http://www.thesebastian.com/ Comments from A fresh look into Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Technology in the flat world en Serendipity 1.0-beta3 - http://www.s9y.org/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:49:16 GMT http://www.thesebastian.com/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://www.thesebastian.com/ 100 21 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/48-Some-thoughts-on-the-Google-Web-App-Engine.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/48-Some-thoughts-on-the-Google-Web-App-Engine.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=48 nospam@example.com (friarminor) Pushing to the web? Precisely, Sebastian and apart from the biggies like Google, there are startups like <a href="http://morphexchange.com">Morph eXchange</a> that has been doing 'PaaS' thing already beginning with Rails. And with GAE going with Python, web os may have to wait for now.<br /> <br /> Best.<br /> alain Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:53:13 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/48-guid.html#c969 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/45-Best-Austin-Jobs.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/45-Best-Austin-Jobs.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=45 nospam@example.com (Tommy) Hola Sebas,<br /> <br /> Actually yes it was some time since you hadn't written ! <br /> I checked out the site, the layout is clear and simple, I hope it will grow ... One remark : your site is called bestaustinjobs, but you have job openings in Dallas and from what I understood, you have plans to expand elsewhere ...<br /> Do you supply also the green card for french job seekers ? jeje<br /> <br /> See you Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:41:03 -0800 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/45-guid.html#c968 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-Web-2.0-tag-clouds-fun.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-Web-2.0-tag-clouds-fun.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=35 nospam@example.com (Seb) Hi Walter,<br /> <br /> Thanks for your interest <img src="http://www.thesebastian.com/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" />. Here it goes...<br /> <br /> The algorithm starts with the most frequent tags (bigger font size) and goes from there to the less frequent tags (smaller). <br /> <br /> For each tag, it produces a random position, but it also makes an effort not to overlap the new text with a previous existing, already printed tag. There is a parameter defining how many retries the algorithm goes through trying to find a random position not overlapping with a previously printed tag. <br /> <br /> If no random position providing zero area intersection could be found and the maximum iterations is reached, the algorithm will pick the position which has the minimal area intersection from all the random positions it has tried out.<br /> <br /> The idea was to give it a mix of a human and random feeling, while keeping it readable at the same time. Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:18:34 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-guid.html#c966 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-Web-2.0-tag-clouds-fun.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-Web-2.0-tag-clouds-fun.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=35 nospam@example.com (Walter Rafelsberger) I'd like to know how you arrange the words...you mention "semi-random", could explain that a bit further? Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:33:55 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-guid.html#c965 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-Web-2.0-tag-clouds-fun.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-Web-2.0-tag-clouds-fun.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=35 nospam@example.com (Seb) Thanks Travis!! I've posted your cloud, see above. I hope you'll like it. If so, please tell your friends about it <img src="http://www.thesebastian.com/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /> Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:15:10 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-guid.html#c964 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-Web-2.0-tag-clouds-fun.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-Web-2.0-tag-clouds-fun.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=35 nospam@example.com (Travis Wright) Id love to see what a tag cloud would look like for my site.<br /> <br /> Cool job, man.<br /> <br /> Travis Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:23:28 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/35-guid.html#c963 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/15-Seth-points-out-another-one.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/15-Seth-points-out-another-one.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=15 nospam@example.com (Dave) These are all nothing more than advertising pyramid schemes. Any mechanism that leaves someone holding the bag (ie. out a big some of cash when the scheme ends) is illegal. You can offer advertising but not the promise of a payout. It’s ironic that the actual ‘advertising pyramid’ (http://advertisingpyramid.com) is the only one playing by the rules!! Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:41:24 -0800 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/15-guid.html#c27 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/15-Seth-points-out-another-one.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/15-Seth-points-out-another-one.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=15 nospam@example.com (buzzer) There's also a new site that launch this weekend similar to MMMZR. <br /> <br /> But resolve the issue of not having enough low cost ads space. <br /> <br /> Check it out: http://www.greatestcrazypyramid.com/ Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:30:57 -0800 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/15-guid.html#c23 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=11 nospam@example.com (Tony J) 1. PCLinuxOS will awlays garner the best "out of the box" experience for the average home desktop user (read: ex-windows user or "tweener").<br /> 2. Ubuntu/Kubuntu will always run between PCLOS and Debian for the average home desktop user.<br /> 3. Debian will always maintain it's "old guard" user base.<br /> <br /> Ups and Downs:<br /> <br /> PCLinuxOS is a hobbyist/enthusiast supported distro. It has no where near the resources of distros like Ubuntu and Debian. Upgrading packages will always be slow and sometimes painful as priorities such as real life of the developers will weigh in. However having Flash and Java and Amarok working straight out of the box, FIrefox set with IPV6 disabled, and many other tweaks the average user will spend all day setting up makes this distro shine as a newcomer star. If you won't be a bleeding edge user, this distro, IMO, is rock solid. Based on Mandrake/driva originally.<br /> <br /> Ubuntu/Kubuntu - Solid distro with $$$ behind it. Resources, including web footprint (read: repositories and package availability) make this a solid distro. It is overly popular and over hyped but it is a solid and good distro. Kubuntu started out really weak, the cross over from Ubuntu left much weakness and the first 2 releases put me off greatly. Adding KDE to Ubuntu seems to be the stronger solution. IMO this is not the best "out of the box" experience and why I don't consider it #1.