Free and Open Source blogger with an attitude
The Ubuntu project has announced that Dapper Drake release will be delayed for six weeks from April 20th to June 1st 2006.
According to the announcement, the additional time will be use to devote bug fix, improving localisation for Asian languages, add XFCE desktop enviroment and to ensure that Dapper Drake will be LSB certified among others.
You can get the new Dapper Drake release schedule at this location : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseSchedule
Last night at about 3 am I logged in my blog account, and saw this announcement at the WordPress Dashboard :
On behalf of the WordPress community, I?m proud to announce a merger we?ve had on our minds since the first time we saw Dean Allen?s dog ? WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, WordPattern. ?WordPress and Textpattern: Two great tastes that taste great together.? As with any great union, there […]
So I went to to a simple-looking website claiming that wordpress and Textpattern has been merged to produce a better CMS platform. So I went straight ahead to the download section to take a peek on what kind of improvement they had.
I sounds fishy enough that I haven’t heard about any “merging” efforts before, but I was compelled to download the tarball package. Seems my instinct was right, the tarball contains some two lame files, yeah a WordPress team very own April Fools joke.
ROTFL
As show of support, I’ve started to put FTAMalaysia.org banner on my websites. Please visit the website to understand the implication of US-Malaysia FTA for Malaysian society.
Read also : Free Trade Agreements and ICT Industry
I don’t know if any of you ever had one of these back in the 90s. It’s a sort of handheld game console, veteran gamers might recognise it as a GameBoy console. Too bad in those days i can’t afford the luxury to buy one of those game console :p, thus I occasionally borrowed my friends’ GameBoy and logged many hours with it.
Why I suddenly blog about GameBoy? Because one fine day, I find myself curious about the gnuboy package included in my Ubuntu universe repository. The package reads
gnuboy emulates the Color GameBoy handheld console in portable C, with interfaces for X11, Linux fbcon and svgalib, SDL, DOS, and Windows, with other ports planned in the future
So I decided to try the out the gnuboy emulator and try to relive Nintendo GameBoy feeling. The gnuboy itself is flexible and supports SDL, X11, svgalib and fbcon display. However, I chose the SDL version because I like how games are implemented in libSDL. Suprisingly, the game I’m trying to play was emulated faithfully without noticeable bugs or artifacts (besides the retro 90s look), I could say that this is one of the best game emulator that I ever tried besides DosBox which provides emulation for DOS games.
Legally, you need to actually own the game in order to have the ROM . However there is a place where you can get legal GameBoy ROM files which is here : http://www.pdroms.de, and here : jaymzroo 86 site.
You only need to enable multiverse/universe software repository if you are using Ubuntu. Try to check your software repository under games or emulator if you are using other GNU/Linux distributions. There’s gnuboy ports exist for FreeBSD under emulators.
The source code for gnuboy can be located at http://brightrain.aerifal.cx/~laguna/, if you are interested to compile it from scratch. Microsoft Windows user can make use of these precompiled binaries http://brightrain.aerifal.cx/~laguna/windows/
Happy gaming!
I found this site after surfing aimlessly for an hour straight. At first I thought the site is about typical social bookmarking or just another RSS aggregator, but after close inspection I found out that this Web 2.0 website offer a free service to track various Amazon products via news feeds.
Users can track Amazon products wishlist, latest Amazon products and top 25 Amazon products price changes by category, these services are provided free without registration by RSStalker.com.
RSStalker.com provides XML based RSS feeds to track price changes of Amazon products. Generate a feed for a single product or for an entire wishlist. Add it to your favorite aggregator and you will be automatically notified when the price changes. Simply unsubscribe to the feed when you are done.
Price watching is also great for stuff you’ve already bought. Amazon.com doesn’t advertise it, but they have a 30 day price drop policy. If you bought something from them and they lower the price within 30 days, just fill out a form and they’ll refund you the difference. See the FAQ for details.
RSStalker.com (pronounced RSS Stalker), provide these services for free and without any advertisement on it’s website. However there’s one catch, they provide you with these service in hopes that you will click their affiliate link in the feed when you want to make your purchase, thus earning them a fraction of the sales.
Nice strategy indeed :)
Anyway, I praise the guy behind RSStalker.com for going to this length to provide us with a good service and a nice Web 2.0 website.
I recently found out that besides the new breed of spam bots which emulate human surfing behavior and sporting javascript support. Spammers now developed a new tactic by concealing their url behind TinyURL.com redirection service.
I hope TinyURL administrators will take note of these service abuse, and devise a plan to reduce spammers from using their service to spread their spammy URL around.
For the time being, I’ll be more watchful and configure my anti-spam software to filter out urls that uses TinyURL service. I personally don’t use TinyURL service, and only occasionally surfed to tinyurl addresses when I’m certain it was given by a reputable source (and it must be from a human!)