It already happened. Check your settings to see if it's turned on.
As suspected, my settings are correct. When I went to About Firefox I got the dialog.. downloading update 0 of 24.2MB downloaded. Seems like they still have work to do.
I recall reading that the updates would start happening silently in the background. I still appreciate the announcement, but my guess is that next week I'll go to the About Firefox section and find that it waited until just then to download the update to version 18. I much prefer the way Chrome handles it where I go to check and find out it happened while I wasn't paying attention. Where's the hold up on making that happen? Did it happen and I just haven't flipped a setting?
I give to Charity: Water. They've got a great proposition where 100% of your donations go directly to the field to fund water projects. They're also a tech saavy group of folks and try to prove that by providing GPS signals and photos of the project you funded. Administrative costs are covered separately by a group of benefactors (who understand they are solely paying for administrative costs).
In case anyone is counting, I'm voting for Diablo 3 for Linux. Games were the only reason I would dual boot in the past, but now I just wait and wait for WINE to catch up. I happily completed NWN2 and Titan Quest with the help of WINE and if there's no D3 for Linux I'll just wait it out.
A side benefit (for me) is that prices for games tend to drop over time.
I've been using my PSP with the stock firmware and have been incredibly disappointed. There are some good games for the platform but not enough to make it attractive. Mostly there are a bunch of localized Japanese games that don't appeal to me.
The list you provided gives me good reason to go try CFW. Frankly at this point if it bricks my PSP it won't be a big loss.
With that guy's attitude, I suspect that Mongrel is quickly going to fall out of favor. Hell, with that outburst, I think people should be rightly concerned about using and updating Mongrel as a matter of due diligence.
I don't think so -- despite what you read on his blog, Mongrel itself is actually quite nice. I favor using it with Nginx instead of Apache2 but that's just me. I don't see abandoning it because of his ego. Actually, IIRC he's passed on major improvements to Ezra and his team over at Engine Yard so perhaps it's irrelevant anyway.
And actually VM Ware 1.1 beta currently has experimental support for DirectX 9. That doesn't mean that all games will work, but it's another reason why native mac gaming may be slow(er) to take off.
Interestingly, the economics of this make it hard for the little guy to compete. From where I'm sitting, Google sure looks a whole lot like Microsoft did back in the 90's. Initiatives like mine are almost certainly doomed.
More to the point, it's hard to see where this would cause many people who have a PSP to upgrade. This is one area where Apple, for instance, excels. They may not have great market share but they do a fantastic job at getting people to buy replacement laptops, ipods, and just about anything else they put out because the next gen always has some killer thing the previous gen did not. With the PSP we got something thinner with better battery life (good) and video out (very good). I would liked to have seen some improvements with:
-- Wireless (is it still 802.11b?) -- Memory Stick capacity (are we still stuck at 4GB max?) -- Built-in GPS or camera. (nothing here..) -- Bluetooth (so I could connect via mobile phone or use ad2p headphones)
But sadly, I didn't see any of these. I'm left with a moderately useful PSP with no little to carry it around and hence no reason to test the battery life.
Yeah, keeping all this stuff current is the real kicker. I started buyindie.net back in 2004 mostly as a hobby. It's mostly for DC but is still lacking mostly because it takes an army of volunteers or employees to keep things current because many small business owners either aren't tech saavy enough or don't see the benefits just yet.
Still, I think Google will do great with this new feature. Frankly, anything that helps keep local businesses going is a plus in my book.
The point is that you can live without a car in LA too but it's easier in Manhattan. Secondly, it's not like I moved to Buffalo and am complaining that it's cold. This is like moving to Buffalo and complaining because there's still segregation. I have a right to bitch about it because it 100% a man-made problem and serves NO good at all. It's even more ridiculous than the Electoral College. Implying that I should move and don't deserve voting rights is obscene at best.
Really? Just what percentage of people in VA or MD live within walking distance of a metro? If you use a whole percentage point here then you are being overly optimistic. Just because there are a few metro stops in the area where you can walk to (King St, Ballston, Bethesda) doesn't mean that all of them are (Rockville, Shady Grove, West Falls Church, etc etc)
In fact you'd be surprised how many people drive their cars from way the hell out and park at the metro to commute to a job in DC. For what? Two acres and a three car garage. Yay American dream.
Thanks.. I love the idea of contributing to suburban sprawl. 6 million people in the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area and less than 10% live in the District. You really want me contributing to the traffic? Plus, I have no desire to be condemned to driving everywhere and shopping at chains. If you look forward a few steps into what you're implying you'll see just how unsustainable a suggestion you are making.
I call fud on this. I did a review of the Nokia N73 as it relates to OS X some time ago (search for it.. this isn't a plug) and found absolutely no problems with the 3rd edition of S60. I hadn't used a Nokia in quite a while so if things were significantly worse I think I would have picked up on it.
As it stands now, I'm extremely happy with my N73. And since it syncs with my iTunes, iCal, and address book I effectively have a serviceable iPhone already.
