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Mars

4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover 101

Posted by samzenpus
from the take-a-look dept.
SternisheFan points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."
GNOME

GNOME 3.8 Released Featuring New "Classic" Mode 267

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the extend-freely dept.
Hot on the heels of the Gtk+ 3.8 release comes GNOME 3.8. There are a few general UI improvements, but the highlight for many is the new Classic mode that replaces fallback. Instead of using code based on the old GNOME panel, Classic emulates the feel of GNOME 2 through Shell extensions (just like Linux Mint's Cinnamon interface). From the release notes: "Classic mode is a new feature for those people who prefer a more traditional desktop experience. Built entirely from GNOME 3 technologies, it adds a number of features such as an application menu, a places menu and a window switcher along the bottom of the screen. Each of these features can be used individually or in combination with other GNOME extensions."

Comment: Re:Our Experience (Score 1) 269

by Jagungal (#42135795) Attached to: NPD Group Analysts Say Windows 8 Sales Sluggish

It's clear over the next few years that Microsoft is aiming to design a single UI across all of it's platforms from Phone, to Desktops, to tablets, to TV. They want it to all be the same experience.

Microsoft is delusional, in the past Microsoft tried to force a desktop interface onto a mobile device and it was painful, now they are trying to put a mobile device interface onto a desktop computer and that is painful again.

Will they ever learn?

I have been using Windows 8 as an experiment for a few months now. It is workable if you put classic shell on but if I had Windows 7 I would just stick with that.

Comment: What a waste of time .... (Score 2) 184

by Jagungal (#36715900) Attached to: CentOS Linux 6.0 Released

Considering 6.1 has been out for some time this is a bit of a non event, most people using CentOs have moved on.

What I saw was a bunch of developers spending a lot of time being defensive of why it was taking so long, promising it was just around the corner and letting the dates constantly slip.

CentOS is basically a dead project to the majority of people who have moved on to more responsive distributions.

I still have to wonder when some of these developers didn't get paid off for doing what they did - the way it happened just didn't seem right, there is a pretty fishy smell about this one.

Comment: Not that indispensable ... (Score 1) 349

by Jagungal (#36223588) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Ask For Equity In a Startup?

But if you are then the company is doing itself a dis service if it is allowing you into a position where you think you are indispensible. Many information hiding IT people do try to do it though - or at least get into their heads that they are.

The people who put forward the ideas and the risk get the equity, you just get your contract rates no matter how the company goes good or bad.

Comment: Custom Games (Score 1) 293

by Jagungal (#35905630) Attached to: Taking the Fun Out of <em>StarCraft II</em>

I think that what is being said is that the variety of units has had to be dulled down in competitive games. I have heard people say that this makes it easier to watch but there is still a lot of complexity in the game with three races and all their differences.

If you want to try out all sorts of units, there are a ton of custom games where you can use every unit available.

For me, the game is the best in many years and has been keeping me going for 8 months now - there are all sorts of different things to do from ladder, custom games and private matches between friends.

Brilliant game, brilliant design and a great deal of fun for me..

Comment: Seems about right (Score 2) 298

by Jagungal (#35474216) Attached to: Tech Expertise Not Important In Google Managers

One of the biggest problems I have ever run into is the Manager who came from a technical background and tries to retain some kind of technical information lead over the staff. Often they can't be across day to day things so they become an information hider or feel threatened by technical staff around them.

In IT, information hiders in a team are pain, when they are the manager they are a nightmare. The best managers I have had were people managers who used to team and what it achieved to make themselves look good. In some ways, they best managers are those that accept that they might not be as technical as some staff, get over it and get on with managing the team.

Comment: Liferay is similar (Score 1) 357

by Jagungal (#32908144) Attached to: SugarCRM 6 Released, But Is It Open Source?

Liferay is another product like this.

It started as a nice feel open source project. There was available paid support if you wanted/needed it. Then it went to a dual release of an enterprise version and a "community version" with all sorts of promises that nothing would change. The level of marketing then also seemed to go into over drive - to get the enterprise version.

It then became obvious that the community version, is full of bugs, gets no bug fixes and is released only once a year.

It has gone from a good, usable open source product to a really cranked up commercial product. It's open source true but this is more a marketing tool than a reality of an open project where everyone can contribute.

Television

MythTV 0.23 Released 214

Posted by kdawson
from the record-with-daring-and-whimsey dept.
An anonymous reader writes "After six months of our new accelerated development schedule, MythTV 0.23 is now available. MythTV 0.23 brings a new event system, brand new Python bindings, the beta MythNetvision Internet video plugin, new audio code and surround sound upmixer, several new themes (Arclight and Childish), a greatly improved H.264 decoder, and fixes for analog scanning, among many others. Work towards MythTV 0.24 is in full swing, and has be progressing very well for the last several months. If all goes according to plan, MythTV 0.24 will bring a new MythUI OSD, a nearly rewritten audio subsystem capable of handling 24- and 32-bit audio and up to 8 channels of output, Blu-ray disc and disc structure playback, and various other performance, usability, and flexibility improvements."
Christmas Cheer

+ - Top-10 Gift Ideas for the Linux Gadget Geek

Submitted by DeviceGuru
DeviceGuru writes "Got a Linux Gadget Geek on your shopping list? You can't fail with a gift from this guide to the ten hottest Linux-powered devices gleaned from LinuxDevices.com's news throughout 2007. But in case that doesn't do it for you, WindowsForDevices has an alternative gift guide for those of the Redmondian persuasion. The gadgets range from $150, for the Zipit Wireless Messenger that runs Linux, to a $2,000 tiny Windows palmtop computer from FlipStart, the company founded in 2002 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and beyond."

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