Stephen Hawking's Quotations - The Land Salmon :: Lifestyle :: Fashion :: Music :: Design :: Nightlife

Some great quotations from the GREAT mind:

Stephen Hawking's Quotations

Sun Snaps Up Database Firm, MySQL - Forbes.com

Sun Snaps Up Database Firm, MySQL - Forbes.com

now... that's an interesting news. MySQL runs a big chunk of the Internet (think all the "small" hosting businesses), so thins has impact all over, and suddenly, Sun is a big database player.

Get the whole album from Picasa...

Here is a great Bash script (sorry, Windows users... you can still run it under CygWin), which will get contents of the whole Picasa album without using Picasa desktop software. How great is that! You can run it in the background, or just set up a cron jub, and the download all the pics at night.

A Bash Script to Download Entire PicasaWeb Albums

A History of Amiga - Part 5

Here is the next part in the series:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/amiga-history-part-5.ars/1

... and the light at the end of the tunnel gets dimmer :-)

Free Linux eBooks

Learn more about Linux with these (free) e-books:

Free Linux eBooks

Some are short, some are huge, all well worth of your time, if you want to learn more.

A history of the Amiga, part 4: Enter Commodore

Continuation of the history of one of the best personal computers of all time (so far, at least):

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/amiga-history-4-commodore-years.ars

Elections in Poland.

This post is not about IT this time around...
This coming Sunday, there will be Parliamentary Elections in Poland, and more that I can remember, it is very important to vote!!! I can't, because I'm too far, but all that can, should.

I would also like to point to five great articles by Adam Michnik:

http://www.gazetawyborcza.pl/1,82049,4593239.html

http://www.gazetawyborcza.pl/1,82709,4592963.html

http://www.gazetawyborcza.pl/1,75515,4589169.html

http://www.gazetawyborcza.pl/1,82049,4592853.html

http://www.gazetawyborcza.pl/1,82049,4589105.html

Enjoy... contemplate and choose!!!

12 Tips for KDE Users

If you are heave Linux and KDE user, the article below will give you some useful tips on how to maximize your productivity:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/11070_3704311_1

Browser Tests, Services and Compatibility Test Suites | Developer's Toolbox

Testing web sites, especially dynamic ones, is a daunting task. Add various browser incompatibilities to the mix, and your are facing the impossible.
The article below, lists some good testing tools, that might make your life easier:

Browser Tests, Services and Compatibility Test Suites | Developer's Toolbox

polishlinux.org » Windows vs Linux: Architecture, part II

Part two of the rather advanced, architectural overview of the differences between Windows and Linux:

polishlinux.org » Windows vs Linux: Architecture, part II