May 2011
8 posts
"our broader design goals"
…I thought it would be a simple matter of configuring the Launcher bar to pop up somewhere else on the screen. Like the right side. Or the bottom. This would be simple, I reasoned, because any other Linux distro I have used would let me do this. Brian Profitt ran afoul of Ubuntu’s new “There’s only one way to do it” design philosophy when trying to move the new...
May 27th
Skype for Asterisk will not be available for sale... →
Microsoft’s hobby is buying things and making them less useful.
May 25th
Apple-fying your software doesn't work if you...
John Poelstra doesn’t like that Gnome 3 suspends the computer when you close the lid of your laptop, and there’s no way to configure that behaviour. Well, there’s no way to configure it in the GUI, which is basically the same thing. Poelstra has this to say: This is going too far. I’ve never liked the suspend-on-close behavior, but I tolerate it on the MacBook because...
May 20th
ZDNET's Ed Burnette on the Android data leak scare →
The story is getting a lot of attention because it was noticed on Android, but it’s not, in fact, an Android vulnerability. It’s a security bug in any program that does not encrypt its authorization tokens. […] Should you be worried? Until a patch is available (either through the Market or an Android update) the problem can be avoided by not using the affected applications in a...
May 19th
is changing language tantamount to changing math? →
Turns out it isn’t.
May 18th
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Configurable NotifyOSD Bubbles For Ubuntu 11.04 →
Canonical appears to have given up on providing an easily-customized Gnome-based desktop environment, so it’s good to see modifications like this coming from the community.
May 17th
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Clippy's back →
Perhaps the cartoon search dog from XP will return in a feature length film to coincide with the launch of Windows 8?
May 16th
check. check. sibilance. sibilance. check.
Photo: Sound check #3 by teeba This blog’s ten months of dormancy ends today! You’ll note that the URL is now cooldry.ca, a major upgrade from the old cooldry.tumblr.ca. Since I last posted here, my life has changed drastically: I got married I flew in an airplane I joined an organized sports league Some things have stayed the same: I still live in the same house in the same...
May 13th