Right, I gave the brandnew KDE 4.2 a try. I ran into a few bugs but I was quite impressed to see a KDE4 Desktop that is ready for users and the Plasma user interface concept finally starts to make huge sense to me. What I also noticed is that my PC is getting outdated [...]
Archive for January, 2009
And now for something completely different
Posted in lxde on January 30 2009 | Leave a Comment »
KDE 4.2 released
Posted in Desktop Experience on January 27 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As expected the desktop environment KDE 4.2 is released.
Adobe opens Flash streaming protocol
Posted in Cloud, Future of the Web, tagged Adobe, Flash, html5, RTMP, Silverlight on January 27 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Adobe opens its Flash streaming protocol RTMP as part of its open screen initiative. The move to open RTMP comes as competition with the Microsoft alternative Silverlight heatens up. Adobe currently dominates the field of streaming with its Flash technology, used by video portals such as Youtube. But competitor Microsoft recently won showcases as the [...]
Update of the EUPL
Posted in Cloud on January 25 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The European Commission has updated the European Union Public License (EUPL): Seven clarifications were made that did not attempt to change the original meaning. The EUPL 1.1 is made available in all official languages of the European Union and the originators ensure that is is compatible with national copyright laws in all member states. The [...]
LXDE keyboard
Posted in lxde on January 25 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Windows d shows the desktop, no windows
ALT TAB cycles between different application windows
Configure LXDE for a Windows user
Posted in Desktop Experience, lxde, tagged lxde, openbox on January 25 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LXDE as a Desktop Environment does not attempt to cause irritation for former users of Windows. It is different but its developers are not desperate to show that it is different. The desktop choice is today characterised by indifference and what really matters for LXDE is a leadership in the categories performance and memory footprint [...]
New 10 inch Acer one
Posted in netbook on January 24 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Netbooks are popular, and Acer has to follow the trend of 10 inch screens. Existing Acer One models had a 9 inch screen but in November a 10 inch model was announced. Yesterday it was made official, you can buy them now.
The cheap netbook class finally is entering the segment where high-priced subnotebooks were 2 [...]
EU: Tying of Internet Explorer with Windows provides Internet Explorer with an artificial distribution advantage
Posted in Future of the Web on January 24 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The European Union DG Competition followed up to the complaint from Norwegian Web-Browser manufacturer Opera with a preliminary “statement of objections” this month.
The SO is based on the legal and economic principles established in the judgment of the Court of First Instance of 17 September 2007 (case T-201/04), in which the Court of First Instance [...]
Torvalds on KDE4
Posted in Desktop Experience, Uncategorized on January 24 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Confessions of a longterm KDE user:
I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn’t do what I want it to do. But the whole “break everything” model is painful for users and they can choose to [...]
Microsoft Azure lifts you up to the clouds
Posted in Cloud on January 22 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently Microsoft has released an update to the Azure SDK. Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, run-time, and control environment for the Azure Services Platform.
A sponsored paper of David Chappell explains the Azure plattform: Azure is depicted as a bundle of .Net, Live and SQL services.
In other words [...]
