Finally, after several tries that revealed themselves as nothing else than frustrating, last night I managed to interact with the servers of the new online game Monopoly City Street at a speed good enough to really play (by the way, I am in the […]
Author: mcastel
My G.ho.st desktop
via flickr.com Just played a bit with my account on G.ho.st account, yesterday. Well I got the impression that Virtual Computing is getting more and more “usable” each day: it’s not a simple experiment any more, it’s something that you can really start to […]
Jolicloud, a cool new OS for your netbook ?
via jolicloud.com Still looking for a good linux distribution for my eeepc 701 4g, since unfortunately it seems that the native Xandros OS does not offer automatic upgrade to recent releases of many important softwares (as Firefox, Openoffice…): too bad that Asus now is […]
The observation of the Perseids
Today even the homepage of Google presents a very special image, because this is the proper time to observe the Perseids meteor shower. Indeed, though the period in which you can see them in the night sky extends from late July to about August […]
KDE – KDE 4.3.0 Caizen Release Announcement
I’m looking with renovated interest to the new releases of KDE project. I switched to Gnome when KDE arrived at the “famous” 4.0 release, also because I was not satisfied from the user experience of the new desktop. Gnome offered me a simple but […]
Google names Chrome OS partners
The reactions from the Linux crowd were mostly positive. Sometimes, however, they seemed to show the same nervous optimism that my dog gets when he sits panting and grinning by the door, wondering if he’s going to be invited on the car trip. via […]
