Depending on “the cloud” to provide all software has increasingly shown some of its issues. What’s strange is that not many people are concerned about it.
Google marking all sites as unsafe
Google marked all search results as unsafe websites, and when you clicked on the link, it warned you again and you had to agree to [...]
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More ugly stories about depending on cloud computing
February 6th, 2009
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Make Emacs yasnippet work with html-helper-mode
December 8th, 2008
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Yasnippet is a great emacs minor mode that lets you have lots of code snippets easily at hand. Also you can create your own snippets in a very easy way without needing to write them in emacs lisp. Basically, like textmate shortcuts for emacs.
I use html-helper-mode to edit all my html code, but yasnippet works [...]
Soviet-like antipiracy campaign targeted at kids in Mexico
October 1st, 2008
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The mexican newspaper El Universal published a contest for kids sponsored by IMPI (the organization that in charge of “intelectual property” and patents in Mexico) which invites kids to report to the IMPI for any “piracy” acts their parents, teachers and friends do.
Gunnar Wolf sent an open letter (in spanish) to the newspaper and the [...]
Chrome license makes Google more than the new Big Brother
September 3rd, 2008
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Yesterday’s big news was that Google released their own “open source” browser called Google Chrome. They released only the binaries for Windows, and even thought they claim to be open source, I don’t see where I can get the source code yet.
But what really bothers me is the license agreements for Chrome:
11. Content license from [...]
Firefox to support OGG in
August 3rd, 2008
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Open source browser Firefox is going to support Ogg Theora video natively without installing plugins and will support the new HTML 5 tag to embed the videos on web pages. Will be ready on 3.1 release.
This is great news since there has been a long debate about the HTML 5 tag on the [...]
Antifeatures
June 18th, 2008
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Mako Hill has been talking about the Antifeatures, which are features that you don’t want but the product costs more when they don’t have them instead of costing more for adding them.
Sounds tricky? Well, maybe its more understandable with this last news story about Dell will charge $50 dlls to have XP installed. It is [...]
