Look like Canvas from Deneba is coming to Linux.
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I just signed up for the webloggers webring and link sluts. Getting a bit more traffic through here would be cool, but there’s also some cool sites on both rings, worth checking out.
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Doug
ThoughtTracker is exactly the sort of thing that Natrifical’s patent could endanger. This looks pretty cool; think I’ll install it tonight.
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Patent Issued for Natrificial’s “The Brain”. Bummer. This is a cool piece of software that I’ve used extensively in the past. Frankly, it’s the only software I really miss from Windows since I’ve moved to Linux, and I’ve been eagerly watching similar open source development efforts, hoping for a replacement. This patent is far more insidious than the Amazon stuff.
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It’s snowing here like mad, and has been since early afternoon. Heavy, thick, wet snow. What’s up with that? Two days ago it was around 70 degrees!
I wish I had a good digital camera. At least then I could get some cool images. My Japanese garden looks very cool covered in snow. Of course, the kids wet tearing through it this afternoon, so it doesn’t look quite so neat anymore.
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Well, I got tired of the “notebook” look in about a week. I just spent the afternoon chnging the look of the site again. I think it looks a lot cleaner, anyway, and a bit less cheesy.
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Erehwon Notebook Forums @ http://www.ezboard.com
I’ve taken the plunge and set up some message board to go with the Notebook. So, if you’d like to discuss any topics that I’ve posted about here, pop over to the forums and make your voice heard!
I’m using ezBoard for these forums, so you can either register, or post anonymously.
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Censorware Exposed Again. Peacefire has been at it again, uncovering more censorware that inadvertantly blocks web sites that can’t by anyone’s standards be considered pornographic and don’t fit into any of the software in question’s filtering categories. This time the culprit is Symantec, who seem not to have even attempted to make sure their software isn’t blocking sites for no apparent reason. Great job, Symantec!
In time-honored corporate fashion, Symatec is responding to this information not by correcting the problem, oh no. Rather, they’re accusing Peacefire of illegally reverse engineering their software and violating their license agreement. Of course, legal action is threatened.
Here’s a note to all my fellow corporate executive types: Look, nobody’s perfect. We, and our comapnies make mistakes. The trick to being a great leader isn’t rabidly defending your company with lawyers everytime someone points out a problem. If you’d learn to work with people like Peacefire, and your customers, and your employees, rather than engaging in knee-jerk reactions and going hyper-defensive, and in general acting like thugs, you just might improve your product and be even more successful. Come on, people! Let’s stop practicing mediocrity and try working with our communities, and treating people like people. You might just find that strategy to be more profitable than the mindless greed so many of us seem determined to engage in.
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Interested in Linux, but not sure if it can support the level of desktop integration you’re used to with Windows or your Mac? Then you really need to check out helix code. These guys have put together an absolutely awesome distribution of over 80 GNOME packages, all containing the latest, greatest code. If you aren’t familiar with it, GNOME is a desktop environment for *nix, providing very similar functionality to Windows Explorer or the Mac Finder (only it doesn’t crash as often, and it doesn’t take down the system if it does).
Probably a million other sites have carried this news as well, but I’m so impressed by what the Helix Code guys have done with GNOME that I just have to mention it as well. GNOME has always been a great, stable desktop environment, but the distro Helix has put together really has raised the bar for ease of installation and functionality for Linux desktop environments. Helix have even made it simple to get, by creating an automated downloading and installation program called the Helix Installer. This installer has much of the same automated installation and update capabilities users have come to expect from commercial operating systems, making the retrival and installation process an absolute breeze. One of the biggest hassles with GNOME has been the complexity of obtaining and keeping current all the various packages necessary for optimal functionality. Helix has effectively dealt with this problem!
The Helix distro of GNOME contains all of the latest core packages for the desktop environment itself, along with a number of enhancements. More importantly, it includes a number of productivity applications, like the Gnumeric spreadsheet, with more on the way. Personally, I’m eager to get my hands on Evolution, an enhanced GNOME PIM and groupware application that seems to incorporate a lot of the look and feel of a package of similar functionality from a software company in Redmond.
One thing I was particularly pleased to see was all of the Palm Pilot stuff finally working. Now I can use the GNOME calendar and address book with my Palm VII; a far more attractive solution than the functional but visually unappealing J-Pilot. The GNOME Palm applet works much more like its Windows and Mac cousins than either J-Pilot or the KDE Palm tools, and the GNOME PIM components are easier to use and more visually appealing than anything else available for Linux.
Finally, GNOME-Helix just plain looks good! The famous tigert contributed heavily to the enhanced graphics, and you can tell. By default, GNOME-Helix uses the Sawmill window manager, which is good looking, fast, and functional. I’ve always been an Enlightenment fan, but I suspect Sawmill may have just taken over my desktop for good.
In short, whether you’re a Linux junkie or a Linux newbie, GNOME-Helix is worth a look. It’s probably the fastest, easiet way to get a wonderful looking and extremely functional, fast desktop without sacrificing configurability and flexibility.
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I want to say “hello” to my frequent visitor(s) from Pretzel Logic in Australia! I’m not sure who you are, but after visiting your site, I wish I lived in Australia. Your company seems to be just the sort of place I’d love to work. You wouldn’t happen to be interested in starting a U.S. branch, would you?
Judging from my logs, the Notebook seems to be getting very popular Down Under. Australian domains are making up a large percentage of my hits.
