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Taking a Repose
You may have noticed that my blogs seem to get shorter and shorter. As you can imagine I’m busy wrapping up things for this year. In addition to all that, I want to spend more time writing my novels and articles. Plus I need to catch up on my coding projects as well. You should…
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Hmm… The Future Feels Clean
So do you like it? The theme on the website that is. I decided to go with a variant of light greys, royal blue-purple and amber highlights. It does have a spartan, minimalistic feel but I like it. I considered rebuilding the theme as an ExtJS or jQuery UI powered on. But honestly, this works…
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A Clean Future
The future is white? Bob, the future has been white since the 60’s. – Autotainment, Big Ideas The future has been white for a long time, thanks to the likes of Stanley Kubrick and the folks at Apple. Thats why the theme I’m crafting for this website, is called “Clean Future”. I took the “Open…
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Tech News – Canonical Bringing Music to Ubuntu, LH Strikes Again & Affero GPL Can’t Fix the Cloud
Canonical Launching a Music Store? Rumours on the world wild web point to the possibility of Canonical building an iTunes-like music store. Works for U thinks such a move would add another viable revenue stream for Canonical, even if it seems to stretch the resources of the firm. If this music store comes to Ubuntu,…
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News – Chromium OS is Here
Chromium OS is Here Google just announced their Chromium OS project. This will act as the open source precursor to Chrome OS. And the folks at Canonical are helping Google build it. Exciting times ahead, especially for netbooks users and cloud computing advocates. Thanks to the 451 Group‘s Matthew Aslett team for posting about this.
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News – The Future of Nokia N-Series Phones, IP for Libertarians, Animating the Death Star
Once again, Dorian has dropped off the side of the Internet to work on stuff. So instead of an update, Dorian sends some interesting bits of news he found on the Internet. Maemo is the Future of the Nokia N-Series Just when you thought Nokia planned on using Maemo only for their experimental line of…
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The Joys of Seamless Upgrades
Upgrades often is a naughty word in programming and system administration. When a system admin or programmer starts an upgrade, often it is with clenched teeth and an expectation something will break, explode or spontaneously combust. So congrats to the WordPress guys for releasing another seamless, non-breaking, and easy to do upgrade. And yes this…
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News Flash – Matthias Ettrich Gets a Medal, the N900 Gets Reviewed
Dorian continues his quest in pursuit of sanity, salvation and free time under the combined mountains of e-mail and code. He sents his regards and asks yet again for patience. As a token, he gives you his take on the latest cool developments in the consumer Linux space. Matthias Ettrich Awarded the German Medal of…
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News Flash – Linux Desktop Suck, Android is Not Linux and the Nokia N900s Dropping Out of Orbit
These past few days have seen Dorian scrambling to catchup and not blogging. Dorian still feels the need to fight his e-mails, update his “other” sites and organize his cluttered life, rather than update his readers on exciting developments he has worked on. Instead Dorian will continue writing in the third person, and highlight the…
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Review of Ontario Linux Fest 2009
Two weekends ago I went to Ontario Linux Fest 2009, held here in chilly Toronto for the third year in a row. And for such a young conference, it was quite good. In fact good enough, that longer review of the event is in order: Morning Keynote – Changes to the GPL The day started…