Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Latest WebKit passes 100/100 Acid3. Get it now!

Friday, March 28th, 2008

From Surfin’ Safari:

With r31342 WebKit has become the first publicly available rendering engine to achieve 100/100 on Acid3. The final test, test 79, was a brutal torture test of SVG text rendering. Details of the bugs we fixed will follow. Indeed, we found a critical bug in the test itself that would have forced a [...]

Me against Apache Axis and an army of web services

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Apache Axis can be such a bitch sometimes!

C:\Temp>java -cp %AXIS_CP%;. Test
17-Jan-2008 15:38:30 org.apache.axis.utils.JavaUtils isAttachmentSupported
WARNING: Unable to find required classes (javax.activation.DataHandler and javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart). Attachment support is disabled.
Falour mama: qJA1JdtU6AxRiHLORUkLusK7

C:\Temp>

This is the thrill of programming, the climax at seeing your program work for the first time and that tiny insignifant result come up at last.

Emtel HSDPA, 2nd set of test results

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

This post includes a picture.

‘nuf said

Emtel 3G/HSDPA

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

I’m typing this over an Emtel 3G connection from my Bluetooth phone. In theory, I should be getting 384 kbps, but the first test on Speedtest.net shows a maximum of 206 kbps with which I’m content — as long as I don’t have to wa…

Facebook blocked by ISPs in Mauritius

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Or, the Great Firewall of Mauritius in the making…

Make sure you read tonight’s issue of Le Mauricien. There will be an article about Facebook that will be quite interesting for Mauritian Facebookers.

Arrived in the office with this IM …