20111103 “gnome-shell is a requirement”

[root@courgette ~]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases…  core is up to date  extra                   975.5K  744.1K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%  community               582.4K  608.1K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%  multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade… resolving dependencies… looking for [...]

20111010 C:\fakepath\

The things one finds while reading the specs: For historical reasons, the value IDL attribute prefixes the filename with the string “C:\fakepath\”. Some legacy user agents actually included the full path (which was a security vulnerability). As a result of this, obtaining the filename from the value IDL attribute in a backwards-compatible way is non-trivial. [...]

20110708 Unicode emoticons with GNOME’s Character Map

GNOME’s Character Map, also known as Gucharmap, comes by default with Ubuntu and any other distribution that uses GNOME. And dull and functional as it is, it can also be the source of much enjoyment! The trick is easy: just go browsing around the Unicode blocks until you find something you fancy, and double click [...]

20100711 2012 (Eclipse Helios remix)

That said, it happened after a system crash, so Eclipse hadn’t been shut properly. And after killing Eclipse (because it wouldn’t stop popping up error windows) and reopening it again, it seems the evil goblin of mass destruction and agony had gone away. Thankfully an outline wasn’t available!

20100401 Scons-fusion

– So have you heard about Scons? – Oh yeah, it’s that food thingie, isn’t it? – Food thingie? What food thingie? – Yeah! Like this? – Oh nooo, those are scones! I meant the Python thingie! – Aaah, I see!