Saturday, August 10, 2002

A new website is up for geeks.   coolnewshit.com  Yes that's it's name and it's a list of the coolest new tech toys for us real world challanged.  Note the Xbox live :). comment [] 7:19:31 PM

Linux on Xbox One Step Closer? [Slashdot] Ok I have a question about all this Linux on the XBox shit.  Why?  The XBox is a gaming console.  It plays video games that run on Windows.  It's not a freaking desktop or a server.  I know with a few weeks worth of tweaks it could be a PC but a pretty low powered one that's rather specialized.  Why don't these people just got and buy one of the Microtel Linux PC's for $400 and be done with it.  This is the reason that companies are busy enforcing copy protection from hell.  There is absolutely NO legitimate reason to be doing this.  I don't hack my PS2 which runs Linux so that I can use fucking media player on it.  I'm sorry but this just gets me as a complete waste of time and another example of the wasted resources of Linux.  If you want to take over Microsoft, quit hacking their products and spend some time writing your own. I was talking about this with a friend last night.  If Linux, well mainly GNOME and KDE want to make a huge impact on the desktop market why don't they stop copying Windows?  I mean some of us remember Windows 3.11, then 95 came with a completely new UI and everyone wanted it.  Imagine what Linux could do right now if they could release a completely new revolutionary UI.  It would rock the computer world.  But they won't.  They'll keep copying the start menu and Office and everything else Microsoft makes.  Meanwhile Microsoft is working on a new UI design to be released in 2004 or 2005.  If the developers for Linux aren't quick they're gonna fall even more behind because they'll have a completely new UI to copy.  There's room for both Linux and Windows in the market, there really is.  Why don't we just deal with that fact, choose the one we like more and use it.  Then leave each other's products alone?  Cause then there'd be no enemy, no evil empire or cult of penguins to talk about.  We'd be forced to look at our software and figure out how to make it better.   Just my $.02 comment [] 4:10:59 PM

Open source's new weapon: The law?. Open-source advocates will unfurl a legislative proposal next week to prohibit the state of California from buying software from companies that don't open their source code. [CNET News.com]  Ummm....Excuse me?  Wouldn't that be the Government making a monopoly at that point? I agree they should go for the cheapest software that does the job well and securely but to make it illegal to purchase products that aren't Open Source?  Shouldn't there be a seperation of State and Linux? comment [] 2:24:01 PM

I bought Small Pieces Loosely Joined: (a Unified Theory of the Web).  I was at the local bookstore and remembered hearing about it from a lot of my trusted tech friends as required reading.  So far it's really good.  It was written by David Weinberger who as he should, has a blog.  This is how it should be.  I read a book about the web, inside the book are links that I should go to if I want to know more or experience what he's talking about first hand.  On top of that the Author has a blog that I can visit to see more of his daily writings including writing about ideas he formulated for the book.  It's like the book is just a jumping off point for a whole world of knowledge.  The best part is that the book is about the Web and the books value is increased 10x by the Web itself.  The only thing that would make this better is if I could have gotten an e-copy so that I could click on the links as I read or the ideas could be updated as his thinking changed.  Anyways the book is well worth the price so far. comment [] 2:09:42 PM

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