This is why I'm against all of the restrictions on campaigning. Instead I support 100% transparency on money. If you want to publish an ad, all you should have to do is say "I'm __INSERT__NAME__ and have the following (non-)affiliation with Candidate X." Just transparency so the public can decide.
That's great if you restrict it to citizens instead of PACs. But PAC's have such confusing names sometimes that you really can't be sure what they're pushing.
What I'd like to see is the restriction of donations to PACs, Politicians, and other organizations by all non-citizens (e.g. Corporations). Last I checked Wal*mart wasn't a US citizen so why should they get to inject money into the political process which exists essentially to serve citizens?
Come now, you don't think this legislation has anything scientific reasoning behind it, do you? It's just a convienent way for the govenment to exercise control over free speech and raise revenue.
It might.. but you're right about government wanting to exercise control. I think it's actually a little more urgent than some suspect which is why I wrote this rant.
Another question is: should this work? I am not a historian, but wasn't the whole point of broadcast licenses to prevent frequency interference? Is that really relevant with the way things work on the Internet today?
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If this trend continues I wonder how many orgs would be willing to go along for the ride? Imagine a mail server running on Debian, your web server running on Sun Linux, your database server on Oracle Linux, your application server on Red Hat, etc.
All similar but different enough to drive an IT guy batty. Too much of a good thing?
I liked Eudora's *Mac* version back in the OS9 days. The trouble with Thunderbird and all current clients I can think of is that they put the entire client in one window: folders, preview pane, email list, etc.
The old Eudora used to just have the menu bar up top and allow you to open and place any window independently. It took a while to get used to it but it was sure nice once you had it configured.
Seems like it's all more or less the same these days with the "known paradigm" of UI becoming more important than any large improvements of usability. It's too bad really.
I hope Qualcomm the best with their plan, but I wish they had just open sourced the code to their own client rather than building on Thunderbird.
I've been using it for a while now and the built-in spell checker is definitely a big plus. One thing that seems missing though is the ability to cycle windows with command tilde (~). I don't have my old copy of 1.5 around so can't confirm if that just disappeared in 2.0 or whether it never got implemented. Still, even with tabs, that's a nice key combo and I'm missing it.
I started using postgrey on my mail server a few months ago and my spam dropped from several hundred per day to about 10 per week. I wrote up this great how-to but figure that if spammer's got wise my advantage would be lost so I never published it.
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It already happened. Check your settings to see if it's turned on.
As suspected, my settings are correct. When I went to About Firefox I got the dialog.. downloading update 0 of 24.2MB downloaded. Seems like they still have work to do.
I recall reading that the updates would start happening silently in the background. I still appreciate the announcement, but my guess is that next week I'll go to the About Firefox section and find that it waited until just then to download the update to version 18. I much prefer the way Chrome handles it where I go to check and find out it happened while I wasn't paying attention. Where's the hold up on making that happen? Did it happen and I just haven't flipped a setting?
I give to Charity: Water. They've got a great proposition where 100% of your donations go directly to the field to fund water projects. They're also a tech saavy group of folks and try to prove that by providing GPS signals and photos of the project you funded. Administrative costs are covered separately by a group of benefactors (who understand they are solely paying for administrative costs).
In case anyone is counting, I'm voting for Diablo 3 for Linux. Games were the only reason I would dual boot in the past, but now I just wait and wait for WINE to catch up. I happily completed NWN2 and Titan Quest with the help of WINE and if there's no D3 for Linux I'll just wait it out. A side benefit (for me) is that prices for games tend to drop over time.
I've been using my PSP with the stock firmware and have been incredibly disappointed. There are some good games for the platform but not enough to make it attractive. Mostly there are a bunch of localized Japanese games that don't appeal to me.
The list you provided gives me good reason to go try CFW. Frankly at this point if it bricks my PSP it won't be a big loss.
With that guy's attitude, I suspect that Mongrel is quickly going to fall out of favor. Hell, with that outburst, I think people should be rightly concerned about using and updating Mongrel as a matter of due diligence.
I don't think so -- despite what you read on his blog, Mongrel itself is actually quite nice. I favor using it with Nginx instead of Apache2 but that's just me. I don't see abandoning it because of his ego. Actually, IIRC he's passed on major improvements to Ezra and his team over at Engine Yard so perhaps it's irrelevant anyway.
And actually VM Ware 1.1 beta currently has experimental support for DirectX 9. That doesn't mean that all games will work, but it's another reason why native mac gaming may be slow(er) to take off.
Interestingly, the economics of this make it hard for the little guy to compete. From where I'm sitting, Google sure looks a whole lot like Microsoft did back in the 90's. Initiatives like mine are almost certainly doomed.
What is needed? We need some politicians with ethics who aren't in the pocket of the telcos to actually stand up and hold them to their promises.
Then end corporate personhood. In fact, why not write your Congressman about it today?
