When sleeping 2-3 hours of sleep a night and very irregularly, you get loads of random naps throughout the day. Apologies if I fell asleep in your presence

Chili Mac - Chile Con Carne + Macaroni

1 jalapeno seeded & finely chopped
2 yellow onions diced
2 tbs bacon grease... See More
1 large carrot diced
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 small bunch cilantro chopped

2 tbs ground coriander
2 tbs ground cumin
1 tbs caldo de res (beef bullion)
1 tbs smoked paprika
1 tsp oregano
3/4 tsp ground sage
2 tsp salt
1 tsp white pepper
2 tsp madras curry powder
1 tsp cinnamon

2 lbs ground beef
2 7 ounce cans diced green chiles
1 quart water
1 28 ounce can crushed tomato
1/2 cup sour cream
2 cups shredded cheddar
22 ounce bag macaroni

Start sauteeing the onions, carrots, and jalapeno in the bacon fat. After a couple of minutes, add the garlic and cilantro and sautee about a minute more.

Add in the spice mixture (second bunch of ingredients) and cook the spices with the veggies until fragrant. Add the water and bring to a boil.

Put in the ground beef and mash everything up with a potato masher to break up the meat. Add the tomatoes and chiles, bring back to a low boil, and simmer covered for 30-45 minutes.

In another pot, bring salted water to a boil and cook the macaroni just a little underdone. Reserve 6-8 ounces of the pasta water and drain.

Put the macaroni pot back on the stove. Put in 6-8 ounces of the chili broth and the reserved pasta water, pour the drained pasta back in and mix everything together for about a minute over medium heat. Add the chili to the pasta pot and cook everything together for about 5 minutes.

Stir in the sour cream and cheese, mix well, remove from heat, and let cool for about 10 minutes. Scoop into bowls and serve.

Enjoy!

Even though the picture above is from Damascus, and I’m not in Saigon after speaking about Status.Net at Gnome.Asia, I’m chillaxin a bit before heading to FOSS.IN to speak about Status.Net on DEC 1-5, do a Creative Commons Salon India about CC and Status.Net, and then onto TEDxGuangzhou DEC 5, where I’m unveiling a new topic Shanzhai VS. Qi Inside.

[ Photo of me by Joi ]

I promise I’ll be back to USA for the holidays

With that all being said, I am thankful for all my family and friends! So many new people I have met in the last few weeks that make me more alive. Time is a finite resource. Use it well!

[ Photo of beirut sunset by Joi ]

1. First you need wine, preferably red. Obviously, the better the wine is, the final product will be. But don't overspend, we will add a lot of spices as the original purpose of this recipe was to make bad wine drinkable. The half-full empty mug in the picture is for illustrative purposes, use at least a full mug;
2. It must be sweetened, with either sugar or honey. I think honey is tastier. The quantity depends on your taste and how sweet the wine is;
3. Add cinnamon, preferably whole but if all you have is powder, that is good too. The cinnamon is the most important spice, you can make the recipe with only wine, sugar and cinnamon and it is still good;
4. An awesome touch is to add a quince fruit, sliced. It add some flavor to the drink, but most important, the taste of the fruit will be awesome. If you don't have quinces, apples will also work instead, they are related fruits (for exaple if you put quinces instead of apples in a pie, it will be equally good);
5. More spices, for better flavor: add a few clovers. I didn't have some in the house, but a few pieces of dried orange peel are also good;
6. Make the drink richer by adding some (more than in the photo above) raisins and walnuts;
7. Put everything in a kettle and let it over fire until it boils;
8. Stop the fire, let everything sit for a couple of minutes for the flavors to mix, but not longer so it is still hot and pour the result, wine and fruits, in a mug (ceramic, to keep the drink warm or glass like here to see the awesome colors);
9. Enjoy it while still hot.

