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Archive for June, 2006
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006Assorted new releases
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006First, Windows Live Messenger (formely MSN Messenger) is out.
I’ve only tried it out for a minute, and all of my contacts were still using MSN Messenger 7.5. Still full of ads, but there’s a Mess.be patch to remove them, and tinker with it, which I haven’t installed yet, but I’ve used the MSN 7.5 version for months, and it made it bearable.
One new feature: you can talk to people while “appearing offline”, now. Of course, they’ll instantly realize that you aren’t really offline…
Second, Opera 9 is finally out. Lots of new stuff to explore. It passes the ACID2 test, and is still by far the fastest modern browser in the world. Firefox is still my primary browser, but Opera is a joy to use. Also (via Pedro Fonseca), a list of 10 features you’ll find only in Opera. Note that all of them are for version 8.0 – the new version has even more unique features.
Windows Live Messenger final: tomorrow?
Monday, June 19th, 2006According to mess.be, yes.
If you don’t know about it, it’s the next version of the software previously known as “MSN Messenger”, which most Portuguese refer to as either “MSN” or “Messenger”, never realizing that MSN is something else, and that there are other messengers.
And here are some of its new features, and some screenshots, too.
Unix and Windows admins
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006“A Unix admin needs to be root. A Windows admin needs to reboot.”
(seen as a Slashdot sig)
WordPress 2.0.3 and bugs
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006Yesterday, I updated my blogs to WordPress 2.0.3, the latest version. Today, when editing one of my comments, I discovered an annoying bug: it added escape characters (backslashes) to all quotes or apostrophes. The only way to get the comment “right” was to copy it to the clipboard, delete it and add it again… which would be even more annoying if it wasn’t the most recent comment. It also added some weird “are you sure?” dialogs when editing comments.
So, I searched around, and there’s a plugin to solve these 2.0.3 annoyances (and which will deactivate itself automatically if the version isn’t 2.0.3). It’s called WordPress 2.0.3 Tuneup, and it fixes:
* #2760 “Are you sure?” dialog for comment editing no longer appears
* #2761 “Are you sure?” dialog no longer adds slashes to info passed through it
* #2764 After editing a comment, you are properly redirected back to your original location
* #2776 New in version 0.2: “Are you sure?” dialog for user editing no longer appears
* #2782 New in version 0.3: “Are you sure?” dialog for link editing no longer appears
* #2806 New in version 0.4: Deletion of links works when JavaScript is turned off
I’m using it now, and it’s working great.
