Lee on October 8th, 2009

Seems that Gallium 3D acceleration is being ported to AROS. Haiku, another non-mainstream OS, has some support already, and of course, Linux and Windows have always been target platforms for Gallium.
At this rate, Gallium might just be the thing we’ve been missing, that can bring 3D features to all platforms, in the same way [...]

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Lee on October 7th, 2009

Hmm. I’m running debian/KDE in virtualbox. A lot of syslog entries just popped up from the systray, quickly followed by some analysis/explanation: the kernel just panicked, and I can submit a bug report.
This is highly cool. Last I knew, kernels just locked up on panic. But to keep going, present nice [...]

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Lee on July 26th, 2009

I just discovered this Mother of All Demos. It’s a very early (1968) IT presentation from Stanford, with the goal of augmenting human office work by giving them a desktop computer.
What’s amazing is that Doug Englebart presents mice, hierarchical information organisation, hyperlinks, diagrams and charts, and email. Conceptually, it’s really not that far [...]

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Lee on July 21st, 2009

Canonical have now released Launchpad as open source. This is really good news, considering Shuttleworth’s previous stance, which I found quite wrong-headed. Just having Launchpad alone as an Open Source project is great, as it’s a very powerful tool. It’ll be interesting to see if they follow suit with the rest of Ubuntu’s [...]

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Lee on July 20th, 2009

I don’t know if this has been publicized yet, but a quick google doesn’t show much up about it. I was checking out Amazon’s Mechanical Turk the other day, and it give a Django error page due to an unhandled URL. Interesting.
Update: I stand corrected. Seems Amazon MT just embeds other sites’ [...]

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