• ASLR of mmap allocations
• ASLR of text/exec area
• ASLR of vdso
• ASLR of brk area

Stack is already randomized, it should be easy to do the rest! ;)

I’m planning to attend the Neoteny Singapore Launch, with 2 days of unconference including some of the most high quality people in Asia hashing out the future. Also, if coming (or not), don’t forget to order a copy of Joi and Christopher’s book, Freesouls. I’m going to order a couple of copies as gifts this year. Hey, I’m in the book and so many of our friends too!

From the website:

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Saigon is now a favorite city. Amazing place. Amazing people. You can see the network.

So much has happened and so little time to write about it all. I’ll see you all after the jump!

Here is my altered version of Isa's Vegan Chocolate Brownies. Remember, I'm not vegan. I'm just avoiding egg.

Ingredients

Ingredient Group 1
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cold water
12 oz extra firm silken tofu (usually one box)

Ingredient Group 2
1 cup 60% Cacao bittersweet chocolate chips
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup oil

Ingredient Group 3
3/4 cup Hershey's Special Dark cocoa powder
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup high-gluten flour (for more chewiness)
1/4 whole wheat flour (for a denser brownie)
3/4 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

Directions

Start by setting your oven to 350 to preheat.

In a glass bowl, use an electric wand mixer to puree the tofu, flour, and water in ingredient group 1 until smooth. If you don't have a wand mixer, you can use a blender and then pour the ingredients into the bowl. Seat the bowl on top of a pan of boiling water (double-boiler) and periodically whisk until the mixture is hot and begins to thicken (about 10 minutes).

Whisk in the chocolate chips, sugar, vanilla, and salt. You can put the bowl in the refrigerator to cool, stirring occasionally, or if you're impatient, you can put the bowl in an ice bath and cool it down more quickly. When the mixture is cooled to a bit below room temperature, stir in the oil.

Sift together the ingredients in group three, and fold the tofu mixture in until everything is well combined. I like my brownies thin (more surface-to-frosting ratio), so I spread the mix in a large greased aluminum baking pan, though some like a 9x13 cake pan.

Cook at 350 farenheit for 30-45 minutes (less if you're using the large pan, more if you're using the smaller pan) until you can stick in a knife and have it come out clean. Let cool, cut and enjoy.

If you want to frost the brownies, their chocolate frosting recipe is a good place to start. Not being Vegan, I used Crisco shortening and whole milk. I also stirred a handful of dark chocolate chips into the melted shortening right after melting it (letting it melt them) and opted for no almond extract (because I hate the smell of almond extract). I added the sugar a little bit at a time and warmed the milk, because using cold milk or the whole 3 cups of sugar caused the frosting to sieze. In the end, because of the melted chocolate chips adding body about 2-2.25 cups of powdered sugar got me a wonderfully thick consistency and a little bit of gloss.

If you're in the mood to take it a step further, you can use this chocolate chip banana bread pudding recipe, substituting these brownies (unfrosted) for the bread. I used about 2 pounds of day-old brownies (the recipe makes about 2.5 pounds) instead of 1 pound of stale bread, whole milk instead of a vegan milk substitute, and tapioca flour as my thickener/binder. Serve it warm with some vanilla ice cream (most low-to-mid-price brands use gums and soy lecithin instead of eggs). It made my wife fall in love with me all over again.

Happy Eating!

It's a tower defense game with lots of degrees of difficulty, different maps, and you can spend points earned in the games to buy upgrades like increasing the speed of fire of your rocket launchers or increasing the strength of your guns. You play again and again, gradually beefing up your strength so you can complete more and more difficult levels.

But what if you want to get your fire rates or bullet strength up to massive levels without having to spend all that time accumulating the necessary points? I Googled for cheat codes, but all I found were game sites saying they didn't have any yet.

I'm not an Android developer, but I had seen a file on my microSD card with the filename "robo_defense_full.bak". I decided to look at the guts to see if it could be used. Loading it up in a plain text editor showed some odd characters. I wasn't sure what it all meant. So I opened it up in a hex editor (using HexFiend for Mac).

