Clutter quiz

I just added a 20 question quiz over on my other blog. Go there and see if Clutter is a problem for you.

New Look!

No there is nothing wrong with your eyes. I just decided it was time for a new theme for my blog. Eventually I will create my own theme but for now I'll be using the standard themes. This one contains my favorite color (guess what it is!)

I also added a twitter reader. I've just started using twitter and could do with some followers:) we'll see if it is any good and if I'll be keeping it.

Decisions

Some of you know I'm looking to buy a laptop soon. Well I thought I knew what I wanted but the vendors aren't making the choice easy for me. I finaly got dissuaded from buying the HP TX2020 that I was looking at. Apparently the touchscreen isn't very good.

So I was almost set on buying the new EeePC 901 once it hits the markets next week. But then Asus more or less confirms the existence of a EeePC 1000, and a soon to be unveiled tablet model. As if that wasn't enough choice Via anounces the OpenBook and Dell gives the world a peak of their Sub-notebook (which is by far the best looking in the bunch) on top of it all I might even consider a MacBook (yes, you read that right, you may now pick up your jaw from the floor) choices are never easy. For me the main question is: Will it run linux well? Then again I might just get myself a mac and just run linux on my mediacenter (the future fate of my current computer)

Ah choices. Such a blessing, such a curse...

It is finished

The test is over. I cant call it a victory yet. It could swing both ways at this point but I will know in a month or so. In the mean time I'm having half a day at work after not sleeping much at all tonight so if I'm acting strange at the outreach center tonight you will know why. Also deep study mode is over and I will again be going to activities and showing up online. Will return with a proper blog entry later.

The final hours

I now have two hours until my test. I have been up since 4 am going through the material one last time. It feels pretty good. Wish me luck!

Focus Issues

Staying focused on studies is hard...

Microsoft claims Africans don't understand OSS

Wow, this blog is meant to be a fairly lighthearted place (disregard that huge post a few weeks ago about experts:P) but this really made me sad. Microsoft is freaking out about the fact that South Africa is adopting ODF as a government document standard. With barely concealed prejudice they went ahead and made a statement more or less claiming that SA is to primitive to be able to fully understand OSS and it's benefits and that they should not focus on open source on the OS level but rather on the application level. Obviously they are fine with SA doing open source as long as they do it on top of Windows. They even have the audacity to claim that SA will somehow lose money by the fact that a patch or an application that they create can be picked up by a foreign vendor (such as Redhat or Novell.) As opposed to all the profit they will make by handing over their money directly to MS? The whole statement reeks of sour grapes and an attempt to play on other countries prejudices of Africa. Maybe someone should tell MS that Overt racism isn't the best PR trick these days.

Quick glossary for those who don't understand what I'm talking about:

ODF: Open Document Format. An international open ISO standard for digital documents. Used by virtually every major office application except Microsoft Office.

OSS: Open Source Software. Software licensed in a way that makes the source code freely available. This means anyone can modify and redistribute the software as long as they in turn grant others the same rights. Linux and Firefox are the two most well known examples of OSS.

OS: Operating System. The underlying system that all applications run on top of. Windows and Linux are examples of Operating Systems.

SA: South Africa

MS: Microsoft

I hope that clears it up a little bit.

PS:
As perspective to the article I want to mention that Ubuntu linux (Currently the most popular distibution of Linux) is lead by a South African.

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