Archive for April, 2008

And now for something completely different

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

My Spurs rant wasn’t meant for planet — put the wrong category on that by accident last night, so sorry about that.
I wrote it after the game from a craptastic bar in SJC as I waited for my plane — it was delayed 3 hours because of weather in Chicago.
I did work on a diagram […]

Yea, but I still hate the Spurs

Friday, April 25th, 2008

The almighty Spurs realized that the pick-and-roll is the most consistent offense in a league where the zone is all but overruled.
Sooner or later the Suns will realize that they can’t just outscore opponents and expect people to just bend over when they run fast or actually pass the basketball.
All things aside, the Spurs deserve […]

One of these things is not like the others…

Friday, April 25th, 2008

In a recent bug fligtar was nice enough to run some stats for me on platform strings passed in extensions.update.url via the %APP_OS% client variable in Firefox. He found some interesting results:

WINNT
Darwin
Linux
linux-gnu
SunOS
FreeBSD
linux
winnt
darwin
OS2
OpenBSD
NetBSD
BeOS
DragonFly
IRIX64
AIX
HP-UX
NTO
solaris2.10
OSF1
penis

Fixing bug 407211 will be a long and hard process, but I think I’ll be able to handle it.