Of course, the "Edit this file at your own risk!" at the beginning was fun, but I decided to poke around. as I did, I noticed that all of the upgrades were listed (as Rewards). On the line marked 456 on the screenshot above, you'll see an entry start: ADReward:Faster Antiair Reloadw.........t. But if you look at the hexadecimal information to the left, those dots are represented as 08 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 16. The number 16 in hexadecimal is 22 in decimal, which is the level my Faster Antiair Reload was at. As I went through the file, the pattern was the name of the reward, then the 8 dots represented by 08 00 00 00 02 00 00 00, then a hex code with the level I was at.

I made a backup copy of the file, just in case I screwed things up, then I changed a number of my levels, randomly picking levels between 55 and 99. I saved the file and then uploaded it to my microSD card, replacing the original. I unmounted the card and ran the game. No dice.

I deleted the game and its internal data files, then downloaded it again from the Android store (using the "my downloads" option on the menu). No dice.

So I tried wiping the file from my SD card and deleting the game, then redownloading the game and seeing if I could get it to start from zero. That worked and it created a new robo_defense_full.bak file. I erased that and replaced it with my hacked version.

When I started the game again, I had bullets at level 154, explosives at 104, antiair reload at 119, etc. I could basically play level 80 with a couple of rocket launchers and a couple of antiair guns because I pretty much killed everything the moment it came on screen. Sadly, now that there was no challenge, the ability to win the game with a handful of towers got old fast. The game I'd spent hours and hours playing was now a bore.

So, if you're bound and determined to cheat, I've just told you how. But hopefully, you'll view this account as a cautionary tale and choose not to do it.

That was a lot of work and a lot of hassle.

Then I found someone recommending CampTune. It's a free download and "pre-release" but it works fine. It's a working Linux ISO file you can download and burn to a CD-ROM with your favorite disc creator package (or Disk Utility).

Once it's burned, hop into System Settings, choose the "Startup Disk" option, and set your machine to boot from CD-ROM next time. Boot from the CD you burned and you'll go into CampTune, which has a very simple interface for changing the respective sizes of your Mac and BootCamp partitions.

When you're done, everything should work as normal, although if you created a VM in Parallels or VMWare to use your Bootcamp partition inside OS X, you may need to recreate the VM.

That's it. Pretty simple, huh?

Don't be scared off by the "pre-release" status. It's been that way for over a year now and I think Paragon just decided the market for people wanting to resize their BootCamp partition wasn't big enough to charge for it after all, so they just left a good release candidate up as the free download and moved on to other projects. It worked well for me.

As always, don't mess with the internal structure of your hard drive without having made backups first.

Good luck! Have fun!

1. You never know when they'll have Triscuits (my wife's favorite cracker). Sometimes they do, most times not, and this drives us into the arms of WalMart because they have the best prices on Triscuits for normal consumer size packaging.
2. In 6 years, they haven't carried a decent brand of salami that didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. I'm just not a fan of Italian salami and they seem bound and determined to keep expanding their selection of Italian lunch meats and Italian-branded lunch meats like turkey breast and pastrami from Columbus meats.

Why is it that they have like 8 types of Italian salami in the Everett Costco, but nothing simple and domestic? I get the worst aftertaste from Italian salami. I'd kill for them to simply carry Oscar Mayer hard salami or the same hard salami I can get in the deli case at Safeway.

I understand that products come and go, but on my last visit, in the premium lunch meat aisle there were the Kirkland lunch meats and then all the other lunch meat and salami were Italian or from Italian meats companies. Even their pastrami and turley breast were from Columbus. What gives?

I love Costco. My dad got me a membership when I went off to college 23 years ago and I've been a member ever since. But this obsessions with Italian meats in the deli section has got to stop. Give us some good old, plain old salami. No fancy imported stuff. I'd love some kosher chubs I could hang to dry in my kitchen, but failing that, just something along the lines of simple, domestic hard salami like Oscar Mayer.

Thanks Costco!

I use iTunes to manage my music collection, both stuff purchased from iTunes as well as my older MP3 rips from CD and MP3s I've purchased or received free from Amazon.com. A while back, iTunes moved to a DRM free format for most new purchases and you could upgrade older purchases for 30 cents a song. The Moment will play the DRM free AAC format (M4A) from iTunes. But there's one problem, the built-in music player on the Moment, as well as two others I tried, will not recognize the information tags in the M4A format. Fear not, though...

