Archive for the 'OpenSource' Category

[Wild Conjecture] Chrome OS as I imagine it

Google’s announcement only drops a few hints here and there, and the world just went crazy with speculation.
Glancing through my feeds, some comments seem to be centered around the theme “you’re just a web application peddler, what makes you think you can handle the complexity of maintaining a full-fledged OS?” (Sorry, I tried looking for [...]

What? Can’t take a bit of competition?

So now the IT media world just went wild over Google’s Chrome OS announcement. Comments are coming in from all over, some overly optimistic, some dismissive. All of these are speculative at best, and none of them carry a lot of weight as Google hasn’t even done a code drop yet, much less a release.
Some [...]

My most commonly used VIM commands

I wrote this as a response to a VI question in LowYat forums. Hope it’s useful to someone else out there.

:$ – Move to the last line (why this instead of shift-G? read below)
:10 – Move to line no 10, just substitute with any other number. So, just remember “$” means “last line” and you [...]

Daimler or Ford? (a.k.a. I don’t get no respect)

I choked a bit reading Matt Asay’s Tim O’Reilly: Open-source purists trying to answer the wrong question this morning. And I quote:
Of the formative figures in open source, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Eric Raymond loom large. Arguably, however, few have had as much of a disruptive force as Tim O’Reilly, who has helped to [...]