Firefox Download Day 2008

Posted by rae in General
at 10:24 am on Thursday, 29 May 2008

The folks at Firefox are trying to set a new world’s record for the number of downloads in a single day. I dunno, what’s the current record?

Okay, I got sucked into it. I even created a Facebook event for it, and joined the Facebook group.

So sue me. :-)

And download Firefox 3 on the day it comes out!

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Trying out “Disqus” for comments

Posted by rae in General
at 12:51 pm on Monday, 26 May 2008

Disqus

Let me know what you think of the new comment system. I’ve installed if for all zero-comment posts (which includes all new posts), so old posts with comments still have the old WordPress commenting system.

This may involve you having to create a Disqus account, but the idea is that you can use that account across blogs. I am also setting up Disqus on Tech Tok so you only have to create your account once for both places.

Leo Laporte has also set up his blog to use it. Maybe it will spread everywhere.

The idea is that your comments belong to you, and Disqus makes it easier to follow people, as opposed to blogs.

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gdb_stl_utils for Mac OS X

Posted by rae in development
at 2:31 pm on Thursday, 15 May 2008

Oh ya, this will have a wide audience..

There’s a very useful little utility for debugging STL under gdb, and it’s called gdb_stl_utils.

However, the Makefile that comes with it doesn’t account for multiple architectures like Intel/PPC on the Mac. So I updated the Makefile and posted the whole thing on clith.com/gdb_stl_utils. I’ve mailed the new Makefile to the person who most recently updated it in hopes of helping others use this very useful tool.

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GeForce 8800 GT in my Mac Pro lets me run Windows games again!

Posted by rae in General
at 11:42 am on Monday, 12 May 2008

With my new GeForce 8800 GT installed in my Mac, all my 2D window-drawing artifacts are gone, and I am once again able to play 3D Windows games (via BootCamp) without having the machine crash from overheating after 10 minutes.

So Walter, Iain and John should watch out for a new Team Fortress 2 user by the name of Clith de T’nir!

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Most Romantic Books

Posted by rae in General
at 1:46 pm on Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Not sure how I got there, but this page has a list of people saying what their favorite romantic books are.

A quick Perl script later, and here are the top books with the number of people on that page that mentioned them:

15 Gone With the Wind
15 The Bridges of Madison County
12 The Thorn Birds
11 The Notebook
8 Outlander
5 Wuthering Heights
3 A Knight in Shining Armor
3 Jane Eyre
3 Pride and Prejudice
3 Whitney, My Love
2 A Farewell to Arms
2 A Town Like Alice
2 Cyrano de Bergerac
2 Five Smooth Stones
2 Green Mansions
2 Joy in the Morning
2 Katherine
2 Love Story
2 Rebecca
2 The Flame and the Flower

So there you go.

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Iron Man

Posted by rae in entertainment
at 12:52 am on Wednesday, 7 May 2008

I went to see Iron Man on Thursday, the day before the erstwhile opening day.

With me were Andy, Jeff K and Craig. Overall, it was quite a fun movie, which required the usual comic-book suspension of disbelief. A quick explanation of why Tony Stark was able to ignore inertia would have been nice. “Engage inertial dampeners” would have sufficed.

Definitely recommended. I certainly enjoyed it enough to go see it again on Saturday with Luisa and Ronnie. (Ronnie had piano practice on Thursday night)

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