By Brendon Smith on December 19, 2009
Ice-nine is a fictional material conceived by writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat’s Cradle. It is supposed to be a more stable polymorph of water than common ice (Ice Ih) which instead of melting at 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit), melts at 45.8°C (114.4°F). When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8°C (which [...]
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By Brendon Smith on April 19, 2007
The latest release of Ubuntu was released today Fiesty Fawn 7.04! Ubuntu has also been creating a studio addition of it operating system. It will be perfect for creative professionals (should be out in a few days)! The latest version will come complete with Video, Audio, Image, Vector, Print, and 3d editing and designing tools. I am especially looking forward to it being released. I have been working on my Ubuntu box diligently. I have been adding all the essential web developer tools. Also it should be noted Ubuntu now has a partnership with sun. I would like to customize the Studio addition upon release. I plan on adding creating my own customized distro based on Studio Ubuntu. I will be adding built in Apache, Tomcat, Eclipse, Webalizer, Zenoss, and many other web developer features. I also plan on adding a great deal of addons for firefox right off the bat with support for flash 9 etc.. I also plan on integrating WINE into the studio cd allowing people to use free tools like SE|PY Editior and Flash Develop. I will also be adding built in support for games who would like to play classic Sega, Nintendo, PlayStation, and Dos classic games. Ubuntu has been growing and Intel has plans to integrate ubuntu into some of its ultra mobile pcs! I am developing this as a DVD / Flash Drive customized distro and will make it available for download. I will also be using it as a piece for my portfolio it will also include some of my personal files for use and observation.
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People do work for free and it does benefit us all. Firefox three will set the standard for browsers. Firefox three will pass acid test two and it will implement many new features placing it years ahead of IE one of those features will be the use of SQLite. SQLite will be integrated into the browser it will make it easier to manage bookmarks. Etc..
SQLite what is that good for? Well it for starters wouldn’t it be nice to actually search your favorites. It will make organizing your favorites easier. Firefox will also save some web pages for offline browsing. I would imagine you would be able to use SQLite for a number of other purposes as well.
Firefox 3 will also have many features for offline users. I guess what I am getting at is firefox is building their own runtime and it will be able to sync online applications:)
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Well ok Sounds nice what does that mean for me?
Well imagine you are using Google office and you are off line? What happened to all your presentations, spreadsheets, and documents? Will they disappear? No. That’s the point FireFox is preparing to help manage applications that exist both on the web and on the desktop (or Mobile Device). Microsoft and Adobe are preparing to do the same with their runtime environments namely M$’s SilverLight and Adobe’s Apollo.
FireFox will also be standards compliant it will pass Acid Test 2 and follow in the footsteps of Knoqueror, Safari, and Opera. Firefox 3 is also expanding its supports for addons and plugins.
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By Brendon Smith on October 21, 2006
Well recently you might have noticed Adobe rather large contribution to the Mozilla foundation! Adobe handed over all the code to create an open source flash virtual machine. This is a big deal because this will ensure flash runs on more operating systems with out a catch. Adobe now has flash player 9 available for the Linux community. It will be pleasing to see the flash open source community to grow.
It is also common knowledge that Java has been in the process to moving toward becoming open source and now that dream is a reality for developers. Java still does have a great deal of potential. Now that it is completely open source it will be interesting to watch it grow.
Some of you might be surprised to learn of Microsoft’s new deal with Novell. Although Novell has been catching a great deal of flack I do agree that some integration between the systems would be nice. It also seems to signal Microsoft’s realization that the Linux will always be a competitor in the server market. I believe it is too tough to say right now if this move by Novell was a good move or a bad move only time will tell. Microsoft has also recently moved to support projects like Zend so it is nice to see Microsoft being more open to open source.
The drupal content management system is also on the verge of its fifth release!
It is certianly an exciting time for open source and I think open source will benefit from Microsoft’s upcoming release of Vista. I really don’t see Vista being utilized the way Microsoft believes it will be and I see this as a key opportunity for Linux to catch up!
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By Brendon Smith on June 19, 2006
Yep, you can just check it out for your self. I highly recommend checking out Ubuntu Linux it is by far the best Linux Distro I have seen in a long time and if you read dig.com you know how much it is like my the community! Today even Jonathan Schwartz had to praises Ubuntu Linux! Ubuntu is also highly customizable you can literally skin it to look like OS X if you want too! Ubuntu is based off of the Debian! So you can use the apt-get feature! The apt-get feature makes installing software a cinch!
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By Brendon Smith on June 17, 2006
Let me begin with Moore's Law "is the empirical observation that the complexity of integrated circuits, with respect to minimum component cost, doubles every 24 months[1]. It is attributed to Gordon E. Moore[2], a co-founder of Intel." So what exactly does that mean? Well let me relate it to my life personally; When I was between 8-9 I can specifically remember wondering through my great grand ma's cabin. I ran across some extremely old Dick Tracy Comic books that were very, very, old. I was immediately intrigued by the vision of the writers and contributing artist vision. A cell phone watch and TV? I received my first computer at the age of 13. I can remember my Aunt Mary giving me my first BBS Yellow Page Book at the age of 14! I can remember using the web well before Al Gore took credit for creating it.
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