{"id":1807,"date":"2008-04-25T22:48:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T01:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2008-04-26T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T19:22:50","slug":"dark-is-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"Dark is the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>here were a couple of interesting things that made it in my reading list, this week:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obviously, you may have heard of the official launch of Ubuntu &#8216;Hardy Heron&#8217; (or if you&#8217;re into version numbering, version 8.04). There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/383769\/hardy-heron-makes-linux-worth-another-look\">lots of praise<\/a> for Ubuntu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Linux-and-Open-Source\/Ubuntu-804-Is-Ready-to-Take-On-Windows\/\">around the Internet<\/a>. The issues I&#8217;ve been dealing with were the sound issues as mentioned in earlier posts. Is Ubuntu ready to take on Windows? Not yet, but, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the point of it: However, without a doubt, Ubuntu (and generally any Linux flavour) breathes new life in your older hardware<sup>1, 2<\/sup>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/71124\/Gravitic-Mayhem\">Metafilter<\/a>, I found a whole set of <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2008\/16\/image\/a\/\">Hubble photos dedictated to galactic collisions<\/a>. The photos are available in different sizes<sup>3<\/sup>\n<\/li>\n<li>The same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/71146\/HP-Calculator-Museum\">Metafilter<\/a> has a link to HP&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calculator.org\/RPN.html\">RPN calculators<\/a>. I had one of those too: they actually work OK, although, yes, you need to get used to it. Earlier this week, I was a kind surprised to find that Gnome&#8217;s calculator doesn&#8217;t have an option to set it to an RPN-mode.\n<\/li>\n<li>InformIT has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.aspx?p=1193856\">interview with Donald Knuth<\/a>. Knuth apparently uses Ubuntu.\n<\/li>\n<li>So, the OLPC (the one laptop per child project) is steering towards making a deal with Microsoft, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olpcnews.com\/people\/negroponte\/negroponte_is_further_gone.html\">possibly hinting at dropping Linux for a Windows XP-based platform<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What else?\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> I must admit that I think FireFox 2.0 should have been part of the 8.04 release: the current FireFox 3.0 has definitely some &#8220;irregularity&#8221; issues.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup> The popularity of Ubuntu apparently is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=8618\">causing slowdowns at the Ubuntu repositories<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/223975main_wildgalaxieslargecollage.jpg\">Related<\/a> (a whole set of interacting galaxies at NASA, all in one picture)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a couple of interesting things that made it in my reading list, this week: Obviously, you may have heard of the official launch of Ubuntu &#8216;Hardy Heron&#8217; (or if you&#8217;re into version numbering, version 8.04). There&#8217;s lots of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1807\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[128,273,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}