Henry Starling and Bill Gates...

In the Star Trek world we see a couple of examples of current technology being enhanced or even being caused by the interference of 'future' characters.

The most memorable and humorous was James Doohan's part in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, where his character, Scotty, gives a 20th century industrial supplier the means to manufacture "transparent aluminium" a product from the future in exchange for 20th century goods.
McCoy asks Scotty about the implications of this to which Scotty replies "How do we know he didn't invent it?"

In a far more sinister storyline is the Voyager episode Futures End (A double episode) where another industrialist, Henry Starling, played by Ed Begly Junior, who in real life bears a remarkable likeness to Bill Gates. Starling's mega company is called "Chronowerx" and there are implied similarities to Gates' company, Microsoft.

We look at fiction and see enlightenment in real life.

The exponential growth of the microelectronics industry was not due to 20th century expertise or even serendipity, it was actuallly a direct result of 29th century intervention, and both Bill Gates and Paul Allen witnessed the crash landing of a 29th century timeship and they used the technology there to form Microsoft...

It all makes perfect sense to me now!

Industry is Preparing for Chrome OS – Especially Netbook Makers

We are getting more and more news about more industry leading Netbook maker planing on releasing Chrome OS featured NetBook. We might have to wait till end of the year. We already have few specification about some of those NetBook. Google Already Released its code base, still no downloadable iso or burnable disk image, but we already have Chromium OS source code so developer could make their own package, but it’s currently limited to Linux only OS.

You could get a detail link direction and downloadable resource at here

Today we got a insider about Samsung’s Chrome OS only Netbook. it will be similar to the N210 (pictured), with a 10.1-inch screen, 3G, WiFi, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of flash storage and a purported 12 hour battery life. There are also rumors that it’ll be running a 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor, but the amount of straight up information from Phil makes speculation almost feel silly at
this point. The netbook is supposed to be introduced later this year.

Take a Look:

Google itself has already give us a hint that Chrome OS will be multi-touch and they might make a Chrome Tablet.

Specification:

• Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus.
• Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites.
• Contextual actions triggered via dwell.
• Zooming UI for multiple tabs
• Tabs presented along the side of the screen (see Side tabs)
• Creating multiple browsers on screen using a launcher

Linux

Ubuntu (pronounced /uːˈbuːntuː/), is a computer operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. It is named after the Southern African ethical ideology Ubuntu ("humanity towards others") and is distributed as free and open source software. Ubuntu provides an up-to-date, stable operating system for the average user, with a strong focus on usability and ease of installation. Ubuntu has been selected by readers of desktoplinux.com as the most popular Linux distribution for the desktop, claiming approximately 30% of Linux desktop installations in both 2006 and 2007. Web statistics from late 2009 suggest that Ubuntu's share is between 40 and 50%.

Ubuntu is composed of multiple software packages, of which the vast majority are distributed under a free software license (also known as open source). The main license used is the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) which, along with the GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL), explicitly declare that users are free to run, copy, distribute, study, change, develop and improve the software. Ubuntu is sponsored by the UK-based company Canonical Ltd., owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. By keeping Ubuntu free and open source, Canonical is able to utilize the talents of community developers in Ubuntu's constituent components. Instead of selling Ubuntu for profit, Canonical creates revenue by selling technical support and from creating several services tied to Ubuntu.

Canonical endorses and provides support for three additional Ubuntu-derived operating systems: Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Ubuntu Server Edition. There are several other derivative operating systems including local language and hardware-specific versions.

Canonical releases new versions of Ubuntu every six months and supports Ubuntu for eighteen months by providing security fixes, patches to critical bugs and minor updates to programs. LTS (Long Term Support) versions, which are released every two years, are supported for three years on the desktop and five years for servers. The current version of Ubuntu, 9.10 (Karmic Koala), was released on October 29, 2009.

Several official and unofficial Ubuntu variants exist. These Ubuntu variants install a set of packages that differ from the original Ubuntu distribution.

Official variants store packages and updates in the same repositories as Ubuntu, so that the same software is available for each of them and is generally compatible between the official variants. The Ubuntu derivatives that are fully supported by Canonical are:^[10]

• Kubuntu, a desktop distribution using KDE rather than GNOME.
• Edubuntu, a GNOME-based subproject and add-on for Ubuntu, designed for school environments and home users.^[58]
• Ubuntu Server Edition.
• Ubuntu JeOS, "Just enough Operating System" for virtual appliances.^[59][60]

The following are Canonical-sponsored derivatives:^[61]

• Xubuntu, a "lightweight" distribution based on the Xfce desktop environment instead of GNOME, designed to run better on low-specification computers.
• Ubuntu MID Edition, an Ubuntu edition that targets Mobile Internet Devices.^[62]
• Ubuntu Netbook Remix,^[63][64] designed for netbooks and other ultra-portables.

There are also many unofficial variants, unsponsored derivatives, and other localizations and customizations not controlled or guided by Canonical, which generally contain customizations that have been created for specific goals.

A new challenge...

I've just agreed to 'ghost write' the David Wilson blog for my old school mate, Dave 'Snooks' Wilson. The URL is http://thedavidwilson.blogspot.com/ and although I have a free hand in what I report, I have been given strict boundaries including a must inclusion of Aston Villa at least once a week. As we, along with Phil Finney and Richard (1099) Phillips were the only Villa fans in our year at school, then that shouldn't be too hard.

in reference to: Bob De Bilde (view on Google Sidewiki)

Web Browsers

Internet Explorer recently introduced IE8, and with it a plethora of problems, that manifested itself as a slow and unstable program.

Many people tried an alternative and quickly switched from IE8, to one of the 40-plus freely available browsers. Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Google Chrome being the most common, all of which seem to load faster and suffer far less crashes than IE8.

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 25% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of November 2009^[update], making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer,^[5] and the most used browser independent of any one operating system. Other sources put Firefox's usage share at between 21% and 32% and generally trending upward. As of December 2009, Firefox 3.5 was the most used browser in the world (including browser versions), according to StatCounter. Due to the January 2010, well-publicized vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the German and French, and Australian governments have publicly issued warnings to Internet Explorer users to use alternative browsers at least until a fix for the security hole is made. The first browser they recommended was Mozilla Firefox, followed by Google Chrome.

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. As of December 2009^[update], Chrome was the third most widely used browser, with 4.63% of worldwide usage share of web browsers according to Net Applications.

Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC clients, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading Web feeds. Opera is offered free of charge for personal computers and mobile phones. Features of Opera include tabbed browsing, page zooming, mouse gestures, and an integrated download manager. Its security features include built-in phishing and malware protection, strong encryption when browsing secure Web sites, and the ability to easily delete private data such as HTTP cookies.

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther." Safari is also the native browser for the iPhone OS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating system, first released on June 11, 2007, supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The current stable release of the browser is 4.0.4 for both Mac OS X and Windows.

Open Office

Open office can be downloaded from Sun-Java and other free download sites. Click here to download

OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is an open source software application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It is distributed as free software and written using its own GUI toolkit. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. As of November 2009^[update], OpenOffice supports over 110 languages.^[3]

OpenOffice.org was originally derived from StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000 with the aim of reducing the dominant market share of Microsoft Office by providing a free and open alternative; later versions of StarOffice are based upon OpenOffice.org with additional proprietary components.^[5]

The project and software are informally referred to as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK,^[6] requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name.^[7] Although branded as OpenOffice.org, the office suite included in most Linux distributions (including Ubuntu, OpenSuse and Mandriva) is actually a fork called Go-oo