Adventures in Ubuntu

Well Day three has come and gone and i'm really enjoying the OS. Its smooth, quick, my laptop battery doesn't go down as quick. I'm most impressed by how easy the Open Office Suite is to use, i get emailed doc's and ppt's all the time to read and review and the interaction is seamless i can open, read, edit and save the documents and then send them all back using Microsoft's propietary formats. No one in CSC would know that they've been edited using Open Source software

Adventures in Ubuntu

Day 2
After using Sametime 7.5 and the Lotus Notes Web client, i decided to investigate WINE, this is an open source Binary compatability layer for linux that allows certain Windows programmes to be run natively in Linux, so as you can see, here's the proper Lotus notes client running on Ubuntu. Its all good!!

Adventures in Ubuntu

Adventures in Ubuntu.
Right i've decided to go Open Source, My IBM T42 is now dual boot and i'm running Windows XP (or rather i aim not too) and Ubuntu. So far Ubuntu is a doddle to install, nice friendly GUI, easier than Windows. I've decided to run this experiment for a month to see if i can do my job in the EIC without using Windows. I'm going to doc the trials and tribulations here. So far so good though, my machine now boots and turns on in seconds rather than minutes :) the main reason i'm attempting this is that i now have Corporate messaging systems in place that mean i don't have to rely on Microsoft. I've installed the Lotus samtime linux client and i'm using the web based Notes client. Linux HAVE released a notes client plugin but i'll doc that install later :)

Live Writer Post

First post to test the BETA of Windows Live Writer, see how it works

Luke's Stag Do

Portal Tech

Sure everybodies seen this but how cool is this trailer? Portal one of the funniest game trailers i think i've ever seen, plus genius physics!

Collaborative environment

Check out OpenCroquet open source 3d interactive world toolkit kit built on Squeak and Smalltalk, i've donwloaded the beta, its quite cool, works differently to a multiplayer gaming environment as in there is no central server, rather it works on a peer to peer synchronisation format.

Display Tech

Things i'm looking at for the Innovation Centre in terms of display technology.
going to go and see an Israeli company called MagInk that make digital signage, its a lightweight as paper yet can transfrom itself with images (full colour) and will fun video at 50fps! seems cool

MagInk

Also going to go and see a company called Betaminds, they are UK resellers of a heliodisplay, now this is cool an image is projected onto a wall of compressed air, very high tech although the geeks out there will remember the same thing in Captain Bridger's stateroom in SeaQuest DSV (don't even ask how my memory remember stuff like this!!)

BetaMinds

i've got the SUSE feeling

SUSE is awesome

Yamaha raided over China exports

BBC NEWS - Yamaha raided over China exports... Look, I already told you; this has NOTHING to do with my Tokyo trip.

Honestly... what must you think?