Monthly Archives: September 2008

George Mason University sued over Zotero

By david.humphrey | Published: September 30, 2008
This is so bad I can’t stand to retype it and look at it again.  Sickening. UPDATE (June 5, 2009): thankfully, justice has been served.  Awesome.
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Hey, Gmail, what’s up with you?

By david.humphrey | Published: September 29, 2008
So I’m trying to get my wife set-up on her new Mac, and everything works great…except you, Gmail.  What’s your problem?  Supposedly you love Mac.  And yet when she tries to do the most basic of things, you feign ignorance.  I mean honestly, what’s up with that (and that)?  Unless of course your answer is, [...]
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Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS)

By david.humphrey | Published: September 29, 2008
The Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) is scheduled for Oct 23 and Oct 24, and online registration is open.  There are various early bird rates, so register early.  This year’s line-up includes many familiar Mozilla faces: Stuart Parmenter Dan Mosedale David Eaves Frank Hecker Mark Surman Johnathan Nightingale Nelson Ko Shane Caraveo Tom Aratyn Trent Mick Mark Pilgrim (Google, Doctype) Aaron Fulkerson (MindTouch Deki) The list [...]
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Xming

By david.humphrey | Published: September 25, 2008
Today in class I needed to run a custom patched build on a remote Linux box, but only had a Win32 machine in our classroom.  Luckily, one of the students showed me Xming, and combined with PuTTY, I was in business!  The best part is that this lovely little X Server is part of our [...]
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I give up

By david.humphrey | Published: September 19, 2008
For whatever reason, I was born without the ITLAPD gene.  I mentioned it today at breakfast and my girls disappeared, reappearing a few minutes later with bandanas, eye patches, parrots on their shoulders, and “Aye, Aye me hearties!”  Clearly it skips a generation.  I’d write more, but I’m being told I need to hide a [...]
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Mozilla DevDays Toronto — TOMORROW (Sept 15)!

By david.humphrey | Published: September 14, 2008
“I’ve been waiting paitently for a Toronto Mozilla Developer event, and I can’t take it any more, help me Dave!” I hear you.  The wait is over.  In fact, you’re one sleep away (zero if you stay up all night tonight and fix bugs) from the best developer event in the city. “Great, but I’m a [...]
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Handling multiple browsers

By david.humphrey | Published: September 10, 2008
Yesterday’s Ubiquity lab reminded me that I need to tell you how to deal with having multiple browsers running at the same time.  By default, only a single version of Firefox can run at a time.  This is especially problematic when you’re also using ChatZilla as your IRC client (which I recommend as you begin [...]
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

By david.humphrey | Published: September 8, 2008
We had an interesting and lively discussion in class the other day, and one point stayed with me after it was over.  I asked the students about their experiences reading other people’s code, or reusing code.  Almost all of the students confessed that they hadn’t done this before (that’s one of the main things we [...]
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On the wall

By david.humphrey | Published: September 3, 2008
My wife bought me these clear 3M sheets that you can put on a wall and turn it into a whiteboard.  And now I write on my wall.  I’m writing on my wall.  It’s like being Bansky, only with trite little notes to self.  But I love writing on my wall.
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New troops!

By david.humphrey | Published: September 3, 2008
It’s September, the time of year when students head back to school and professors plot.  Almost all of my existing Mozilla students have graduated and started working, and I’m left all alone, *sniff*.  Well, not quite.  We’ve just welcomed 35 new students into our open source courses.  I’ll be taking them deep into the mystical [...]
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