Monthly Archives: November 2009
/usr/bin/links -date="Friday, November 27"
Hope all the folks in the U.S. had a great holiday, and the rest of the Internet enjoyed a break from all of us in the U.S. while we were away from the computers having entirely too much food. Some good links today on technology, politics, and productivity.
Ymacs — an in-browser implementation of Emacs. Aside [...]
Posted in Browsers, Linkage, Open Source Tagged emacs, firefox, legislation, mutt, Politics, productivity, thunderbird, Vim Leave a comment
Wolfmother: Cosmic Egg
Not sure where I caught the first reference to this album, but I've been seeing mentions of Wolfmother here and there for the past couple of weeks. It's on Amazon's list of $5 MP3 deals, so I sampled a few tracks online and decided it was worth the $5 download to hear the whole thing.
Holy [...]
/usr/bin/links -date="Thursday, November 26"
Daily dose of interesting links around the Web on technology and media.
Wiki tools are not all the same — All-too-brief article on differences between wikis. Have used MediaWiki extensively, and TWiki back in the day, but haven't had much of a chance to dive into the others.
Most Influential Websites in the World — Wikipedia, the [...]
Posted in Browsers, CMS, Journalism, Linkage, Open Source, openSUSE Tagged google, Linux, microsoft, oauth, protocols, wikipedia, yahoo Leave a comment
Thunderbird 3.0 Release Candidate Just in Time for Thanksgiving
If you just can't get away from email over the holidays, you can at least help test the release candidate for Thunderbird 3.0. The Mozilla folks released Thunderbird 3.0 RC 1 on Tuesday with more than 100 changes in the release. It's been a long time in coming, the first release in the 2.0 series [...]
Posted in Articles, Linkage, Open Source, openSUSE Tagged email, mozilla, thunderbird Leave a comment
Vim 201: An Intermediate Guide to Vim
Ready to boost your Vim skills? Many use Vim, but don't make use of nearly all the features. In this guide, we'll take a look at some of the intermediate features offered by Vim, including abbreviations, word completion, and editing multiple documents in the same Vim session.
In the previous installment I took a look at [...]
K Desktop Environment is Dead: Long Live KDE
Following in the footsteps of Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC, the KDE Project is rebranding and getting rid of the full name "K Desktop Environment." Unlike KFC, KDE won't be offering crispy chicken and stale biscuits. What KDE will be offering is "distinct brands for the software that was previously referred to generically as 'KDE'." Instead [...]
Posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, PR and marketing, openSUSE Tagged k desktop environment, kde, marketing 2 Comments
Mozilla Jetpack Design Challenge Extended