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Microsoft Xbox 360 isn’t so worldwide after all

The new Microsoft Xbox 360 game console is going to be region-locked for both games and DVD. This means that you can only play games or watch DVD from the same region your Xbox 360 is locked to. The region-lock imposed by Microsoft may prevent you from buying some hard-to-get games abroad and play it on your Xbox 360, because the game might not be playable on the console!

Ironically, The Xbox 360 is scheduled to be launched world-wide by the end of this year and was touted being a world-wide brand, yet it’s media and software cannot be use “worldwide”.

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Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy and GNOME 2.12 LiveCD

Today, I finally had the time to sit down and blog about my experience using GNOME 2.12 via GNOME LiveCD.

I had great experience testing out GNOME 2.12 LiveCD, it has exceeded all of my expectations from a demo cd. I can do most of my work using only the demo cd, like reading and printing documents, get online, watch movies, listening to music/radio, instant messaging and obviously blogging ;). The CD also includes some pictures from GNOME community events as well as freely distributable musics and videos .


Gnome 2.12 LiveCD Why I haven’t use GNOME 2.12 on any of my operating systems? Because I’m waiting for Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) to come out. Just to let you know, the official GNOME 2.12 LiveCD is based on Ubuntu 5.10 which will be released officially on October 13, 2005. I’m satisfied with the LiveCD and thus i’m satisfied with Ubuntu Breezy too!

Well I guess that’s all for now, time to go to sleep.

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Finding your stuff with Google Blog Search

I’ve just noticed that now you can search blogs using google at http://blogsearch.google.com/. Having this kind of search engine means that you can search blogs for specific terms with ease.

Still in Beta, the Google Blog Search isn’t only limited to blogger.com users, but it also covers other blogs too. Utilizing the Google Search, the site is certainly useful if you want to know about particular thing that people have blogged about.

But since blogger.com is owned by Google itself, seems that the company has given extra attention to blogs based on blogger.com. Well, seems pretty logical for me…

Refer here for more information about Google Blog Search.

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jar2jad – My first python application

I’m publishing my first python apps from my self-taught python class as promised.

This apps generates JAD file from *.jar file which is widely used in J2ME java mobile application. This apps is simple+compact and can be executed in any platform that supports python.

I was going to publish this earlier, but I’ve been busy for the past few days doing other stuff besides python.

Download links

  1. jar2jad-0.1.tar.gz
  2. jar2jad-0.1.zip

Python is interesting, i might create and publish more apps in python to polish up my skills.

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I’m going to backup my Mozilla profiles but…

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I want to migrate all of my old emails and settings from my Windows box to my GNU/Linux box. Well, I heard of a program called MozBackup which can help you backup your thunderbird profile including settings, emails and preferences.

The problem is, The program only works in the Microsoft Windows platform and does not work in GNU/Linux or *BSD system. The FAQ page of this software explains that the author is rewriting the software in .NET to be use on GNU/Linux. But it isnt good enough because it’s isn’t a Free Software (philosophy side) and everybody knows that Mono still haven’t supported Windows Form quite well yet (technical feasibility side).

There are other alternatives, but all of them are meant to be executed on Microsoft Windows platform. Can anybody point me a Mozilla backup software (which automates the profile backup) which runs on GNU/Linux platform?

p/s: I know how to do this manually, I’m just asking out of curiosity if there exist an application out there which automates this procedure for GNU/Linux and *BSD platform.