Refenestration Daily.
Netscape 7 (final) has been released today. Compared with Netscape 6.2, this new version offers tabbed browsing, print preview, and full-screen mode (among other new features).
Of course, all of those features have been in Mozilla for ages ;). In fact, there’s little reason to try Netscape 7 (based on Mozilla 1.01) when Mozilla 1.1 is now available.
Half Bakery offers an amusing proposal for sentient road cones.
Code in a few tactics for survival to stop these things:
a) jumping down holes like lemmings.
b) wandering off into traffic. […]
With my job in Fort Worth, I have to be there at 8:30am. So, with an hour commute, I have to leave at 7:30am. That’s a bit of a bummer in itself, but I have a conundrum about breakfast in particular.
With other jobs with a lesser commute, I could eat breakfast at 9:00 or 9:30. And, that would mean that my next meal (lunch) would only be about 3 hours away. However, if I eat breakfast at 7:30am (just before I leave), that means that my next meal is up to 5 hours away :(. So, I end up ravenously hungry by the time lunch rolls around.
Sure, I could just eat lunch earlier, but that would only increase the time between lunch and dinner (and I would end up ravenously hungry before dinner instead). So, I was thinking that I could make some type of “portable sandwich” so that I could eat it during my commute. That way, I could eat breakfast at least marginally later.
However, I don’t want just a regular sandwich, as I wouldn’t want any tuna or mayo to fall out and mess up my work-clothes. So, I was thinking that some kind of pouch would be convenient. I could use a Ziploc sandwich-baggie, but that would only mean extra trash that I would have to remember to take out of my car. Pita bread came to mind as well, as that would allow me to “eat the container&rdquo. But, I didn’t see any pita bread at Super Target when I went to look for some yesterday — perhaps another store might have some?
In the mean time, I’ve been trying to create a pouch out of a rolled tortilla. I have a stack of tortillas from Sam’s Club that are about 8" in diameter each. So, I take a tortilla and roll it into somewhat of a cone-shape and then fold over the pointy-end of the cone to crimp it. And, it kinda works. However, maybe it’s just the particular tortillas that I have but the tortilla keeps tearing along the crease-lines of the crimp :-/. So, to counteract a tortilla-rupture, I end up wrapping the tortilla-cone in a paper towel — which somewhat defeats the purpose of the tortilla since I still have to remember to throw away the paper towel…
As mentioned on Politech, the RIAA website was cracked yesterday morning (screenshot). The text reads, in part:
As you are probably aware, the RIAA has been pursuing a policy of preventing this activity in recent months.
We have recently become aware that this approach is yielding only limited results and in some cases may in fact be harming sales and the artists' revenue stream.
The RIAA wishes to apologise for the heavy-handed manner in which the popular chinese site Listen4Ever was closed down, and would like to present the following items for free download as a token of its goodwill. […]
The crack is amusing in itself, especially since it uses the victim’s own site to parody its views. However, I’m most fascinated by the screenshot itself. I’m not sure which OS is running there (OSX, maybe?), but that anti-aliased text sure is beautiful.
The other day, I was trying to figure out which Plextor CDR drive to get. One drive could do 40x writes, while the other could do 20x writes but also read DVDs as well.
I’ve ordered the latter, for reasons of longevity. Sure, 40x is nice, but it only works out to a 3-minute burn instead of a 4-minute burn. And, I expect that more and more software may be available in DVD versions.
I’ve also ordered a new hard drive. 120 GB should be enough room for Linux, eh? ;).
I’m glad I have a job that affords me the ability to buy new hardware from time to time.
