I didn’t know that Safari is already supporting parts of CSS3 like {text-shadow} and a few other properties. Apparently its time to dig through some W3C documents.
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Monthly Archive for August, 2005
Today I found my orderd Ubuntu CDs in my (snail) mail box. Seems like this is the day that I’ll give Linux a try. A year ago I was playing around with Fedora (on x86) but I thought it might be to early to use it on a regular basis. A year has passed, I heard a lot good things about Ubuntu, not to say enthusiastic – a friend believes it’s the future. However, I orderd (instead of downloading) a few CDs for me and to give it to some friends, coworkers, etc.
Slowly I prepared everthing for the new baby, partitioned an external hard drive, backed up my working system (you know murphy?) and repaired my bike. OK, for the beginning I’m trying the Live-CD… which just directly boots into open firmware and stops there. Searching through ubuntu forums I found some hints regarding this issue, tried them, no luck. Well, at least I achieved an authentic kernel panic. OK, let’s give the install CD a try, same thing, it boots into open firmware followed by a kernel panic, restart. If you are sufficiently motivated there are of course ways to get this system up and running on an iMac G5. But for me it seemed way to complicated just for a try on an afternoon.
Anyway, once I got motivated to put Linux on my machine I went over to the Fedora project. But before downloading the whole 2.8GB DVD I googled if it’s even possible to install and run Fedora on an iMac G5. And no, it’s not possible, well following to some user reviews it’s possible as long as you don’t hear the alarm sound (!?!). There must be some issues with the system sound and iMac hardware in Fedora Core 4 which provokes a system crash.
After all I guess I’ll have to wait another year before trying Linux again on PPC. Meanwhile Mac OS X Tiger is not the worst choice.
My spam filter is pretty reliable but once a month a spam mail makes its way thru it. No problem, at least this time it amused me reading the text…
Dear Juliana S., beloved email robot,
no, it was not me with whom you where corresponding. Neither is this is my email address, nor am I called Rudolf. I suggest you get your things straight and try it again.
Best regards,
XYZ
Von: “Juliana S.” r048014@048.pfr.ru
Datum: 29. August 2005 11:21:04 GMT+02:00
An: “Rudolf” e9425005@stud2.tuwien.ac.at
Betreff: Hallo…Hi my Dear!
I think we had correspondence a long time ago if it was not you I am sorry.
If it was I could not answer you because my Mozilla mail manager was down for a
long time and I could not fix it only with my friend’s help I got the emails
address out for me ..:)
I hope it was whom we were corresponded with you are still interested, as I am,
though I realize much time has passed since then…
I really don’t know where to start ….
Maybe you could tell me a little about yourself since I lost our early letters,
your appearance,age , hobbies, and are you still in the search?
If it was you I wrote to and you are interested to get to know me better, I have
a profile at :
http://www.tLn.hellomylove.net/Don’t really know what else to say for now I hope this is the right address
Let me know if you are interested, And I hope
you won’t run when you see my picture
Yourth faithfully
Juliana S.
…start adapting your business models instead of sueing people selected by chance! This is simply unbelievable!
New Round of P2P Lawsuits from Hollywood
An anonymous reader writes “There is a new story on ZDNet about more lawsuits against P2P file sharers. The catch is that Hollywood is using the log files off Bit Torrent sites like Suprnova and LokiTorrent.”
Ok, they did it, today Google released Google talk (like every IT news site is reporting). The good thing about it is that they didn’t invent another IM protocol – Google talk is based on Jabber, an open IM protocol. So one can use it with any Jabber-client (like iChat). The bad thing about it is that Google seems to be creating a small island. Google talk can’t communicate to other Jabber-servers so that you can talk to other Jabber-users and apparently this “feature” is not planned:
Some name has invited you to sign up for Google Talk so you can talk to each other for free over your computers. Signing up also gives you Google Mail, a free Google email account with over 2,000 megabytes of storage.
If Google won’t fundamentally change some of its strategies, Google talk will remain as a small island. Currently any other Jabber-server offers more features than Google talk does (e.g. gateways to other protocols).
How can that be?
Every IT news site is reporting about the super-duper Google communication service which is supposed to be announced tomorrow. What will it be? Another instant messaging service based on jabber (because talk.google.com was running a jabber server like a few sites said) or a VOIP service to compete with Skype?
However, observing those speculations I got amused about that probably the best marketing campaign is no marketing campaign. Feed the rumor sites with some hints, they’ll spread the information for you directly to your target group. Instead of commenting the rumors threaten those sites with your lawyers to stimulate discussions around the rumors (“Buhh! The big evil unfair company!”). People will get interested in what’s going on and of course in your brand/products. News sites will start publishing articles about the rumors so that you’ll end up having your commercials and ads placed across the web without paying anything.
Apple definitely are professionals in using that method, Google apparently has learned from them.
Wonderful what you can do with CSS. I guess it’s time to improve my CSS skills…
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.
Ok, I take everthing back what I thought about Podcasts (c.f. Radio++). Since iTunes 4.9 features Podcasts the client problem is gone – Podcasts are now easy to use and they work perfect with my iPod.
About the radio programm: yes, we have an excellent radio station here, but without Podcasts I guess I would have sticked forever with FM4. I would never ever have listened to some other shows from private people. I would never ever have found the Podcast of PinkBeltRAGE which I don’t want to miss any more. Her compilations are simply GREAT! I love them! It’s such a long time since I listened to that kind of music, must be around ten years now. In the mid 90ies electronic music called my attention and since then I got really into it. It was new (at least for me), fresh and therefore full of energy which I missed in other types of music I used to listen to. Over the past 3 years I tried to leave the country of electronica, to visit other areas once in a while, but it’s a hard way back. But I felt kind of lost out of electronic country, didn’t know what’s going on, which bands or labels have arised (apart from the most famous ones which of course I know). PinkBeltRAGE is my guide out there, a very classy one.
Recently I found an email in my inbox which made me wondering if it’s a joke of somebody I know or just spam. So I googled for the main phrase of the mail (gouranga) and yes, it definitely could be identified as spam. However, it’s some kind of weird spam without any noticeable financial intention like trying to sell manhood enlargements and those sort of things. The spammer declares his/her motives as follows:
I am just very enthusiastic person, who wants everybody to be happy.
Hmmm, nice, isn’t it.
Apparently that spam is around for quite a time now and a few other people were of course wondering about those emails: a research here, a lot of comments there and the wikipedia gouranga summary.
An interesting detail is that you can find this spam in the real world too, so watch out and get gouranga happy!
