Archive for January, 2006

The mactel transition

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

The long awaited transition has been done…

In his blog, James Gosling, the father of Java, said that the new JVM and everything else worked flawlessly. This is the catch: EVERYTHING JUST WORKS!

Imagine now the games that have been written for Windows, using OpenGL: they could run in MacOS X x86. And wine could also be modified to run on MacOS X.

Maybe this is the end of DirectX?

Google Maps and GPS idea!

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

I had a revelation blah,blah,blah..

This came to me today: some of us have cellphones or PDAs with GPS. We can use it and repost our coordinates every once in a while in a site.

We call our friends to register to the site and create different groups of friends (based on location, hours we want them to see where we are etc. etc.) that can access our coordinates information and be presented with our current location using Google Maps…

I think it’s fun!!

What I want for the new year…

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
  1. Skype 2.0 for Linux (that supports GTK2, for God’s sake…)
  2. A lighter KDE (although KDE 3.5 is a step to the right direction)
  3. A new MacIntel laptop
  4. Stable and working Linux for my Dell Axim X30 PDA
  5. To start a PhD

My sourcecode

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

I have started to add my small programs. I have a lot more, but only this small fraction is supposed to be really bug-free and fully working.

In time, more will be added and I will notify of any changes.