Smart Thoughts – Me and Steve Jobs together

24 hours later my cyanide post about iPad, it is now time to explain my smart thoughts and put my hate for the “Fan Boys” in the wardrobe.

27 January 2010

I think that slacabos will enjoy this post, after the little storm that I’ve unleashed with the last one…

PERFACE (Me and Steve Jobs together):

I hate Netbooks… Yes, it is true. I know that you can’t believe it (yes guys, I’m in accord with Steve), but this is it. Why? Because they are too small, the keyboard is too small for me, and it is very hard for me try to write some code with a Netbook.

WHERE JOBS IS WRONG:

Steve is wrong because he compares Netbook to iPad. These are 2 different types of products. Ipad is the device in the middle, between MacBooks and iPhone; Netbook is only a mini-laptop. He can’t compare them! He can’t talk trash about them, because, in this way, he made us think to the comparison… And the result of the comparison (that isn’t right to do) is the last post’s image. And… Steve, not all the netbooks are slow…

APPLE DIDN’T CLONE P88:

In the last hours a Chinese company show how Apple cloned P88, a device similar to the iPad but on the market from about 6 months. Apple didn’t clone P88! The iPad design is the classic Apple’s devices design, so that I’m thinking that the Chinese company has tried to clone something. So that, I hope that this talk won’t be on the newspapers in the future!

HOW TO INCREASE:

Apple must stop to go beyond the physical limit! iPad could be awesome with 2 USB, a web-cam, and HDMI out and if it is possible… multitasking to make the user experience more astonishing. Think about a similar iPad and dream… Yes, you can only dream, because the real iPad is a luxury device (only because they are looking to pass the physical limit). It is too expensive, and it is just for browsing Internet, e-mails, newspaper, e-books (nut for the e-books i prefer the Kindle) and watch TV and photos.

The right one is an iPad not in the middle between iPhone and MacBook, but an iPad next to the MacBook… iPhone is totally another business in my opinion.

Do you call it “Tablet”?

iPad vs Netbook

This image is shocking. Ok, I’m not an Apple addict, but I recognize some merit to Apple when they make something awesome.

Unfortunately Apple is going totally crazy in the last month… Rumors about a possible Tablet destabilized Steve and Co. and this is the result… A poor device with a “cool” (if is it possible to define cool a three years old iPhone enlarged design), and a stupid name… iPad (after iPod, iPhone… yeah, fantasy take me away… lol).

Guys, look at the reality; Apple has created a “cool” notepad. And after months and months of waiting this is so unsatisfying.

A lot of people talks about “an awesome device” or “I must have to had it”… They looks like stupid addicted people that must open up their eyes and take a look at the image above.

500 $ for the entry level iPad… Oh God… It is the right way to spend your money…

Let go Apple, you can so something better than this device…

Don’t Forget…

It is important, spread all videos like this one; because the most important thing is that we can’t forget what humanity has done… We can’t forget because men are stupid and against the stupidity of the people there is only a weapon… THE MEMORY.

Don’t forget please…

Install Python and Django on Windows

Install the great Django framework on your Windows PC is so simple, you only need to follow a couple of steps, and you will be ready to work.

Step One – Install Python for Windows:

1- On the Python.org Download Page you can simply discover your Windows version of Python. Download it.

2- Open the installer and follow the installation’s steps.

3- Open “The Command Line Prompt” and type “python“. If the prompt doesn’t get any errors and you can see >>> at the beginning of the line, all it is OK. (if something has gone wrong, you have to add the Python’s installation directory into the environment variable PATH)

4- Nice and simple IDE, that I’ve used during the High School is PythonWin; otherwise you can directly use NetBeans adding the Python Plug-In.

Step Two – Install Django

1- Download Django and extract it from the zip file.

2- Back “The Command Line Prompt”, navigate into the just extracted django directory and type: python setup.py install. This command will copy the Django files into the Python’s installation directory (probably into <C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages>).

You are ready to use Django on your Windows PC.

Enjoy

Get a mug of Java

Nice picture, and touching post from James Gosling: HERE

It is sad… It is very hard thinking that a great company like Sun MicroSystems (Java, Java Fx, Solaris, Open Solaris, MySQL, VirtualBox, NetBeans, GlassFish and OpenOffice.org) will rest in peace.

Now, it is officially Oracle… Not bo bad… But, it is like Sun isn’t the same Sun of the past years… Clearly, it is only a impression of mine, and I hope that Oracle doesn’t revolutionize too much the Sun style.

Good luck for the new adventure.

Install Astrisk 1.6.2.1 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10

In this post I write some steps that lead you to install Asterisk 1.6.2.1 on your Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10.