More to the point, it's hard to see where this would cause many people who have a PSP to upgrade. This is one area where Apple, for instance, excels. They may not have great market share but they do a fantastic job at getting people to buy replacement laptops, ipods, and just about anything else they put out because the next gen always has some killer thing the previous gen did not. With the PSP we got something thinner with better battery life (good) and video out (very good). I would liked to have seen some improvements with:
-- Wireless (is it still 802.11b?)
-- Memory Stick capacity (are we still stuck at 4GB max?)
-- Built-in GPS or camera. (nothing here..)
-- Bluetooth (so I could connect via mobile phone or use ad2p headphones)
But sadly, I didn't see any of these. I'm left with a moderately useful PSP with no little to carry it around and hence no reason to test the battery life.
..and America is watching TV.
Yeah, keeping all this stuff current is the real kicker. I started buyindie.net back in 2004 mostly as a hobby. It's mostly for DC but is still lacking mostly because it takes an army of volunteers or employees to keep things current because many small business owners either aren't tech saavy enough or don't see the benefits just yet.
Still, I think Google will do great with this new feature. Frankly, anything that helps keep local businesses going is a plus in my book.
The point is that you can live without a car in LA too but it's easier in Manhattan. Secondly, it's not like I moved to Buffalo and am complaining that it's cold. This is like moving to Buffalo and complaining because there's still segregation. I have a right to bitch about it because it 100% a man-made problem and serves NO good at all. It's even more ridiculous than the Electoral College. Implying that I should move and don't deserve voting rights is obscene at best.
Really? Just what percentage of people in VA or MD live within walking distance of a metro? If you use a whole percentage point here then you are being overly optimistic. Just because there are a few metro stops in the area where you can walk to (King St, Ballston, Bethesda) doesn't mean that all of them are (Rockville, Shady Grove, West Falls Church, etc etc) In fact you'd be surprised how many people drive their cars from way the hell out and park at the metro to commute to a job in DC. For what? Two acres and a three car garage. Yay American dream.
Thanks.. I love the idea of contributing to suburban sprawl. 6 million people in the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area and less than 10% live in the District. You really want me contributing to the traffic? Plus, I have no desire to be condemned to driving everywhere and shopping at chains. If you look forward a few steps into what you're implying you'll see just how unsustainable a suggestion you are making.
DC isn't considered a state. So we have limited voting rights.
It's why our license plates say "Taxation Without Representation".
I call fud on this. I did a review of the Nokia N73 as it relates to OS X some time ago (search for it.. this isn't a plug) and found absolutely no problems with the 3rd edition of S60. I hadn't used a Nokia in quite a while so if things were significantly worse I think I would have picked up on it.
As it stands now, I'm extremely happy with my N73. And since it syncs with my iTunes, iCal, and address book I effectively have a serviceable iPhone already.
This is why I'm against all of the restrictions on campaigning. Instead I support 100% transparency on money. If you want to publish an ad, all you should have to do is say "I'm __INSERT__NAME__ and have the following (non-)affiliation with Candidate X." Just transparency so the public can decide.
That's great if you restrict it to citizens instead of PACs. But PAC's have such confusing names sometimes that you really can't be sure what they're pushing.
What I'd like to see is the restriction of donations to PACs, Politicians, and other organizations by all non-citizens (e.g. Corporations). Last I checked Wal*mart wasn't a US citizen so why should they get to inject money into the political process which exists essentially to serve citizens?
Come now, you don't think this legislation has anything scientific reasoning behind it, do you? It's just a convienent way for the govenment to exercise control over free speech and raise revenue.
It might.. but you're right about government wanting to exercise control. I think it's actually a little more urgent than some suspect which is why I wrote this rant.
Another question is: should this work? I am not a historian, but wasn't the whole point of broadcast licenses to prevent frequency interference? Is that really relevant with the way things work on the Internet today?
If this trend continues I wonder how many orgs would be willing to go along for the ride? Imagine a mail server running on Debian, your web server running on Sun Linux, your database server on Oracle Linux, your application server on Red Hat, etc.
All similar but different enough to drive an IT guy batty. Too much of a good thing?
I liked Eudora's *Mac* version back in the OS9 days. The trouble with Thunderbird and all current clients I can think of is that they put the entire client in one window: folders, preview pane, email list, etc.
The old Eudora used to just have the menu bar up top and allow you to open and place any window independently. It took a while to get used to it but it was sure nice once you had it configured.
Seems like it's all more or less the same these days with the "known paradigm" of UI becoming more important than any large improvements of usability. It's too bad really.
I hope Qualcomm the best with their plan, but I wish they had just open sourced the code to their own client rather than building on Thunderbird.
I've been using it for a while now and the built-in spell checker is definitely a big plus. One thing that seems missing though is the ability to cycle windows with command tilde (~). I don't have my old copy of 1.5 around so can't confirm if that just disappeared in 2.0 or whether it never got implemented. Still, even with tabs, that's a nice key combo and I'm missing it.
In case you didn't know, he is Director of TSA.
I started using postgrey on my mail server a few months ago and my spam dropped from several hundred per day to about 10 per week. I wrote up this great how-to but figure that if spammer's got wise my advantage would be lost so I never published it.