Archive for March, 2008

Passing Acid3

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Both Opera and WebKit have worked hard to resolve their bugs that were exploited by Acid3 and both have now released public builds that pass the test reasonably well.

Opera has released a copy of WinGogi (for Windows) and LinGogi (for Linux) that passes the test. Unfortunately, there is no Gogi for Mac. Gogi is an internal build using the latest, cross platform rendering engine, but which lacks the normal desktop user interface. The WebKit team has also announced their success a few days ago.

It should be noted that these changes are unlikely to be incorporated into the next upcoming release of Opera, which should be coming out some time in the near future.

You should be aware that two of the tests (test 26 and 69) are performance test, which may trigger a slight pause. These may be affected by the computer’s hardware and internet connection speed. This is actually a fairly subjective part of the test. There is no clear fail condition for it, but if a browser is significantly slower in comparison with others, it’s an indication that improvement is needed.

Fake Rumors

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

A friend of mine, who wants to be known only by the alias Charles Frost, has recently started a new site called Fake Rumors – a site dedicated to revealing the most absurd untruths ever. For example, did you know that China is planning to replace the Great Wall, or that airlines will replace sick bags with douchebags?

The site was launched just a few days ago, and I’m helping him out with the hosting and also writing a few articles for it.

Birthday Announcements

Friday, March 7th, 2008

It’s that time of year again where I get a year older. I’m turning 25, and I’ve got a few announcements to make.

iPhone

I have bought myself an iPhone. It’s the greatest phone ever created! I have successfully unlocked and jailbroken the phone using ZiPhone 2.5, which allows me to use the phone in Norway. I’m not locked into a 2 year AT&T contract, and have the freedom to use whatever telco I like.

The phone itself is wonderfully easy to use. If you haven’t got one, I’m sorry. I installed a few 3rd party apps, such as Converter, AFPd and Touchpad, which are all pretty cool and useful apps.

It wasn’t all fun and games. I managed to brick the iPhone last night and thought I had lost it after less than a day. I had installed OpenSSH and, stupidly, changed the root password. That’s a bad idea. I should have paid attention to the warning about doing so on 1.1.3 or later firmware when installing the BSD Subsystem. But, after about 10 minutes of panicking, wondering if I would ever recover it, we managed to reset the password and get iTunes to restore the phone, after which I could unlock and jailbreak it all again.

New Web Host

I have now transferred my website to Dreamhost. My plan started out with 500GB of storage space (499GB more space than my previous host, where I only have 1GB). This is now enough space to use it as an IMAP mail server, to store all my archived mail from the past several years, and all future email. That’s much better than having to use POP3, which I have been using for quite a while now.

It’s possible that some things on this site may have been broken due to the move. If you find anything that doesn’t work, I would appreciate it if you let me know. There are some things that I know are broken, and I will be spending the next few days trying to verify that everything works fine.