Peng’s links for Thursday, 17 July
Posted by Peng on 17 July 2008
- Planet Mozilla: Google calendar may display real names of other Google mail users. I meant to post this when I saw it yesterday but they day was so packed with jam (I love jam) that I couldn’t get back to it. If you use Gmail you’ll want to check it out and look for the bug to be squashed.
- Max Kanat-Alexander: Creating Complexity: Lock-In To Bad Technologies. Max expands a point in his post The Never-Shipping Product to look at what “bad” technology is. How can you pass up a post that mentions Microsoft Bob?
- Window Snyder: TippingPoint vulnerability patched in Firefox 3.0.1 and 2.0.0.16. I should have mentioned in yesterday’s post about the latest Firefox update that the vulnerability is fixed in an update of Firefox 3 that came out yesterday, but I must have missed reading that in my standard policy of not supporting Firefox 3. Mozilla’s security chief looks at the CSS vulnerability that got fixed in the updates.
- Aza Raskin: “Not The User’s Fault” Manifesto. Aza looks at Jono DiCarlo’s manifesto for writing open source code. There are some interesting points about Linux, but I strongly disagree with his take on UI design and marketing. Hooking UI design to the marketing department is part of why we got stuck with the Awesome Bar rather than the Smart Location Bar. But the post is still very much worth reading.
- SciFi Wire: Day: Dr. Horrible Part of Trend. Do you remember when I mentioned Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog las month? It’s up now and you’ll want to watch it, even if it’s just for a good reason to be glad Josh Whedon didn’t do a musical episode of Firefly. Even if Nathan (Mal Reynolds) Fillion can sing pretty well. And no, Jaynestown doesn’t qualify as a musical episode.
- DesktopLinux.com: Writer tells Penguinistas to chill on closed source. Does Nvidia get unfair treatment in the world of Linux because they haven’t opened their driver source code? One writer says yes, because other closed source projects get a free pass from Linux users.
Points to whoever can identify the reference I made in the first link. Also, I’m leaving comments open so people can comment on any of the links in today’s posts, but flaming comments about my unwillingness to support Firefox 3 will be deleted as soon as I’m aware they’ve been made. I keep my posts about Firefox 3 down to a bare minimum, some of you need to get over the fact that not everyone loves Mozilla’s newest browser.
Clarification: I love Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Once again Whedon shows his genius, especially since it was made on the sly during the writer’s strike. There’s just one or two moments in each of the first two parts that get a little too cheesy. Like the incredible TMI (in this case way Too Much information) moment at around 11:30 in part two. I can’t wait for part three and I hate that it’s the last part of the story.
/me shudders at the mere memory of the TMI.
Jean-Louis said
Hi Peng,
your links are interesting however as I read them from planet_Ubuntu_users blog, they appear as a big blob of information, several topics unrelated to each other, at least I won’t complain they are not related to Ubuntu, they mostly are from close or further, and they are interesting too)!
It is just too indigest in its current form… it makes me want to skip to the next story, or even discourage me to read the page any further…
can you try to do anything about it?
Thanks
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