August 16, 2007

Wizards Of The Coast makes a pick pocket check

Will they succeed? Wizards of the Coast announces Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition.

The site has been hit hard, so may not be up when you read this.

August 12, 2007

Camerapedia

While searching for some information on the difference between a linear and circular polarizer lens, I came across Camerapedia. It seems like such an obvious wiki to have that I'm surprised I didn't think of looking for a photography related wiki earlier.

August 7, 2007

New iMovie Announced

iMovie, which is part of the iLife application by Apple, was announced today. It looks interesting, though I would prefer to know a bit more of what I can find there than the product page shows. Still, it doesn't really matter to me in the end, since iMovie requires a G5 processor on the PowerPC side. I only have a G4 Powerbook (a G5 Powerbook never existed) and have no plans to buy a new laptop or desktop anytime soon. This just gives me more incentive to see what I can do for movie editing on Linux and if it can do a decent enough job, or at least hope that it will in the near future.

August 2, 2007

Gentoo Firefox Issue Solved?

So far, I would say yes. This Gentoo forum post describes the issue I had while running 64-bit Gentoo and had again with 32-bit Gentoo where an X window (or as described by one poster, unmarked windows) would pop up while using Firefox and Firefox would eventually crash. The Gentoo bug page for this problem shows a solution of compiling Firefox using a +moznopango use flag. I recompiled Firefox with that use flag and have had no problems for 3 days. As a bonus, most of the text in Firefox looks a lot better. I'll be using the +moznopango use flag when compiling the 2.0.0.6 version of Thunderbird and the next version of SeaMonkey.