I have to tell you that, I’m not a full time Linux user. Because some of my production software can only be ran on other platforms like Mac and Windows platforms. Of course it’s not a fancy thing to change your active OS many times during the day. And virtualization is not the ultimate solution for running multiple OSs in the same time.
Out of my production “shift”, my computer becomes an entertainment product. Surfing the web, listening some radios, watching movies even TV… Anyway, my computer is like a workhorse for serving me. Key position in my Life.
Basically, I don’t feel comfortable with the software which I can not manipulate when needed. There might be a objection at this point: It’s highly unlikely to find a sophisticated and/or complex open source software product for the production media which is open to people’s manipulation. In one angle yeah it’s true you can not find bunch of fancy software out there. But if you are in a state of comprehension of the production process, you can easily understand how is the program working. Of course this will not give you the freedom of manipulation of their code but this will give you a confidence you’ll somehow purified from your very very deep “heeyyy, gaaashh this piece of software reliable”
This was for production media. But I heartily know that out there thousands and thousands computers are sold just for instant messaging, buying and/or pirating music-movies, using facebook, watching youtube videos… I know that this thousands and thousands of computers a preloaded with propriety software which are blocking you to manipulate them. It’s obvious that the massive software vendors are looking for consumer cows. If you do not let the people manipulate or inspect your code you’ll obviously creating your untouchable software kingdom with a huge vassal.
When I use my computer as my Jukebox or Pandora’s Box or Pan’s Flute, I want to observe working ways & style of it in technical means. This makes me free because not turning to a consumer cow
Of course we’ll never be “free” in this capitalist era. But there is a resistance.
Google Wiki geliyor… Google’ın Jotspot adlı wiki firmasını almasının üzerinden 1 yıl geçtikten sonra, nihayet Google Apps içine dahil oluyor… Bakalım nasıl olacak? Hayatımız koca koca şirketlerle iç içe girdi, sonumuz hayır değil…
Today I was informed by a slashdot enrty & this entry that Joe McCormack at UAT (University of Advencing Technology @ Tempe) did a bloody brilliant job with creating a translation engine for English to Sumerian/Assyrian-Babylonian. It’s the one of the astonishing jobs I’ve ever seen.
The idea beneath this translation engine is so inspirational… Creating symbolic links, etc… Again & Again thank you Joe!
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Bugün slashdot’da ve başka bir blogda okuduğum girdilerle öğrendim ki, UAT’den Joe McCormack adlı bir geliştirici, İnglizce’den Sümerce’ye/Asurca’ya-Babilce’ye tercüme motoru yaratmış. Bu gördüğüm en güzel işlerden biriydi.
Bu tercüme motorunun altında yatan fikir son derece esinleyici… Sembolik bağlantılar yaratmak, vs…. Tekrar ve tekrar çok teşekkür ederim Joe!
Duyduk ki, Google Video Store kapanıyormuş. Yorumladık ki: Google video satışından kar edemeyince bu alandan çekiliyor. Bu işten zararı görecek olanların haklarını Google Checkout’a kredi olarak devredeceklermiş… Internetten video satmak zor iş nitekim…
Duyduk ki, BitTorrent 6.0 sürümüyle beraber artık kapalı kaynak olacakmış. Yorumladık ki: Yürü be Bram Cohen kim tutar seni? Zaten bittorrent.com‘da parayla film, dizi, müzik satman(ız)dan belliydi bunun olacağı. Canım BitTorrent’i davul ettin alacağın olsun. Artık daha rahat pazarlarsın çeşitli donanım üreticilerine. Not: Sattığın şeylerden kar etmeyi de unutma tamam mı anam…
Duyduk ki, Ubuntu ve Dell işbirliği Avrupa’da satışa sunulacak Ubuntu yüklü Dell bilgisayarlarla devam ediyormuş.Yorumladık ki: Sonu güzel olur diye umarız. Bu bilgisayarları alıp üzerine Windows kuracak olan büyük bir kesim vardır tahminen. Ancak %25-30 gibi bir oranda bile Linux kullanıcı kalırsa çok güzel olacaktır. Özgür yazılım için!
I’m workin’ on a new project for computing requirements of my projects on the bioprocessing. I had to establish a virtual machine on my Linux laptop. After a few trials on VMWare Player & Virtualbox, I decided to migrate to Workstation.
VMWare Workstation runs very well, I did not encounter with a problem… I hope VMWare creates a student license for Workstation -> It has license price about 190$ that most of the students cannot afford…
