Netbook running on ION platforms uses only 5W od power and gives you great 3D perfromance and Full HD Video playback. Yes, I know, it sounds fabulous ;)
 
I can’t wait Linux netbooks on ION platform, I also hope NVidia stops with the nonsense that all others accepted and gives us netbooks with more that 2GB of ram!

I have tested Fedora 11 alpha, beta and now preview releases on few of my laptops and I’m really impressed by how Fedora 11 works once it is installed.
 
The problems I’ve encountered are those within the installation part – it seems like anaconda installer has become much worse than it was in Fedora 10 and in previous versions.
 
I watched how OpenSuse and Ubuntu teams have really polished their installers and hoped that Fedora 10 or 11 would have some more polish in GUI because if you just look at OpenSuse or Ubuntu screenshots you will see how outdated Fedora’s anaconda installer looks in comparison to them. I agree that in Fedora 10 there was no feature that lacked (except installer failed on Asus eee 701 laptops) but I really hoped that GUI would get a fresh look also, it really needs one general overhaul, especially in partitioning part of the installer. The inner working of anaconda previous to Fedora 11 was in top shape so that is why I was so surprised how bad anaconda is performing in Fedora 11 Preview release!
 
The only way to install Fedora 11 is to leave the default settings while in partitioning part of the installer. If you try ANY option with existing partitions on the hard drive, it will just crash the installer! I didn’t find any way how to create custom partitions in anaconda installer, delete partition or delete the whole disk without installer crashing on me. Are you looking how to create custom LVM partitions? Forget it. Encryption? No way. If you have hard drive with no partitions the chances are 50:50 for your installer not to crash, and again, you can’t erase the hard drive without installer crashing :(
 
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I’ve been trying for some time use Elisa media center on Fedora but it seams that Elisa is too elusive for Fedora. Current version on Elisa home page is 0.5.12 but if you install Elisa on Fedora 9 you will get much older 0.3.2, even bigger issue is that Elisa doesn’t work because of some broken dependencies.
 
You can look at Fedora Bugzilla; more specifically look at bugs #446051 and #429590.
 
So I guessed that there will be some “break my Fedora box” packages in F9 updates-testing repos, but unfortunately there were none :(
So I booted Fedora 10 beta – this is the bleeding edge Fedora so I thought there had to be new Elisa package in F10, but guess what? Fedora 10 also has old Elisa 0.3.2 which doesn’t work.
 
I also tried manually getting packages from freshrpms testing repo, I downloaded and saved all the rpm packages and tried to install them but there were some unmet dependencies :(
 
I tried installing pigment-python-0.3.8-1.fc9.i386.rpm but that packet needs libpigment-0.3.so.8, libpigment-gtk-0.3.so.8 and libpigment-imaging-0.3.so.8 but pigment-devel-0.3.9-1.fc9.i386.rpm packet provides only so.7 but no so.8 libraries…
 
I hope these issues will get sorted out as soon as possible. I’m willing to test Elisa packages and help that way so that working and updated Elisa gets into Fedora 10 repositories.
 
UPDATE:
I found out how you can install elisa on Fedora 9 thanks to thm on #fedora-devel irc channel, and it isn’t too hard.

First you need to setup freshrpms repository; just copy the code below, but you need to remove [ ] around etc because my blog has protection that prevents me to write that path.


su -
cat < /[etc]/yum.repos.d/freshrpms-testing-elisa.repo
[freshrpms-testing-elisa]
name=Freshrpms Testing (elisa)
baseurl=http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/$releasever/elisa/$basearch
gpgkey=http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=1
EOF
 

and then just install elisa:
 

yum --enablerepo=freshrpms-testing-elisa install elisa

Links:

• Elisa home page
• Bugzilla bug #446051
• Bugzilla bug #429590
• Freshrpms testing repository

Predugo imam ovaj SonyEricsson K750 i ma koliko dobar bio želim novi gadget :) Gledajući razne mobitele niti jedan me nije privukao pa i zbog toga nisam imao neku želju uzeti novi mobitel. Čak mi se ni iPhone ne sviđa nešto previše. Čim sam vidio novi SonyEricssin W960 znao sam da je to telefon za mene.

