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  • Foresight 0.1 impressions

    Tonight I installed Foresight Desktop Linux 0.1 Some observations/Bugzilla todo’s It’s really cool The fastboot gives me some weird errors about 0.25 being a wrong interval for ‘sleep’, but otherwise is indeed fast Beagle rocks! Don’t forget to enable extended attributes or beagled won’t start Beagle rocks! And, last but not least: Beagle rocks!

  • More Apple questions

    I was planning on buying a Powerbook + Cinema display, but I’m wondering if an iBook won’t suffice. It’s quite a bit cheaper, and from what I’ve read the battery lasts a lot longer. Also, the metal housing of the Powerbook seems to create a Faraday cage, severely limiting the wireless performance. But is the […]

  • Apple advice wanted

    I’m looking into buying a Powerbook + an external display. I’m probably going for a 15″ Powerbook as this seems to provide a nice balance between performance and screen real estate and portability, and a 23″ Cinema Display. As I’ve never owned a Mac before, I’ve got some questions. First one: Can I install non-Apple […]

  • Foresight 0.1

    If everything goes well, there should be a first Foresight iso (or isos) available in the next couple of days. This will offer an easier way to discover this fascinating new platform, and the bleeding edge of Gnome goodness like Tomboy, Beagle and Howl. And what’s more, the isos will be available from your very […]

  • early spring

    I’m tired of winter, so I’ve decided spring will start early this year. I will celebrate this with the new WordPress theme “Early Spring”. What you see now is just a preliminary version of this theme. More to come soon.

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