Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Google has actually announced a desktop operating system! This has been a wild prediction for years, but now comes the official announcement of the "Google Chrome OS". Initially designed for netbooks, it is aimed at people who spend most of their time online.

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Think you know Australia? Think again. This quiz checks your knowledge of Australia Day, our most patriotic national celebration.

1. What do we remember on Australia day?

The discovery of Australia

The arrival of the First Fleet

The raising of the British flag

The founding of the Commonwealth

2. Where did this happen?

Botany Bay

Port Jackson

Circular Quay

Cooktown

3. In what year?

1770

1777

1780

1788

4. Who was in command?

Captain James Cook

Captain Arthur Phillip

Captain William Lawson

Captain Jack Sparrow

5. How many ships were in the First Fleet?

8

9

10

11

6. Which one of the following ships was NOT in the First Fleet?

The Endeavour

The Lady Penrhyn

H.M.S. Supply

The Borrowdale

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Amarok 2.0 has finally been released! Amarok is an excellent music player and manager for Linux (primarily). Version 2.0 features a complete interface redesign and beta support for Windows and Macintosh.

I had some trouble with Plasma the other day. For some reason, it suddenly crashed and wouldn't start up again. I tried pressing Alt+F2 to bring up the run dialog, and typing "plasma", but it still wouldn't start. I then tried the command line.

david@suse:~/.kde4/share/config> plasma
plasma(5728) KWallet::Wallet::openWallet: Pass a valid window to KWallet::Wallet::openWallet().
plasma: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/kde4/plasma_applet_showdesktop.so: undefined symbol: _ZN6Plasma14ToolTipManager4selfEv
plasma(5727): Communication problem with "plasma" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

Something seemed to be wrong with the plasmoid "Show Desktop". Only problem is - it's pretty hard to remove a plasmoid when plasma won't even start. With a bit of help from Google though, and a few bash commands, I found the configuration file that plasma uses to configure the applets:

david@suse:> kwrite ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc

In this file, I simply had to search for the text "plugin=showdesktop", remove the configuration section associated with this, and start plasma again.
This is a simple way to remove a plasmoid (plasma applet/widget) without starting plasma.

According to Facebook typing speed app, I'm "blazing fast" at 92wpm. Now you might ask - "what accurary?" The answer to that particular question might also surprise you. But then again - maybe it won't. 100% accuracy at 92wpm is not particularly impressive for an every-day internet user. But according to this same app, I'm faster than 96% of Facebook. That's quite a large segment of the population, even if you remember that the user had to install the app to be rated in the listings, and therefore the percentage rank.

Now this is a site for all the Catholics out there. If you're tired of trying to meet people on other sites and encountering countless problems, maybe you should try out catholic Dating for a change. The main advantage of it as opposed to other similar sites is the demographic range - it's much more likely to be suited to your needs, if you are looking for a site like this.

Like many others, I am faced with the problem of having far too many old computers resting in my shed. I have at least 5 of them, many missing parts or containing faulty parts. And yet I can't bring myself to throw them away. One of these days I'll take them out, look at them and see they're worthless, and probably sell them as antiques by that time! The oldest system is a pre-pentium model, so they're already pretty rare. Most people have just thrown out any computers as old as that - which is what I should have done long ago!

Divorce Records are become more and more prevalent today in searching public records. Unfortunately there has been an increasing number of divorces, especially in America. You can search the public records and along with births, deaths and marriages, divorces may come up. Use this site to search the divorce records by name, address, post code, state and more.

Does anyone know how to connect to a Windows RDP server from Linux, and create a seamless integration between the two (window managers)? I have had a look at VirtualDesktop, rdesktop, SeamlessRDP but can't figure out how to work them. I know it sounds silly, but I can't work out which goes on Windows, which on Linux, where you should stick the IP address - the documentation seems to be made for people that already know what they're doing!

What kind of stuff do police get? tactical pants. These are tough and cheap - just the thing for a busy policeman. Some people think our lives are being made easier by technology today, but that doesnt neccessarily apply to the police. They still have to do a fair bit of rough, tough, on-the-job stuff. These clothes are perfect for situations like this as well as office work.

If you're black, and you wanna chat, chances are you'd like to take a look at the new Black Chat Rooms. There's quite a bit to see, including live video chat, all of which is free to register for. Meet and chat with other blacks, share interests, projects and life experience. You might even make those business contact's you've been looking for - they dont' all use LinkedIn!

Time vs Money - that is the question. For sure, one can spend a heap of time doing a job for yourself, but is it really worth the small saving in money? Usually not. Usually you could have earned far more in the time you spend doing it yourself. But then there's the question of experience. Was it more enjoyable to do it yourself? Did you find the experience valuable? Are you likely to need those skills sometime in the future? These are all questions that I have to ask myself when blogging and completing other computer activities - what's the cost of outsourcing, vs the advantages of doing it yourself.

Emo Chat Rooms are a great place to meet new friends and share stuff with them. It's got features like live video chat - and best of all, it's free! No more paying huge fees to connect with people - this website does it all for you, and in quite an advanced way. So long as you have available bandwidth for video streaming, the skies the limit.

Some people say that Linux isn't in the mainstream. That it isn't known to a great many people. I tend to disagree. Of course, it's not as widespread as Windows. Everyone agrees with that. But more and more libraries for example are offering free Ubuntu CDs, spreading the love through means of education. And the popularity of the eePC and other mini-laptops have helped as well to spread the concept of a light-weight linux distro as an alternative to Windows. In fact, I have met quite a few people recently who have been asking about Linux as they hear it is "the best OS".

I've just found a new site dedicated to providing the perfect place for Jewish Chat online. They've got a pretty good feature set, including live video chat. A great place to meet and share with others online. You could then continue to use the features provided onsite or move to another hosted solution such as MSN for your interaction - it's up to you.