Though I haven’t tried it yet, if you’re interested in playing World of Warcraft on your Ubuntu Linux box you should check out the instructions at the Ubuntu Help Forums. There’s a very complete, step-by-step guide to install and configure Wine, which ports to open and how using Firestarter, installing WoW and configuring your system. All very nice and well written.
Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is looking to capture the business market by releasing a tool to administrate servers and desktop machines across a broad network. This is the first time a Linux distributor has sought to directly infiltrate the office environment largely held by Microsoft.
ArsTechnica: “Landscape makes it possible to remotely deploy patches, updates, and packages. It also provides extensive support for reporting and resource-usage analysis across groups of systems. In order to provide more flexible group management, Landscape allows administrators to organize groups of systems by using tags. Launchpad also includes an auditing framework that can show a history of actions performed on the local system as well as changes made by an administrator through Landscape.Landscape has support for ’semi-connected management’ functionality, which will queue operations for systems that aren’t currently online and then perform the tasks when the system is once again network accessible. Semi-connected management makes it possible to manage systems that don’t consistently have connectivity, like laptops that are deployed in the field.”
If I was one of the cool kids and had an iPhone already then I’d be sure to ue Appmarks. Appmarks is a web-based desktop that presents bookmarks in a GUI approximation of a desktop. Check out the video to see how it works.
AppMarks: “AppMarks runs in Safari and presents icon ‘appmarks’ of your favorite web apps, widgets, and sites. Simply tap an appmark to launch it or use the toolbar to rearrange, add, or remove appmarks.
The first time you launch AppMarks, it is set up with sixteen appmarks to get you started. To add your own favorites, tap the ‘+’ button and enter the title and URL. To remove appmarks, tap the ‘Edit’ button and tap the red ‘-’ marks. After you have customized AppMarks, make it your start page so it is easy to use your appmarks.”
Hey Happy 4th of July everyone.
Researchers now believe that they can reliably spot “tells” that a child is autistic as early as 14 months in some children but are still stumped by children who regress from normal to autisic behavior.
USATODAY.com: “Children with autism can be identified as early as 14 months old, the youngest age at which the disorder has been diagnosed, a study by researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore suggests.
But about half the time, symptoms may not show up until months later. That suggests at least two distinct paths leading to autism: one that starts early in life and one in which a child seems to develop normally and then regresses, losing language and social skills.
Results of the study, the first to follow toddlers from 14 months until they turn 3, could allow earlier treatment to reduce the effects of autism, says Rebecca Landa, lead author of the report published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.”
If you’re using NetNewsWire 3 and crashing a lot you’ll want to go get the most recent beta from http://nnwbeta.com/. A lot of the issues have been taken care of in the most recent beta release and it’s pretty stable.