Archive for September, 2009
Spyware shmyware and why Microsoft shouldn’t whine
by dreamer on Sep.25, 2009, under Fedora
Our beloved company recently showed concerns about Google’s new Chrome Frame plugin for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. This plugin enables the use of HTML5 for the widely used browser, which in turn enables users to make use of new web-technologies such as Google Wave and others that use the new standard.
Microsoft highly objects to this plugin, because according to them it undermines the integrity of the browser and supposes it features new security risks.
Of course this plugin is not enabled automatically and it needs a special tag in the website featured to be activated. [more]
But, as some may remember, Microsoft has the same dirty (probably even dirtier) tricks up it’s sleeve to “cripple” someone else’s product.
Using Windows Update they install a plugin for Firefox which enables some extra .NET functionality. The big difference is: the plugin of Google needs to be installed manually; while the one from MS is included in this update and can’t even be removed from within the browser! [more]
So please Microsoft, stop being such a hypocrite.
(not like this blogpost will change anything..)
Summer is over and here I am
by dreamer on Sep.24, 2009, under Fedora, Puik.
So, it has been quite a while since my last post, which was back at HAR2009. Since then I have lost and retrieved the password of this blog, but also neglected to post anything at all because I had too much other stuff on my head (among others, finishing my Bachelors, which I’m still working on).
Right now I’m sitting at the 2nd of weekly “nerd nights” we are having in one of the local pubs here in Wageningen. This concept was conceived by loupgaroublond and right now the nights consists mostly of drinking beer and sitting behind our laptops: GREAT FUN!
Today I’ve been mostly trying to get my first package build (Flowcanvas, one of the dependencies for Patchage, which I really want to see in yum). This made me run into a number of road-bumps. Which is OK, since making mistakes only helps the learning process.
Myx0r made princess-cupcakes for us today. They where much too sweet, but we are nerds, so we like sweet stuff.
Hopefully she will surprise us next week with some other sweet bakery-stuff \o/
