Amarok 1.4.4 released with music store

"The new Amarok 1.4.4 release is the first open source media player to have built-in support for a DRM-free music store: Magnatune guarantees that for every song sold half the revenue actually goes to the artist. The new release also includes a slew of other features, as well as under-the-hood improvements and bugfixes."

Sounds interesting, though I have mostly used Itunes for my music collection, I have had fiddled around with Amarok. Overall from when I used a cvs version of Amarok, that it probibly is the most featured filled Itunes replacement for linux. Still the only problem with Amarok, is that it is a KDE based app, and I use GNOME as my desktop environment

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Sam and Max: Culture Shock is comming....

Finally after many years, another Sam and Max game has finally been realeased: Sam and Max: Culture Shock (though only through GameTap at the moment). It will available worldwide Nov 1st. I could go on and on describing a basic summary, but thanks the the developers at Telltale Games, they have put together a collection of reviews...

Also here is one of the generated Sam and Max cartoons from the games' homepage, that caught my eye, enjoy!

Move over Firefox: IceWeasel is HERE!

From the recent Debian vs Firefox issue, it seems like "Firefox" will eventually and slowly be faced-out on GNU/Linux platforms that adheres to "free software" philosophy. There is currently a first binary release for GNU/Linux / x86 32 bit available, as well as its corresponding source code.

Curiously, even though IceWeasel's creation was originally for Debian, it will be interesting to see if other Non-Debian based distributions pick up on this....

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Is Outsourcing I.T. Overseas Past It's Prime?

"Is outsourcing IT overseas past its prime? According to a new survey, it is. Consider this: Two years ago, 84 percent of the respondents to a Global IT Outsourcing Study sponsored by Chicago-based consulting firm DiamondCluster International said they planned to increase their level of offshore outsourcing. In 2006, that figure fell to 64 percent."

This, at least in my mind, is a good sign that this fad of offshoreing is starting to fade. Possibly, this is connected to the fact that there are certain IT jobs that do have to be on site, and cannot be outsourced....

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Inside of a Hard Drive

"A video of what a Hard Drive looks like inside while doing various tasks."

It is interesting, from the point that the drive actually works when it is open, It must be something to do with the construction of the older drive, vs the newer drives. Anyway, quite interesting, to see a open drive in motion....

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