04.25.08 - 12:40am
Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” came out today (*checks clock* err, yesterday) — congrads to the Ubuntu community on the release! I just finished installing it under VMWare Fusion on my MacBook, and will upgrade my home and work Ubuntu desktops this weekend.
Installation was painless. I didn’t even need to edit xorg.conf and specify my monitor’s [...]
03.31.08 - 12:56am
Testing seems to be the topic du jour this weekend… A few remarks.
I don’t think this is a discussion that should be framed as an argument between pro-test and anti-test factions. In fact, I’m not even sure the latter group really exists. Yes, some modules could be better at adding tests on a regular basis, [...]
03.22.08 - 10:02pm
I’ve been shopping around for a new cell phone and plan. My first attempt was about a year ago, after moving to the Bay area, but I gave up in despair. I had been hoping that the success of the iPhone would help improve things, but after looking around again I remain throughly disgusted at [...]
03.15.08 - 08:37pm
The space shuttle is in orbit right now, delivering some more equipment to the International Space Station. One of the payload items is Dextre, a large robotic hand that will be attached to the end of the station’s robotic arm.
Mission Control’s daily upload of instructions to the shuttle crew included this note:
Good Morning Endeavour!
Optimus [...]
02.29.08 - 05:57pm
One aspect of software piracy that’s always interested me is the way protection schemes always seem to end up causing nothing but trouble for legitimate users — while pirates happily release 0-day cracks to use the software trouble-tree (albeit illegally). The issue’s been around since at least the early 1980s, and continues to spread into [...]
02.17.08 - 08:08pm
I’ve rarely hit the Google SafeBrowsing (malware) warning page, but last week it flagged a few sites that caught my attention. One was example.com (a reserved domain, which amusingly caused our test suite to fail :). The others were real web sites, both for popular Firefox extensions — joehewitt.com and downthemall.net.
Blocking the user when [...]
02.11.08 - 12:15am
David Baron reminded me on IRC that there have been throbber design contests in the past…
There’s this Netscape page for a 1995 (?) animation contest (holy 16-color flashback, batman!), which conveniently has images for each frame for the winner and top 5 entries… APNG time!
Here’s the winner (left), and the final version that made it [...]
02.10.08 - 08:01pm
As you might have heard, the theme for Firefox 3 has been undergoing a refresh. Alex Faaborg has been blogging about most of the big changes, but I thought I’d mention one little piece of remaining work — the throbber — and see what other ideas people had.
Here are the two throbbers used in Firefox [...]
01.16.08 - 01:18am
These are great!
The travelling salesman visits Donald E. Knuth first.
Donald E. Knuth writes his books in constant time. The constant is very big.
(…more…)
First Chuck, then Bruce, and now Don? Who’s next? :-)
