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teamgit task manager

06 Oct 2008
Posted by bain

I am going to start designing a task manager for teamGit, while i keep adding features to git side of the application.
Hopefully i will be able to zero down on a good interface.

The immediate aim will be to start maintaining teamGit related tasks from teamgit itself.

v2 wrist watch phone

25 Sep 2008
Posted by bain

My about section is partially factual now, i really am getting interested in digital watches.
i just baught V2 wrist watch mobile phone.... :p
Detailed review will follow in few days. 

The video doesn't play on youtube, will check and reupload when i get chance.Update 5th oct: Video is up but is a bit low quality
Update 5th oct: Better quality uploaded

 

KDE and linux contrib

18 Sep 2008
Posted by bain

On the same note as previous post

How much does KDE team (or trolltech for that matter)contribute to all this plumbing?

Doesn't KDE team fit in linux ecosystem?

Posted by bain

GregKH in his keynote at LPC was just too hard on canonical.

I like ubuntu, and may be they don't contribute to upstream core plumbing.
But as linus himself said some time in past. Most of the interesting things will
now happen in desktop and not kernel.
And canonical is certainly doing it.

Plus the active contribution by making linux available to lot more individual
users, results in lot more contribution to kernel itself.

Three cheers for canonical

Posted by bain

First few tests out in wild (with few friends and family) showed that i am such a pathetic ui designer.
I have delayed the release till i fix few of the obvious usability issues.
e.g.
Making open button first one rather than new, since thats the one you
should be using most often. Infact i will be moving "new" to tools
rather than file.

LHC operational tom.

09 Sep 2008
Posted by bain

Mankind now has an ability to accidentally end earth and possibly the solar system. (Although admittedly chance is small, a lot smaller than many other disaster scenarios. Though its the first man made one i think.)

A though can we make plans for using it in case of large asteroid coming our way? or may be MBH's are just too small and unpredictable.

Posted by bain

I guess now that laptop prices are actually smaller than the mobile phone prices at about equivalent functional value, we can term this period as a singularity in techTime(TM).

iPhone is big failure

20 Aug 2008
Posted by bain

With 31000 minimum price tag i can't fathom who will buy it since we get unlocked version for 21000

Heh!!!!

Posted by bain

I have decided to go ahead and announce teamgit to git mailing list withotu the rebase and merge support,

I will have to polish it a bit first and then announce it later this week.

(In)secure by default

18 Aug 2008
Posted by bain

I was wondering (yet again!!!) just like the spam problem rant i had few months back, why isn't all communication is encrypted yet?

I mean we had the technology, now we have the processing power and even implementations. Its really not difficult (technically) to set up a secure channel these days.
All you have to do is create a certificate for yourself and the other party and use it. Boom so easy.

I can't fathom the fact that our email clients still don't have button saying "establish a secure channel with this contact". how hard is this? why can't address books integrated with keyring managers? why are address books and vcards still existing anyway? aren't they just keyring managers?
Damn........ i am angry