Specifikacije su jako lijepe; 8GB memorije, wifi, lijep i dosta velik ekran osjetljiv na dodir, 3.2Mpixela kamera s LED flashem (što mi je najbolji feature kod K750 jer radi i kao jako dobra lampa)…

Da ne dužim previše pogledajte na linkovima najave.

linkovi:

• Sony’s heavyweight W960 Walkman
• Sony Ericsson W960 – Gizmodo
• Video of Sony Ericsson W960i
• Sony Ericsson W960

Često se uhvatim u gadget-šopingholičarskom raspoloženju :) U zadnje se vrijeme baš i ne suzdržavam: pala je tu jedna xbox360-ica, novi dual-core laptop, usb dvb-t receiver… i još par “sitnica” :)
Sada gledam ovaj mali GPS bluetooth modul, čini mi se ok, a i cijena je povoljna – 580kn.
Sigurno se pitate što bih s njime radio? I ja također :)
Ne putujem baš toliko da mi treba auto karta, ali ni ne isključujem mogućnost da će mi trebati. Najviše zašto bih htio tu igračku koristio je kao pomagalo pri detekciji wireless mreža.
Kismet (linux netstumbler na steroidima) i gps moduli se lijepo slažu. Stavite laptop u auto, malo se provozate (wardriving) po gradu i na kraju dobijete lijepo mapiranu kartu wireless mreža. Ako nisam u zabludi iz podataka koji se sakupe trebalo bi se čak vidjeti gdje se nalazi središte (AP) mreže, kolika je pokrivenost te kolika je prostorna jačina signala na karti.
Naravno da se uz korištenje laptopa ili pocket PC-a može koristiti i kao autokarta.
Vidjet ću je li to istina, i to možda uskoro ;)

Dugo se nisam nasmijao na nešto kao na ovo :)
Ako se i vi budete smijali znat ćete koliki ste geekovi/geekice :)

There are hundreds of gift guides this holiday season filled with junk you can buy – but a lot of time you actually don’t own it, you can’t improve upon it, you can’t share it or make it better, you certainly can’t post the plans, schematics and source code either. Here’s the only open source gift guide you see this year and it’s from MAKE Magazine

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While I was browsing through Harald Welte’s blog I came across this article. You can’t believe what else is in his blog (non pr0n related) – so check it out, really great blog. I really liked Geek_Pr0n gallery because the pictures are professionally done and really, really geeky! Girls on pictures are also nice :)

Check out the full galleries:
Geek_Pr0n_01
Geek_Pr0n_02
Geek_Pr0n_03

Here are some of my favorites:

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Već neko vrijeme draga i ja razmišljamo o nabavci novog monitora za design i grafiku, a izbor nam je pao na widescreen 20″ modele.
Gledajući malo naišao sam na Anandtech recenzije dva trenutno najjača 20″ modela, Dell i Apple (oba koriste isti LG LCD TFT panel).
Dell i Apple se mogu naći u www.m-comupters.hr trgovini; DELL 20″ 2005FPW košta 5200kn dok je Apple 6600kn.
Vrhunac ponude je jedan ekstrem dok među najjeftinijim 20″ widescreen modelima našao sam Samsung 205BW po cijeni od 2900kn, isto u www.m-computers.hr.
Za sada još nisam našao neku zlatnu sredinu pa ćemo vjerovatno uzeti Samsunga sada a onda ga za godinu dana prodamo i uzmemo Dell-a :)

UPDATE;
Draga i ja smo išli u Konzum kupiti müsle i na kraju kupili monitor :) Philips LCD 190S7 19″ je bio na akciji za smiješnih 1600kn :)
Bilo je predobro da bi propustili. Eto kako se danas kupuje hardver – u samoposluzi. Vidio sam da će se to dogoditi još prije više godina ali nije mi palo na pamet da ću i sam tako kupovati. Never say never…

Read what makes new Intel chips better than AMD (btw. I love AMD).

The introduction of Core is one of the most important technology developments for Intel in years and may determine its success for the rest of the decade and beyond.

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