LINA! Open LINA!

lina_logo_only.pngNo no no, it’s not my new girlfriend… It’s a long expected platform for running software with native look and feel on different OS’s…

Their description is quite explanatory:

LINA enables Open Source applications to run on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX operating systems with native look and feel. GUI applications running on LINA are indistinguishable from the other applications on the user’s machine because they utilize the native libraries of the underlying operating system. LINA integrates native linux command line applications directly into the DOS, Mac OS X, or UNIX console. The configuration files of Web applications that run on LINA are fully accessible and editable.

It’s quite a nifty thing, and I can’t wait to get home and play with it!!!!

Read more on http://www.openlina.org

A presentation worth a billion smileys…

I’m using more and more idiotic titles for my posts, but you’ll get it if you read it carefully…

Starting with a joke from our one and only burning eyes sensation giver Edike, it goes like this:

Q: How do you make a cow bark?!?

A: You return home at 4AM.

Lots of nice news today, some cool, some funny and some weird.

For starters, the smiley : – ) ( 🙂 )is 25 years old. Happy birthday! According to Slashdot professor Scott E. Fahlman from Carnegie Mellon University was the first one to use the three characters to point out a happy face, and since then, everybody uses them. Sounds cool huh? well, the funny part in this is the misspelling on Slashdot, corrected now, but my RSS reader caught it just in time!

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Google finally released the long waited presentation feature in their office suite, and I can definitely say they did a great job.

Check it out on http://docs.google.com.

And the billion dollar costs come from AdSense where false clicks generate a loss for Google. Rad more about it here