Posted by Ian Holsman
i’m sure you’ve read about it about a million times, so I’m not going to repeat it (my opinion is that it was a honest mistake)
but seriously.. cut + paste a eula???
it’s amazing how different companies operate.
The scary thing that no one has picked up on is which product did they cut and paste it from?
Posted by Ian Holsman
oh joy.
another open source browser. this one looks like a branch off webkit/khtml.
I’m not sure what the motivation behind creating another browser is for google, unless they are thinking they are paying to much $$ to firefox to be their main search provider.
I’m also interested in how toolbars will work in the chrome world.
the ‘incognito’ model seems a bit different than microsoft’s IE8 offering. If I am reading it correctly, In incognito it will still pass webbugs through, if you have them on your system already. this will allow things like analytics and google to keep track of what your doing and who you are. but it will stop your wife knowing you look at porn. (note to people: your wife already knows you surf the porn sites, get over it)
anyways.. I look forward to downloading it, and seeing how many google specific services they use. hopefully they’ll let you change your prefs to use other search engines, and things like delicious.
Posted by Ian Holsman
well.. in my head anyway.
mysql 6.0.6 alpha was recently released, and with it a whole slew of patches (as one would expect).
So I got to thinking.. the problem with forking a large existing project is that you lose the testing that millions of people banging away at your product gives you.
going through the release notes I thought I saw 1 or 2 things that might be relevant to drizzle.
for example.. sorting.
Incompatible Change: Certain characters were sorted
incorrectly for the following collations: TILDE and GRAVE ACCENT
in big5_chinese_ci; LATIN SMALL LETTER J in cp866_general_ci;
TILDE in gb2312_chinese_ci; and TILDE in gbk_chinese_ci… Bug 25420
I am no way an expert in the mysql/drizzle internals but little things like this will make it hard I think.
How drizzle handles the patches in the main prong of the fork will be crucial in how it succeeds I would think. Focusing on making a lean server is fantastic news, and it fits in the way we develop apps over here at AOL. The list is full of energy, and great things will be done i’m sure. I look to one day having it as an option to deploy with.
Posted by Ian Holsman
lets see.
Today I’ve:
- made my boss angry by going over his head.
- caused at least 4 people to shoot me on sight by forwarding an email.
and it’s only 8:30am
I think i’ll turn off the internet cable before I do some real damage today.
Posted by Ian Holsman
The chaos computer club has announced the ‘freedom stick’, a USB-drive image that has all the bits to run tor on it. just plug it in, click the icon and away you go. It sounds like a really easy way of getting a machine in an internet cafe up and running quickly and painlessly.
my only concern is the source of the stick. I still think some people would get a kick out getting a couple thousand machine zombie network set up… so buyer beware.
Posted by Ian Holsman
The site that initially marked my foray into writing a django-based forum is now closing.
django has moved on a bit since then, and some of the ideas it had have been taken and made into their own projects by other people.
if you still want something from there ping me and i’ll see if I can find it
Posted by Ian Holsman
check out movetohungary it was set up as a joke site for a windows live game about the olympics.
but thats not the funny part.
the funny part is that senior IT/Finance people are actually emigrating to hungary and poland and places like that, as they can earn 4x their salary over there.
Posted by Ian Holsman
org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'insertPlaceholder' in class au.com.fairfaxdigital.deliverer.core.webapp.utils.AdHelperImpl threw exception au.com.fairfaxdigital.framework.exception.SystemException: An ad with id [adSpot-toolbox-top] already exists. The div id needs to be unique.
This error is often caused by a component insertion failure resulting in a retry. So if there isn't a duplicate look further up the log for the root cause. @ /templates/breaking-news/BreakingNewsStory.html[54,54]
org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:286)
org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:203)
org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:294)
org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:318)
org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:254)
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.VelocityResult.doExecute(VelocityResult.java:158)
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.StrutsResultSupport.execute(StrutsResultSupport.java:178)
com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionInvocation.executeResult(DefaultActionInvocation.java:348)
com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:253)
org.apache.struts2.impl.StrutsActionProxy.execute(StrutsActionProxy.java:50)
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.serviceAction(Dispatcher.java:504)
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.doFilter(FilterDispatcher.java:419)
au.com.fairfaxdigital.deliverer.webapp.filter.urlmapper.URLRewriterFilter.doFilter(URLRewriterFilter.java:67)
org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:198)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:75)
au.com.fairfaxdigital.framework.servletfilter.DiagnosticFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticFilter.java:74)
au.com.fairfaxdigital.deliverer.webapp.filter.TimingFilter.doFilter(TimingFilter.java:42)
Pity they don’t know how to configure a error handler
Posted by Ian Holsman
with all the fail whales and BS from twitter, I got to thinking.. why isn’t this federated? It seems like the perfect thing to have an open protocol behind it (XMPP?) and have multiple orgs all running their own twitter thing that talks to each other.
I’m not sure why people want/need another centralized service for this.