A lot has been written lately on the Writers Guild of America strike. John Rogers sums the details up pretty well. I’m sad to see that things have come to this point. I for one will miss all the great TV they write for if the strike continues much longer. They’re [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Writer’s Guild Strike – “Speechless” Campaign
November 23, 2007Rock Band
November 21, 2007My copy of Rock Band Special Edition for the Xbox 360 got here yesterday. This giant box came with the game, a (wired) guitar, drum set and microphone. Oh, and also a USB hub!
I took the game over to Vlad’s place and hooked up the drums there. Having not spent as much time [...]
malloc replacements?
November 21, 2007We’ve built some great tools lately including one to test fragmentation of different allocators. I’m currently in the process of hooking up allocators such as tcmalloc, nedmalloc, Hoard, and jemalloc. Also native platform specific ones such as the Windows low-fragmentation heap. I’m having to dig in to some of their internals to pull out [...]
Amazon Kindle
November 20, 2007My Kindle arrived today. I’ve been wanting to jump in to the ebook game for a while but the lack of easy content has stopped me. Good thing I ordered it yesterday as they’ve sold out already. I’m sure others will write more in depth reviews, but here my current thoughts after [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 1
November 19, 2007Beta 1 is out. Hurray!
I’ve been working on Firefox 3 stuff for over two and a half years now. Back in March 2005, after GDC, I started to put together what would become the new graphics API in Gecko (“Thebes”). Ignoring the alphas, this is the first real release that includes the [...]
Domain mapping with wordpress.com
November 19, 2007http://blog.pavlov.net/ is finally working. As I mentioned previously, I switched my blog from my own MovableType install to a hosted wordpress.com account. I got everything imported easily but I’ve had a problem getting my subdomain mapping properly. WP.com tries to verify that the subdomain is setup properly before allowing you to continue, [...]
Gaming Madness
November 18, 2007Long long ago I used to have time to play video games all the way through. I can almost remember those Final Fantasy games that I put hundreds of hours in to. These days I seem to pick up games with intentions to play them all the way through but I find that [...]
Less fragmentation coming in Firefox 3
November 15, 2007I’ve had a lot of people ask whether the memory improvements that I’ve been doing recently will make it in to Firefox 3 or if they’ll only appear in a more future release.
The basic answer: many of these fixes will be included in Firefox 3, but not all of them.
The more complicated answer is that [...]
Leaks? Memory? We never forgot about you.
November 14, 2007I’ve seen quite a few posts lately based on the memory fragmentation work that I’m doing with titles such as “Fixing Firefox’s memory issue becomes a priority.” Others have claimed that this work is a result of Mozilla’s new focus on mobile. While I’m glad that people are paying attention to our memory work [...]
WordPress…
November 13, 2007I’ve grown a little tired of hosting my own blog so I’m going to give wordpress.com a shot. This had been a long time coming and with the recent extra amount of comments/hits I’ve been hitting, I realized I probably shouldn’t be running versions of blogging software with known security holes. Given that and [...]
