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Comment Chrome is completely broken for me (Score 1) 120

by eminencja on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @05:42PM (#34479992) Attached to: Google Quietly Posts Big JavaScript Engine Update

How sad I cannot use Chrome until they fix this bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=47416 The most innocent applications (framesets with documentation, TOC/Search on the left, actual content on the right) do not work in Chrome if loaded from a local hard-drive (or chrome is started with some weird, undocumented switch). Those framesets worked fine even in Netscape 4 and ancient versions of KHTML.

Comment Chrome is unusable for viewing framesets (Score 1) 292

by eminencja on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @05:51PM (#33966954) Attached to: Google Rolls Out Chrome 7

Frameset have long been unfashionable but, hey, they do have legitimate uses. Think a documentation bundle with a navigation panel on the left and the actual content in the right frame. Such framesets have worked fine even in ancient versions of Netscape and Konqueror/KHTML. So, you'd expect they will work in Chrome, right? Well, if you load a frameset from a local drive, they don't: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=47416 Because some moron thought this would make the browser more secure.

A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released 105

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @04:11PM from the five-is-better-than-one dept.

Julie188 writes "Greg Kroah-Hartman has released five new stable Linux kernels, correcting minor errors of their predecessors and including improvements which are unlikely to generate new errors. As so often with kernel versions in the stable series, it remains undisclosed if the new versions contain changes which fix security vulnerabilities, although the number of changes and some of the descriptions of those changes certainly suggest that all the new versions contain security fixes."

Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux 272

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 11, 2010 @10:32AM from the how-rude dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that with the release of the 10.1 security patches, Adobe has, at least temporarily, killed 64-bit Flash for Linux. The statement says: 'The Flash Player 10.1 64-bit Linux beta is closed. We remain committed to delivering 64-bit support in a future release of Flash Player. No further information is available at this time. Please feel free to continue your discussions on the Flash Player 10.1 desktop forums.' The 64-bit forum has been set to read-only."

New Hungarian Government OMGs All Gov Sites 59

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @09:40AM from the they-forgot-the-ponies dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The new Hungarian government chose to replace the home pages with a 'disclaimer' page on several governmental websites such as ministries or the Foreign Office. The title and the main message is 'OMG,' which is followed by an explanation that the inherited websites 'lack any kind of uniform structure' and this is 'unworthy of Hungary.' Today is the takeover day in most ministries for the new administration."

New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System 132

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @08:14PM from the check-it-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent addition to Linux's impressive selection of file systems is Ceph, a distributed file system that incorporates replication and fault tolerance while maintaining POSIX compatibility. Explore the architecture of Ceph and learn how it provides fault tolerance and simplifies the management of massive amounts of data."

The Big Technical Mistakes of History 244

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @05:19AM from the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dept.

An anonymous reader tips a PC Authority review of some of the biggest technical goofs of all time. "As any computer programmer will tell you, some of the most confusing and complex issues can stem from the simplest of errors. This article looking back at history's big technical mistakes includes some interesting trivia, such as NASA's failure to convert measurements to metric, resulting in the Mars Climate Orbiter being torn apart by the Martian atmosphere. Then there is the infamous Intel Pentium floating point fiasco, which cost the company $450m in direct costs, a battering on the world's stock exchanges, and a huge black mark on its reputation. Also on the list is Iridium, the global satellite phone network that promised to make phones work anywhere on the planet, but required 77 satellites to be launched into space."

How To Find Bad Programmers 359

Posted by samzenpus on Friday April 09, 2010 @12:16PM from the how-little-work-can-you-do-in-a-day dept.

AmberShah writes "The job post is your potential programmer's first impression of your company, so make it count with these offputting features. There are plenty of articles about recruiting great developers, but what if you are only interested in the crappy ones?" I think much of the industry is already following these guidelines.

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