http://www.happyassassin.net legal notice: despite the domain name, we do not offer assassination services, whether happy or otherwise. thank you. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:57:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was happy to be able to get a review of the new 2008 Spring Flash into The Register, one of the biggest U.K. tech news sites - sometimes writing lots of nitpicking letters to journalists pays off, who knew :). Of course, it was good that their reviewer liked ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/06/20/review-of-flash-in-the-register/ I should mention, actually, that I'm working on Windows Mobile synchronization again. I bought a couple of old iPaqs off eBay, so now I can get synchronization of Windows Mobile 2003 and earlier devices working. Unfortunately, one of the iPaqs I bought - a 3850 - doesn't seem to work, ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/06/03/more-on-windows-mobile-synchronization/ I really don't know what it is about being a geek - systems just seem to multiply. I realized today that since I upgraded my HTPC, I actually had an entire system in parts lying around the house; the old motherboard and CPU from the HTPC, plus a hard disk ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/06/03/theyre-multiplying/ Today I got a small box in the post containing an obsolete iPaq I bought off eBay for 50 bucks. I'm expecting another one next week. These are my Windows Mobile 2002 and 2003 test devices, to allow me to get Mandriva's WM2002/2003 sync support into line with the WM5+ ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/05/30/more-sync-work-interrupted-by-random-insanity/ Today I was upgrading my HTPC, which turned into a predictably painful experience. I'm upgrading from an Athlon XP 2500+ to a Pentium D 2180, adding a spiffy GeForce 9600GT, and three 500GB hard disks to form a RAID5 array. So I get all the stuff home and realize the motherboard ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/05/06/upgrade/ 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 ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/04/25/mandriva-100100-on-acid3/ Yes, well, it's not nice to whine, but...check this out. That's the most important news in the Linux world from the last week, according to Slashdot. Notice anything missing, perhaps? Yep, according to Slashdot, a preview release of Granular Linux, a vague Gartner report on the future of open source, Red Hat ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/04/14/hate-to-whine-but/ So, sod major new distribution releases and anniversaries and all that malarkey - I hit a far more important milestone yesterday: 08 70 X X 9/ 7/ X X X 72 186 boo yah. next stop, 200! http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/04/10/personal-milestone/ Yes, it's finally done. And for the first time...well...possibly ever? Certainly since I can recall, anyway...it's on time. In fact, a day early, really, as our initial plan set release for the 10th. Yep, 2008 Spring is done, we stuck a fork in it and sent it to the mirrors this ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/04/09/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-released/ 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 ... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/03/17/windows-mobile-synchronization-video/