Monthly Archive for October, 2009

ChromeOS went offline?

That is interesting. Look what I’ve got today while trying to access Google ChromeOS website:

ChromeOS site error

ChromeOS site error

Upd.: And that is why.

Customisation in different OSes :-)

Free translation from bash.org.ru

User: “I need a bronse statue of mermaid!”

Linux: “Here is a bronse cube 1m X 1m X 1m and a rasp.”

Gentoo: “Here is copper, tin and blast furnace.”

FreeBSD: “Here is your pick and helmet with a flashlight. Copper mine is that way.”

Ubuntu: “Here is your statue!”
User: “But there is only the tail!”
Ubuntu: “Please enter apt-get install head, hands, body”

MacOS: “Here are beautiful naked girls.”
User: “Wow! Can I touch them?”
MacOS: “Please pay $200 to activate function ‘Touch naked girls’”

Windows: “No. I think you definitely need an iron statue of Lincoln”

Chandler — another way to organise your notes.

I am a regular subscriber of Linux Magazine RSS feed and something like a month ago I came across this post by Dmitri Popov. He talks about application called “Chandler” that helps you organise your data in a convenient and straight forward way. After reading what Dmitri had to say about Chandler, I was tempted to try it myself.  Especially, considering the fact that I was looking for a good notes management application for quite a while. Following are my thoughts about this nifty program as well as some pitfalls occurred to me while using it. more…

The value of knowledge.

I liked this one:

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

This was probably said around 200 years ago, but still stands today. Who would’ve thought…

Forum is back.

New forum software installed and seems functional. You are encouraged to use the forum – it is for you.