity (and, for a few folks, actual contact). This I blame myself for.
I shouldn’t have been such a self-centric, eccentric prick in the process. I should have learned how to carry on a conversation with people (hell, I should have learned that before I ever got a Yahoo or MSN ID/email address). I should have learned how to relate to others, to make connections on more mutual platforms. I should have been far more appreciative of other people and other subjects, instead of hogging an IM with useless tech shit (i.e., Linux, which, just I now realize is an OS that is only meant for servers, closed networks and hierarchies…thus rendering it useless to the common population, and to me) or else leaving the person at the other end stranded in mid-speak.
I’m a useless sack of skin and bones. And you all know it, too.
Thus, I apologize to everyone on both Livejournal and Deviantart whose time I’ve wasted.
Wasting people’s time is something that I try hard to avoid in any situation, but I now realize that I’ve done just that.
Thus, I’m sorry. With all of my heart, I’m sorry to all of you.
So yeah, I might not update this LJ anymore. Who knows?
I don’t, that’s for sure.
It seems that, everyday, more and more people are finding ways to make the very most of their daily browsing experience by using Firefox. Plus, now it has become an open-source development platform by itself: there’s Flock (a Web 2.0-centric browser) and Songbird (a music-centric browser), and I’m hoping that more derivatives are on the way.
However, I would definately, definately love to see an extended Firefox that can handle all protocols and file extensions from within the browser, such as Bittorrent, ED2k, Magnet links (for Gnutella, Limewire, etc.), Lastfm, and so forth. Plus, with Google’s acquisition of Writely, someone may create an extension that will force .doc (and other Office-native) links to open up in the browser (possibly in Writely, just like how WebmailCompose does with mailto: links).
If it got to the point where everything can be opened and accessed within the browser, then I think that the ideal desktop Linux will be born. Considering that the average user only uses a computer to use the web browser (IE, Firefox, or what have you), then maybe those who are aiming for a common Linux desktop should be focusing more upon the web browser and how all the other standalone applications (amaroK, OpenOffice, etc.) plug into it.
For instance, why is it that no one’s come up with a File Manager/Organizer extension?! Is it really *that* hard? Both IE and Konqueror have that **built in** already!
See, that’s the kind of thing that Firefox is lacking. Why?
If that one simple thing could be created, then I wouldn’t have ANY NEED WHATSOEVER for Explorer (Internet or Windows, since the former’s built into the latter) on WinXP. Plus, People who use GNOME on who-knows-what distro won’t have to use a separate desktop browser anymore, thus making things at good bit simpler.
That’s the next big event that I’m waiting for from the Firefox extension developers’ community. And I think that the ones who await the advent of the Linux desktop are focusing on that as the tipping point for the realization of that hope.
THIS is Google’s upcoming WEB-BASED OFFICE
So say hello to Writely (beta).
It’s not taking any registrations until they get things settled, so hold your horses. But now we know that Google *is* launching a web-based office suite service.
So the rumours are indeed true!
GDrive – “infinite space” to store your files online
GBuy – the “Paypal killer” of the future
CL2 – the GCalendar that everyone has been clamoring for since Gmail was first released
And, based upon October’s events, is Google going to buy Sun and launch their much-rumoured Web-Office suite (with AJAX)?
Oh, and lordsathien, that GDrive extension that I told you about DOES have an equivalent for IE. Have fun with it.
K, haven’t posted here in a bit.
Dude from Cox just installed our cable phone line (with a new, twice-as-big modem to handle both the Internet and the phone line). So we’ve pretty much gone into the VoIP revolution without a hitch.
I have a GooglePage! http://raynenamibia.googlepages.com/
I’m going to WalMart tonight to buy some fresh CD-RW’s, one of which I’m going to use to burn the install iso for Gentoo’s 2006.0 LiveCD release (now with a GUI installer!). Funny, I posted a question to on the exact same day that the developers released it: read it here.
I’m currently in the midst of the process of registration to MGTC. I’ve already given in the transcripts, the $15 in registration, and the SAT scores (although I’ll have to give them an actual copy, or at least arrange for them to be sent to the school from CollegeBoard, the administrators of the SAT and related tests; when she looked at the printout, the woman at the desk who accepts transcripts said that I could be exempted from the placement exam with such scores on my record, but the bonafide copy clause stands for that, too). Meanwhile, Mom will arrange for financial aid (all that could possibly be scraped up, that is).
I just downloaded and installed the newest update to Nullsoft’s Winamp, and all that I have to react with is this:
“um…….right.”
The Shoutcast Radio and TV libraries look completely f’ed up, which is probably my biggest gripe with this new version. Oh well…I use it for music, anyway. At least the audio and video libraries don’t look that much different.
Plus, I just got finished watching Serial Experiments Lain. Good stuff, brings back memories from ’03, when I was watching Tech TV. Currently, I’m trying to finish off Outlaw Star; then its on to Tenchi in Tokyo, and then the entire Digimon series, possibly starting off with Season 03. I’m wondering, though, about this new Digimon series (“Savers”) which will debut on Fuji TV in Japan in April; the graphics in this new installment are departing from the canon to which we have been used to (No Goggleheads in this one, I’m afraid). Also, check out this coming season of Avatar: The Last Airbender, premiering on the 17th.
