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Writing plugins for the Evolution mail client is an exercise in futility. Couldn't do it at all in C, but almost got it working with C#.
The BBC has an adorable comic about Charles Babbage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... It totally made my day.
haha RT @smehmood: Waiting for EU regulators to force Google to unbundle Chrome from Chrome OS. (via @binarybits)
RT @RussB "I just deleted all the other apps on my Ubuntu desktop except for the browser. Look! It's the Firefox OS™ !" (via @dalmaer)
I really like GTG, it's a great todo list application for GNOME. I implemented a CouchDB backend for it last night: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~segpha...
SF Chronicle is clueless: http://gawker.com/5308700... Extinction imminent. They practically deserve to fail at this point. (link via @briwoon)
@jtzl: You might like the Read It Later extension: http://www.ideashower.com/ideas... It will make it easier to avoid using tabs as a reading list.
It's funny how the small things can make a big difference. Favorite Firefox 3.5 feature: moving tabs between windows without reloading.
The pillars of PC gaming: why StarCraft 2 LAN play matters - http://arstechnica.com/gaming...
The hazy future of Web typography - http://arstechnica.com/web...
Really good article by @foresmac about font-face and web typography: http://arstechnica.com/web...
C# and CLI now under Community Promise: http://port25.technet.com/archive... (via @migueldeicaza) Thanks, Microsoft!
@abock: you could just stick the letter "m" in the name somewhere. I think "manshee" has a nice ring to it! ;-)
Very nifty stuff. @sil has made an experimental Firefox extension that stores browser bookmarks in CouchDB: http://www.kryogenix.org/days... Awesome!
Does anybody know how to detect when the user has clicked a specific cell renderer in a GTK+ treeview?
Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate - http://arstechnica.com/open-so...
VirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics support - http://arstechnica.com/open-so...
Firefox 3.5 downloaded 5 million times in first 24 hours - http://arstechnica.com/open-so...
@siracusa: too many things not supported by the web, including persistent connections, platform integration, hardware features.
Latest issue of GNOME Journal is out: http://www.gnomejournal.org/ Nice articles about GNOME Do, Zeitgeist, and others.
New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents - http://arstechnica.com/open-so...
@Xoke: Microsoft deploys a lot of its web stuff on Akamai's infrastructure. Akamai happens to use Linux.
Firefox 3.5 Final Officially Released - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
@abock: I think that prolonged exposure to emacs source code can cause brain damage or something.
@maninalift: thanks for the feedback! That's a valid point. I'll clarify it in the article.
Awesome. RT @BenKuchera: I'm so proud of my son. I brought up the front page of Ars and he says "Oh, that's the firefox, the good browser."
First look: Firefox 3.5 released, ready to upgrade the Web - http://arstechnica.com/open-so...
Firefox review published! Adjusting my e-mail filters from stun to kill in preparation for the onslaught of hatemail from Opera fanatics.
Btw credit for the slightly creepy Firefox manga drawing in the custom 4chan private browsing screen goes to PinkBandit1: http://pinkbandit1.deviantart.com/
A custom Firefox 3.5 private browsing screen that has been altered for maximum 4chan lulz: http://img38.imageshack.us/img38...
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