The Musings of Chris Samuel

OK, I spoke too soon, I’m back running the 4.3.3 snapshot due to people complaining about echo on the phone. Oh well!

Posted on October 6th, 2008 under Linux, Software. Comments: None

Thirteen of the twenty three members of Standards Norway have resigned over its decision to recommend OOXML to ISO when 19 voted no and 2 voted yes for it (one of whom was Microsoft). The Inquirer has a rough Google translation of the letter, which says things like:
Standard Norway chose to defy their own [...]

Posted on October 4th, 2008 under Microsoft, Patents, Software. Comments: None

Just upgraded my Neo Freerunner to the new Qtopia, er, Qt Extended release (4.4.1) and I’m now downgrading back to the 4.3.3-snapshot I fortunately kept around. I can’t change my timezone and the touchscreen has become overly sensitive, so I’m going to wait for the next release I think.
Hey ho!

Posted on October 2nd, 2008 under Linux, Software. Comments: None

Oops..
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome.
The Wikipedia page [...]

Posted on September 2nd, 2008 under Google, Internet, News, Software. Comments: 1

I’ve swapped to a new theme called Atahualpa which looks quite nice and has a lot of configuration settings to tweak, as well as being a variable width three column theme. As usual if you spot any problems please let me know!

Posted on August 31st, 2008 under Wordpress. Comments: 10

So much for Microsoft promises, according to El Reg:
The dirty secret is buried deep down in the «Compatibility view» configuration panel, where the «Display intranet sites in Compatibility View» box is checked by default. Thus, by default, intranet pages are not viewed in standards mode.
The icon they’ve selected for standards compliant pages is also [...]

Posted on August 30th, 2008 under Internet, Microsoft, Software. Comments: None

Matt, a friend of mine, paraphrasing a comment on Slashdot:
All the documentation on building the LHC has gone online - at 1600 pages of documentation, it’s easier to build your own LHC than it is to write an OOXML translator.
Roll on September 10th!

Posted on August 30th, 2008 under Microsoft, Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Science, Software. Comments: None

At the start of August Jason Clinton from Advanced Clustering Technologies Inc. posted a link to the “Breakin” tool that they created (and open sourced) for hardware stress-tests and diagnostics. He wrote:
We have a tool on our website called “breakin” that is Linux 2.6.25.9 patched with K8 and K10f Opteron EDAC reporting facilities. It can [...]

Posted on August 24th, 2008 under Linux, Software. Comments: None

Chris Smart has written an excellent little guide for getting a decent program guide into MythTV in Australia. It walks you through how to go from scratch through installing and configuring Shepherd to getting the data into the MythTV database. I’ve just used it on my Mythbuntu box and it’s looking good!
Next [...]

Posted on August 22nd, 2008 under Australia, Linux, Software, TV. Comments: None