CONVERTING ITUNES M4A TO MP3

Go to the Preferences pane for iTunes. In the "General" page (main page), go to the section that lets you specify what to do when you insert a CD. There, it has a button for "Import Settings". The default is iTunes AAC format, but you can set it to MP3. Once you've done that (you can also specify a variety of bitrates and other info), you can go into your music library, right-click on any song that's listed as "Purchased AAC" format ("Protected AAC" still has DRM), and convert it to MP3. You can highlight a large number of songs and perform this right-click action to batch convert them.

After this, I found that the three Android music players (the built-in one, MixZing, and one I can't recall) I tried would not read ID3 v2.x tags as iTunes wrote them. I ended up deciding to use MixZing because it handled the index display of videos as well as music and was better than the "Gallery" built-in video player that just shows you icons with no titles.

To import my music and my iTunes playlists, I found that DoubleTwist worked very well. It recognized my Samsung Moment and imported my iTunes Playlists with ease. It generated .m3u playlist format lists that the Samsung could understand, and dragging the playlist to the Samsung in the program took care of importing the playlist and all the associated music files.

A Playlist Caveat

If you want to import existing playlists, you're going to have to update them with any files you converted, otherwise they'll still sync the m4a version of the song to your phone. This isn't terrible. It still plays. It just comes up as "Unknown Artist" from "Unknown Album" with "Unknown Title". So if you're just shuffling your playlists and never look at the song info, who cares? if you want to know the name of the song/artist that's playing or play a specific song, then you need to convert the songs and fix up the playlists.

Two downsides. One, it will not convert/unprotect videos from iTunes that have DRM. So, for example, the free episodes I got of "Handy Manny" and "WordWorld" on iTunes won't play on my phone without some additional and illegal massaging. On the other hand, the music videos that came with the "Madagascar 2" soundtrack got upgraded to DRM-Free when I did the big batch of upgrades. So the will.i.am "I Like to Move It" music video transferred over and plays beautifully on the Moment's AMOLED screen.

Second downside is the way it handles podcasts. Rather than separating them out, they're incorporated into the music catalog. So, my "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me" audio podcasts are found under the album of the same name with "NPR" as the artist. As for my "Sesame Street" video podcasts (for my 4-year-old), they only come up in the "Movies" section under the general "iTunes" heading. They're not in the "Movies" or "TV Shows" lists, so they can be a little hard to find.

On an upside note, if you give a YouTube video URL to DoubleTwist, it will download the Flash .flv file of the YouTube video to your hard drive. Putting the files on your Moment can take a while, though, because it re-encodes the videos into an MP4 format before transferring them. Since the Moment works with YouTube, this is only valuable for being able to watch YouTube videos when you don't have an internet connection (like when you're on a plane) or you're in a poor coverage area. I'd love to know if any of you have suggestions for a quicker method for downloading and converting YouTube videos, or a faster .flv to mp4 conversion method.

It also seems to do the conversion on the fly, so if you're rotating videos in and out and back in again, you may want to use a separate converter to do a permanent conversion from the Flash .flv file format to one your Moment can play. I tried transcoding with VLC and that was difficult to produce a video VLC could play back, much less my Samsung Moment. Quicktime Player's "Save For Web" option in the file menu worked very well. I selected the "save for iPhone" option and it created a good quality m4v file that my Moment would play.

I also copied over some other videos I had in other formats (collected over the years) directly to the card. I was able to play the .wmv and .avi format videos, but not the .mpg. Of course, these formats can have various underlying codecs, so don't take that as a blanket statement, but it's a decent place to start. Of course, if videos won't play on your Moment, but will play in Quicktime, you should be able to use the "Save For Web" function to convert them to a format your Moment will handle.

Hope this information helps you. Cheers!

