“The ice skating controversy will not change my enjoyment of the rest of the Olympics. After all, it was five judges against four. We are currently saddled with a president who was seated by the same judge count of five to four, and that hasn’t changed my enjoyment of being an American.”
— Mel Hirsekorn, 79, Redwood City
An interesting thread that helps illuminate why my G4 450MHz/1.1GB runs so damn slow w/ OSX. Last week, I shifted to Classic. With Mozilla running much better on OS9, and the new Linux server in at work, there wasn’t much reason for me to stay on it. The straw that broke the camel’s back? Not being able to figure out how to remap ^H onto the DEL key in terminal.app. Oh, that and being tired of running on a shit slow system.
I was reading the ‘major comments’ on the US v MS settlement were put up online Thursday. One pretty cool thing, sitting among the comments by megacorps like Sun, gov’t organizations like the US Senate, and public citizens like Ralph Nader, is a comment by Dan Kegel‘s (LULA). Cool.
Of all this, what sticks out for me about the proposed settlement is section III.J where it says that none of this applies to security or copyright related issues. Hmm, like AOL patching it’s AIM security and well, any of the ridiculous stuff related with the DMCA. Trustworthy Computing? Doesn’t that involve trusting the company and people selling you the software? Related: this month’s Crypto-gram talks about MS, and culls some links.
Hmm, googlewhacking is not as hard as one might imagine. (Just come up with a non-common word that pops up few results, and find another non-common word that’s unique to one of those. Vióla. Of course your whack gets immolated next time your site is crawled. I suppose that is part of the fun (and deep metaphysical commentary) of it all.
Here’s a pretty comprehensive review of the Handspring Treo. I’ll pass for now. Maybe next generation.
Processing 470MB (1 weeks worth) of gzipd logs reveals that more people visit the USC site use Netscape 3 than Mozilla/Netscape 6.
blogger ate this post: about how SpamAssassin is a good idea (filters email based on accumulation of points via text analysis). It also uses Vipul’s Razor, a spam database, which is also a good idea (after all, most spam is the same message sent to a bajillion people).
Since AOL is doing their thing to Trillian again, I decided to go and install the nim.xpi for Mozilla. While I was at it, I also installed the spellchk.xpi spell checker. It’s very useful being able to installe the .xpi files seperately without being forced to actually use the POS known as ns6
This turns out to be a bad idea unless your moz version matches, as there’s lots of xpcom instability it looks like (unstable interfaces? what else is new in mozilla?) For spell checking, there is a spellchecker for 0.9.8…
Too bad there’s no xpi uninstall feature.
When I went to pull my car out this morning, I realized why it had taken me a bit more than usual of wedging to get in my parking space, as I had about 3″ of wiggle room. The really impressive part was that it was a pretty decent parking job that I did last night. It didn’t take me much longer to get in than it did to get out (about 10 times back and forth).
Speaking of /.
Aww, it’s romantic in a geekish kind of way. (yep, some sod went off and posted her URL and /.d her. That’s just funny in so many ways. Um like one, or two maybe. BTW, here’s the URL google found)