According to https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing Launchpad will be open sourced in July 21th. Hey, that’s less than 2 months ! Time to create a nice countdown and stick it on our sites, isn’t it ? To embed the countdown on your site, simply copy paste the code below: <object codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0″ width=”192″ height=”192″ id=”countdown”><param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”sameDomain” /><param name=”movie” value=”http://countdownpage.createyourcountdown.com/filename=0000gtcd160852b92a2b685c264ee7495ac36127_090605173648″ /><param name=”quality” value=”high” /><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”><embed src=”http://countdownpage.createyourcountdown.com/?filename=0000gtcd160852b92a2b685c264ee7495ac36127_090605173648″ name=”countdown” width=”192″ height=”192″ wmode=”transparent” allowScriptAccess=”sameDomain” allowFullScreen=”false” codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0″/></object> How will it be open …
10 articles Articles posted in fun
Developers versus Pushers
Funny Drug dealer: Refer to their clients as “users”. Software Developer: Refer to their clients as “users”. Drug dealer: “The first one’s free!” Software Developer: “Download a free trial version…” Read the rest on the original article. Warning !! Sad ending
Karmic Koala Features
As Mark Shuttleworth announcements are sometimes cryptic, I put together what follows: All considered the new codename is quite cool. So, when your school mates will deride you just because you have a J* J* in your computer, stay cool: in 6 months you’ll be using the coolest and sexiest distribution around*! * by the way you have summer holydays in the middle, and you can jump in the first alpha in september. So actually …
A month from now. Prepare !
Jaunty+1 code naming announce is coming closer and you may want to prepare. Since Intrepid+1 Ubuntu 9.04 naming was something unlikely to exist even in the wildest dreams of Randall Munroe, a little bit of psychological preparation may help you to overcome the shock. Do you remember what happened 6 month ago, right ? BTW I want a Koala. Or a Kiwi. What do you want ? Update: our concerns were founded.
Interoperability in action
This video I found in Qense twitter, rocks big time. It’s basically yet another blender experiment. This time, though, they are going to blend operating systems and stuff. I’m sure I’m not alone seeing hidden metaphors in this video, wherein in the blend will welcome in order Microsoft Vista A Mac mouse the Suse Linux‘s mascotte (they could have choosen a generic penguin instead) an usb pen (representing user data) blades (enterprises) generic devices (hardware …
Does Linux software work ?
This happened on IRC yesterday (07:55:38 PM) tacone: if you install a mostly unknown third party app on linux you usually expect it to not work [...] (07:56:50 PM) qense: I expect it to work, which is mostly does. (07:56:57 PM) tacone: nice (07:57:10 PM) qense left the room (quit: Remote closed the connection). (08:01:51 PM) qense [n=qense@ck523187-a.dokku1.fr.home.nl] entered the room. (08:02:06 PM) qense: What happened? What do you think is the average quality level …
Nicest job ad I’ve seen.
Take a look to the HTML source of GaiaOnline, here’s what you’ll find: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”> <head> <title>Welcome to Gaia | Gaia Online</title> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ /> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”en-us” /> <meta name=”Description” content=”Gaia Online is an online hangout, incorporating social networking, forums, gaming and a virtual world.”/> <meta name=”ROBOTS” content=”NOODP”/> <!– Are you the kind of person that looks at HTML source, trying to …
I joined the club :)
These days it seems there’s nothing as cool as being a Pitti fanboy. To become a Pitti’s fan you too, check this page.
Know what you are gonna do !
A little IM conversation I had with one friend. (me) che features vuoi avere per la primissima versione ? Felice: non credo che la rilascio pubblica… (me) vabbè. che features deve avere ? (me) non lo sai, briccone.. Felice: no.. Translation (me): what feature do you plan to include in the very first version ? Felice: I guess I won’t make a public release for the alpha. (me): ok, but what features do you …
