Jun 26 2011

No Nokia lovin’ for MeeGo

It’s sad to see Nokia go the way of Win­dows Phone 7. Which is not to dis­count Microsoft’s mobile oper­at­ing sys­tem, I’ve used it and it is actu­ally a really great OS. But Sym­bian had a great fol­low­ing of mobile devel­op­ers, its sad they couldn’t have made Sym­bian a rival to the cur­rent breed of OSs, or at least tran­si­tion their focus to MeeGo. With Nokia not own­ing there own stack, it seems like they will sim­ply go the way of all the other hard­ware man­u­fac­tures, which is unfor­tu­nate because they have been one of the big inno­va­tors in the mobile soft­ware space. I would hope that they can con­tribute sig­nif­i­cantly to WP7, but we will see how that part­ner­ship goes. The N9 gave me a glim­mer of hope, espe­cially with my friend Igor say­ing that he had a great time with it:

http://igorskee.com/hands-on-with-nokia-n9-great-ui-screen-and-br#!/

Read­ing this arti­cle today was really dis­ap­point­ing though:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/25/nokias-stephen-elop-is-still-over-meego-even-if-the-n9-is-a-hi/

Why even bother releas­ing the phone when they have no inten­tion to carry on with it? At least if they sup­ported both WP7 and MeeGo they would have mul­ti­ple options. We’ll see if there bets pay off. I for one think that aban­don­ing MeeGo is a huge mis­take — they could have had a great OS with a sea of Sym­bian devel­op­ers to kick start them to suc­cess. It will be fun to see how this all plays out in the next few years.

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Apr 14 2011

Any ideas for what I can do with my barely used (although new) desktop?

A few months ago, my Mac­book Pro bit the dust, and I des­per­ately needed a com­puter. The new Mac­book Airs came out, but I was con­vinced that a Mac­book Pro 13″ was per­fect for me. I waited many months, only to be sorely dis­ap­pointed at the lat­est upgrade. If any­thing, with the new graph­ics card, it was almost a step down. And sure, Thun­der­bolt is cool, but is there any prac­ti­cal rea­son to have it now? No. I opted to get a Mac­book Air, and I def­i­nitely don’t regret my deci­sion — hands down the best lap­top I have owned. The weight + SSD makes a killer combination.

But before I got my Mac­book Air, I decided on box­ing day to build my own desk­top. I had never done it com­pletely from scratch, and I fig­ured I could get some sick deals, have fun putting it together, and have a desk­top until the new Mac­book Pros were revealed. Plus hav­ing a desk­top would be great any­ways, to play around with some dis­tros of Linux, and use it for a media server. But right now, I find that it is heav­ily unused. I have no media strate­gies, and I don’t use it for backup because I think using a desk­top HDD has a backup solu­tion is silly — since the disk would be con­stantly pow­ered, increas­ing the risk of fail­ure. I actu­ally am using it as a proxy server for my cousin in Aus­tralia so he can watch the Canucks games on CBC, but other then that, its not used for much! I am too busy to play games right now, and while it plays Star­craft 2 at Ultra, that is not much use to me.

So, peo­ple who read this blog, any prac­ti­cal ideas for my desk­top? Besides what I use it for, the occa­sional gam­ing, and proxy server, what are some other great uses for the machine?

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