דבר חשוב מאד שלא שמתי לב אליו בכלל
Sunday, July 6th, 2008זה שהמשחק של Penny Arcade יצא בגרסת לינוקס כמו גם גרסת מק (ובאותו יום כמו גרסת החלונות, לפחות כך מספרים לי).
זה שהמשחק של Penny Arcade יצא בגרסת לינוקס כמו גם גרסת מק (ובאותו יום כמו גרסת החלונות, לפחות כך מספרים לי).
All hands – man those browser download buttons!
Anyway, please head over to Mozilla to download Firefox 3 which was released a scant two hours ago. Also try to refresh the main page a couple of times – its fun
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Here should also go a link to Spread Firefox’s world record page, but they seem to have crashed in the ongoing commotion. To cut a long story short, Mozilla are trying to break the world record for the most downloads in 24 hours of a single application (monitored and supervised by Guniess World Records). I did my share, what about you ?
Firefox 3 download day concluded with well over 8 million downloads. The exact figure is still not released as the Guiness World of Records people have to sign on it.
Looking at the local scale – downloads just in the middle east, Israel had tens of thousands of downloads, in the middle east only Iran and Turkey has more downloads. Interestingly enough, Iran has more then twice the amount of downloads as Russia, weird.
Not really news, but Microsoft announced support for the ISO OpenDocument format in the coming service pack 2 for MS-Office 2007 (due sometime in the first half of 2009).
This announcement is still relevant, partially as the actual product is still a ways off, but also because I wanted to discuss this more – and specifically what that would mean for OpenOffice.org.
Well, probably not – I just wanted to put a sensationalist headline once
What I’m really annoyed about is that Google Maps have no information on Israel – not cities, roads, nothing – even Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv aren’t listed. At the time, I’ve put it down to Google having no information at all for the entire region and I thought that they will probably fix this in due course.
And they did – sorta, as you can see in the screenshot below:

(From Google Maps)
כמו כל שנה באפריל ובאוקטובר.
כדי “לחגוג” את המאורע הנה שני מונים לשחרור של גרסות הלינוקס שאני הכי משתמש בהן היום (וספציפית בגרסאות העומדות לפני שחרור):
מנדריבה, שזו הפצה אחרת שאני מחבב – אם כי לא יצא לי להשתמש בה לאחרונה – כבר שיחררה גרסה אביבית.
עדכון [25.4]: אובונטו החדשה שוחררה, ובאיחור של רק יומיים ניסיתי להריץ שדרוג במחשב הביתי שמריץ עדיין 7.10 (לא מסובך – מנהל העדכונים כבר צריך להתחיל להציק לכם, תפעילו אותו ותלחצו על כפתור ה-upgrade למעלה. שדרוג של פדורה הולך להיות הרבה פחות נעים), וזה לא נראה שזה מתקדם לאן שהוא – השרתים של אובנטו בטח מפוצצים כי תהליך השדרוג לא מצליח להוריד אפילו את רשימות העדכונים, שלא לדבר על החבילות עצמן.
עדכון נוסף: הצלחתי להגיע לשלב העדכון של אובנטו בו מנהל העדכון מודיע מה הוא הולך לעשות וכמה זמן זה יקח. שימו לב לתמונה הבאה:
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There’s been a lot of gripe, grief and mayhem on the web in the last few days regarding Apple’s bundling of the new Safari 3.1 release with updates to their iTunes software (that is installed on millions of MS-Windows computers thanks to the iPod).
This would have come as more of a surprise for me if I wouldn’t have been using Safari 3 on MS-Windows (although not as my main browser) for the last 6 month approximately.
I’ve been meaning to write about the Linux codec problem for a while now but didn’t have a good enough reason, but I recently listened to the (not-podcast) The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 233 where one of the guys (apparently Dann, but for the life of me I can’t distinguish between them on the broadcast) discusses his new Eee PC (the tiny Linux laptop that has taken over the world or at least the blogosphere), and how it handles video playing.
To sum the Linux codec issue for people who haven’t been listening – it is one of the major hurdles for “Linux on the desktop” (the effort to have Linux operating systems be a viable Desktop operating system for everyday users). One of the key parts for providing a good desktop experience is being able to play multimedia files that users get regularly through email and the web. To be able to play a video or audio file you need a good player (and that Linux has plenty) and the software codec (“enCOder/DECoder”) that understand the file format and can play it. Different file formats – such as MP3, AVI or WMV – require different codecs from different manufacturers, and for legal reasons these are not always available out of the box with your choice of Linux operating system.
(I’m not sure if the first such rant was on this blog, or it was just on a comment in another blog, but it was about the incredibly navel-contemplating project “god“).
I like Ruby and I think its a neat little language. Although it still suffers from some childhood maladies (such as very bad performance), it has a very nice syntax and uses a lot of common development paradigms mixed-in in a very interesting and useful way. I’ve wrote a few programs (small and large) in Ruby and I keep it in my arsenal of programming tools on the same shelf as Perl (and not on the same shelf with Python which is stored in some box somewhere).
But I keep noticing the same problem – it used to be that we would joke about C programmers saying “when you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail”, but its becoming more and more apparent that Ruby programmers fall into the same category. Everywhere I turn theres someone who is trying to use Ruby (or misuse it as the case may be) in a situation where it is clearly the wrong tool for the job.
The above mentioned “god” is a good example, but here’s another one:
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So I’m writing a web application again, and again I need it to work with Internet Explorer, so of course I can’t anything fancy – or I can try but everything breaks:
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הייתי חייב לכתוב פוסט קצר כי קצת ירדתי על השוא”ש בטא 1 במאמר הקודם, אז התרשמות ראשונה: