February 22, 2004
Linker on .NET issue
Joel Spolsky: Please Sir May I Have a Linker? and Jason Zander’s comments on it.
Basically I felt asking for a linker for .NET to link statically your application, is just kind of conflict fundamentally with what .NET is for. But without that option, it’s painful to ISV: you got a superb development environment/tools and you love it, however, to have the convenience it means your users suffering from the downloading (and potentially go away).
Jason said security is the real kicker. I was puzzled with that. Isn’t that Microsoft’s attitude is like: “Hey, if your application isn’t certified by us, it’s none of our issue!”. So if CLR has a bug got to be fixed and your standalone app is statically linked, would that be a concern to MS??
February 11, 2004
Disease
At first it’s sore throat, then flu’s coming. Getting medicine and antibiotic, it turned into coughing. Coughing, that’s the unbearable part. I almost lost my voice now. When you can’t voice out whatever you’re trying to tell others, that’s suffering — especially in an office environment.
Office’s the incubator for disease. Think about how many people open and close the same door. People cough and sneeze.….So if you’re sick, don’t think about going to work, take the rest and get well. It would help you, as well as others.
February 10, 2004
Ferrari 3000
I can’t really link Ferrari to Acer.…tough it looks good (if you are F1 fans). May be a “BMW Thinkpad” sounds nice too.
Or I should open a restaurant: Ferrari Chili.
February 09, 2004
Firebird to FireFox
Mozilla team keep their promise:
* Mozilla Firebird Renamed Firefox, Version 0.8 Released
* Firefox 0.8 - The Browser, Rebranded
* The press release
If you stay tune at the Firebird mailing list as I, you would hear people asking time by time: when Mozilla is going to take action to settle the name conflict? Mozilla renamed its browser application, previously named Phoenix, to Firebird on April 2003. It has been brought concern to Firebird database community that the name conflict is hurting their promotion of the database server. Anyhow, it’s been promised Mozilla would take Firebird as an internal codename for the project and to rename it later in their release. Hence the rebranding. Hope this end the story. peace.
blogging feel
My last post was on September, 2003. In fact, I stopped actively blogging since July last year. It’s been 7 months! Seven months in blogging could mean a decade. Anyway, I lost track of what happening in blogland, didn’t mind what version MT is nowadays, and I even forgot my MT userid/passwd!! That’s funny, I have to go to my ISP control panel and access to the MySQL db, checking the mt_author, and then realizing for security consideration, I did choose a tricked username instead of my familiar id. The rule is: it’s always a trade-off between security concern and convenience of users.
If you’re going to leave your blog for a long while, be sure to put all necessary access in place (e.g. utilize Mozilla password manager).
[Update] Amazing, most of the stuff still work: the pinging, related entries/blog plugins.…etc. Yeah, the software is reliable. :-)