Interview at Blog Network Watch with Heather Snodgrass of [decentcontent] & Spoke Media.
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Q: Software that you use each day?
A: Photoshop CS2, NVU, Flock, Fetch, Adium, Entourage, iTunes. I’m fairly basic when it comes to my applications.
Enjoy 🙂
I’m shocked. Today I visited Marcin Gorny’s blog. Beside of other interests, he is a beta tester of Microsoft products.
Now, take a look at those screenshots. Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2, Screenshot 3, Screenshot 4.
Notice that this is slightly modified Windows XP.
Now, thanks to the magic, in 15 minutes you can do almost the same amount of work as Microsoft did in 5 years! Marcin published the full step-by-step description on how to modify WinXP into Vista look&feel.
Now. Tell me. If we can agree that you can have WindowsXP looks like Vista. What Microsoft, the biggest IT company in the world, did between year 2001 and 2006 when they were/are working on Windows Vista?
Is that the same as they’re doing with IE7? The same old Trident, and a bunch of code that was previously coded for Maxthon?
I’m wondering if it’s possible to legally create customized build of Windows XP so it looks like Vista and sell it in WinXP price.
Apple is the brand of 2005 for sure.
I got an ipod black 4gb nano, my girlfriend got white one, and it seems to be quite ordinary situation, Mike has similar one and Technorati confirms the trend.
I’m wondering if there is any more popular gift for Christmas 2005.
Also, thanks to Robert, iPod will sync with my Thunderbird soon!
LEM się popisał. Wydał grę. Nie żeby jakoś specjalnie udaną, ot, taką sobie. Gra nazywa się Quake 4 i zbiera recenzje co najwyżej przeciętne. Ciekawostką jest jednak co innego. Cena. I nie chodzi mi o relacje cena/jakość, bo jako zatwardziały kapitalista wierzę głęboko, że każdy ma prawo dyktować cenę taką, jaką mu się podoba, i o ile produkt nie należy do podstawowych dóbr materialnych, nie ratuje życia itp., a służy jedynie rozrywce, lub jest towarem eksluzywnym, to wara komukolwiek od cen producenta*.
Cena gry także niczym się nie wyróżnia. Ot, 109 złotych. 109 złotych? Tak jest, po tyle właśnie można zakupić ją w USA – 34$. Jednak LEM, uznał, że to dumping, i produkt tak elitarny, nie powinien iść po takich pieniądzach. No to hop, podrzucił cenę, i w Polsce można go kupić już za, uwaga, 249 złotych. Nooo, teraz rozumiem.
After not-so-short time of silence about KDE 4 development progress from KDE devs, I decided to write an email to Aaron Seigo and Torsten Rahn asking about the reasons of recent silence and current progress.
Aaron responded that after initial buzz they focused on porting libraries from KDE3 (QT3) to KDE4 (QT4[\.1]?) and until they’re done, there’s nothing to write about since not so many are interested in long stories about which libraries are already ported and which are not.
I also wrote that in my opinion, KDE has the ultimate chance to use the energy of many volunteers since it’s the first time ever when the new GUI is developed almost from the scratch basing on very modern library and with a strong group of users. It means that it’s easier than ever to influence it’s feature set and UI and to share your ideas.
He responded that they don’t feel to be ready to use non-development energy yet, but they want to prepare for this and spend a few months on community brainstorm once they have basic tools and resources to use for those volunteers who are interested in participating. I hope to be able to help there and first I want to select from the melted sea of ideas (a’ka Kollaboration forums) the pure genius ones and describe them well so KDE devs could easly read what’s on the deck and choose what they want.
So, if you have any, really, any idea about GUI, and you want to share this idea and throw it into brainstorm powerfield to shape it into something brillant, go on. Just post it on Kollaboration forum and I’ll try to make sure it won’t be forgotten 🙂
Czy ktokolwiek zgłosił się do lokalizacji Songbirda? W komentarzach widze wpis prawdapunka, ale żadnego dalszego potwierdzenia!
Jeśli ktoś to robi, to proszę o kontakt z AviaryPL, jeśli nie, to może ktoś chce się wziąć za to? Zapowiada się kolejny smakowity kąsek na bazie Gecko 😉
Ok, I’m getting near to split this diary into two parts.
The current plan is to host tech diary on gandalf.wordpress.com with current URL – diary.e-gandalf.net and move my private blog to blog.e-gandalf.net. The later one will be in Polish and will focus mostly on my private feelings about the politics, philosophy, science, culture, people and my, yet to be published, World Domination 1.0 plan.
It also means that all previous tech notes will still be available on blog.e-gandalf.net instead of diary.e-gandalf.net which is a pity, but I really have no idea how to move all previous posts from one wordpress to another where I have no access to database 🙁 (wordpress.com).
Anyway, if wordpress.com will not allow me to create private backups of my diary, I might consider just creating second wordpress instance on this server (glups, mrman will kill). But I will still need some solution to move all blogs from one instance to another. And my mind tries to avoid accepting that I must write a script for that 🙁
I just updated Roc’s patch from bug 317375 and compiled Firefox trunk with it. It fixes the eyes bug and the red block bug.
There are still two bugs with misplaces blocks, both are fixed in REFLOW_BRANCH.
Both patches, Roc’s refactor painting, and Dbaron’s reflow refactor are fixing huge amount of bugs. It’s still hard to say how many bugs will be fixed by Dbaron’s patch, but it should be around 200! (basing on bugs with [reflow-refactor] and {inc} keywords).
I have working Fx build with Roc’s patch and I’ll try to make a lot of stress tests to draft the number of CSS tests that Gecko will start support.
Ah! Promised screenshot 🙂
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You can download linux build from here.
P.S. Oh, forgot to mention. This build also have parts of Places user interface!
Oooh, Suprise!
I can see scratches on the solid Gnome wall that states that Gnome is cleaner, easier, better, lighter, faster, and the KDE is a piece of crap used by eye-candy gruppies.
And I’m happy not because I believe that Gnome is bad, but because reading techie blogs in Poland it looks like the KDE users are just using KDE, and Gnome users not only using Gnome but additionally often express their sarcastic hate for KDE in malicious jokes. So maybe we’re getting near to the day when those hardcore-gnome-hackers will start seeing KDE as a platform of choice for many people. And those users choose KDE because, in their opinion, it’s better. Can you believe that?
update: anyway, it’s very unfortunate that Linus wrote that on Gnome maillist. It really looks like a trolling. He should probably express his believes on neutral ground.
I’m on the prelection about XUL on a Hackfest at SHDH 0×06. Hoah :>
