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Archive Posts for September 2008

Crufty Software
9/15/2008 at 1:36 p.m. (3 years, 4 months ago)

An excerpt from my friend Sasha's jestful take on SIP
If you absolutely MUST skin cats, stop trying to use a potato peeler to do the job.

Google Chrome
9/2/2008 at 10:47 p.m. (3 years, 5 months ago)

I downloaded and tried out Google's Chrome browser this evening. It is ridiculously cool. I must admit I was very skeptical when I learned about this browser. I have become very attached to Firefox over the last 5 or so years of use, and I simply didn't see how it could be topped.

After I thought about it for awhile, it did occur to me that Firefox 3 has a few more bugs and rendering issues than I would care for. Also, it tends to hang on my clean Ubuntu build quite frequently, which means I have to look up the process and issue a kill command. Kind of pesky.

The WebKit based Chrome is lightning fast, dead ...

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