British Columbia should be lauded for their new requirement - zero carbon release from coal power plants. Yes, it’s going to be hard, but it is something worth doing.
Technorati Tags: power, carbon, greenhouse
Archive for February, 2007
Schneier writes about officials finding all kinds of things and thinking they are bombs and then blowing them up. I started laughing until I realized how sad it really is. I mean, how many real bombs are out there and can’t people use their brains to take a critical angle on these reports?
Technorati Tags: bombs, security, brains
An overview - with a possible scoring system - for picking which open source projects will survive and thrive. A good set of characteristics and something that I mostly follow but not so well thought out as theirs. Something useful for future evaluations…
Technorati Tags: open+source, business+software
Ways to improve software quality
An article (a bit self-aggrandizing) on how to improve software quality. Most interesting is the Software Testing Maturity Model (S-TMM)… I’ll have to read more about it.
Technorati Tags: S-TTM, software+quality
Firefox is now 2, and I have a new tweak list - actually, it’s mostly the same ones but I don’t trust other sites to still exist after I lost a few…
And remember, you can get to these through about:config really easily…
- // Disable image animation
user_pref(”image.animation_mode”, “none”); - // Enable frame resizability
user_pref(”layout.frames.force_resizability”, true); - // Prevent popups to hide the urlbar
user_pref(”dom.disable_window_open_feature.location”, true); - // Prevent popups to hide the menubar
user_pref(”dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar”, true); - // Enable pipelining to increase the speed of (broadband) connection (10 on the second line can be any number)
user_pref(”network.http.pipelining”, true);
user_pref(”network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”, 8);
user_pref(”network.http.proxy.pipelining”, true); - user_pref(”network.http.max-connections-per-server”, 16);
- user_pref(”browser.search.openintab”, true);
- user_pref(”accessibility.typeaheadfind”, true);
Disable only certain annoying JavaScript tricks:
Tools ->
Options -> Content -> Enable JavaScript -> Advanced ->
uncheck (according to your taste) Allow scripts to “Move or resize
existing windows”, “Raise or lower windows”, “Disable or replace
context menus”, “Hide the status bar” and “Change status bar text”
set keyword.URL to prevent I’m Feeling Lucky
Technorati Tags: firefox, configuration, tweaks
Mostly focused on recovery applications, the Slashdot discussion on Live CDs is pretty interesting and added a few new references to my list.
Technorati Tags: live+cd, recovery
Local cached version of the arcade console article page that lists who makes them.
Article from Computerworld about Google’s application deployment system, Slack and how it is used…
Technorati Tags: google, web+application, standard+operating+environment
