utorrent on macosx !
Something that was long awaited is coming to Mac users - utorrent! If you download torrents then you know what a pain it was on mac. Now things are changing rapidly - currently i am using Transmission which runs natively on leopard. The program is ok, i have used it before in ubuntu, but it definately has some problems with high speed downloads. My favorite torrent client comes from windows - µTorrent. The development of mac version has been ongoing from quite a long time (2 years?), and users have been pretty eager to use the new version. The µTorrent were spammed with questions about when is the mac version going to come out, resulting in moderators locking every single topic that was concerned with the mac :) My advice - to pledge your support go to mac.utorrent.com and show the developer that you are interested! I download lots of torrents and cant wait till the stable release comes out, of and BTW a beta leaked out just recentely - grab it here!
Starbucks in Bulgaria
If you are a coffee drinker, there is some good news for you! I usually brew my own coffee in the morning and to be honest i like my home made brew the best, but i love the different flavors that Starbucks has. Bulgaria is not that far behind in the coffee business. the first one to enter the market was Onda Coffee Break (about 4 years ago), then about two years ago Coffeeheaven followed. While Onda was not that bad, it was not as good as i would like it to be, Coffeeheaven was good but super duper expansive. Now that Starbucks is coming to Bulgaria, i already know that the price is going to be a killer one, but on the other side i think they have the best coffee :) so i cant wait to have my pumpkin spice latte!
are linux flash nightmares over? probably not
Thats a good question, all that time i had to view flash based content in my browser my processor suffered, and i suffered at the same time because the browsing pleasure was very low. On October 15 Adobe released a new flash - version 10. And guess what on the download page there is a direct link for Ubuntu 8.04+! Being a Ubuntu user from a couple of years i was very pleasantly surprised. I removed my old flash install and flawlessly installed the new version. With new versions there is always now hopes for better but not this time :( It crashed on the adobe.com page, second impression it kills my work Ubuntu box that is equipped with AMD Sempron 3000+. Watching a small youtube clip consumed 60 % of my processor resources. So nothing changed, i hope the first crash was just a single accident :)
Amarok on Mac OSX becomes reality
Yes this is true and i confirm it, after long time compiling and having end up compiling something which was totally unusable and ugly i finally got my hand on something which is 10000 time better then awesome -
ubuntu server is going enterprise
Canonicals efforts to popularise the ubuntu server editions have some visable effects - Wikimedia Foundations adopted ubuntu as their server platform! That was something very pleasant for me to see. It definitely proves the reliability that ubuntu provides to is users. There is nothing that they have to proved to me - i use ubuntu from 4 years and i think its great, but there is still a lot to do to convince those hard minded Red Hat and Novell administrators that ubuntu is worth giving a try.
Don’t you hate itunes?
Ok by now i can cay i am a pretty confident mac user, managed to compile some of my open source favorites, as well as got used to some of the mac substitutes for what i used till now. I even bought a mighty mouse to enhance my mac experience (to be honest i don't like the one button idea). But there is this one thing that drives me nuts, its called ITUNES !!! I literally hate this stupid piece of software! I used it the first time when i bought an ipod last year, and i thought it was pretty stupid but then my girlfriend took over the ipod and i didn't get to used it that much. Now that i have a mac i was brutally forced by apple to use their full of bullshit music player! Can't apple admit that people get their music from different sources then just their stupid store ? Screw the stupid DRMs :/ Now i thought this would be pretty simple - you dont like this software then you try something else, right? But for mac there is no something else ! I compiled amarok and used it for a while in X11 but it is unstable, sloooow, and there is no database support :( Well there is nothing left but waiting for the official mac port of amarok2.