Archive for September, 2007
My favorite client on Windows was Azureus and when I bought the Mac I continued using it. The thing is, Azureus has many nice features mas it is fat and recently was turned into something I definitely do not want. I just want to download some files on ocasion and want the process to be fast and light.
Then I found Transmission. It’s small, light and works like a charm. Perfect!
Here’s some screenshots (you can find more on the project’s homepage):
The main window:
With the download in the screenshot in progress the application used 26MB of memory 
Transmission is now part of my Essential Apps.
LWN broke the news about AMD announcing the decision to enable the development of open source drivers by making specifications available for all its graphics processors starting from the R500.
A few more details came up on Christopher Blizzard’s blog and I can only say kudos to AMD!
Intel started it all, AMD goes one step further and nVidia gets left alone.
Speaking of nVidia, a quick browse of the comments on this news and you can often find something like “I was going to buy nVidia but now…”
I hope companies finally start seeing their lack of support for opensource as something that hurts them: Look, that’s your money running.
I can now speak of this: Friday, 31 of August was my last day working for Agap2 at IBM. Starting tomorrow I’m starting a new project at VerticalOne as a Senior Consultant in Open Source technologies.
Who says work can’t be fun 
