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Comment on About the Facebook redesign by James

James — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:28:59 +0000

With experimentation, it’s starting to look like pages linked to from the main page won’t load until the ad server is contacted.

Also, it appears WordPress stopped letting blog authors edit/merge their own comments.

Comment on About the Facebook redesign by James

James — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:24:20 +0000

Hey, look what I found!
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=tr&comments_parentId=78658&forumId=1

People on all platforms are having this issues and the solution is (drumroll please)…

Disabling Adblock! D-:

Comment on About the Facebook redesign by James

James — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:20:19 +0000

So it does work with the Windows version? Very odd. Yeah, I guess that would make it a Linux Firefox bug.

They appear to be using some sort of prefetching or redirection javascript. It generates URLs like:
http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/profile.php?id=0000000000&ref=nf#wall

Which is actually a pretty strange URL, since hashes usually refer to a subsection of a page, not a completely different page.

Comment on About the Facebook redesign by Ben Leggett

Ben Leggett — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:05:36 +0000

If it works with the Windows version of Firefox, but not the Linux version, wouldn’t that be a Firefox issue? Firefox should display/render the same on all platforms. If it doesn’t, that’s not Facebook’s problem, it’s Mozilla’s. Or am I missing something here?

Comment on Summer of Code II: Code Harder by Elijah Lofgren

Elijah Lofgren — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:11:50 +0000

Sounds like you’re continuing to make progress. Keep pressing on!

I just found out yesterday that I wasn’t doing enough security checks in my image service web app. I hadn’t thought of limiting URL length as a guard against possible buffer overflows. Oops! Live and learn. I guess. I just need to learn to take these things in stride better.

Comment on Read Your Exchange Emails With Gmail by James

James — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:21:26 +0000

The Exchange server administrator needs to have enabled POP for this to function. Without it, there’s not much you can do, sorry.

Comment on Read Your Exchange Emails With Gmail by Jtread

Jtread — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:30:23 +0000

I’m sorry to say I tried it and it’s not working for me ! - I’m not sure why.

Comment on A problem with the Thunderbird feed reader by Memperbaiki Feed Reader di Thunderbird | Thunderbird RSS Problem | Deny Sri Supriyono

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:31:22 +0000

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Comment on Is piracy theft? by James

James — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:10:51 +0000

To OGRastamon:
‘Piracy’ is not true piracy just as ‘hacking’ is not true hacking of the days or yore. It’s a covenant term society likes to use. We all know what it means as relates to technology, even if we believe there are more suitable expressions.

There’s noting implicitly illegal with file sharing. What you think copyright law should be is irrelevant. You do a great job backing up your selfish moral views on the subject, by the way.

In your second paragraph, you also do a great job using a subjective definition, appealing to pathos, AND calling to the reader’s attention to an irrelevant event. No lives are being saved by piracy, troll.

Call me a suppressor of free speech and a tool of the man, but as moderator and overseer of my domain, I think that this discussion has degraded sufficiently and should be retired for the moment. Thank you for your participation.

Comment on Is piracy theft? by OGRastamon

OGRastamon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:48:54 +0000

To James:

I didn’t use those analogies because they were illegal but because they weren’t. Just as file sharing should NOT be.

‘Bootlegging’ is a fine word. It makes me think of all the lives that were saved from wood grain alcohol once Prohibition was lifted.