Me, Myself & Myselfself

This would be my last post here, as I am moving my blog to a wordpress account, which is far more customizable, and STABLE.

http://kolslorr.wordpress.com/

Its sad to bid farewell, and even sadder that I cannot export all my blog contents for archival or import to a new service provider. Too bad.

See ya guys.

Hi, long time no see....

Hardy Heron's gonna officially say hello to the rest of the world next month, while the hardcore-tester me have already started the Alpha testing.

3 hours after I started the command to kick-off the update, voila, and my system reboots into a whole new dimension.

To my surprise, for the first time, Network Manager actually WORKS out-of-the-box! Omg I couldnt believe my eyes when I saw the applet connecting to my network with ZERO configuration. Vividly, I remember how I curse the Network Manager developers to hell in Fesity times when it was introduced because it completely breaks my wireles.

I am sorry, you guys rocks, but can you please tell me how the heck I got it to work with static IP instead?

See, I got it working, and the digital clock now even tells me the weather automatically!


Next on my surprise list... Compiz-Fusion... works flawlessly without a single tweak!!! No more horrible X-session manipulation, and I dont have to test my patient with the sucky AMD graphics card driver anymore. It just, works.

Here comes wobbly window, transparency, and the impressive EXPO mode (show all desktops)...



Check out the all new Task Manager! Are you excited yet?



Whats weird is that, with all the new bling bling, the system CPU usage has been very well-maintained!!! Whats up with the Ubuntu folks huh, you guys must be ex-nasa scientist or wat to make all these achievable on my old P4 1.6G machine. I am sure the Microsoft folks down at Redmond wouldnt even want me to try running Aero with it, it completely degrades their profile.

Well, there are certain hiccups of course, Wine and Java broke, somehow, but this is nothing I cannot solve in 1 hour. Compared to my previous experience with the X-windows shit of the AMD card, I consider this Hardy Heron Alpha experience a major success.

Looking forward to the official release, and oh man I sure hope there's a launch party down here in Singapore.

Alright, I know I am not the earliest adopter of the RSS technology, or this whole feed thingy that every geek in the world are already using since like year 2001 (?). I am a few years late, and I am sorry!

Recently, I found myself visiting the same old website which is usually a wordpress blog page by someone at the other end, ranging for news updates for latest technology, to the latest celebrity gossips in Hollywood.

There are times whereby I visit places like UMPC Portal 10 times a day, only to find out that the owner is not updating it for the next few days due to some reason.

Then comes Google Reader, which I consider the best form of online bookmark one could ever get today. You just have to input all your favorite websites into the system, and voila, it retrieves all of the updates without your intervention.



Using a very non-scientific estimation, I save almost 50% of my online time everyday, which is why my friends do not see me online often nowadays.

And there you go, if you are an avid blog reader like myself, be it whatever kind of blogs as long as it supports RSS feeds, Google Reader is your friend. Did I mention that the best thing about it is that it works across different platforms, on different machines, including my tiny Sony Ericson K800i.

I cant believe how often I try to access my own blog, only to be greeted by the bland page as above...

Come on, whats up with your server? Did one of your member's blog post got digged causing the calamity? Or your server just wasnt stable enough to sustain a proper 1 week's uptime?

The Ultra Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) will finally be embraced by the general public, after the much died-down fanfare of the initial Origami hype few years back. This is mainly attributed to the new low-cost models introduced by various makers after the successful introduction of the Asus EEE PC just at the end of 2007. We will be seeing more variants of EEE PC churning out by Asus, probably a 10" screen as well as models with built in WAN access. The industry will be further fueled by the announcement of latest Apple UMPC model in January.

The rest of PC makers will not just sit around and do nothing, more vendors will be jumping in with their own models of UMPC, including HP, Dell, Acer and etc. Frankly the main reason that the UMPC did not take off is due to its cost, which is usually significantly higher than its comparative elder brother. This will change, as Linux is finally becoming mainstream in 2008.

Ubuntu will continue to dominate the desktop Linux market in 2008, with continuing penetration to the server market. Boosted by Dell's successful launch of the range of Ubuntu desktops/laptops, more companies will be jumping in to take a piece of this pie as Vista continues to disappoint. In fact, after XP, the next logical upgrade would be to a variant of Linux, particularly Ubuntu. As PC vendors starting to realise that paying Microsoft for every piece of hardware sold is just not making economy sense at all, they will soon begin to grapple that Open Source OS is the way to go.

Google will continue to be big, and in fact it will grow even bigger with the launch of the much anticipated 'gPhone'. This move by Google will certainly bring about a much needed repercussion to the telecom industry. Gone are the days where you need to pay for a basic phone and sign a 2 year plan, what Google can offer you is a completely different model - Free phone with excellent network connectivity completes with Google application package, but once in a while do check out the ads running at the most unobscured screen corner.