<br /> <br /> Debian - I have zero experience with this distro outside of derivatives such as Ubuntu. From my understanding it is just a slower, more proven and solid (read more stable) distro than most of it's derivatives. It's web presence is immense and if you aren't a bleeding edge user this distro probably outshines the previous two by leagues.<br /> <br /> Fedora Core X - Large company backing, solid web presence, weak out of the box experience. I like the distro but whenever I install it the amount of time it takes to tweak it for a standard home-user desktop is just a bit too much for me to swallow.<br /> <br /> Suse X (openSuse) - This distro has always been slow to respond on systems I have used it on. It falls somewhere around FCX in setup time for the average home desktop user, and in the end just lacks what I like in distros.<br /> <br /> The rest - While I have tried many other flavors, the previous list tend to overshadow them for one reason or another, typically web presence and user friendliness.<br /> <br /> Just my opinions, those of the average desktop user/tweener. Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:39:52 -0800 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-guid.html#c22 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/15-Seth-points-out-another-one.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/15-Seth-points-out-another-one.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=15 nospam@example.com (ahkip) why not? You can use the same idea over and over. The different is if you can get enough attention from others Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:18:09 -0800 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/15-guid.html#c21 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=11 nospam@example.com (Ramchand Burra) I just booted up using the Kubuntu 6.x live CD and I must say that I am very pleased with the out of the box ease, the way the live CD booted up very fast (as compared to say, Knoppix) , the clean fonts and KDE GUI. Also the Synaptics touch pad seems very well behaved with the default settings. I entered Kubuntu rocks! into Google and I am here. I have installed Suse on this laptop before and it was great, but I removed it because of the need to visit some sites using Internet Explorer. I love Kubuntu because it is based on Debian and is a much leaner install to begin with. I will nuke the Windows partition soon, and hope I can print to a printer attached to a Windows PC - I could never manage that with SUSE. Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:09:34 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-guid.html#c18 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=11 nospam@example.com (Carlos) My Top 5 Linux distros are (from my experience, various computers)<br /> Ubuntu, Mepis, PCLinuxOS, Freespire, PuppyLinux. My top 1 is PCLinuxOS, mature intelligent, elegant, speedy, easy to use. Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:50:41 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-guid.html#c17 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=11 nospam@example.com (Seb) Michael,<br /> <br /> Thanks for your comment.<br /> <br /> You are wrong, I am not a "noob", actually ... not one at all. You are right, Ubuntu is “technically” just another debian-based distribution with newer packages around it. However, this is not the place where I discuss my Linux technical credentials, nor that was the point of the article, so I will move on to what I believe are more interesting topics.<br /> <br /> The point is, I really like the experience I'm having with Kubuntu on my notebook from the non-technical, simple everyday desktop user point of view. It makes me so happy to see the difference when I compare this experience against the memories from installing Slackware on some other machines sometime about 10 years ago. I am extremelly happy about it because I would really like to see Linux become adopted in this market segment as much as it is adopted today on the IT-professional users and servers market. I also like the benefits this brings by enabling everyday non-technical users to use such a powerful and profesional OS and at a very low TCO. After all, computing to them only makes sense if it does makes their life simpler. Bring “simple” together with “powerful” and “cheap”, and the potential is huge.<br /> <br /> When I used to run my own small Linux and IT consulting company, some of my clients were very interested in deploying Linux on some of their desktops PCs. At that time, Linux wasn't really ready for it. I even had a few meetings with the guys from Caldera on “producing” a particular line of desktop machines with their Linux distribution pre-loaded on them. Didn't happen.<br /> <br /> Today, we're much, much closer to this reality and some businesses and organizations are already deploying Linux on their desktops. This is great news for everybody, but mostly for underdeveloped, poor countries where bringing cheap, powerful, readily-available simple technology can make a big impact on their infrastructure and significantly boost their economic and development. Think of children learning on Linux-powered desktops in poor schools that can't afford expensive software licenses. A similar case can be argued for non-for-profit organizations.<br /> <br /> I believe there is a huge potential for Linux on the desktop and notebooks, and a few of my friends follow this very closely too. Some people actually liked the article a lot. The packages, look and usability are all key points where Linux still has to prove itself a bit more in order to be able to really penetrate into this market and lower the TCO for business and organizations to deploy it on their desktop machines without fears. <br /> <br /> These are the main points that drove me to write this late-night before-bed short story / friendly article. Again, thanks for reading and for the comment. I'm sorry the article disapointed you. If you are searching for a place to read on technical linux-related matters then this is not the right place. This is an Entrepreneurhsip, Marketing and Techonology blog (in that order).<br /> <br /> Peace,<br /> Seb Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:24:51 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-guid.html#c16 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=11 nospam@example.com (Vladsinger) Totally mangled that spelling. <img src="http://www.thesebastian.com/templates/default/img/emoticons/tongue.png" alt=":-P" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" />. Why is there no edit option? Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:25:13 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-guid.html#c15 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-Kubuntu-rocks-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705.html#comments http://www.thesebastian.com/wfwcomment.php?cid=11 nospam@example.com (Vladsinger) He is, however, quite correct. There's nothing necessary about this article, it is not an imforiatvie review: just another slop of words for <insert distro here>. Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:22:23 -0700 http://www.thesebastian.com/archives/11-guid.html#c14