GMail is SCREAMING fast on FireFox 3 Beta 4
Posted by merill | Filed under Open Source
I've been using FireFox 3 beta 3 for quite some time and was pretty happy with it. Fired up FF today and was prompted with a nice upgrade button. They've been doing some tweaking on the JavaScript engine and its made applications that I use quite often like GMail to work lightning fast.
From the FireFox [...]
I LOVE open source software like this
Posted by merill | Filed under Open Source, Utilities
I’ve got a great many videos that I’ve captured in .wmv but haven’t had the time to figure out resolutions, formats and burning them to DVDs, yet.
That’s all changed now that Lifehacker has a a great post on Burning almost any video file to a playable DVD using DVD Flick.
I was fascinated by ffmpeg when [...]
Here’s to Linux
Posted by merill | Filed under Open Source
The very first posting to this blog from a Linux box! The lab
that I’m lecturing on .NET Compact Framework development for an
Advanced MSc batch has all these dual boot boxes with Ubuntu and XP, so
I thought I’d give it a go.
The text is crystal clear, even much more better than an XP box with ClearType [...]
Google Office!
Posted by merill | Filed under Microsoft, Open Source
Internet news reports
about an announcement that Google and Sun are to make later in the day
today about Google Office. What with Office 12 in the making we Office users are
going to be in for a real treat.
Having seen the screenshots
of Office 12 and the video on Channel
9, I can’t wait till I get my hands on this [...]
Can open source companies innovate?
Posted by merill | Filed under Open Source
Ever since I attended the FOSS conference a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been
trying to figure out how viable an option Open Source is for the software
industry as well as developing countries like ours.
Every trail of thought that I could think of led to the same place and
today’s Open
Enterprise column on InfoWorld nails it. The [...]
Lunch with Jim and Rasmus
Posted by merill | Filed under Open Source
During lunch today I was joined at my table by Rasmus Lerdof (the creator of PHP) and Jim
Zemlin the executive director of FSG (Free Standards Group). Jim is the guy who
pushes the Linux Standards Base and tries to ensure that Linux doesn’t fragment
the way that Unix did.
Both Rasmus and Jim were enjoying their stay in Colombo and [...]
FOSS: Keynote
Posted by merill | Filed under Open Source
I was able find a power socket at the end of the room where I was able to get
my notebook charged again and guess what Dr. Ruwan from the Colombo University
too was running around trying to get his notebook charged too.
The Prime Minister who was supposed to be the Chief Guest was a no show [...]
Open Source In Developing Countries
Posted by merill | Filed under Open Source
Sanjiva Weerawarana the Chairman and
Executive Director of the LSF (Lanka Software
Foundation) and Jivaka Weeratunga (my former boss) have released [...]
