The future of the web

What’s all this stuff about personal computing moving online, people saying, keep your old computer, the internet is moving online and all you need is a browser.

First, for the coming 10 years, i don’t think the world can take an explosion in internet traffic, YouTube and similar video websites are killing speed on most ISPs, Peer To Peer much lesser harm but still burdening the wires, and oh, not to forget Binary Executable downloads and net installs of operating systems that happen with every virtual machine, Seriously, fiber optics will not save you if you want a complete install of Debian on every virtual machine you run.

To make things more interesting, People will not stop buying top notch computers, they love owning the greatest computers and will continue to do so, there graphics card is more important than there fridge, and astonishingly, they love to see it work, Don’t you just hate it when your computer goes to sleep for having nothing to do ?

People want there files on there hard drives, that will never change, they may want a copy at google or some other cloud empire, but they want the official latest copy on a hard drive in there computer.

This may not include everyone, but it is true for the most people i know, I am predicting against everyone else and i have a firm belief the common predictions of the future of personal computing are not realistic.

So, now i am the great psychologist, not really, but i have probed for long enough, and this is what i got

My Video requires a good processor to play, Online video is not how i like to see my favorite cartoons (And i doubt PIXAR would put it online), i want to see detail, i want to see what PIXAR wanted me to see and so do they.

So, if you are worried or hoping that the internet will become the PC, rest assured, this will not happen soon.

What about google docs and other stuff, they will exist, and probably expand, but they will never replace much of why you would buy a good PC that has multiple cores that can run your beloved Compize or AERO, people buy vista for that stuff, so they will keep buying good computers.

Linux Debian Lenny and apt-cacher

Mama i’m comming home

Back to Debian, as when i thought about it, i Don’t really like Ubuntu, what has it added, i still don’t know the difference between UBUNTU and Debian, Debian keeps a legal document that promises to never do what redhat once did, ubuntu does not, Debian has a Blue Background, and ubuntu has a color that i don’t know the name of, Besides, Hardy shipped with XEN not functional on my 64Bit and i had to wait for a long time to have it fixed, Lenny here i am.

To begin with, Why download the DVD or worse the 5 DVDs, i downloaded a CD (Or get the NetInstall CD), then install 1 copy from that CD, now install apt-cacher and the software you use will be cached on your network, My apt-cacher is installed inside a virtual machine, when i want to install another copy of lenny, i simply allow it to download from the internet, and after picking a mirror in the installer, i specify a proxy as http://192.168.0.133:3142/ and i will never have to download that package twice.

Better yet, the CD or DVD get outdated fast, this one keeps refreshing itself with the latest packages, and i can save Debian (The distro i love most) some bandwidth.

After the install, remember to change your repository lines so that a url like http://ftp.us.debian.org becomes http://192.168.0.133:3142/ftp.us.debian.org, Also fix that on the install that hosts the cache.

Great stuff right !

PNY GeForce 8800 GT

I took it apart to get to the bottom line of this

Some people tell me it has the same processor as the ultra edition but that one has higher clock speeds, Some tell me this one has some shaders dissabled (Maybe they are missing not disabled), The nvidia website tells us about the differences, But i want to get to the bottom of this, So i posted the photos of this one here

Click here for photos of the 8800 GT

American Idol Season8 Ups and Downs

Kara DioGuardi and Paula Abdul embrace at the 2009 Fox Winter All-Star Party at My House in Los Angeles on Tuesday night

First;
Paula Abdul elaborates about having a fourth judge on the show, e.i; Kara DioGuardi, by stating that “It’s nothing personal” but “it slows down the pace of the show”. According to Abdul, the three original judges were just enough! I wonder what Kara feels right now, especially that she and Paula know each others for years!

Then;
The minute the 36 contestants were announced, scandals concerning the private lives of each started to be displayed by the media. The disqualification of Joanna Pacitti; who was replaced by Felicia Barto due to Pacitti’s relation with people connected to the production company of AI. Then Adam Lambert‘s private issues and the controversy about his sex orientation. And the interest of some photos of him with another guy.

But what if we evaluate singers only off-the-performance-stage? That would lable half the music and entertainment industry as “Not Interesting Enough!

Opti UPS – No surge protecteion

To make a long story short, the relays in one of the UPS units i have malfunctioned, i opened the unit so that i can take the board with the relays out for replacement, and surprise surprise, the unit’s output sockets that read Surge Protected Outlets are not surge protected, they are connected directly to the input power (AC power), So not only do i get a UPS that breaks down easily for no apparent reason, i also get fake surge protection !

Take a look at this photo here, and more photo’s here, this is the 550C enhanced Series

Beckham’s own Motorola Aura

Now, this is going a bit out of hand here…

The Beckham phone, the Motorola Aura costs nothing less than thousands when under that aluminum shell, there is a more or less ordinary phone.

Beckham is holding it on the street all the time to make this thing work, But for the price i think the idea of Moto releasing the AURA means the public Belief that IQ Increases over the years is not really real

Or maybe people have become 2 rich they want to throw money away, Now we know where the money went in these hard financial times, look for people with AURA’s and shoot them.

David beckham and Moto oura

David Beckham and Moto Aura

And obviously i am not the only one who has notices this madness, Yet some people think differently (Surely they have more money than i), see this one

What is more stylish than your Aura?

The new Aura of 2009 is red and belongs to Motorola company. What’s more stylish than carrying a luxorious phone like this one. The phone is designed with a 62-carat sapphire crystal and is scedualed to be released mid-march. Celebrities like David Beckham already has one! The rest of us should wait a couple of weeks “as the official spokesman announced” to be able to buy it from special-retail-shops. Along with the unique design and features comes a relatively high price of around 2,000$.