Archive for May, 2007

Eddy has been exposing some of the long standing feature requests for Mozilla. They have a huge record or such requests. My favourites:

• needsterminal flag in /etc/mailcap not supported, 5 years old,
• Support for $http_proxy environment variable, 6 years old,
• -width and -height options ignored, almost 7 years old,
• Reply-to-List feature in mailer, almost 7 years old,
• Support for the <ruby/> xhtml element, 7 years old,
• Inheritance of alignment attributes in table columns, almost 9 years old

And these requests are only a small subset...

On the other hand, I'm amazed the 1.8.1 branch (the one for Firefox 2.0) is ABI compatible with 1.8.0 (Firefox 1.5). I'm currently running epiphany with a pre-release of libxul 1.8.1.3 (coming soon in sid), and it works flawlessly (so far), without rebuilding epiphany.
I must say I'm impressed, especially when I look back at how 1.7.x releases were.

A loooong ago, someone on planet debian described mail patterns. What was this one again ?

13256278887989457651018865901401704613 is a prime.
13256278887989457651018865901401704671 is the following prime.
Between them exists a (allegedly) forbidden number. If you don't know how to find it it's 27 more than the first and 31 less than the second. Oops.
Edit: Or you could multiply the following primes: 2, 5, 19, 12043, 216493, and 836256503069278983442067 and then multiply by 32.

"adding the iceweasel branding to firefox windows" - coming soon
"asa dotzler sucks" - Blake Ross again ?
"booh debian" - apt-get moo
"ca passe" - ou ça casse
"dumb ass 2" - the return
"fix fucked up partition table" - you should try parted
"good variables to test" - foo ? bar ?
"hate soccer" - me too
"i could not agree less" - can't say disagree ?
"plus c'est gros mieux ça passe" - this also applies to what Sarkozy says
"shaking laptop while in use" - not convenient to type
"us consumer protection versus firefox" - Stella award in progress ?