First, I think we need a better term than "bug report". The way we use launchpad, "bug report" is a broad term which could include everything from a packaging change request to a support request to a plain old complaint. Let's just consider those bug reports which describe a distinct, confirmed breakage of the software in question. In software quality circles the term "Defect Report" is used, and that sounds suitable.

Lots of people have written about how to make a good bug report, but in thinking about it there's one thing above all which defines a good report: The original reporter is not needed for any further work on the bug. In other words, all the data necessary to characterize the bug is there, it's pretty clear what has broken, and the steps to reproduce it are known so we can verify the fix solves it. If there are bug reporting guidelines or troubleshooting procedures for the software package in question, they've been followed.

If you think about how often we have to ask the original reporter to supply more information, try testing some configuration variations, and so on, you realize that a lot of bug reports don't meet this criteria! In fact, if you think about it, these really are what you'd call support requests... where the (implied) request is for support in how to craft a valid defect report. ;-)

Steve Langasek cut down a walnut tree in his yard and gave me the wood. Apparently hardwoods require 4 years to dry after slicing into boards. Maybe I can turn it into some nice toys for Dutch one day.

Just got the new Inkscape book. Dutch says he thinks it's great and all but does it remove red eye?

The news is significant as it reflects the interest in open-source alternatives to the proprietary microblogging services that currently dominate the market in the consumer and enterprise communities.

Also, please read the big news about Status.Net closing another round of investment which allows for myself, Brion, Evan and more all work on such a great project.

Businesses shut down. Productivity slows to a halt. Shopping malls are so full of people they’re bursting at the seems. These are just some of the ideas brought to mind as the end of the year approaches and a new Holiday Season is upon us.

A source of stress, at times, the Holidays can also be a time of togetherness and unity for people. Clip art images by liftarn (above) and bloodsong (below) beautifully demonstrate how simple and effective imagery can articulate these same feelings.

Vector graphics have also been stylistically implemented by mcol’s Christmas tree in the spirit of the Holiday Season.

The Open Clip Art Library is always evolving and welcomes contributions from everyone around the world.

Clip Art of the month is sponsored by Worldlabel.com, a multifunctional label manufacturer.

If you just want the solution...

After looking for drivers, doing various experiments, and getting feedback from others with the same problem, I just hunted for any and all settings having to do with USB and one finally worked. It may not be perfect, but this seems to help.

Go into Settings -> Applications -> Development on your phone's main menu.

Turn on USB debugging ("Debug mode when USB is connected"). It will recognize that a USB connection now exists.

A widget will pop up on your Mac saying it's recognized a network device and will want to install the phone as a modem. Don't worry about it. It's a red herring. I never configured that, never connected that.

Go into "Notifications" from the phone's main menu and you'll see a notification under "Ongoing" that says "USB Connected (select to copy files to/from your computer)". Touch it.

You'll get a dialogue with the title "USB Connected" and the text "You have connected your phone to your computer via USB. Select 'Mount' if you want to copy files between your computer and your phone's SD card." It offers options of "Mount" and "Don't Mount". Touch "Mount".

A removeable drive will appear in Finder called "No Name". That's your Micro SD card and you can begin copying files. You'll need to unmount the card for applications on the phone to have access to it. I created a folder called "Music" in the DCIM folder, put a couple of MP3s in there and I'm listening to them now.

Don't know if this will work with Snow Leopard's built-in sync program or third party sync programs, but I'm happily able to move media back and forth which is HUGE for me.

I'll be researching this and trying to figure out how to get my Android phone and Mac laptop to see each other. In the meantime, I figured I'd set a placeholder blog post now so it can get indexed into the search engines. Perhaps if anyone else finds a solution before I do, they'll stumble upon this page and leave a comment with some useful information.

Update: The Next Evening:

If you read the comments below, you'll see some of the things I tried. A USB mounting program still required the phone to recognize that a USB connection existed, which it didn't.

I hooked it to a WinXP laptop and got the two to see each other without a problem, transferred some files. So it's a problem with the Mac or some miscommunication with the Mac.

