August 27, 2006 at 8:46 pm (life)
On Thursday me and Michal took the kids to the euro-park.
I must say it’s one of the poorest theme park I’ve ever seen, and prices there are sky high, but as we all know location is everything so there were more than enough people around.
Kids seemed to have especially since at some point my little brother and my parents joined in. (And of course did the usual grandparents giving candies act)
In the end only brave Savion went on must of the attractions there, Eran didn’t want to spin (yes, theme-park is a very bad place to find non spinning games) and Noga seemed not to like the idea too much either. On the other hand they were both thrilled about watching Savion. When she went on the roller coaster they seemed to be more excited than her:)
And one last picture of Noga with the cell phone her mom won at one of the stands
Lesson of the day: don’t eat popcorn just before raiding on a roller coaster, it’s very not good on the stomeck! 
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August 27, 2006 at 7:17 pm (Free software, Uncategorized)
Not not enough that I had to disable render accelaration to make nvidia’s drivers to work with xorg 7.1, now I also had to start playing with the files to make the driver work with 2.6.18rc4.
Luckly enough the problem is in the opensource part of the driver so I found this
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72488 so I didn’t waste too much time on it.
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August 16, 2006 at 2:49 pm (Free software)
Zack has did it again! from the man who brought you exa, the one and only Glucose.
from his blog (http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2006/08/glucose-and-graphics.html)
Today I pushed a new acceleration architecture for Xorg. Called Glucose, it uses OpenGL to accelerate X. What happens there is that Glucose hooks into the initialisation code during the graphics card setup and dispatches the X rendering calls through the same codepaths that XGL uses. The email describing it and the some reasons for it is here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-August/017527.html. One step closer to the Open Source graphical utopia.
So finally opengl accelerated X is within reach )
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August 16, 2006 at 8:38 am (Digital Rights, Free software, Uncategorized)
I opened up the news today and I was shocked
Meretz, the so called liberal party, submitted a proposal for new copyright law that will outlaw uploading and download copyrighted material from the net. Halamo has this piece.
For those who can’t read hebrew I’ll try to give a short summary:
- Outlawing uploading and downloading of copyrighted material
- Outlawing the development of drm passing programs without license (yes you won’t be able to play DVD on linux anymore
- Service providers which can must monitor their service to check for illegal activity and regularly clean their caches
- Service provider must remove offending material within 12 hours of being told (that gives so much time to the client to explain and protect itself).
- The law applies also to non Israeli service provider as long as the service was provided in Israel. So they can actually sue companies from all over the world in Israel, I wonder what international trade agreements say about that.
- And last but not least according to ynet, this law will also outlaw file sharing programs! even for legitimate use!
This law will serve a real blow to fair use rights and to opensource in Israel in general. I wondered how long before a DMCA like law is passed in Israel.
Next will be ofcourse software patents…
Meretz if you ever had a chance to get my vote in election you just lost it completly forever.
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August 13, 2006 at 4:12 pm (life)
Though as usual I’m horribly busy, I decided to go with Michal and Eran to the Tipex concert at Hotzot Hyotzer. Which is a sort of big bazar with items from all over the world combined with performance and food stands. You would think that the entrance will be free as it’s mainly people who sell stuff, but I guess enough people come only for the concerts. Anyhow, the performance was rather nice, I do find their songs a bit depressing though, almost all them talk about sad things from crappy situation to longing to better times of childhood. Weirdly enough it seems the jumpy music is enough to keep most people in a good mood, maybe people just don’t really bother listening to the words. Anyhow both Eran and Michal seemed to really like it as well.
On Friday I planned to go to August Penguin but I was dead tired after not really sleeping on Wednesday/Thursday, (yea, kids), so I decide to skip it. I was planning to go there only to meet the guys anyhow and not really for the lectures themselves. On the other hand I did get to go to see Pirates of the Caribbean, we came a bit late and we found tickets only in the second row, which was a bit too close for Michal and combined with the fact she didn’t see the first part she seemed a bit bored from it. Personally I found the movie pretty funny, though I think it might have been a bit too long, they should just have ended it in one movie instead of splitting it to two. I also found it a bit surprising that it had so many people dying in it consider the fact it’s Walt Disney movie.
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August 9, 2006 at 9:35 pm (Free software)
Two days ago Apple announced it’s going to release various programs under the apache license,
and today more good news Intel is releasing a full 3d supporting driver to its i965 series:
The Intel® 965 Express Chipset represents the first product family that
implements fourth generation Intel graphics architecture. Designed to
support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset
family includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment
shaders. By open sourcing the drivers for this new technology, Intel enables
the open source community to experiment, develop, and contribute to the
continuing advancement of open source 3D graphics.
If that not enough it seems that the driver also comes with aiglx support! that should give nice performance boost to composite on applications that supports it. (Like gnome on fedora). And of-course will let you run quake 3 from a remote machines, this is very nice if for example you learn in university and get stuck working on a computer with old screen card and you know the name of the computers with the good screen cards:) But I admit nothing;)
The only downside is that in the meanwhile it seems that there still isn’t exa support, but it seems to be planned for the near future (or so rumors say)
So now it’s the time to show our support and buy intel based motherboards!!! (sorry amd;)
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August 7, 2006 at 4:56 pm (Uncategorized)
Well,
This is my first post, still trying to learn how to use the site.
I guess the first question people will ask, if why am I writing in English?
I have two answers for that, one, I type faster in English, and the second is that some of the people I know don’t know Hebrew. Nevertheless I think at least part of the posts will be in Hebrew, which is exactly the reason why I looked hard to find a blog that supports categorizing.
Good thing there is a spell checker
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