Category: tech

Mac OS X demo. Sweet 🙂

Projects I’m interested in:

Games:

• The TA Spring
• Boson
• Attal
• Planeshift
• America’s Army
• Glest
• Danger from the Deep
• Vega Strike
• Eternal Lands
• Nexuiz

Graphic, game engines

• Crystal Space
• Yake
• Ogre3D
• Blender3D
• GIMP
• Orange

Linux:

• InitNG
• Reiser4 by Namesys
• Kernel
• X.org
• Xgl
• KDE 4
• Krusader
• Amarok
• digiKam
• GCC
• K3B
• MPlayer
• Gentoo
• Ubuntu
• Slackware
• OpenSuSe
• Ardour

Internet:

• Flock
• Firefox
• Lightning
• Bugzilla
• AWStats
• WordPress
• Drupal
• Dojo toolkit
• Jabber
• Psi
• Azureus
• MediaWiki
• Wikipedia
• Mozilla Developer Center

Tools:

• OpenOffice
• Subversion

This is a list of projects that I’m currently watching, I’m trying to find news about them, digging their Wiki’s, Bugzilla’s, SVN’s. I’m testing nightlies, I’m trying to support some of them and I’m definitly waiting for every new version.What is the best with this list, is that you can get ALL of this for FREE. Without a single penny. I’m sure that the list is not full, and I’ll try to update it and possible move it from diary post into a page on my diary so everyone could use it to find interesting projects.

I’d like to see other people creating such list on their own so I can find other interesting projects. If you have a second, and some projects that you’re watching, create such a list and ping me back!

Ci, którzy mnie znają, wiedzą, że jedną z rzeczy, których w internecie nie cierpie jest Jogger. Mam ku temu swoje powody, zainteresowanym przedłożyłem je nie raz przy niejednym piwie…

Zbliżamy się właśnie do wydania Joggera 2.0, który zdaje się być absolutnie nietrafioną odpowiedzią, czemu dziwić się nie można skoro jego rozwój miał z modelem open source mało wspólnego, a na dodatek osoba, która “sprawuje opiekę” nad Joggerem (jak niegdyś Beeth na IrcNetem), uraczyła Nas takimi oto kwiatkami. (update: Koledzy z Opery też zostali uraczeni floodem) Czy to, że taki coś zdarza się nie po raz pierwszy wystarczy, żeby uznać Joggera za źródło śmiecenia i blokować go?

Nie wiem czy to wina Planety czy Joggera, raczej stawiam na Joggera, bo planty są używane od lat w wielu miejscach na świecie, a takie coś widuję (nie po raz pierwszy) wyłącznie tam gdzie planeta agreguje joggerowców…Feed wydaje się być w porządku więc moje podejrzenia kierują się w stronę wniosku, że feed był nieprawidłowy w momencie agregacji.

W każdym razie mam od dawna poczucie, że projekt Jogger ma niewiele wspólnego z tym co nazywamy społecznym internetem, jego funkcjonalność jest na tyle odległa od funkcjonalności innych systemów blogowania i na tyle uboższa, że za każdym razem jak korzystam z bloga postawionego na joggerze, to klnę jego twórcę, bo gdyby joggera był nie stworzył, to autor może użyłby np. blogger.com albo wordpress.com… I ja, jako czytelnik, życie miałbym łatwiejsze 🙁

Hoah! Belive it or not, we’re 3 weeks from premiere of the first full screen movie created only with Open Source tools! It was create with Blender3D. It’s so cool to see the new areas where OS solutions are being used succesfully.

The message is clear, hey! If you want to create animations you don’t have to steal the software! Blender is out there for you!
I’m not 3D Artists, but I heard only one complain against Blender – it has more complex UI than 3DS. I tried working with some Blender tutorials and now I have to confirm. 3DS has ordinary, simple for beginners UI, while Blender has one of the best pieces of work I have ever seen. Their UI is innovative and intuitive (once you know it) that I’m wondering why other tools never started using things like top menu, it’s soooooooo cool 🙂 Try it, read tutorials, comment…

Heh… I found it really funny to read Gervase’s article about Firefox CD’s in UK and what gave me even more fun was to read Polish news sites writing about it. Yes, most of the business world still has no clue what it’s all about and that’s the hype we can use to reach the market.

It’s not only that the world is not expecting OS, it’s also that the world is false-positivly sure that it understands it once it knows about it. So even when someone knows that OS exists, it’s rather possible that he is calm because he thinks that he understands what it’s all about.

I expect even more fun in the future when those crappy, proprietary oriented companies, organisations and people will start trying to fit OS into their vision of the world…

Anyone can help me find screen capture app that will record avi videos?

I found Istanbul – but it sucks on OpenSuSe 10.1 beta4 (right click on preferences doesn’t work, and app crashes on Xgl during transculency) and Wink which records Flash only (160 frames of low quality animation – 46 MB)…

Any help? I’d like to record Xgl movie 😉

I love those previews. With things like this we can start talking louder about position of Linux as a desktop solution on the market. Not because it brings the new quality of work, but because it brings high-quality UI and modern effects to us. When Windows XP appeared, Linux was light years behind, when Vista will come, we will be there!

After watching this videos, can you name any of the “so great” visual improvements in Vista that could beat MacOSX and Linux?

Guys, I just found this. Those folks seems to working hard to waste their time well…

I’m going to buy a digital camera. I want to have something very slim and small. After looking at tons of reviews and getting feedback from Anna and Lloyd, I decided to buy Canon PowerShot SD450 or Samsung Digimax i5.

I’d love to get any feedback and/or suggestions about those two, and any similar camera, that you have touched…

update: I bought Canon PowerShot SD450. I really like Samsung design more, but everyone says that Canon has better feature set, and I trust people generally 😉

New year starts with the new wave of informations about upcoming Microsoft OS. In the last post I received a lot of criticizm from MS oriented people who listed me new things that will be in Vista. I also took a look at Bill Gates’s list which seems to be similar and the new Vista Tour, to be able to talk more about what’s there and how it compares to other GUI’s.

First of all I think that the new things in Vista we can split into two groups. First is the list of under-the-hood, skeleton, API changes. Second is a list of on-top, user-focused UI things. And one thing is interesting. There seems to be no change in the relation between user and the OS. I’ll talk about it more later.