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chrome os was released this week. I installed it on a sun virtual machine.

The computer only has 1GB of RAM so I allocated 512MB to the virtual OS, so it was a bit slow, but that is the computer not the OS. The interface is well, chromium (or chrome if you like) so even a child could use it. It is initially targeted for netbooks, but I’m sure it could be used anywhere eventually. It was cool to look at and I may try a native install if I get a chance to partition my drive.

sigfizzle; which is intended to be a teacher, student, academic workspace got a face this past week, here it is: sigfizzle.com

I have been contracted to get a shopping website off the ground. I am initially looking at zen-cart designs. I have to figure out how to incorporate paypal into the mix.

I feel busy, I am busy.

googlewave.com!w%252BjSoopT94A

Well, I gave windows seven a go, and overall I was impressed. I got an email from microsoft thanking me for beta testing and informing me that in the next comming months the beta would start shutting down every two hours.

I could have switched to the win7 RC, but it seemed like a natural time to switch OS’s. It seemed that ultimately I knew I would not pay for the final release of windows seven so back to linux.

I tried Debian the linux distro that Ubuntu is based on, installation was fine, but I could not get it to detect my Linksys (ralink chipset) wireless card.

I tried gentoo again not easilly detecting my wireless card.

I turned to sabayon which is based on the gentoo disribution, but is more focused on the desktop market. It detected my wireless out of the box; I also had open office, gimp, g++, and javac.

So, far I am impressed with the look, feel and toolset of sabayon … I am using sabayon Gnome.

this is a pretty sweet game.
http://www.studentbeans.com/uk/games/sport/learn-to-fly.html
It took me about 22min to beat it, although I did not get the 6, 000 ft. bonus flight completed.

it was fun, no jimmy, jimmy, coconut, but fun. maybe someone can try to get the 6, 000 ft. flight.

Plus who can resist angry penguins.

Playing around with this: http://wolframalpha.com site. It has been brought to my attention by the abdbg; and he has made a more comprehensive post about look and features.

It has been showing up on the twit radar, and other places.  I used it in class today to generate random numbers, but then gave up on it (for that task) in favour of a simpler tool http://www.random.org/  

Nobody seems to exactly try to know what to make of it.  Is it a search engine or what?? 

I am calling it a data stack attacker.  It attacks the data and makes interesting reports.  One of the twit guests called it the end of thought.  Probably not especially since from a science/engineering/math perspective it just gives some great new explorative directions.

If you are interested in math and science it is undeniably fun in the search to the right I typed in:  ”Tarqeq vs. Pan” and get some great comparisons and data with one query “zero” clicks.

I think it would be pretty hard to get comprehensive data like that with one click on google, but I would use google to find a new car.

Give it a try have some fun with it, report back some of your interesting queries.

http://www.archive.org

what fun this is.  here is jasper street in 2005 vs. 2009:

pretty cool … check your site, check google interesting.

When you think of fun where is the first place you would go?

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

http://purple.com/

or

http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/

… apples legal licensing literature? Well, I would go to chuck norris because you do not want to offend chuck norris.

But it turns out that apple licensing contains things like:

nuclear facilities and production of missiles. Wow, maybe DRM is taking it to a whole new level?

can you make bloggy post in ff4?

I find it particularly interesting that they plan to support audio and video without depending on external applications like quicktime by simply using the <audio> and <video> tags.  That will be supersweet; I hope other browsers follow suit.

linkolisology:
grub
Ubuntu Forums

Reinstalled grub, but now windows seven is not an option. But my Ubuntu and files still exist and are bootable :). Will have to work on getting windows 7 to boot.

windows on intel based iMac:

It runs really poorly, but it boots and works. I installed google chrome and openoffice.