Looking out for something tasty? Patries would be an awesome treat
indeed. Especially you love cream puffs and eclairs like I do. I
suppose Google’s development team for Android want to tempt us with
something sweet and tasty just like eclairs, hence the name for
Android 2.0 ; )
What’s in store for us in ‘Eclair’ or Android 2.0?
Those who work in companies whose emails are managed by Microsoft
Exchange servers will be happy to note that Eclair is said to ship
with support for MS Exchange. Probably a good enough reason for some
to consider getting a new Android 2.0 powered smartphone.
Some …read more

Want better video playback on Linux? Can you code? There will be a hackfest this November in Barcelona from November 19-22, 2009. If you can go and join the hackfest because this is something you are personally hacking on, then I think it’s just right that you contact those who are organizing it. Check out this email for more details on how to participate in this particular hackfest. This is all about making X, Cairo and GStreamer work better to give everyone a better user experience when it comes to videos on Linux. Here’s …read more

Because your netbook doesn’t need to feel sucky! And it could work better for you too!
Sounds like an infomercial, doesn’t it? ;  )  But thinking about what defaults you might possibly have, there’s gotta be something better.  And I might be biased but there really are other things better on netbooks compared to Windows.  Whether you believe it or not, that’s what I personally think.  Windows looks too cluttered for me even though it’s not as sluggish as I thought it would be.
Anyway, no need to freak out that your netbook isn’t quite as fantastic as you thought it should …read more

Some of you might not be familiar with thin clients because you don’t use them at home. For the enterprise, there are thin clients that are mainly for input and output and rely on servers for content, software, etc. One of their suppliers is IGEL Technology. This company has launched their “Linux Universal Desktop firmware” and this adds features in power management, multimedia and virtualization.
What’s the benefit of using their firmware?

Power saving
It allows them to have the IGEL thin clients go into standby mode and back on in seconds. This means that it won’t take long for …read more

OSCON 2009 will be held this July 20-24 in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center. It seems that they’re expecting 3,000+ people at the event from different backgrounds who share the same interest: Open Source Software. Hopefully this will be a good time to meet the software developers our favorite open source applications and learn from them.
A sample of topics:

Perl 6: Why? What? How?, Damian Conway, Thoughtstream
Introduction to Google App Engine, Joe Gregorio Google
How to Write Your Own Eclipse Plug-ins, Beth Tibbitts, IBM
Django in the Real World, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django
What You …read more

The wait is over for Fedora fans as Fedora 11, named Leonidas, because it has been released. You could start with the downloads already. You could get it from the Fedora Project’s download page. There are install CDs and live ones too.
Nifty features:

20-second boot-up. How much faster could boot-up times go? But a 20-second boot-up would be nice.
Automatic fonts and Mime installer. If you’re not familiar with the file format, it’s ok. You could try opening it and you will be prompted if you want to search for the application that will open it. …read more

Just 9 more days before its release, I am sure Fedora users are more than excited to get the distro up and running on their computers. If you’re one of the brave ones who will try the pre-release version, here’s the link to the download page of all the options you’ve got for downloading Fedora 11’s pre-release version
PlanetOSS even has a review of Fedora 11’s pre-release. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols listed down Fedora’s 5 best features even.
On the best features list, I saw that the fast boot up time was included. I saw that on one of the tweets …read more

The name sounds like an expression from some novel, movie or TV show.  (It’s usually “Jumping Jupiter!” or something like that.)  But you get my drift, right?  Ubuntu’s latest release is out! That’s why I expect to check for upgrades really soon.  Though of course, I am still wary as I have no time to fix things this weekend just in case the upgrade does break something.  (You never know, right?)  as much as I’d like to hope, I am still paranoid.
So what’s to expect in Jaunty Jackalope
Some things that I don’t quite look forward to all involve Intel graphic …read more

If this is the first time you’re reading this blog, well, let me welcome you to my space here on everyjoe.com and I hope that you find something useful for you.  I’ve got some how-to’s and some information about fun and geeky stuff here that you might want to check out.
I am not an expert in terms of sys ad skills and stuff like that but I do love using Linux. I am just like one of you who — I am looking for ways to improve the way my computer works while using Linux. And it’s not …read more

If you know women who are excellent in technology, whether it’s game development, software development, consultants and the like, we hope that you talk about them on Ada Lovelace day. It will happen all throughout the blogosphere on March 24, 2009. Many of you might have signed up for this already but for those who haven’t I hopen you’d join me and make a pledge to write on that day.
Writing about women in technology, especially in the free and open source movement will encourage one other as well as show that hey, even if the thinking …read more