Novell Virtualization Tour updates
I attended Novell’s 7 in 7 Virtualization Road Show on Thursday. It took place in Berjaya Times Square Hotel. I was one of the early birds and I watched as the crowd came in and register and then had their breakfast. The breakfast was served in the local manner so I couldn’t enjoy it very much except the tea.
Overall, presenters talk pretty much the same things but in other words and with different approach. Mr. from Novell, I forgot their names, did a welcome speech and threw some linux penguins in to the audience.
The presenter from IBM made everybody feel asleep right after the breakfast. It was boring and I couldn’t understand much from his Indian accent. I wonder if he did prepare for this event, because I saw him only read the presentation slides from the screen. I’m sure there’s no point in the presentation if you are going to do that. We can read that kind of information in the websites, thanks to Internet. Other people generally was quite the same, except that AMD guy who made a great presentation and explained why would we chose AMD over Intel. It was a good marketing pitch also!
Novell called this tour as Virtualization 7 in 7, meaning there were 7 alliances in this - AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel and Novell.
Personally, the stuff they talked about was not very new for me. I wish Novell did a hands on experiments and showed us how it all works in real life. This would be more resourceful for attendees. Otherwise, it was all one way communication.
I wasn’t lucky win iPod, SLES watches, T-Shirts or even the penguin toys. 
Kiss good-bye to my R60 Thinkpad
I’ve been using thinkpads since 2005. I have used R50, R50e, R51, R51e, R52 and lastly R60 models along the way. All the models served me well during that time, they never failed, the hardware was just tough for a guy like me.
I’ve tried almost all kinds of linux distributions on them, I even give it a shot and install Mac OS Tiger on my last R60 Thinkpad. This was a great exploration and I had my first experience using OS X. I was quite happy with the performance, although I couldn’t manage to install wireless card(ipw3945) I could after some tricks use my built-in network card.
I was, I’m sure as all of the thinkpad users, afraid that since IBM sold the PC business line to Lenovo Group the quality of the products will go down. Read more
Linux software picks
I’d like to share my favorite softwares which I like to have installed right away if it doesn’t come with the distro.
- Tilda - If you have played Counter Strike or Quake, remember how console terminal is used? It will be hidden and if you press some keys it will show up. You press the keys again it will disappear. Nice thing to have if you use command line quite often.
- Liferea - RSS reader in Linux. It’s lightweight and does everything you expect from such application.
- Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. I like that it loads fast, supports all the documents that I currently work with. The disadvantage is that its very new, so need to be patient.
- Graveman - This tool lets me handle almost every kind of CD/DVD burning. I say almost coz there are some minor problems with DVDs.
- Thunderbird - I have blogged that it’s my only E-Mail client. My lovely!
- Axel - console based download manager. Do you know flashget for windows? It’s sth like that, minus the ability to login to the downloading server. I’d love to see ubuntu integrating it into apt-get.
- screen - let’s you run stuff even if you lost/closed connection to the linux box.
More to come soon!
AdesClrPicker v2.0 in Linux
In my previous post I have reviewed AdesClrPicker in Windows, and now I’m doing a review in Linux. I will be testing it under Ubuntu 7.04 - the Feisty Fawn.
Before I begin, I need to note that AdesClrPicker is not developed to run on Linux, it’s a Windows application. So if you encounter any kind of problems, bugs while running it on Linux Ades Design is not responsible, neither am I!
Here’s a short list of what we need:
- Ubuntu 7.04 installed on your machine
- Wine - Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
- Latest Firefox version installed in Wine
I have tried using AdesClrPicker in native Linux applications and the picker can detect and pick color but it cannot send color codes to the AdesClrPicker which is running in Wine. Since it was developed for Windows users this kind of things incompatibility might happen. Just remember that AdesClrPicker does work fine in Windows OS. Having said that let’s go to the first step and run it:
we start AdesClrPicker:
blackman@blacky:~$ wine AdesClrPicker.exe
we start Firefox in wine:
blackman@blacky:~$ wine /home/blackman/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe
So, after starting Firefox in Wine we can now pick colors and make use of this wonderful and yet very small in size application - AdesClrPicker!
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Today as in graphs!
Here’s my graph of internet traffic usage for the day.
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