One of the exciting new features of Safari in Mac OS X announced at the WWDC keynote yesterday was the power savings when web browsing as compared to Chrome & FireFox.
Power savings in terms of real-world power consumption isnt the relevant factor here, rather it is the impact in laptop battery life that power savings can have
One of the other pretty cool technologies being developed by the guys at Plastic Logic (a spin off company created by the same people from Cambridge University who formed CDT) is the ability to create full electronic devices by using an inkjet printer loaded with a cartridge of these conductive polymers.
It would be pretty cool to be able to see a useful device on a web page, download the circuit, print it out of your inkjet and then have the working device straight away.
Ok, so lets all forget about linux 2.4...way to immature, and even 2.2 (Jan 1999) and switch back to linux 2.0 the only 'mature' version of linux around!
I don't think that a survey of the O/S behind web-browsers is an accurate description of 'desktop' penetration of Linux. I run Linux as my main os, both at work (on a desktop) and at home (on a desktop and laptop). The laptop however is dual-boot to XP. If I want to browse the web and get a 'full' experience then its bye-bye linux, hello XP as none of the browser/plugin combinations in linux can yet compete with I.E. 6 & media player in windows.
This doesn't necessarily make linux a worse desktop OS than windows, it just reflects the fact that most web designers tailor their content to display in I.E. Therefore people (I suspect/hope I'm not alone in this) will ditch linux for windows when they want to surf the web.
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I've been using the pro version of allwaysync (http://www.allwaysync.com) to do this kind of thing.
You can use regex to define which folders to use, does autosync, deletions etc...
One of the exciting new features of Safari in Mac OS X announced at the WWDC keynote yesterday was the power savings when web browsing as compared to Chrome & FireFox.
Power savings in terms of real-world power consumption isnt the relevant factor here, rather it is the impact in laptop battery life that power savings can have
One of the other pretty cool technologies being developed by the guys at Plastic Logic (a spin off company created by the same people from Cambridge University who formed CDT) is the ability to create full electronic devices by using an inkjet printer loaded with a cartridge of these conductive polymers. It would be pretty cool to be able to see a useful device on a web page, download the circuit, print it out of your inkjet and then have the working device straight away.
Ok, so lets all forget about linux 2.4...way to immature, and even 2.2 (Jan 1999) and switch back to linux 2.0 the only 'mature' version of linux around!
I don't think that a survey of the O/S behind web-browsers is an accurate description of 'desktop' penetration of Linux. I run Linux as my main os, both at work (on a desktop) and at home (on a desktop and laptop). The laptop however is dual-boot to XP. If I want to browse the web and get a 'full' experience then its bye-bye linux, hello XP as none of the browser/plugin combinations in linux can yet compete with I.E. 6 & media player in windows.
This doesn't necessarily make linux a worse desktop OS than windows, it just reflects the fact that most web designers tailor their content to display in I.E. Therefore people (I suspect/hope I'm not alone in this) will ditch linux for windows when they want to surf the web.