Peng’s links for Thursday, 31 July
Posted by Peng on 31 July 2008
- Chris Blizzard: two cool things: ogg support in mozilla and canvas in IE. From the “it’s about damned time” file, Firefox 3.1 will finally support Ogg Vorbis/Theora (audio/video) files natively. Linux users have long loved the open source Ogg media formats, and now their favorite browser will know what to do with them out of the box, even on non-Linux platforms. I’m not sure what this means for codecs on OSX and Windows.
- Melissa Draper: You’re doing what now?! Ms. Draper interrupts her hiatus from blogging to post a very important Public Service Announcement on the problem with using scripts found online that use the apt “–force-yes” flag. That’s right, it’s a really bad idea. And Ultamatix (which I mentioned Saturday) uses it a lot, which makes using the successor to Automatix a really bad idea.
- Alan Pope: Ubuntu UK Podcast Episode 11 Out. The UK Ubuntu LoCo (Local Community) Team recorded some segments for their latest podcast at the recent LUGRadio Live UK 2008. Although some of us Yanks may need closed captions since we threw some tea into Boston Harbor so many years ago.
It seems I may have had more possible posts from Planet Mozilla, expect people got trapped at the Mozilla Summit thanks to a rock slide on the road they were expecting to take to Vancouver. There’s been good natured jokes about whether summit attendees were going to have to resort to lifeboat team building events, but there is an alternate route, even if it does take eight hours rather than two and a half hours.Luckily Neil Deakin, who didn’t have that many hours to spare, found an even better route to Vancouver, so he won’t have to be late for his own wedding.
Dan Glazman came up with an even funnier way to look at the problem, and in true open source fashion someone filed a bug on the problem. I can’t help but laugh at some of the comments added to it. I think I’m going to have to subscribe to it, if for no other reason than to get even more humor out of today than my favorite cheezburger joint. But hey, we found the remote!
