Testing the Android WordPress app

Post from the G1.

WordPress for android is a free (as in GNU) from the great ppl @ wordpress.

Preject page: http://android.wordpress.org/

Dev: http://dev.android.wordpress.org/

License: GNU GPL

Sri Lanka in the to 10 in GSoC and No. 1 in the Universities list !

Countries List:

Universities List :

Congratulations UoM (University of Moratuwa) and all the other GSoC participants. read more @ Sanjiva’s blog.

** Shout-out goes to Sahana project (http://sahana.lk/) which also managed to get 9 projects accepted **

MaemoWordPy on n810

Blogging from my nokia n810! Using MaemoWordPy

Liberate Your Documents : Open Document Format

Learn about the open document format (ODF)

Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

OpenDocument Format Alliance : http://www.odfalliance.org/

ODF: The inevitable format : This is a great article on the OpenDocument Format posted @ redhatmagazine.com

ODF artwork and poster : http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/25/spread-the-word-share-this-odf-artwork/

Read… Understand…. Spread The Word…

OLPC XO; is it worth it?

Hell yeah it is !!!

Read the story (OLPC – Ceibal) & view the pictures.

OLPC deployment in Uruguay [blog post: OLPC - Ceibal]

Some images from the event…

links:

OLPC : http://www.laptop.org/laptop/

OLPC XO: Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_laptop

“OLPC makes it’s debut in Uruguay [PICS]“: digg – http://digg.com/linux_unix/OLPC_makes_it_s_debut_in_Uruguay_PICS

Sun Opensources JAVA (j2se, j2me and j2EE !)

Richard Stallman: “I think Sun has, well with this contribution, have contributed more than any other company to the free software community, in the form of software. And it shows leadership – it’s an example I hope others will follow.”

(video: http://sun.feedroom.com/?skin=oneclip&fr_story=FEEDROOM166554&rf=bm)

Wikipedia – “Sun announced on November 13, 2006 that all of the Java source code will be completely released under an open-source GNU General Public License by March 2007″

(Sun press release: http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-11/sunflash.20061113.1.xml)

Free and Open source Java : http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/

• Free j2se
• Free j2me
• Free j2EE

And now for some of the now GPLed code from the java compiler.

/*
* @(#)LateAddition.java 1.3 06/11/11
*
* Copyright (c) 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
*
* This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
* version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
* accompanied this code).
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
* 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
* Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
*
* Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
* CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
* have any questions.
*
*/

/*
* @test @(#)LateAddition.java 1.3 06/11/11
* @bug 4098093
* @summary Compiler must properly handle access methods
* created after their class has been checked.
*
* @compile LateAddition.java
*/

/*
* This is the example submitted in the bug report.
* It should compile successfully.
* Future changes to the compiler may affect the timing
* of the creation of access methods, making it an unreliable
* test of the condition described in the summary.
*/

public class LateAddition {
public int f() {
class Local {
private int i = 5;
}
return (new Local()).i;
}
}

MPAA RIAA MAFIAA

Entertainment Industry and Organized crime,  !!!

only the Innocent get screwed !!!

• WHY THE MPAA SUCKS!

• Dailymoonbat
• http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004886.php

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/

• Two more students subpoenaed by the RIAA
• Oklahoma Woman Fights Back Against RIAA
• Many others…..

Music And Film Industry Association of America™ (MAFIAA™)

http://mafiaa.org/

Super cool theme for the Nokia 770

What can be so cool? It’s the Star Trek theme of a Personal Access Display Devices (PADD) on the Library Computer Access and Retrieval System (LCARS). This is for the Nokia 770′s new (released in 2006) Maemo 2.0 platform.

Home: http://synthesize.us/LCARS_PADD

Author: Ian Ryge

Some Screen shots:

Here’s a YouTube video of a live demonstration of this theme.

LCARS Standards Development Board

Novell, Microsoft partnership

+ 
“Microsoft’ endorses SUSE, Linux Enterprise

Learn More ->”…

that’s what on the Novell’s home page. The 1st thing came to my mind is, Why the hell do they (Microsoft) want to do that? So I clicked “Learn More ->”,THE browser CRASHED!!!! fsck! damn FLASH!!!, why can’t they just use an image?? it’s just a static image. btw flash is not totally to be blamed, I had about 500 tabs open in 6 Firefox windows (1.5 days worth of leftover browsing). Luckily the great Firefox 2.0 can just restore the crashed session back (for v. 1.5 users use Tab Mix Plus) .

Back to Novell and Microsoft, does this means Novell endorses Microsoft’s Vista for Desktop? hope not, because I think Vista WAS (Longhorn) IS and GOING TO BE (Vista XP??), a Flop!! :-0

Anyway after reading through the press releases and some articles it seems they are going work together on Virtualization, Web services for managing physical and virtual servers, Document format compatibility. Good for them

Novell press release : http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?id=1196

Joint letter : http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html

According to Eben Moglen the deal might be incompatible with the GPL3 license and is likely incompatible with the current GPL2 license..

you can find more info on that. http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2167966/novell-microsoft-partnership

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw