Jul 26
A few days ago, OECD announced the state in which broadband is in around the globe. Not suprisingly, the Turkish telecommunication monopoly Türk Telekom is announced as providing the most expensive internet in the world with around $81US per Mbit/s. Japan has the cheapest with only $0.22US, yes, that is 22 cents compared to 81 dollars.
The reason for this is that Japan now uses fiber-optic lines, delivered to every home while most other countries, including Turkey, still use the traditional copper telephone wires. The Turkish infrastructure is especially outdated, with still ADSL being used instead of ADSL2+.
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Jul 09
Transformers, The Movie has finally arrived at cinemas worldwide. My youth has passed with Transformers toys, Transformers cartoons, Transformers comics, etc… So I was thrilled to see them once again, in brilliant CG with live action characters. There was no way that movie was not going to impress me!
Needless to say, the movie is great, the effects and the transformers are done really well. You don’t get to see a lot of action or transformation during the first half, but it still is worth it to hear Optimus Prime, who is being voice acted by the original Peter Cullen. They included the line from the first animated movie: “One shall stand, one shall fall” which began the all time epic battle between Prime and Megatron.
Jul 07
Don’t you hate the rectangle animation whenever you press a link from the gnome panel?
Here is a way to disable it:
Run gconf-editor
Find and disable the following key:
‘apps/panel/global/enable_animations’
Now, you can easaily use compiz or beryl for much much nicer and smoother animations!
