iPlayer Launched

It seems BBC have launched their iPlayer. iPlayer has been the source of much controversy in the blogging world, since it only runs on Windows. The BCCs claims that they will release versions for Mac OS X and Linux later.

I really hope they will do that, but it would have been interesting to see the reactions if they had done this the other way around: released a version for Mac OS X or Linux first. Just think about the publicity that would have earned them... It would have been very effective marketing. They could have released a Windows version very soon afterwards.

Tranquility

Something's certain, when you spend a tenday in forest: you have time to think.

I can't remember half my thoughts, but here are some examples: how governments could and should optimize the use of natural resources through taxation; what linux I should next switch to; what data structure to choose for nearly empty arrays with fast lookup in mind; how on earth lua actually stores it's tables; which is faster of Fluxbox and IceWM...


Found iGoogle today. I mean, I was aware of it, I just hadn't tried it before. As my old home page was Gmail, I decided to swich to iGoogle, where in addition to new mail, I see news and weather. Convinient...

Linux problems

Been using Ubuntu for the last couple of months. First installed Ubuntu, which was just too slow. Then I tried Kubuntu, which didn't work at all (problems with graphics). I now have Xubuntu, which ran ok... after uninstalling OpenOffice and not using Firefox at all... Installed IceWN and Fluxbox, of which Fluxbox seems to be the faster on my system. Nevertheless, I ended up having to download Opera (not free), as Firefox is just too slow. Someone really needs to make a good light web browser; yes, I've tried Links and Dillo, but they're far from complete. Why don't they have a lite version of Firefox? I only need to be able to view web pages: I don't need fancy password managers, text completion etc.

Even with my tweaks Linux is too slow on my computer, so I have to do all programming in XP. Been progressing in my Lua studies, and I'm already incorporating Lua scripting into my main project. I really like Lua's easy syntax for complicated tasks, such as passing a variable number of values returned from a function directly as parameters of another function.

Note to self: download Fluxbuntu and see how it differs from my Xubuntu-with-Fluxbox.

A blog for me too, then

Decided to finally create a blog, since everyone seems to have one these days. Not that it would be the main reason; I've actually lacked this for some time now. Can't just keep all the mindless rambling in my head, can I? I wonder, if I can customize this; the colors and fonts definitely have to change.

As a side note, I found something very useful today: Ext2IFS. Definitely solid software. As a Linux newbie I've had some trouble moving files between the two OS's, until now that is.