So, thanks to the fine work of the WebKit team - particularly the GTK+ port - Mandriva can now achieve 100/100 on the Acid3 web standards compliance test. I’d include a picture, but I’m not in a position to upload them right now.
Cooker users can test with webkit-0-0.32531.2mdv2009.0 and either use Midori (package ‘midori’) or [...]
Following on from my last post - I cleaned up the Windows Mobile 5+ sync support even more, and tested that it works from a completely clean install of 2008 Spring. And then I made a video, and now I’m sending it to the world.
The video shows me installing the metapackage for WM5/6 + [...]
So somehow, last night and today, I’ve more or less dropped everything else and been working on making it *really easy* to use Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices connected via USB in 2008 Spring. Happily, I’m making a lot of progress.
This was the state of play as of a couple of days ago:
Nothing at [...]
So as the Bugzilla mail piles up happily in my inbox (I’m glad it’s an electronic inbox, if it was a real one, it would have toppled over and caused me a serious head injury by now), I spent today doing…other things.
The What’s Coming in Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring page on the Wiki is [...]
Yep, the 2008 Spring pre-release cycle just hit the late beta…err, I mean, release candidate…stage. RC1 has lots of juicy stuff, including the new look for 2008 Spring (which is very pretty), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.1, some new default applications, the drakconnect / ndiswrapper bug finally fixed!, WPA-EAP support, new NVIDIA / ATI drivers, and [...]
I decided today that I really hadn’t had enough crazy hardware hackery in my life lately.
I’ve been planning for a while to buy a new desktop, replacing the laptop I’ve been using as my only client system for the last year and a half. This was mainly due to a few irritants with the laptop:
one, [...]
Some of you probably noticed I haven’t been around as much as usual this week. Been doing some major furniture rearrangement here at Monkey Central, so now I have my own desk in a corner of the living room and my feet aren’t being warmed by the rear vent of my server machine and cramped [...]
Lazyweb, O Lazyweb…
Is there a Firefox option to disallow sites from resizing the browser window? I am finding more and more sites which resize my browser when I try and open them (usually sites with Flash), which I find *intensely* annoying. I want my browser window to be the size I set it to, thank [...]
Working on old packages in Cooker always leads to interesting bouts of yak shaving. The latest goes like this…
I’m working through the few remaining 2007.1-era packages in main. I got to libgfortran1 - an old major of libgfortran, which came from GCC 4.1.x. It’s still around because some apps haven’t been rebuilt against libgfortran2, the [...]
Well, Anssi and I might not quite look like elves, but we act like them sometimes! Indeed, your Christmas present from Mandriva is the latest NVIDIA and ATI drivers packaged for all supported Mandriva distributions.
Updated for the latest drivers (February 2008) and better instructions to avoid the DKMS bug.
The latest drivers are ATI Catalyst 7.13 [...]