Archive for January, 2007

Microsoft Patent Plagiarized “Innovation”

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Way back in early June 2005, I made a rambling post on a number of topics. One of those topics was how Microsoft had blatantly plagiarized some of the functionality of BlueJ in Visual Studio. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, see this post on the matter by one of the BlueJ creators.
At [...]

“Landed in 3570″

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

[tim@moby colloquy]$ svn update
U Panels/JVDirectChatPanel.h
U Panels/JVDirectChatPanel.m
U Panels/JVChatRoomPanel.m
Updated to revision 3570.
[tim@moby colloquy]$

As I mentioned previously, I recently started using the Colloquy IRC client. One little feature which I felt I needed was a way to mute notifications on a per-channel basis (so I didn’t get constantly bothered [...]

If Wishing Made It So

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Three years ago, the thought of Hillary Clinton running for president would have sent me over the edge. As more and more time passes however, I become less and less enamoured by the idea. Everything thing she does, every move she makes seems far too planned. She lacks in the kind of personal appeal that [...]

SVK and Large Repositories

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Save for a synchronization problem that took me something like 20 commits to finally get myself out of, my experiement with SVK over the last month or so has been pretty successful. Until tonight.
The process involved in mirror a repository is, to be frank, so bad that it kills puppies. That’s right, it just kills [...]

This channel is not muted

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

If there is only thing I love about open source, it is the fact that I can get access to the source code for an application and do what I want with it. Be it fixing a bug, or adding a new feature, I have the facilities, access and license to do it. Of course, [...]