The image above is a screen cap of my system profiler app. It shows that my Macbook Pro is seeing the phone, identified as SAMSUNG_Android, but the phone isn't seeing the machine. I've rebooted the phone with the machine connected to it. I've rebooted the machine with the phone connected to it. Still I can't get the phone to recognize that it's connected to a computer.

It's definitely getting current via the connection. I charged it from 60% to full via the USB connection to my Mac.

I've posted a query to the community forums at Sprint's site. We'll see if we get a a response.

Update: Sunday Morning:

The thread over at the Sprint forums has delivered in part. We've determined it's not the Mac hardware because other respondents in the thread have been able to pair it up with Windows and Linux running in virtual machines on their MacBook Pro laptops. So there's some incompatibility occurring with Android and Snow Leopard.

So the question is whether the phone's software needs to be patched, whether Snow Leopard needs to be patched, or if (as I'm hoping), there's a simple config change you can make on OS X that will solve the problem. We'll see.

Update: Sunday Night:

SOLVED! I was going deep through the Moment's menus and found a kludge/workaround that is at least getting the phone to recognize a connection exists and giving me the external drive functionality so I can transfer files back and forth through the USB connection without having to pull the battery, pull the Micro SD card, and plug the card into a reader/adapter.

How to Connect your Samsung Moment to your Mac

The one thing was, instead of potato chunks (like Taco Bell) or french fries (like just about everywhere else), they served tater tots (calling them "Mexi Fries"), and my older boy loved to get a kid-size quesadilla and tater tots from them. Since he could no longer have Taco Time tater tots, I thought I'd console him by trying my hand at a recipe I'd only heard of in hushed whispers, a dish that can drive a cardiologist to acts of violence... Tater Tot Casserole. It's the holy grail of fat and starch, and I was pretty sure my kid would love it.

Here are the components:

Equipment:

2.5 quart covered casserole dish
mixing bowl
spoon

Ingredients:

2 lb. bag of frozen tater tots
10 ounce can of condensed cream of potato soup
16 ounce tub of sour cream
6 oz can of french fried onions
2 cups of shredded cheese (packed)
3 bun length hotdogs
1 tablespoon canola oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary
1/2 teaspoon onion powder

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Put the oil in the casserole dish and use a paper towel to spread it around the bottom and sides of the dish.

Quarter the hotdogs lengthwise and dice into 1/4 inch bits.

In a mixing bowl, combine the sour cream, soup, half the cheese, half the fried onions, the salt, the pepper, the onion powder, the rosemary, and the hotdog bits.

Create a single layer of tater tots in the bottom of the casserole, laying them lengthwise, and try to fit in as many as you can. Spoon the sour cream mixture over that, creating a fairly even layer.

Cover the sour cream layer with the remaining tots and press them in gently. Cover the tots with the remaining cheese in an even layer. Cover the cheese with the remaining french fried onions in an even layer.

Cover the casserole with its lid and put it in the oven for 1 hour. After 1 hour, remove the lid and let bake for another 10 or so minutes to gently brown the french fried onions on top.

Remove from oven and allow to cool for a few minutes, then serve. It's best if you mash all the bits together once it's on the plate so all the flavors get distributed around. It also stands up well to reheating in the microwave.

Enjoy!

"Requirements: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, or Linux. If you are having trouble with the Linux version, try the Windows version, it usually works better."

That said I am also convinced that someone with the right skills could do the port in about 30 minutes or so. Which is the reason for this blog post. Is there anyone out there who would be willing to cook up a patch for me to port Transmageddon to gtkbuilder? (Its written in Python). If so please grab either the latest release or check out git master from GNOME git.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

Update: Multiple patches received, much appreciated. I will use weekend to try to merge

Cranking in China on big things! I found at the shanzhai market a stack of stickers used to make knock-off products and had fun converting my phones and other people’s electronics to other devices today.

Web Wednesday Guangzhou massive fun, great work to http://kudelabs.com for great event organizing and more!

please consider supporting the producer and the movie http://nastyoldpeople.org

The story of Mette:

Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four crazy old people that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until she one night assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong, and in company with the her crazy oldies she longs for respect and love. She can tell that the old folks are marginalized by the modern society, but together they create a world and a voice of their own.

