I got my copy of Gobe Productive 3, the first version available for Windows, in the mail today… I had played around with the public betas they had made available and was surprised at their stability… The release version seems to stand up to my abuse well, and it will be nice to have a Office suite installed that doesn’t suck down vile amounts of my disk. It’s installation seems to be around 40 megs, but including 7 megs of spell-check dictionaries in many languages and 17 megs of manual, not to mention the various sample documents and all…
One of the most amusing, and somewhat depressing, aspects of the installation was noticing the “libbe.dll” that exists in Productive’s directory… My guess is that it is some kind of compatibility layer providing some of the functionality that Gobe engineers were missing in Windows… I noticed that there is also a “Translators” directory, so perhaps one of those technologies was the Translation Kit.. Of course, libbe.dll is 800K, so I suspect there is more to it than just the Translation Kit….
I just realized that I had a rental that needed to be returned about 3 minutes from now… Oh well.. :)
I have been waiting for some time for HBO to begin reruns of their show Six Feet Under to find out this evening that the reruns began on Wednesday… Does anyone out there have the first episode (which I have yet to see) on tape? I would really like to get my hands on it…
While I had my doubts, I was able to find everything I was looking for in Harvard Square… Not to say that I bought it all; along the way I found a few substitutions that I thought were better than my initial picks… All is well in the world…
I have to go to Harvard Square to do some christmas shopping since Amazon cancelled a few of the items I had ordered because they couldn’t get them. I know at least one of them is in Other Music, but the others may be a stretch…. So I guess I am gonna have to go pick out some new gifts… :)
I watched JFK over the past two nights… The DVD contains the director’s cut, which expanded the already long (189 minutes) film to 206 minutes. When I first saw this film within a few years of it’s release, I took serious issue with it. Perhaps by virtue of the director’s cut of the film, or perhaps by viewing the film through a different set of eyes than I had 10 years ago, I have to say that I think this is a great film. A bit misguided in its theory? Of course… While I am definately not convinced of the government’s single gun theory, I believe that some of Garrison’s theories have some serious holes… Regardless, over the past few years my opinion of Oliver Stone’s work has been changing, and a director which at one time I thoroughly disliked I have found myself begining to appreciate.
Tonight I think I may work on the XPConnect tutorial I have been talking about for the past week or so. Over the past week or two I have worked with the technology, and feel that the lack of documentation for it is a major obstacle in its path to understanding. While XPConnect looks rather intimidating, it really isn’t that bad, and I think that by writing this tutorial I can help aid the situation. I am sure that given XPConnect’s dire documentation situation Mozilla will welcome my contribution. :)
Take a look at the lead story on BeForever. Peter wrote a letter to the DoJ regarding the MS settlement. I can’t believe someone would even consider sending such a childish and poorly worded letter when trying to make a point to our government officials. This letter is the kind of trash you read at the beginning of user group meetings, not the prose you use to try to convince the government that they are making a mistake.
It’s good to know that my impression of Peter from a few years back still holds true….
When there are both widescreen and pan-and-scan versions available of a DVD, Blockbuster chooses to exclusively stock the pan-and-scan version, as opposed to both. I can understand that Blockbuster believes that the average joe doesn’t want a letterboxed film, but that is no excuse to have all 1000 copies of the latest hollywood piece of shit be in pan-and-scan…
Click on the image above to visit the Blockbuster Widescreen Petition. While these online petitions are probably worthless, and we all know how evil Blockbuster is, it doesn’t take that long to sign it.. :) I would say I was going to boycott Blockbuster, but I am already doing that, so it wouldn’t do much good… =) If you don’t understand what the hub-bub over Widescreen is all about, you might find help in this document.
Here is what I remember from last night’s dream. Adam and I were walking around a mall, and we passed the “Napa Gallery”. Adam turned to me as we walked past and said “Some of my (schoolbuses or dumptrucks) are on display in that gallery”. I stopped short and asked him “Well why don’t we go take a look at them?”. So we walked into the gallery, which I can only describe as “Museum Company-esque” and we approach the glass case that has his pieces in it. There are enclosed in a glass case, and are about eye level. One is painted blue, the other I don’t remember much about. On the glass shelf below them there was a display of digital cameras (but not DV cams, just still cams).
When I recounted the weirdness of this dream at the office today I told everyone that Adam has schoolbuses on display, but when I just looked at the pad I keep next to the bed, it said that they were dumptrucks… Either way, that is some weird shit.
I got fed up trying to install FreeBSD for the last time today… The partition layout on that disk was very limiting, so I said “fuck it” and brought home the SuSE 7.3 Pro set from work and installed from the DVD. I really don’t like linux, but it is far more tolerable as a file server than it is as a workstation OS. I will probably make it go back to FreeBSD at some point in the future (say, when the machine is more than parts on my dresser), but when your only need is Samba, it really doesn’t make much of a difference…
At least I get to use ReiserFS, and coincidentally on the machine that Chris Mason used to test his smp safeness all those years ago… I remember Chris asking me at work (when we both still worked for ISC) if he could “borrow my dual machine” for a few hours that evening, and watching him try and edit 132 column code on an 80 column display (since he didn’t want to build an X server for my video card)..
