MacCentral: “Apple on Wednesday updated its recently introduced Safari Web Browser. The update addresses issues reported from users and delivers overall performance improvements.”
Two of the biggest problems with Safari is Shockwave content performance and CSS rendering. Apple says to have fixed both of these thing. I’m sure I’ll let ya know what I think. Let’s hope that server connection lag is also taken care of.
Since the recent crash of our SAN at work, we’ve been looking into new backup procedures and, in turn, are trying to estimate storage usage for the next 2 years. It’s gotten me to think a lot about personal storage at home. Originally, I thought I’d just add a DVD-RW drive and do monthly archiving and weekly backups. Now I’m thinking of just moving my 80GB drives into a decent stand-alone file server I could build with a DVD-RW backup and archive system. I’ll update this post later with specs and prices I find today. Whatever I decide to do, I need to do it soon because I am all out of space.
About 4 years ago, the position I held at my job had a lot of down-time. That being the case, my friends and I took it upon ourselves to learn Macromedia’s Flash 3.0. What ended up happening was us going back and forth trying to top each other’s movies. Most of them were incomplete. Some were just showing off some stupid “effect”. Some were pretty damn funny (at the time). Anyway, I just found some and I’m getting a good giggle out watching them all over again. Not because they’re funny. It’s because they’re so bad. Check it out.
You want to see something really pathetic? Wait until I put up some of my personal web site I found from about 10 years ago. Scary.
I think this car is retarded, but Lisa (might) like it.”
Although I’m constantly rotating between Safari, Chimera, Mozilla, and IE, I’ve been using Safari as my main browser. Now Safari is fast, but that’s only after it actually connects to the server, an action that seems to take forever and a day. No other browser I use takes that long. Can someone please explain this to me? I just hope the next build fixes this problem because it’s bad enough that I’m moving back to Chimera again for my main browsing.
BTW, here’s a great tool to tweak the otherwise boring interface of Chimera.
It’s been a while since I spent some hard earned money on DVDs and yesterday I got myself some good ones:
Google Village: “…is now released under a Creative Commons License.”
CC is something Roger introduced me to a couple of weeks back and now that I’m starting to understanding its intent, I might just have to publish under one of their licenses and remove the scary one placed smack dab in the middle of my front page.
I’m sure everyone is tired of the car posts, but I saw this and just had to say something.
Nissan unveiled a couple official images of the 350Z Roadster (convertible) yesterday. The entire reason I love the Z coupe is because it seems the developers/designers took all of the R&D money and dumped it into the things I would have: powerplant, drivetrain, suspension, brakes, chassis, and aerodynamics. I don’t like the convertible because it lessens the potency of all those things. Nissan should stick to the true sports car formula and cater to the enthusiast driver, not the trendy buyer.
Bloomberg: “Microsoft Corp… is talking to Apple Computer Inc. to avoid a challenge to a planned $1.1 billion antitrust settlement the computer maker claims gives Microsoft an unfair advantage in the education market.”
Boy, would I like to be a fly on the wall in that conference room.
I really don’t know what BMW was thinking when they decided to green light Chris Bangle‘s designs for production. Take the 2004 5-series for instance. He’s turned what I think is one of the most beautiful cars in the world and turned it into this. It’s the very same thing he did with the 7-series. Yeah, it’s different, but it’s still ugly. What do you think?