Meet Elisa

Been a while since I’ve posted, hasn’t it? But that just means that there’s even more cool stuff to nail now that I’m back. To kick off, here’s a video showing the latest and greatest from Fluendo’s Elisa media centre.

Having watched all that, I do have to admit that Elisa is still a little ropey on my Hardy build. I’m hopeful that by the time the Heron goes live, we’ll have an Elisa that runs comfortably under Compiz and doesn’t need too much tweaking of the configuration file. In fact, the drag and drop support for video/picture sources is a great start in that endevour. Finger’s crossed for April.

Earthrise

I sincerely hope this works.  If it does, you can see the earth rising over the moon, from about 100K above the moon’s surface.  From this Register article.

Shame – that embedded object didn’t work.  You can still see the movie by using the link above, or by visiting it directly, here.

[EDIT : I've added a Youtube rendition below]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfHcmw_MDv8

10 Things I Hate About Macs

Man, this should be easy… really, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. The hardest part of writing this article is choosing which of the many hated “features” actually make the top ten. For example, honorable mention has to go to the actual Mac users themselves. I thought Linux fan-boys were crazy, but the Mac fan-boys are a different class of psychotic. At least Linux fan-boys are fanatical about free software – a concept of libre, perhaps. Mac fan-boys pay stupid amounts of money to Apple for their products and THEN defend the company to the hilt, free gratis. Really, these guys are out of pocket AND dignity.

Anyway, I use a Mac Mini for streaming movies to my TV. That’s all. I’ve tried to use it for more than this, but time and time again, I hit an Apple induced road hazard. Now, I think to myself, “why bother?”. I already have my Windows laptop and my Ubuntu workstation for the stuff I need an actual computer for, so I’ll leave the Mac where it (just barely) belongs – as a DVD player.

Okay, here’s the Top Ten.

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