Trailer:

Get the movie:

Nasty Old People is available to download as a torrent file from either THE PIRATE BAY or by using THIS LINK

Movie license:

Nasty Old People has the Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA. This means that you don't need to ask for permission to copy, share or remix this film, as long as you mention the people that have produced this movie (you do this by linking to http://www.nastyoldpeople.org/, as long as you don't use it for commercial purposes and as long as you allow others to remix your remixes. Also, you have to link to the original license.

Android is an island of its own, and useful code sharing is largely limited to the kernel.

At Collabora Multimedia we are currently working with both Maemo and Android systems and while I can see the appeal of Android from a phone makers perspective I can’t help but be a little saddened by how worthless it is to the general linux eco-system. One of the things I always loved about Nokia’s Maemo effort is that since its using so many of the standard components that we use on the Linux Desktop, it means that when a feature is added or a bug is fixed in Maemo, it directly helps also the linux desktop. Nokia and Maemo has had a strong and direct impact on a lot of open source projects, ranging from GStreamer, D-bus, GTK+, Telepathy, Matchbox, X Window System and more. And Nokia’s work on Qt going forward will of course have a direct impact on the quality of KDE.

Android on the other side has a much more marginal impact. I know they have contributed some patches to Webkit, but apart from that they offer little value to the rest of the linux eco-system. Been even told by some kernel developers that an Android kernel driver is about as immediately useful for the mainstream kernel as a FreeBSD or OpenSolaris driver. Meaning that porting is needed.

So for me personally I can’t help but feel a lot more positive about Maemo (or Moblin for that matter as they too share the same kind of philosophy as Maemo) and getting a N900 is definitely on my TODO list. That said Android is a work in progress and hopefully we can get them to abandon their essentially proprietary stack going forward and instead incorporate more and more shared libraries with the server and desktop. Maemo has proved that for a smartphone these libraries works just as well as Googles homebrew. Some of the efforts we are involved with are pushing in that direction and hopefully Google will realize that the secret to the success of open source is synergy.

جون فيليبس يعمل في مجال التطوير الإجتماعي والإقتصادي. وقد شارك في عام 2002 في إطلاق أداة الرسم مفتوحة المصدر إنكسكيب ( inkscape) وقام بتأسيس مكتبة الرسومات العامة Open Clip Art. وقد قام بين عامي 2005 و 2008 بالعمل كمسؤول تطوير اقتصادي وعلاقات عامة لمؤسسة المشاع الإبداعي ( Creative Commons )، وهو حالياً زميل للمنظمة. كما أنه يعمل على تطوير شركة الإعلام فابيركاتورز ( Fabricatorz )، ومعارض ( Cantocore ) للفن، وأنظمة صوت ليوبان، كما يشارك في إطلاق مشروع بيئة التدوين المصغر (Status.Net). كما أنه مشهور ببناء علاقات عمل دولية من خلال قيامه بتطوير نظم إقتصادية حديثة في آسيا وخاصة في الصين، كما يسوق لمفاهيم التسويق المنفتح.

Oh, if you can’t see the above, you need to install some language packs. Here is how you can do markup right-to-left.

She had heard about Mac, but the problem was that she used some software for her business which was not supported on Mac, which they used to generate labels for products they sold. She was going to check if the software was supported on Ubuntu. I'm not holding my breath.

This is sort of a fascinating niche... people who desperately WANT to change, and most likely would be totally happy with Ubuntu, but they're trapped on windows, locked in by a simple business app.

I don't think this is a very small niche, either. Think of the many small companies built around some pencil ordering app, or that use some wonky windows app to operate their machine tools, or etc.

I suppose every one of us has run up against someone in this niche. Uncle Harry at last year's Christmas party, or that guy you sat next to on the train, or your best friend from college.

This niche seems much like the gamer niche, stuck in a chicken-and-egg situation. The app is developed for Windows because that's what people use. People stay on Windows because that's what the app was developed to run on.

How do we break that cycle and enable these people to gain their freedom?