I love VirtualBox

Browser's tabs

Firefox 4 (release planned for Nov'10)

Opera 10.50 (currently alpha version)

You know how google chrome looks like from it's very beginning =)

Links as a measure of backward compatibility of webapps.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
A pretty long article which one sentence summary can be: Windows had lost a lot by loosing backward compatibility and creating lots of new API stuff.
While reading I've thought how I like programming in vacuum or at least programming company inside stuff. I don't have to care of IE6, of specific configuration of shared hosting server, etc.
I consider HTML5 offline storage a great idea, but if you want to build an offline webapp not only for yourself and for geeks, but for a broader audience, for now you have to implement google gears also. You cannot rely on HTML5 <audio> and <video> support, you have to add flash as an alternative player.
If you want to build an every day use webapp for thousands or millions of people you have to support not only disabled images and, but also users without javascript (and even better without html rendering and having cookies disabled).
Gmail works, needs only cookies. Looks perfect in Links

You also can try yahoo mail with disabled javascript. In firefox it looks pretty funny, huh. (page is reloading every second and html is rendering half a second.) In Links it looks at least usable.

Hotmail also works with disabled javascript, but... you would need javascript to sign in. So it was not tested in Links.

I am talking about Links web browser. I really believe all webapps and web pages with vitally important content, should be accessible from this web browser.

But NEVER ever tell this too people writing technical requirements!! =)

OpenOffice

BTW I have seen people and companies using OpenOffice on Windows because Windows comes with a computer or usually a laptop and MSOffice is not a free product.
Even in Belarus! =)

Email

Hotmail enabled pop not so far ago, it was disabled for a long time. Forwarding to non-hotmail address is not possible.
Yahoo allows you to enable pop and forwarding for $20 per year.
Gmail allows you everything for free. Except the thing the world is scared by recent Eric Schmidt's words on privacy (If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.).
In addition the first two have banners as opposed to gmail's context text adds. Let's see what would be when gmail reaches the market share of the first two.
August09's statistics on email services market share is yahoo 106 mln, hotmail 47 mln and gmail 37 mln.

p.s. Tut.by had switched to gmail. But it has banners on top in addition to context adds. Yandex mail seems to have no adds, but still it sucks.

Linux malware example

A great example of linux desktops vulnerability: Malware Hidden Inside Screensaver On Gnome-Look.
Yes, you still need to install it with root privileges, but you can do it not even imagining what a security hole you are actually making.

twit

Google wave is embedded into this post.

Wine software I use

Из виндовых программ, которые бывает нужно или иногда хочется использовать, под вайн идут:
cityinfo 2.6.1 (2.7 не пойдет)
ms office 2003
photoshop cs2, photoshop elements 7
firefox (бывает надо выдать себя за винду)
ie (google for ies4linux)
foobar2000 (я его не использую, но по-моему больше ничего не совмещает три вещи: linux, проигрывание ape, usability)

My ubuntu's sources.list

# /etc/apt/sources.list and sum of files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

# common karmic repos at the nearest mirror
deb http://ftp.mgts.by/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ftp.mgts.by/ubuntu/ karmic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ftp.mgts.by/ubuntu/ karmic-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ftp.mgts.by/ubuntu/ karmic-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ftp.mgts.by/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted universe multiverse

# adobe-flashplayer and symphony (lotus symphomy)
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ karmic partner

# google-chrome-unstable and picasa
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main non-free
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing main non-free

# googleearth and skype (currently install from this repo is not working for me)
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free

# wine (currently the latest package is called wine1.2)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

# opera
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free


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