Month: July 2004

  • Gmail doesn’t use RAID

    This guy arranged for thousands of email messages to be sent to his Gmail account at once, and surprise, surprise! It fell over. What a jackass. One way to know for sure he’s a jackass is the theory about compression and RAID. First, Gmail doesn’t use RAID. It uses the Google Filesystem. It is like…

  • Firefox 0.9.1

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    First the good news: Firefox 0.9.1 for Win32 fixes my crashing problems. (So all you Mozilla zealots that found this page last time I said something about Firefox, please don’t spam me.) The bad news is that Firefox 0.9 was a crashy mess, and it stomped my icons such that my HTML files that I…

  • Fahrenheit 9/11

    Karl and I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight. There are fewer classic Moore scenes in it than his other movies, which is a huge improvement. His message is way too important to be lost in the noise of his wacky hijinks. In some ways, I think the criticism of his previous movies have taught…