If you are Italian, you can peacefully follow this guide from Mike Over IP Blog.

If you can’t understand Italian language, don’t worry, and continue to read this post.

Prepare your system:
You must be sure to have the follow dependences installed:

• gcc
• g++
• make
• libncurses5-dev

So that, into the Linux Shell:
# sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make libncurses5-dev

Download and decompress Asterisk Source:

To download Asterisk you can use the follow command (wget):
# wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.6.2.1.tar.gz
To decompress the tarball that you’ve just downloaded:
# tar xzvf asterisk-1.6.2.1.tar.gz
Now, you have to go into the new folder (that you’ve just decompressed):
# cd asterisk-1.6.2.1.tar.gz

Configuration (Pre-compilation):
In the folder with the Asterisk 1.6.2.1 sources, you can you the next command to configure the asterisk’s sources with your machine.
# ./configure

Compile Asterisk Sources
You have to simply digit the follow command:
# make

Install Asterisk on your machine
# make install

Install Samples Files (for starters only)
# make samples

Make Asterisk starts on Ubuntu Startup
# make config

Start Asterisk Command Line Interface (CLI)
Many “v” are showing that I want an high level of verbosity from Astrisk.
# asterisk -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvr

It’s time to reboot your system
# reboot

Enjoy the best PBX Software solution in the world

Wave Emoticons – ItaliaMac Emoticons List

HERE you can download the PDF file with all the Emoticons you can use into your waves, simply adding Italiamac-faccine@appspot.com to your contacts and into the waves where you want to use them.

Google Wave Emoticons Bot Available

On a request from my friend Stefano (slacabos on the web), I’ve created a small Java Servlet to implement an utility robot that works into the Google Wave Client.

The goal of this Servlet is to integrate Emoticons into the Client. Users that write emoticons code  (for example : lol : , without blank spaces before and after the colons)  gets thier posts updated by the robot with the emoticon’s  code substitute with the real emoticon (like this, for example ).

In the following image, you can see a quick resume of the behaviour of the Google Wave Emoticons Bot with the bunch of emoticons of Italia Mac Forum.

Example of the Robot Behaviour

You can simply add this robot to your Wave’s contacts adding the next address: Italiamac-faccine@appspot.com, and to add its features into a Wave, you simply need to add it into the Wave participants.

In the next post, I’ll give you all the emoticons code you can write into wour waves.

HERE, there is the host with the project’s code. If you want to know more about how to create a Google Wave Robot, or if you have some ideas to make the project grow, you are free to download, test and improve the code (next week, I’ll write down a brief “how to”, for tell you how to deploy your personal version of the robot, with your personal bunch of emoticons).

Enjoy…

Who wants a Google Wave Invite?

Google Wave

Yes, I know, it is January and most of you already have an account in Google Wave.

By the way, I don’t know what to do with six invite left.

If you want one of these 6 invite just send me an e-mail: mirko.bona [at] google.com

What are we eating? Please read…

Food Inc., Magnolia Pictures (All rights reserved)

Today, I’ve decided to follow the advice from this post of Simone Brunozzi, and I finally watched Food Inc. from Magnolia Pictures, an American film distributor owned by Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks owner) and Todd Wagner. Magnolia is specialized in both foreign and independent films.

Food Inc is a great film, a detailed documentary with one goal: Make us more aware about the status of the Food Industry.

It is not so good to see how big companies like McDonald’s and other famous (and not) food chains can supply us with low cost food. They brings the “factory production mentality” into the food industry, and we are the victims of their business.

In my opinion these big food suppliers are directly comparable with tobacco’s company; both two sell us only diseases and in some case death.

They are cheating not only us, but they are cheating animals, environment and not many people know, they are directly cheating farmers that works to supply these big companies. In fact, these farmers are slave of criminal contracts, and are constantly threated by the big companies, they are forced to bring up animals in unnatural conditions and most of all they cannot reveal what they do. The punishment is the contract rescission and the conseguent penalty clause.

I don’t want to tell you the plot of the story, I hope you will watch it as soon as you can, and please, tell what you have just readed to your friends, your family, and help us to spread about these huge problems into the American Food Industry.

These problems are here with us, a lot of diseases like diabetes, celiac disease, colitics and many others are directly triggered by these immoral companies.

Here I post some links:

• Monsanto Corporation: giant company that produce herbicides, pesticides and crops seeds (watch Food Inc. to see how Monsanto gained to top of the ladder).
• Polyface Farms: they are great, trying to produce food in the oppoed way of the big companies. They looking to reproduce the life cycle and the environment of their animals into the farm.
• Stony Fields: an organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire.
• BUY THE DVD: and spread what will you watch.