Archive for the 'Fun' Category

Web developers at Novell have an icredible sense on usability. They create exceptionally clear, simple, stylish and usable sites. Some examples are http://beagle-project.org, http://mono-project.com, http://tango-project.org, http://betterdesktop.org, http://hula-project.org.

Wikified Universe

Wiki is a huge phenomenon. It's not hard to see that Novell folks, like most people like MediaWiki the most, while DokuWiki and MoinMoin also seems to be very popular.

Smoking Bus Drivers

I travel every week back and forth between my home and the university by bus. Sometimes bus drivers begin to smoke while driving right in front of me. As soon as I smell that disgusting smell I politely ask them "Excuse me, could you please turn off that cigarette?". Although I always do this in a moderated tone, I could literally kill them.

Don't make me unleash my unstoppable fierce out to the world, because no one's gonna survive!

As a side note, it's funny that both the "bus" and "driver" words have computer related meanings as well as "smoking" is applied to hot girls.

Miguel Rocks!

Wow, I didn't know Miguel has superpowers! Cool!

I found two great articles about hacking. The first is titled "How to Become a Hacker" by Nat Friedman and the second related article is called "Asay: So you want to start an open source project...". I think both of them are very true.

Fun

Check out these:

• Novell Marketing Videos

• Postage Paid Envelope Revenge

Wicked, wicked…

Seriously, I'm open to many things, but this one just sounds ridiculous.

Hey, I wanna nice nice tits too! Should I consider using this stuff?

FUSE - Filesystem In UserSpace. Have you ever heard of it? In case you don't, you should know what's it's all about because it's quite damn intuitive. But if you're dumb, never mind, I'll tell you anyway ;-)

FUSE basically makes one able to develop his/her filesytem in userspace (yeah, I'm a genious to comprehend its purpose and plainly translate it to you). I plan to use it in the future. You may check it out, as well as its Python and Mono bindings.

Old School Unixers

This FreeBSD dude went mad. This happens when you use a not-really-innovative-on-the-desktop OS. Read it, because it's really funny.

Once upon a time there was a guy whose name was Linus Torvalds. He made a miraculous kernel with the help of thousands of open source folks. Several years later desktops began to evolve on Linux. First they were hardly usable since Unix folks, minimalistic geeks had a loose or no concept of usability. By time, it got better. Desktops matured more or less rapidly but then, there was a big shift, a real change. Something has happened. Several people emerged from the dark and revitalized Linux on the desktop. They were named Ximian.

Well, I know Ximian is bought by Novell but they started the real show. I'm aware that the above tale was somewhat opionated at my side, but let me tell you why I find their universe so unique and exciting. The things that they made comes down to me primarily as:

1. They built an architecture, rather than separate applications.
2. They shared as much code as possible. That's the reason that the main codebase of GNOME is written in C (it's easily wrappable) and that's the main reason why they started Mono (because the languages on top of the CLR can all use the Mono APIs).
3. These folks really innovate. Building on the existing architecture (primarily the GNOME libs and Mono) it is possible to create high-end applications in a relatively short period of time. Look at F-Spot. I've just compiled and tried it out. It's much more than yet another image viewer.

Bill Gates was (is?) ugly like hell

Look at these pictures. I wonder whether Billy has a wife. Maybe he's got, but she should be blind or this guy must had some massive plastic surgery. I can't watch the pictures more than ten secs or so.

If you want to refresh, look Miguel's related posings. They made me roll on the floor. They are extremely humorous in their strange, wicked ways.