dagus.org

I just finished installing  installing Ubuntu hardy 8.04 and it’s far more stable and preforms better than it’s predecessor Gutsy, somethings that i liked so far are,

• Suspends and Hibernate works by default on my T60 with amd propietary drivers.
• Firefox performance kick ass compared with previous versions.
• New intel wireless driver for my 3945 is way more stable than the one in gutsy.
• Compiz-fusion feels more stable and responsive.

Avant-Window-Navigator(AWN) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets. This is a really nice application, not only for the eyecandy, but also for productivity. One of the things i love is that all the applications icons are available in all the workspaces, so if you are working on a workspace and click in an application that’s in an other workspace it will take you to that workspace and show the app. That’s really nice and if you add a 3d cube to that it gets even better :DI’m not actually using it as i disabled compiz-fusion cause it was eating up all my cpu when rendering windows while scrolling and eye candy is nice but it dosen’t worth that much. If you are using ubuntu you can install it like this,

Add the following lines to you /etc/apt/source.list

## AWN
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator

Signature,

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/reacocard.asc
sudo apt-key add reacocard.asc
rm reacocard.asc
sudo apt-get update


Now update repositories,

sudo apt-get update

And now install AWN,

sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr

If you want to start awn when ubuntu starts, do the following,

System > Preferences > Sessions

And add a new entry with the command,

avant-window-navigator

Here you can see a video on how it works,

I love this application, it’s a pity that my video card (I have an ATI X1300) sucks so hard….

This it’s really a step forward, well a big one, i wasn’t expecting this some weeks ago. It’s a pity that lenovo dropped ati cards some time ago. Either way this is just the begging and will cause a lot of movement on the market so lets wait and see what happens.

EDIT: Also on phoronix they are doing a follow up on this story.

Been quite busy with my thesis work and i have not been doing much of the things that i would like…. but well…. Today i found this nice video about django on a google plex presentation, the video is quite nice and there are other videos also interesting (like this one about python 3000). The videos are from the 2006 but still interesting :). This also remembers me how bad the experience of uploading a video to an ipod is…..

Investigating about Amazon S3 (God damn they are cheap!i think they are using recycled paper as storage medium :P) i found this great article of guy explaining REST to his wife, the article is great and it explain some core definitions in a very simple way.

On other news tried Ubuntu 7.10 tribe 3 some weeks ago but rolledback as it’s way too green for me and i don’t have the time to try to fix it. i did not saw such a improve in battery life as a lot of people are saying with tickless kernel, i played with powertop and some of the upcoming gui modifications that will be showing on the next version of ubuntu (they made a winblows-like dialog for screen proprieties management, don’t spend 15 minutes looking for the font configuration app at System > Preferences is not there). I think this will be an other great release of a great Operating System, i just hope my cheap video card manufacturer release a decent driver with AIGLX support, apparently the last version, release today is more of the same crap. Well at least i know i wont be buying AMD any more.