That’s the name of the video “Good News – Windows 7.” The little kid is called Kelly and she believes “seven” is a happy word – it does stand for “togetherness” in China though so maybe that’s the underlying message here – “with Windows 7, we’re together again and I’m stealing your soul.”
At the same time I feel I must point out I just downloaded iTunes 9, at almost 90mb it’s starting to feel more like an OS than a music player, where’s iTunes Lite? Which then leads on nicely to Apple’s latest OS 3.1 for the iPhone, another beautiful idea from Apple in the form of security when syncing with Microsoft Exchange, until the latest OS all iPhone’s could sync with Exchange even if it required hardware security; that is no longer the case now as anything before the 3GS doesn’t truly support this requirement and will now no longer work with any exchange server that requires it – Apple’s response to this? “Tell your administrator to lower the security requirements” – I kid you not. You can read more here. This is yet another reason I’m happy I don’t have an iPhone, I love owning my own phone and not renting like Apple basically make you do. If I don’t like something on my phone, I change it and am allowed to without fear of my phone being bricked for breaking the ToS; if I want an app, I can download it from anywhere and install it without having to jailbreak my phone. But that’s my ranting over for now, until Apple do something else their sheeple will follow blindly.
Ubuntu…it’s a great Linux OS to use on servers due to its speed and simplicity – personal preference based on no statistics, only personal use. However, one thing Linux drives me mad with is software RAID. It’s taken me the better part of a day to set up a few RAID partitions, two of which are joined via LVM (2 lots of mirrored disks, one big “partition” to store stuff on across all 4 disks). Persuading a developer in our office at work that Whitespace is better than PHP or persuading Ben that all graphs are excellent, informative tools would be easier tasks.
It seems that today we’ve managed to solve most of our current MySQL database issues are fixed now too with one very simple change to our Master->Slaves setup – use ROW based binary logging only, not statement. The slaves are now never lagging more than 2-3 seconds behind the master even with thousands of writes per second across around 100 connections.
It is available in 43 different languages for Windows, Linux and Mac.
New features include:
Opera turbo Opera’s proxy servers are now used for image and content compression so even people on a slower connection should experience a speed boost.
Inline spell check A feature that everyone who posts online should use, input fields now auto spell check entered text.
Auto update Opera will now automatically update itself
Faster rendering engine
The new Opera Presto 2.2 engine in Opera 10 claims to be 40 per cent faster on resource intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook.
Visual tabs
The Tab bar of Opera 10 shows thumbnails of open pages in the form of visual tabs.
I’m sure I’ll give it a go but doubt I’ll wander from Firefox. I love Opera mini on my phone but even then I wish I could replace it with Firefox (hurry up Fennec!)
