Asus Eee PC

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Asus announced that they will start shipping of Eee PC in July/August with 2 different models with 7″ and 10″ screens and 2GB SSD for 15s boot time with price tag: $199 and $299 respectively.

For more information

DIY Segway

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The group of students from Wayland High School, John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science, and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School working with four MIT students succeed to build transportation vehicle similar to Segway.

There is a lot to be done, but at least their effort is working.

For more info see the website.

DANGER(from the website): Segways, like any large machine, can be very dangerous. This site is intended for informational, not instructional, purposes. Attempt/build at your own risk. Be careful!

Here is a tutorial how to bring some of the Vista look  into XP.

This tutorial is for mouse cursors.

Thanks Alan.

Red Hat Developer Studio 1.0 (beta1) is released for download and comments.

Red Hat Developer Studio is a set of eclipse-based development tools that are pre-configured for JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platforms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Linux and windows versions are available.

The size of download (at least for Linux) is 530 MB.

Read installation manual for how to install.

TIP: to run jar archive issue

java -jar <jar archive>

at terminal.

Here is how it looks:

RH Dev Studio screenshot

check it out 

What technology is faster for document printing, Laser? Or Ink-Jet?

Until recently the answer was “Definitely Laser”, but Epson is changing the situation.

Recently they announced that their new SOHO model C120 will print with amazing 37 ppm (pages per minute).

Another plus is that it will cost approximately $90 USD, but be careful and check your TCO.

In short:

[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.

Source.

Virgin America inaugural flight is from New York’s John F. Kennedy International and Los Angeles International Airport to our home base of San Francisco.

Why:

  • Power outlet on every seat
  • MP3’s
  • USB plugs
  • Broadband Internet – soon

NOTE: I’m not an affiliate just passing the info.

After long years of HTML 4 domination is time for change and version 5 of HTML is under way – probably under pressure of whatwg also working on HTML improvement.

Hopefully the two work-groups will merge their efforts in near future.

Most of the old elements will remain, but a lot of new ones is included as:

  • article
  • section
  • header
  • footer
  • nav
  • address
  • aside
  • figure
  • dialog
  • ……

Work in done also in Interactivity, Embedded media etc. There are a lot of new attributes too.

In the Net there are rumors that XP SP3 was released for beta testing together with Vista SP1.

SP3 was scheduled for 2005, but as usual we may receive it in beginning of 2008.

Since a lot of people work in runlevel 3 the previous tip may not work.

So I’ve searched for other solutions found another way of disabling system beep (on tab completion).

Just edit /etc/inputrc

vi /etc/inputrc

and uncomment following line:

# do not bell on tab-completion
set bell-style none

Then after next login system beep on tab completion will be disabled system-wide.

And another one:

as root type:

rmmod pcspkr

This one will remove the module responsible for playing sound on system speaker.

Adding

blacklist pcspkr
in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Should disable the module too, but it is not working for me under CentOS 5 – submitted as bug.

Another one (Hardware):

If you have PC simply open the case and unplug speaker cable from the motherboard.

NOTE: PC speaker could be very usefull when troubleshooting problems so this option is not really recommended.

OR search in your BIOS for option to disable it.

Part I

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