Chrome means javascript

Yes, I know it’s a little bit excessive ’cause there’re more things inside Chrome browser, but just in order to catch your attention it’s a good title.

Recently, I’ve seen in one of my feeds a graph showing language programs on the rise or more used right now. Two things to highlight:

  1. php is loosing percent of use: It just makes me think… up to you, easy language, fast & durty, but now, if you wanna use it for a medium up to big project you can’t go out of a framework, so may it happens that programmers prefers to customize apps or cms instead of wrote out all that code?
  2. javascript is going up and so it keeps: there’s no flash or silerlight catching up javascript, again a short tought about it. There’s no browser without javascript support, no plugins needed so just embed your code and that’s all. Finally, Google uses browsers as a universal client for a new server-client arquitecture, where they wrote in javascript for almost every browser and they uses python or whatever for server

So, make javascript faster it’s a strategy for Google’s TWD. There’s only a leak, Linux and Mac versions 🙂

Rawstudio opens orf from Olympus E-510

Yes it does it

I’ve been looking for a program that lets me open .orf files from my Olympus E-510 and since I use Fedora I rule out from official software from Olympus. I keep on using their official software for firmware updates, but just for it.

So Rawstudio definitely opens .orf (which is the name for raw’s in Olympus cameras) but it goes better if I right click on the file and then I choose rawstudio. You may have check for your camera compatibility at rawstudio compatibility list

I can manipulate the file and if broke something I may reset each value to their original setting.

I also know there’s RawTherapee and I wanna try it out too. RawTherapee offers a users guide in spanish… it sounds great for an absolute beginner in raw processing.

About studying computing and salary

I’ve talk with a nice guy who’s working in a call center. He’s working and studying Computing Engineering at the same time… and he’s studying almost the same speciality that I’m studying.

It makes think about why to keep on studying. If that nice guy ends his degree right now he would came to the IT market and if he would be hired as a IT degree he will earns as much as he earns now as a call center operator. Sad.

Don’t get confuse. I firmly support the study. But it’s a pity that someone with a high degree has to start from a so unfair salary. On the other hand, when he takes experience enough and improve his salary, unfortunately, he still paid under his preparation or skills…
There’s no Fog Creek Software or Google company alike in Spain as far as I know…

So, what’s the sense in studying a degree in computing? You may is pointless if you’re thinking in achieve a good salary. But there’re people who studied ’cause they like it. Is it a vocational job so? I don’t think so. And if someone starts as a vocational it may end up in some different positions, burned out after a couple of years.
In my opinion you has few options:

  • Being vocational worker while you can
  • Start up your own bussines
  • Work with FOSS and get paid for it

Fedora problems with dvd-slideshow and how to solve them

I’ve just returned from our holidays in Florence… nice city by the way, very nice in deep.

Since I’ve carried my DSLR Olympus E-510 with me I’ve done several photos, now I’m involved in the post production job

I wanna some photo slideshow that keeps amused my family on the TV so I search some software for Linux and I found that (in my opinion) most mature and proper software seems to be dvd-slideshow and it has just one but; there’s no GUI for more complicated command line options, it really doesn’t matters to me but may to you.

Installation and dependecy problems resolutions are not complicated in Fedora. The only thing I’ve to take care is to specify -p and -mp2 options in command line. The first one, -p is for generate PAL video output and the second one -mp2 is for generate mp2 audio since it crashes if try to let it with mp3 by default although I got the propers codecs installed.

HAL problem dissapears and NetworkManager is ok

So in short the title explains everything. Now, I must admit I don’t like the idea of using NetworkManager instead of command line. Command line makes me feel with more control and lets me learn more. Nowadays this simple applet is simple and useful, shows me wifi networks, it let me choose what network I wanna use… so I surrender to it

Meanwhile HAL problems has dissapears probably ’cause there’s no conflict in having exclusivity access to network devices or so I think.

I have reduce the stack of daemons running at boot time by switching off bluetooth, rpc related daemons and ip6tables. I love chkconfig command line.

Soon I’ll push off cube-beryl related software since my graphich card (an old fashioned Svage S3 my laptop is from 2002 and I’m still surprise for that) doesn’t support this short of effects.