Ugo Cei’s Weblog
Want to see the World Cup matches live streaming on the Internet? Well, assuming you’re not too picky about image quality, you can try:
telnet dedhost-075.sil.at 2006
or
telnet ascii-wm.net 2006
On the plus side, you won’t need a lot of bandwidth for this ;).
I’d really like to use the Google Browser Sync extension for Firefox, to keep all my bookmarks, cookies and passwords between my laptop and my desktop, but I cannot get it to work. After it authenticates me and it asks for a PIN, it fails when generating the security key with the following, unhelpful message:
Has anyone else got the same problem? This is on OS X Tiger, using the very latest Firefox (1.5.0.4).
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Now there’s a video podcast worth subscribing to.
On a related note, the French Maids said they are working on a new episode. It’s about time!
Technorati Tags: playboy, french maids, sexy, podcasting, video.
Some time ago, I launched the Evil or Not? website. My plans were to add lots of features in the next months and make it popular, but I could never find the time necessary for this. Given the number of projects and things I have currently going on, it’s unlikely that I will ever be able to do anything more than check from time to time that it’s still running. Which is a pity, since I still think it’s a cool idea and could attract some traffic if properly developed and promoted.
So, the options are to either let it float for some more time, or try to find someone who is willing to raise it to new heights. In this case, I’m ready to give away the idea, the domain name, the code and all the data (5 months of trends), for a reasonable price. Ideally, I would like to find someone who is able to broker a good deal, but I’m ready to accept direct offers.
From a technical point of view, it’s just a simple Ruby on Rails web application with a PostgreSQL database underneath (but could be ported to something else like MySQL in minutes).
In case you’re interested, just drop me a note.
Mike Arrington: When is the last time Google released a product that really changed our lives? For me, it was (and is) their core search engine. I grant that Google Maps pushed the envelope and forced the other big Internet guys to improve their own offerings (but today Microsoft and Yahoo are both significantly better than Google). And I do appreciate the POP access to Gmail (this was the one thing that converted me from hotmail for personal email). Everything since has been, well, somewhat underwhelming.
Hmm, yes. I’d give a bit more importance to Gmail, not so much for POP (I would vastly prefer IMAP) but mostly for SMTP: Between it and the web interface, I am pretty sure I can send email wherever I am, no matter what account I am sending mails from. I am also confident that I can go to a single place when I need to find an old message, whether sent or received by me.
Google Maps is cool too, especially now that they are covering Europe, but I have to admit other services are better when it comes to finding addresses and routes.
As for Spreadsheets, it’s probably the right service for me, since I seldom use Excel and only at the most basic level. What I find very interesting about it is the sharing of spreadsheets online. Much more effective, privacy concerns aside, than sending Excel files around attached to emails.
Technorati Tags: gmail, google maps, google spreadsheets, excel, techcrunch, arrington.
Why should I spend my money to carry around thirty or so pages of random numbers and digits of pi (with an error inside, so they’re not even good for cryptography) just because Coupland felt he needed to use filler when he had nothing interesting to write?
Predictable. Stereotyped. Not fun. The portrait of twenty-something geeks in the game development industry might be accurate, but totally uninteresting. What a letdown.
This is for a bunch of people I know that routinely use Eclipse on their Intel Macs:
EclipseZone - Eclipse and Intel Macs - apply …: “It’s quite likely that this is a driver issue with Mac OS X on Intel that was causing some of these problems, and Apple’s released QuickTime 7.1.1 that claims to fix some issues with startup items for Intel macs. In any case, bug 142892 has been tracking it, and it looks like applying this fix solves whatever the graphics card issue is, and Eclipse is running again. “
I didn’t have this particular problem (UI is freezed, even though mouse pointer moves, and you cannot even login from remote) when running Eclipse, but rather with other applications, like Opera for example. However, the symptoms were the same, so I dutifully upgraded Quicktime to 7.1.1, hoping they won’t surface again.
After a decent amount of procrastination, I finally updated the version of WordPress this site is running on to the latest and greatest 2.0.3. This post is just to test that everything is hunky-dory.
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Great news on the Atom front! The ARI project I mentioned a few days ago has changed its name to Abdera. This gives it a new fancy name while at the same time removing any ambiguity around its “reference” character. I’m really looking forward for it to come out of incubation.
As I had anticipated, I changed my code to use Abdera instead of ROME and it was a relatively quick and painless process. Just changing all Java package names and keeping references to “Entry” and “Feed” classes was enough to get most of the code to compile cleanly.
Last but not the least: James Snell suggested on the ROME developers’ list that Rome could use Abdera instead of its own Atom implementation, and he was met with loud cheers, as Pat reports. Personally, I’m all for dropping ROME’s feed model and replacing it with one based on Atom, as Atom can do everything that RSS does, and much better.
There’s also been talk of moving ROME to Apache, a move which I would personally applaud.
Technorati Tags: atom, ari, incubator, james snell, syndication, rome, abdera.
