Amen Chelsea. Nou pas per li. Nou pou met ar li. Nou meme mari :-)
PS: Rajiv ene l’armé. Li ene supporter Liverpool couma moi.
Mac OS X Tiger released today
Hi guys and gals,
I have some secrets (?) to tell you all : (1) I don’t like Micro$oft and Windoze is crap, (2) Linux and the Opensource movement are just fantastic, but (3) one day, I’ll buy an Apple Mac OS X Powerbook and stop using Linux as my main OS…
Why ?
Because I’m fascinated by Apple hardware and the Mac OS X operating system.
The Powerbook I’m dreaming of every night has the following configuration : 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 processor ; 1GB DDR333 SDRAM; 15″ screen ; 64MB Video RAM ; 8x DVD±RW drive ; 80GB Ultra ATA drive ; Wifi enabled.
Furthermore, the Mac OS X operating system has a fantastic architecture. It’s basically the Aqua user interface running on an Opensource Unix-based foundation. And, as such, most Linux applications just simply run.
Mac OS X Tiger, which is going to be released today, is revolutionary according to Apple. The OS will introduce a new technology, Spotlight.
Spotlight is a lightning-fast search technology which completely decouples the user from the physical filesystem. There is no need now to remember where files or folders are. Spotlight keeps track of everything using metadata and it can also look inside documents (PDF or whatever). Smart folders (a la smart playlists of iTunes) can easily be created by the user. This will change the whole way of interacting with a computer.
The Powerbook comes with iLife ’05 which is a suite of very powerful applications like iPhoto (which I’ll use to manipulate photos from my hypothetical Nikon D70), iMovie HD (which I’ll use to edit DV recordings of Kyan and Anya), iDVD (which I’ll use to burn commercial quality DVD of the kids), iTunes (which I’ll use to listen to my extensive music collection) and, perhaps GarageBand (because as an existing owner of Logic, I will surely upgrade mine to the latest Logic Pro 7 version)
Better yet, Football Manager 2005 (which is the best computer game ever) runs on Mac OS X.
And, as far as software development is concerned, one can easily develop in C or C++ because gcc is pre-installed (and is used to build Mac OS X itself) and Java (as a VM is also pre-installed). So, no problem at all to run Eclipse or even KDevelop…
But, to really leverage the power of this fantastic machine, I’m ready to adopt the freely available Xcode IDE, learn Objective C and start using the Cocoa framework.
Message to Christina and (perhaps) Steve Jobs : I want a Mac !
No Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
… according to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency and/or Club of International Amateurs)
“[I]nvestigation into Saddam Hussein’s purported arsenal, the CIA[…] said his search for weapons of mass destruction “has been exhausted” without finding any.”
“The Bush administration justified its 2003 invasion of Iraq as necessary to eliminate Hussein’s purported stockpile of [Weapons of Mass Destruction]”
So, basically, the invasion of Iraq by British and US-led troops and the subsequent war, is based on a political lie (with the only objective, IMHO, of getting Bush re-elected). From some sources, “[Iraqi] oil infrastructure was secured for financial reasons as well as strategic”.
Being a cynic, I must say that during this illegal war, only few civilians died…
Only 24,000…
And, frankly, who cares?
They were only Iraqis after all…