Also, running on the current logic that the standard family residence has three (3) bedrooms, Mom’s thinking of turning the carport into a bedroom. Is that a common thing nowadays?
And finally, I’ll be using the Googlepage as my conduit for ideas about software and so forth. Thus, I’ll be sparing most of you all of needlessly long posts on this blog.
Anyway, that’s it.
I was just thinking last night about technology, the Internet, and related things.
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Oh, btw, AWESOME NEWS: I called Wanda yesterday from the dorm room phone to see if it was working properly with outside lines (via Connie’s calling card), and she informed me of my mother’s granting of consent to that most inevitable of happenings:
Ladies and gentlemen, I’M WITHDRAWING FROM OGLETHORPE BY THE END OF THE WEEK!!!!!
I’ll be switching to a local tech school, particularly either Middle Georgia Tech or Macon State, until the end of the spring semester. YA’LL, I CAN’T WAIT! *squee*
And now back to the program in progress…..
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I’ve told you all already that the next great revolution that could happen in P2P communication will happen on the Mobile/telephone platform, particularly taking into account how the PSTN (y’know, phone numbers and related shit) will be phased out of existence over the next few decades because of the slow but sure movement to a universal VoIP platform by companies such as Vonage (half-hearted) to Skype (dead-on) to Yahoo (has tremendous potential).
We’ve already had the first great revolution in terms of “Text over IP”, which, of course, you’ve already seen with the average PC. The computer as we know it has always been, naturally, a text-generating device. Everything that you see on a PC – every graphic, every audio, every text, every program, anything that appears on your screen, regardless of operating platform – is text-based (or, as a friend of mine always puts it, “0’s and 1’s”).
So we already have two great advents on our hands at this point: the PC (ToIP) and the Mobile/telephone device (VoIP). Already, the former has shown exactly how disruptive it can be in regards to the status quo (same can be said for its most honorable predecesors: the telegraph and facsimile), and it will continue to do so for years to come. I look forward to the Mobile device becoming the next greatly disruptive P2P platform (audio-wise), although I do have a question: is there a Mobile device equivalent of the GNU Project in the works?
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Now we’re about to look even further into the future, possibly to the near end of the 21st century, for one more great revolution in P2P technology.
The television – that medium which has brought the graphics of the world and all that has resided in it since the 1950’s (although it was invented in the 1920’s….the Depression and WWII prevented it from being developed) – will be the last great platform to experience an IP-based P2P revolution.
Why do I say that?
Well, a couple of reasons:
1. Sure, the PC may have audio and video capabilities, and the mobile/telephone may have text and video capabilities as well (although the latter platform has to be developed further in those areas), but what are those two devices MOST prized or used for? PC for text, Phone for audio. Thus, the same could be said about the TV: it may have text and audio capabilities (as it most certainly should), but it is most primarily used for the graphic/visual content which it is made to display and provide. Thus, “TV for video, PC for text, Phone for audio.” Simply put.
2. Back when the Internet was just beginning to evolve (70’s and early-80’s), they were making use of IP connections over lines which were originally and especially meant to transfer basic text files, mostly email (and boy, were they expensive!). By the late-80’s and entire 90’s, with the arrival of the WWW (thanks, Sir Tim from MIT) they were making use of telephone lines for IP connections, and the telephone telcos became the main carriers of Internet provision. Now, with the 2000’s, the cable/satellite companies are emerging as the new main carriers of Internet service. Coincedence?
3. Taking into account the first aforementioned tip, they’re already finding ways by which a richer graphic multimedia experience can be gained from the cable box:
“You can take your bar and shove it up your ass! I’m watching TIVO!” (sorry, had to throw that Robot Chicken quote in there, lol.
And a few other stuff. Stay tuned….
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Anyway, what can indeed be said is that, with the parallel developments in television and digital graphics, one cannot help but to notice an evolution. Some establishments are getting old and/or dying off, while some innovations are about to be born. Thus, I cannot wait for a greater liberalization of the cable box, the game console, the DVR, and other such devices (including the ones which have yet to be invented). Plus, I’m certain that someone like Richard Stallman will launch a GNU-like Project which will allow for the freer flow and creation of visual content on the TV somewhere down the line.
Let’s just wait and see, ladies and gentlemen.
OK, so with Yahoo’s upcoming Messenger 7.5, the company that has an appetite in buying every company under the sun (they just bought del.icio.us, even though they already have their own social bookmarking service……whuh?) is now actually trying to compete with someone other than Google: Skype, the thrilla from Scandinavia that has claimed over 3 million casualties worldwide (OMG, and a video to testify to the mayhem! I’ll show it to you all as soon as I can find the URL). Unfortunately, neither Skype nor the present VoYM can work for me under these conditions, as both I and androgynism found out on Friday.
What exactly to expect from Messenger 7.5?
1. Interoperability with MSN/Windows Live Messenger
2. Net2Phone: the (supposed) Skype-killer.
And probably not much else.
