Advogato blog for jamesh

Prague - May 26, 2008

I arrived in Prague yesterday for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Including time spent in transit in Singapore and London, the flights took about 30 hours. As I was flying on BA, I got to experience Heathrow Terminal 5. It wasn&8217;t quite as bad as some of the horror stories I&8217;d heard. There were definitely aspects that weren&8217;t forgiving of mistakes. For example, when taking the train to the &8220;B&8221; section there was a sign saying that if you accidentally got on the train when...
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bzr commit author - May 26, 2008

One of the features I recently discovered in Bazaar is the &8211;author option for &8220;bzr commit&8220;. This lets you make commits to a Bazaar branch on behalf of another person. When used, the new revision credits two people: you as the committer and the other person as the author. While Bazaar does make it easy for non-core contributors to send changes in a form that correctly attributes them (e.g. by publishing a branch or sending a bundle), I doubt we&8217;ll ever see the end of pure...
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SSL caching on Firefox 3 - May 1, 2008

Since upgrading to Ubuntu Hardy, I&8217;ve been enjoying using Firefox 3. The reduced memory usage has made a lot of other things nicer to use (I don&8217;t feel like I need to buy more memory now). One thing that is nice to see fixed is caching of SSL content. In previous versions of Firefox, SSL content was never cached to disk with the default settings. While you certainly don&8217;t want all SSL content to be written to disk, a lot of it can be cached without problem. For example, it is...
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