It has a door.
When this door is closed, I do not want to be bothered.
Especially if all you have to say is "SUMMER B PUSSY OH YEAH".
I should probably note that the previous entry about accessing the UF home page from handheld devices was a personal opinion, and that anything I write here is not endorsed by my employer.
(No, they didn't ask me to say this.)
Recently we received (via a public mailing list) a report that our site did not work on Palm devices. We all found this a little strange, since our site is developed with standards in mind and contains pretty basic HTML.
I knew that Palm made an emulator available, and was happy to find that an ebuild was available. However, the ebuild didn't so much work, so I made an attempt to fix it. Once it was installed, I booted up one of the ROMs to find that no Web browser came installed. I gave up after searching for a while.
It turns out the person testing our site was using a Tungsten C device, with PalmSource Web Browser 2.0. Okay, so I search around the PalmSource site some more and find that I should be using a device running either "Garnet" or "Cobalt".
"Simulators" exist for Garnet and Cobalt, but they're for Windows only. Well, this is why I have VMware.
Neither simulator included a Web browser, so I started looking around for PalmSource Web Browser 2.0. I think it's now Palm Web Browser Pro or maybe Palm Web Pro 3.0, but who knows? The "Buy Now" links those pages didn't go anywhere useful, so even if I wanted to give Palm my money, I probably wouldn't get much in return.
Let this be a lesson to platform developers: if you don't make it easy to test Web sites on your device, Web developers will eventually give up out of frustration. I apologize to the three people trying to access our site from a handheld, but you're SOL.
You may have noticed the links in my sidebar. Thanks to the deliciousurl.pl irssi script, the list now includes the links from our IRC channel.
I finally made risotto this weekend, in this case with porcini mushrooms. It was hard work, but definitely worth it.
Risotto, to this amateur, seems like a very flexible dish. Next time I'd like to make a more basic risotto to get a better idea of the foundation.
For some reason I'm really focusing on Italian cuisine for the time being, but I've always enjoyed Mexican and Indian also (spicy == good).
Eugenia, who runs OSNews.com, also maintains a Slashdot journal. I don't normally read it, but found this post via Planet GNOME.
I won't speak to the content of her post (there's plenty of commentary available on Planet GNOME and elsewhere in the solar system). But I wanted to point out the fortune quote which appeared at the bottom of the Slashdot page when I loaded it:
Keep your mouth shut and people will think you stupid; Open it and you remove all doubt.
John Palmieri (J5) has some thoughts on themes.
Specifically:
…I would like to see cleaner themes where the window flows much better instead of windows that look like a collection of elements.
Not to pick on J5, but his mockup illustrates a problem I have with some recent GNOME themes. These themes blend the title bar and the window contents, making it less obvious what part of the window you can grab to move the window. Making the title bar visually distinct avoids any confusion.
Apple's brushed metal interface also blends the title bar and window contents. Despite my general dislike of Apple's brushed metal, I will give Apple credit for getting one thing right: you can grab anything that looks like the title bar to move the window. (Hmm, I wonder if this is the case with Mail and Spotlight.)
These GNOME themes don't let you grab the window to move it anywhere except the title bar, but there's little or no difference between the title bar and the rest of the window.
Hmm.
Feathers on my breath
I upgraded to Tiger on the storage server at work, not really expecting my problems with Samba to be fixed.
To recap, the Windows XP workstations in our office are controlled by a separate group. Their domain policy forces NTLMv2 authentication for Windows shares. Mac OS X did not support NTLMv2 authentication, which made our file shares inaccessible except via SFTP. We eventually set up WebDrive to make it easier to access the file share.
Amazingly, NTLMv2 authentication is supported in Mac OS X 10.4. Once I solved a small issue with NetBIOS (connecting to \\the.servers.fqdn\share didn't work, because the.servers.fqdn was too long for NetBIOS or some shit), the Windows clients were able to connect. w00t!
There's still some weirdness in OS X's Samba support, namely that it restricts access to specific accounts. This isn't really a bad thing. However, when you enable access for an account, you are warned that doing so makes the account's password less secure. In other words, it rehashes the user's password (and thus has to prompt you for it), using a weaker algorithm. Yay!
I guess I have another reason to look into LDAP authentication or maybe Active Directory integration, which would theoretically let us use GatorLink instead of OS X's crap. I would hope OS X's Samba is smart enough to use Open Directory properly, but I don't have much hope.