An interview with Rasterman on OSnews, founder of Enlightenment, on E17: http://www.osnews.com/story/19679 When will E17 be released? … does Rasterman have any timeframe in mind for the release of the final version of E17? His reply was to be expected – “No comment.” Smiley face included. The big blocker right now is a lack of [...]

That Pizza being pizza.com! Some lad bought the domain name in 1994 at the “dawn” of the internet age, and has owned it ever since. After seeing how much vodka.com sold for (about 3 million dollars) he put Pizza.com up for auction and got 2.6 Million US dollars! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7331042.stm In January, Mr Clark decided to [...]

Regularly drinking coffee may help prevent or reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7326839.stm And binge drinking can affect memory recall (at least in young drinkers): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7328863.stm Ubuntu Linux to be certifiied on some of Sun’s hardware: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0236534620080402 A lot of Linux enthusiasts have taken to Ubuntu, and all of its versions are freely available. [...]

Drat! Seems those energy efficient CFL’s (Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs) contain just enough lead that the bulbs could be a problem when they’re put in the rubbish (link found via Slashdot): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23694819/ The amount is tiny — about 5 milligrams, or barely enough to cover the tip of a pen — but that is enough [...]

Toshiba has a site dedicated to using Linux on their Laptops: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/index.htm Toshiba supports the Linux community with the TOSHIBA Digital Media Engineering Corporation’s Linux support portal. This portal offers links to both Toshiba and 3rd-party sources for end-user and developer support for the Linux operating system on Toshiba portable PCs.

I just submitted this to Slashdot, as I think it’s interesting what the end result will be? Will the OLPC get squeezed out? Will US kids like ‘em (I think they will). bettlebrox writes “Birmingham, Albama, may be the first US city to purchase the OLPC, per the Boston Herald: ‘The City Council has approved [...]

http://funlok.com/index.php/crazy-pics/kooooooool-pc-cases.html As Ilya said, who sent me the link: Don’t take the first case to Boston’s Logan’s airport! Of course they don’t tell you where you can get any of those cases, or if they’re case mods (people who customise or build their own computer cases) like here or here. But, after a wee bit [...]

Trying to replace the header image in the theme I’m currently using. The image is the word unsleepable in the screenshot below: The theme is called Unsleepable and is by Ben Gray, which is a modified version of the K2 theme by Michael Heilemann. The instructions at http://openswitch.org/2006/04/16/title-graphic-how-to/ say what file needs to be replaced, [...]

Easy way to make a favicon: http://www.favicon.cc/? Mine is here.

A friend forwarded the e-mail below to me. It looks like there is a beta or prerelease of the Linux version of Adobe Air available. However, poking around Adobe’s site I can’t any references to this release and Googling hasn’t turned up anything useful (except for doc from last year saying Air for Linux will [...]