It looks good in Mozilla and Firebird, it looks good in Safari, it looks good in IE 5.2, but it looks like crap in IE 6 for Windows. But that’s no big deal, because only 90% of the viewing public uses it.
I just wanted a page without any tables. Is that too much to ask?
I deleted all my old server logs today. Roughly 2 years worth of information about all those who requested information from my web server. Sure, half (or more) was unintelligible Nimda and Code Red crap, but there was a sizable amount of legitimate stuff as well. I’d say I averaged 1.5 GigaBytes of data transferred per month over the last year, and around 1GB/mo before that.
So why did I ditch it? To make room? Well, yes, sort of. The logs were quite large, but not unwieldy. I just finished setting up analog to monitor all three virtual hosts now being served, and I wanted a clean run. No errors from old log formats, etc… Wipe the slate clean.
Sun showed off the future of GUI with its demo of project looking glass. Its a pretty interesting looking GUI, seems really, really excessive. I can’t imagine using a “3-D” interface with a mouse. I guess that explains why its not really 3-D. Maybe we should work on improving input devices first? My wrists and elbows wouldn’t mind.
Johnathan Schwartz, Executive VP of Software says that it’ll be an “open” desktop environment in which the community will drive its growth. Though I’m a big fan of community development, I feel that the GUI is one item that doesn’t benefit from an untamed community. The reason OS X’s environment is so wonderful to work in, and so seamless between interfaces is because of a very strict set of guidelines defining the GUI. Compare Aqua to GNOME. Which would you rather use? Well, Sun chose GNOME, which I think explains a lot.
Looking Glass is great eye candy, but the demonstration doesn’t offer any compelling improvement to anything available today. Its nothing more than a glitzy dock. Who needs a video to play when its minimized anyway?
Some of these are pretty old, but still good. Go to Google, type in any of the following phrases, and click I’m feeling lucky.
french military victories
miserable failure
weapons of mass destruction
Please share if you know other good ones.
“I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model, and it might not be successful.”
Steve Jobs on the failure of subscription music services from RollingStone.com.
Michelle and I updated our mobile phone plan with AT&T because of “family” plan that allows us to add a second phone for $9/month. This is great, but the big news is bluetooth. Yup, finally. I just need to wait for my dongle (he he) to arrive. Then I can sync my addresses, calendar, and get a good ring-tone.
It took nearly 48 hours for Michelle’s phone number to be transferred due to the volume of changes this weekend, and a slight cock-up on AT&T’s part. But now its working, and I think we’re set. The deals seem too good, and we’re waiting for something to go wrong. Go wrong? With a phone company? right….
Its quite a feat to get a bill into committee and onto the floor for a vote. Its amazing the sponsors of HB 2892 got as far as they did. Sadly, once publicity of the bill reached the lobbyists from a certain law-evading megacorporation, the bill was thwarted. Significant campaign donations seem to mean more that public interest.
I’ve been working with Solaris 9 for x86 at work, and with a couple different Linux distros, predominantly Red Hat 9, Mandrake 9.1, and Slackware 9.1. With all the small hurdles, I can’t be happier to come home to my Mac. Its nice when things just work. And act the way you expect them to.
What an odd sight to behold! Get your copy today! Its an amazingly well thought out application, and music store.