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Chrome, don’t be hypocritical
Google describes the private browsing feature of Chrome as something useful
(…) for times when you want to (…) plan surprises like gifts or birthdays
Was this feature conceived to help the average user to hide their e-commerce browsing history? I really don’t think so. Their informal motto is “don’t be evil“: I’d change it to “don’t [...]
Contemporary monsters
During a technical meeting, I was unlucky enough to hear this sentence:
You can’t have both features: it’s like Linux’s blanket.
Well honey, we have two severe mistakes here: first, it’s Linus not Linux, second, a “Linus’ blanket” is a transitional object and not a “blanket too short”.
By the way, the “contributor” to such a talk was [...]
What do they use? :)
Don’t ask me why but I noticed the following JavaScript error message on the Microsoft website: the very same page doesn’t show any error with Firefox so I wonder what they use to debug their own website. :)
Counting down to its death
Though it has lost a 1% market share each month on average during the last year, this old bastard is not dead yet. It might go below 7% before the end of 2009: that’s my prediction. What’s yours?
SIP audioconference
I still haven’t found a SIP client that:
supports audioconferencing;
comes with a user-proof installer on Windows (yes, people need it);
doesn’t bind the user to a given domain.
Google Talk is too tricky and Ekiga exploded in my hands while trying it (on Windows, of course). :) Any hints?
They did it again
I remember an old sentence once read on IRC, many years ago:
I don’t watch TV: one tube is enough.
Nowadays, with LCDs widespread all around, even though there are not many tubes left I still don’t watch much TV. Yesterday, passing by a television set, I incidentally noticed a commercial advertising of a sore throat relief [...]
Let’s fall together
Marco (extending the game to a common “business as usual” friend) has restricted an old meme of mine to a single point… the old one was about our worst predictions: that’s a good choice because trying to guess when Crude Oil would be exchanged at around 150 USD/barrel is both sad and hard. It’s sad [...]
Notes about TPCI 2008-05
The TPCI May Headline is
PowerShell on its way to the top 20
As you know, I don’t code on Windows regularly :) but after a quick look at this sample screenshot, PowerShell seems to me very… powerful. :) Perhaps a good part of its power resides on its blendable, UNIX-like nature. :)
Please forgive them
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
Is Nick Drake really dead?
I’ve got three words to say: shame on you.
The five holy reasons
I think that I can list five main reasons to explain why good suggestions are so hard to follow (and it doesn’t matter if we are talking about the economy of a country or the settings of a GNU/Linux server).
we are lazy
we are unskilled
we would like to make clear to everybody that the work of [...]