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Ubuntu 7.10 on the XPS M1330, Ubuntu Coming to Customers in Spain - Direct2Dell

Ubuntu 7.10 on the XPS M1330, Ubuntu Coming to Customers in Spain - Direct2Dell:

"Now Ubuntu 7.10 is making it's way to our XPS 1330 laptop and Dell will begin offering Ubuntu in Spain.

Starting today, customers in Germany, United Kingdom, France and now Spain can purchaseUbuntu Linux 7.10 with built-in DVD playback on the XPS 1330n (in addition to the previously-released Inspiron 530n desktop system. For U.S. customers, you'll have to hold on a week or so."

Great... I finally give in, get a 1330, and they announce a 1330 with Ubuntu as an option. This is really good news though for Ubuntu/Dell fans! :)

KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote - Aaron Seigo

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scoble with the qik guys

Hey Scoble was with the qik.com guys (Micheal and Bhaskar) in these videos:
http://www.qik.com/video/9038
http://www.qik.com/video/9042

I really like qik because Scoble has been sending videos from the CES and Macworld floors showing us all the goodies. For instance, in this video he shows the NEC screen towards the end (alienware and nec both first showed these screens in CES).

battlestar galatica season 4 preview

MacFUSE Objective-C API talk -- Video

kde 4.0.0 released!!

Release page.

Lots of discussion at planet kde.

Congrats to all involved! :)

Mac OS X Tip: Create a Keyboard Shortcut for Any Menu Action in Any Program -- Lifehacker

Mac OS X Tip: Create a Keyboard Shortcut for Any Menu Action in Any Program:

"Open the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane in your System Preferences and click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. Click the little plus (+) sign, choose the application you want to assign a shortcut for from the drop-down, then enter the exact name of the menu bar item you want to execute (for example, I want a shortcut to resize an image in Preview, so I'm using 'Adjust Size...'). Then just pick your keyboard shortcut, click Add, and voilà—you've successfully added a new shortcut to your Mac. When you open the app, you'll notice that shortcut is even visible next to the item so it'll be easy to remember."

Great tip!

10 Questions On Innovation to Alan Kay

10 Questions On Innovation to Alan Kay:

"So the price today is much higher than when mainframe people were calling us crazy for trying to do personal computing. That was nothing. What's harder today is that people think they've got personal computing and they don't really. The analogy here is between the jump from non-literacy to the printing press (which might be fought but the chasm that is to be crossed is clear) vs. the much trickier one of trying to explain to a culture that has the printing press and universities that it is not very well educated and thinks pretty poorly (for example, the US is in this general state -- it has the trappings but not the perspective to see how poorly educated most 'educated people' actually are)."

Emphasis is mine. I just thought it was a really interesting thing to say. I tend to agree with the emphasized quote.

More CES and qik stuff

I've been watching Scoble move around CES showing cool stuff streaming live of his cell phone.
The coolest thing I've seen at CES is Scoble move around CES showing cool stuff streaming live of his cell phone! :)

I was watching the latest pre-recorded video on qik, and the video changed. Scoble was streaming live. Thats good, because that means you won't miss the live stuff while watching an older video. You can always go back to the pre-recorded video. Now if only battery life was longer on those cell phones.

Some other cool stuff from engadget:

A Sandisk 72 GB SSD (can't wait for prices to drop on SSDs).

Bill Gates exit interview.

Intels MID device (interesting form factor).

Alienware's curved display (I want one!)

Also, their is this new concept laptop from Dell at CES. (interesting to me, since I work at Dell)

WiMAX enabled Asus Eee PC (the text of the article mentions 7-, 8-, and 8.9 inch models in the future)

Their are quite a lot of UMPC type devices out their now. They look cool, but the ones I tried at Frys last year seemed a bit slow for my taste.

how to catch scoble live in qik

So Scoble has been streaming live at qik.com and I keep missing his live videos. By the way he is streaming live of his cell phone, how amazing is that?! I was wondering how I can catch him live, and it turns out you just need that channel open and if it is live it will start playing.

So what did Bill Gates say in his keynote?

bill gates keynote 2008
Originally uploaded by awasim

I tried very hard to watch Bill Gates keynote at microsoft.com/ces. I really did.

Lets not talk about the fact that microsoft can't get their web pages to look any good on a mac running firefox. Or get sound to play properly, had to strain really hard to hear anything. Or if you tried to click on "view in default media player" a new page would open and then nothing. But its a microsoft keynote I'm trying to run on a mac, so lets not talk about that.

Lets talk about the web page itself. That has nothing to do with the mac right. Well, the size of the video was so small. I mean live streaming video from a cell phone at qik.com from scoble looks better than that microsoft video. I guess can't really blame Microsoft. They are apparently still trying to catch up to youtube, kyte, seesmic, qik, mogulus and others.

In the picture you see bill gates in that tiny video. On the side is this really big picture of some weird dude. Well that picture kept changing. Over and over and over. How the heck am I supposed to watch that teeny tiny video while those pictures are looping on the side.

But thats not all. You see that purple coloring around the video. It kept changing colors too. Freaking blink tag redux!

I know Microsoft is working at catching up to the internet, but its CES 2008!! When are they going to catch up?

And what the heck did Bill Gates say?

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