This isn’t for Windows, but for Fedora instead:

Optimizing Desktop Performance, Part III

Normally, we see these types of articles for windows, but now we see Linux desktop distribution start to get more bloated.

I stumbed on this today and it seems pretty interesting. This page has the links for people to subscribe to RSS feeds of the latest Microsoft Knowledge Base articles

There’s been a new search feature that Yahoo has been working on which I’ve been very excited about, but that I couldn’t talk about until now.

Y! Research Lab has just announced that a test version of Mindset is available on Yahoo! Next. What Mindset allows you to do is to decide whether you’re searching for research or more for shopping using a slider to give weight towards one or another.

From http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000114.html

What is Mindset? A new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources).

Sometimes you want to buy stuff and sometimes you just want to do research. In a typical search page, results point to commercial pages that are mixed together with non-commercial pages, so it’s harder to find the type of information you’re looking for. Mindset is our attempt to help solve that problem.

This is a very cool tool that really puts choice back into user’s hands when it comes to search results.

I saw the “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” today and it is definitely the best of the three prequels. Yes, there were some corny dialog, some stiff acting and some of the characters still seemed misplaced, but finally it feels like George Lucas returned to his element and provided the viewer with a epic, sci-fi action flick where the story element is general/simplistic but the world and environment is full so viewers have enough to be able to fill their imagination.

I really like how he links the designs of the vehicles to the original trilogy. One can easily see how they would have evolved from Revenge to Hope.

Yahoo! Messenger latest beta can now be downloaded at http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com. The big thing about this beta is its voice calling capabilty that lets you have voice IM with other users anywhere around the world for free and
drag-and-drop photo and file sharing

Yahoo have been doing a lot with its IM client and it has a lot more feature then I was aware off. It has definitely moved beyond being just for instant messages which is both good and bad (I like small and focus apps^^), but definitely worth a look and to play around with.

Ok, the day is here and this is my obligatory entry on it…

Blah, blah… Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Blah, blah… Yes, I’m going to see it. Blah, blah, that guy who play Anakin is a wuss (doesn’t matter which of the movie you pick). Blah, blah… Natalie Portman is kinda cute.

Now I got that out of the way, I’ll actually go see it today and then back to my regular life. ^^b

I’ve been reading about how blogging is taking over journalism or that some people view individual blogs as equivalent to news. Blogs are not news articles and bloggers are not journalist. It would be like taking someone’s diary entry and calling a news article. I’m sure many bloggers can be journalist, but until blog entries are held to the same ethinical standards and verification they are just people’s subjective opinions.

That said, I do want to point out that since I occasionally post technology stories that I come across and find interesting including those related to Yahoo that I should disclose that I work for Yahoo. ^^

Now that the details are out on the next generation consoles from the top three players let the fight begin! ^^

It looks like modern and slick design is in for the new consoles.

Nintendo’s Revolution:

Sony’s Playstation 3:

Microsoft’s Xbox 360:

Sega’s Dreamcast Xtreme
XXX

Gameboy Micro:

John Dvorak, of PC Magazine fame, has been writing for a long time as a technology industry “insider” and I’m somewhat surprised that he’s still around given how off-the-wall some of his writings are. He recently posted an article where he makes the following statement:

as the Linux community is slowly evolving into a state of mob rule, with the cheerleaders being paranoid crackpot leftovers from the waning days of Amiga

I’m not saying that he’s wrong, but that he’s about 10 years too late in making this observation (actually I think he’s been saying this for 10 years and is just repeating himself). With each OS, editor, whatever, there’s always fanatic advocates so what’s really new?

Another example of how Dvorak tries to keep his relevency is to talk about areas where he obviously have no knowledge of such as video gaming: How the gaming Industry is Killing Itself. I highly doubt that Dvorak plays video games or spends much time in the industry to really know what’s going on.

My old sempai from college finds himself alone since his wife is visiting Taiwan. He makes a good observation that it simply means he’s “alone” and not “single” which is precisely the same situation I’m in this week as Tu is away on a business trip.