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Stack Overflow Launches
16 September 2008 in Linux & Programming & Software | Comments (0)

What a cool new website.

Stack Overflow has been upgraded to public beta. Right now, I would say its going to be a cool resource for programmers.

I been hearing about this project for months mainly from Jeff and Joel (from the team) and this is my first look at it, and I must say it is very well built. I still have my doubts on some features like the badges, but I like a lot some others like the points system where you have more power of editing when you contribute more (Once the system learns to trust you, you’ll be able to edit anything, much like Wikipedia).

The description from the site:

Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it’s just free. And fast. Very, very fast.

Take a look…

Sick Joke from Adobe?
10 July 2007 in Fun & Linux & Windows | Comments (0)

Apparently was found in Adobe InDesign CS3 on MacOS X. Original Source.

Google Desktop now available for Linux
28 June 2007 in Linux & Random tidbits | Comments (2)

Finally the Google tool (my favorite) is available for all main platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux.

You can search your Linux files and applications on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1 and Red Flag 5.

The big advantage Google Desktop has over built-in search solutions (like the Mac’s Spotlight or Vista Search) is its ability to include Gmail messages in its results, and the use of Google’s advanced search operators, which are nice to learn once and use both on the web and desktop. For more on Google Desktop power using, see how to get more from Google Desktop. GDesktop is a free download, now truly cross-platform.

Linux Comic
23 June 2007 in Linux | Comments (0)

Moonlight coming very soon
22 June 2007 in Linux & Microsoft & Programming | Comments (0)

The all so spoken Moonlight, the Silverlight alternative to Linux users (based on Mono), is almost ready to public release.

For the last three weeks, a decentralized group of Mono developers has been hacking together an implementation of Silverlight for Linux. Project lead Miguel de Icaza chronicles the process on his blog, calling the weeks of 12-hour-plus days “the most intense hacking days that I have ever had.”

Miguel will be presenting a demo for Linux at ReMix07, the traveling Microsoft event landing Thursday in Paris.

The code is currently on a working state (alpha), and if you want to give it a try, follow this steps:

1. Install Mono 1.2.4 for Unix
2. Download and install the olive module
   1. Standard configure; make; make install
3. Install dependencies for module moon from your distro:
   1. Gtk+ 2.0 development package
   2. cairo 1.4.xx development package
   3. ffmpeg from SVN
   4. Mozilla NSPR development package
      1. one of: nspr mozilla-nspr firefox-nspr xulrunner-nspr seamonkey-nspr)
   5. Mozilla NSS development package
      1. one of: nss mozilla-nss firefox-nss xulrunner-nss seamonkey-nss
   6. Mozilla XPCOM
      1. one of: xpcom mozilla-xpcom firefox-xpcom xulrunner-xpcom
   7. Alsa
4. Download and install the moon module from SVN
   1. Standard configure; make; make install

After that, You should be able to run silverlight applications with moonlight on Firefox (Linux).