I got introduced to open source software a few years back and to me I think it’s the best thing out there.
This week apple got a patent for the touch technology employed on the iphone. This is their way of stiffling further development on devices with such capabality. The touch technology has been around for some time, and it’s not an invention of apple. So what if the person who invented it also patented it all those devices using it wouldn’t be there, or only big companies which can afford licensing fees would be able to use it.
Companies which have devices utilising this feature are getting ready to defend themselves against apple, but for small companies which can’t afford getting into battle with the likes of apple will hold of on innovating in products in this area until the dust settles. In the meantime it’s the consumers who suffer because we are the ones who would have stood to gain from other
entrants in this field, and you keep saying how apple loves you, no just your money.
I bought my wife a shuffle sometime back when they were still selling for $80 a piece “not my choice”, and compared to what was available from it’s competitors at the time for the same amount they put it to shame interms of features available. Even at its current price the competitors offerings leave it way behind interms of value. They are the same ones who said they don’t know how to build a sub 500 machine that ain’t a peice of junk, well psyster came and proved that was a lie.Their $399 machine wasn’t a piece of junk. That’s it for now as the more I write the more pissed of I get and, using more of my time on this topic is a waste of my valuable time. So that you know my choice would be the G1 or or palms devices which run on linux.
Movie collection Organiser – Griffith
I have been trying out this application and its awesome. Griffith is open source meaning it’s come free of charge. It helps you manage all your movie collection plus movies you have seen but don’t have any physical copies off. So next time you are trying to remember if you have seen a particular title all you have to do is just open it up and see if you have seen it. It even helps you keep track of movies you have rented out, want to see in future and will also retrieve posters and information about your movies online, from a wide selection of sources.
To try it out you can get it here it runs on all major OS’s.
Obamas Inauguration
Yes we were there me and wife drove up there, and toughed it out until he got sworn in. Then we had to run for some warm cover. I have never felt so much cold my toes were frozen numb. We were up by 3am and in our places by 5am. Some people just couldn’t take the cold and returned home. One woman squeezed herself behind me and started complaining every time I breathed, or anyone else moved around us suffice it to say the crowd got tired of her complaining, and she got a couple of words forcing her to leave and head home or up some tree. I will be putting up pics we took soon.
Webcalendar send reminders error
After installing web calender and activating the send reminders option, be sure to edit the location of
/usr/bin/php
as on default it tries
/usr/local/bin/php
which is the wrong place. This will cause cron errors.
Remember to move it’s location for security purposes.
Don’t leave if to the movie critics
I just watched the movie Seven Pounds today and it was great. I plan to watch it again tomorrow and maybe a couple of times more with my wife as we both enjoyed it very much. Imagine my suprise when I went online and looked at some of the movie critics reviews they were so off the point that had we read them before watching the movie we might not even have bothered with it. Actually the reviews from watchers give you a better feel for the movie and a lot of people have the same complain, the professional critics did a bad number on the movie. The average score by viewers was A while the critics gave it a C+. Looking at how the critics rated the movie you get the feeling that they try to vote the same way “it’s like a heard of sheep following each other” and nobody is ready to break the status quo. While the watchers scores are more varied . So next time you are planning on watching a movie i’d advice you take any cri
tics comments with a pinch of salt and go be your own judge. If you really need to see the reviews on it check out reviews from regular watchers and don’t put too much weight on critics who are afraid do go against each other. Those same critics are the ones who gave great raves on “Rachel Getting Married” a view not shared by viewers who got disappointed by it.
pysqlite2 sources
I had a problem Installing pysqlite2 on my box as it was not in my repos I looked it up and was able to find this link. There you will find several links to rpms for different distros. Hope this helps someone out there.
Movies list by year of release
Being a movie’s lover every now and then I try to get a list of movies released within several months or a whole year and most sites on the net just list the top ten or at most top 60. But sometines yiou want to find a movie that did not make it to any of those lists and all you have is a release year. You can go to wildaboutmovies.com and they list for you all the movies made within a particular year and break it down by the month. This saves me a lot of googling when trying to find a movie I want. You can also get into advance free movie screenings or buy discounted movie and concession tickets, all this in one convinient place so check it out if you are into movies.
K3b error: Found invalid entry in the video_ts folder
I was trying to burn a Video DVD in k3b and had the error:
Found invalid entry in the video_ts folder Could not write temporary file
The solution to this was instead of dragging the VIDEO_TS folder into the burning area click the VIDEO_TS folder on the left of project area and drag the individual .vob, .ifo and .bup files to the right and click burn. This is not limited to a particular distribution.
Watch Tv episodes and Movies Online
We have all watched Tv videos and movies online, the video is mostly choppy and the quality not that good, I found a site which has some very good quality videos with most of the latest stuff. They also have a player which combines vlc in it meaning you will pretty much be able to play anything out there. It also has a handy feature as it also enables tou to download your movies for offline viewing or streaming them in HD quality.
To check it out go to Graboid.com
Date Edited Auto-Update
I was using dreamweaver to edit my webpages which uses it’s own auto update on save date code<!– #BeginDateformat:Am1 –>May 5, 2005<!– #EndDate –> (Dreamweaver’s Auto-Update-on-Save Date Code). When I switched to bluefish as my main editor the auto update code wouldn’t work. So I looked around and found a php code to get the same thing done. Just place it anywhere you want the date to appear
<?php echo date(‘F j, Y’, filemtime(__FILE__));?>
If you want to store it to a variable you can do
$variable_date = date(‘F j, Y’, filemtime(__FILE__));
You can exchange filemtime with filectime if you want to display the date the file was created.