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December 30, 2005

Good to be home ()

by fluffy at 7:57 PM
So, I seem to have survived a week at home with minimal computer access, though my wrists don't really feel all that better. Oh well.

I'll probably miss Toby though. :/ He's such a good kitty.

Amazingly enough I didn't have that much email to catch up on (though it helps that I did check my email once a day in Albuquerque). Aside from a few random forum replies, I just had a nice reminder of why I left cs.nmsu — my former advisor sent me an email asking me about the possibility of using all that matrix computation power on a video card for something useful. Well duh. (I left because I felt like I was the only one with any clue about graphics there and it was too much work to keep up with the outside world, much less do my own new research, which always kept on turning out to be antiquated before I even started.)

I had a nice present waiting for me in my mailbox when I got home: Yet another new phone. Only this one's actually in good condition, and works nicely! It's also got a much better/newer version of Symbian on it than my old N-Gage did (which is why I got it to begin with; I loved the OS on the N-Gage, aside from a couple of glaring bugs). It's a little bigger/heavier than the T39m, but it's also much nicer in many ways and has already proven to work very well with my extremely picky requirements, particularly Bluetooth-wise (namely, iSync and Clicker both work on it very well, and I expect GPRS sharing to work as well too, and I haven't tried the built-in web browser yet but it's sure to be much better than the T39m's).

Anyway, time to find all the fun Symbian apps I'd been missing out on ever since the N-Gage died...

Comments

#6901 12/30/2005 09:11 pm
And the web browser is surprisingly competent! It also doesn't hurt that it has the best t9 implementation (and dictionary) I've come across. (i posted this message with it)
#6902 12/31/2005 12:57 am
Speaking of web browsers your weblog layout is broken in FF 1.5/Linux - I can send a screenshot, if it helps any. The sidebar is getting covered up by blank bits of the entries.
#6903 12/31/2005 01:08 am
I know, I'm well aware of this. It's a Firefox bug (OMG, a bug in a brand-new release of an opensource app?!?!?!?!), which is well-documented.
#6906 12/31/2005 02:43 pm
Oh. Oh dear.
#6910 01/01/2006 01:34 am
If it's any consolation, I notified FireFox about it back in the fall when I was beta testing it. (Even used their nifty "firefox has problems with this website" menu entry for submitting the error).

Oh well...
#6911 01/01/2006 01:37 am
Yes, and there's also a bunch of separate bugzilla entries for this problem and ones related to it (too lazy to look it up right now but look for bugs regarding background-attach: fixed) and it looks like the solution is something which will probably take a while to implement, since it was due to a pretty big (and stupidly pointless) architectural change in the way that Gecko renders pages now.