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I am seeing a big bug - a regression? - on sqlite-based xul templates on mozilla-central's trunk. In bluegriffon, I am populating a listbox from a sqlite table. Used to work beautifully just a few weeks ago, and it's now completely horked on both mac and win, showing only one record. I just discovered it a few minutes ago, I thought my mac build was guilty but a fresh win build now shows the same symptoms. Since that part of my code hasn't change at all in weeks, I don't think it's guilty. I'll try to narrow this down tomorrow afternoon if it's not already filed in bugzilla.

<daniel> je vais lancer un build sur le laptop, au moins ça me
         réchauffera les mains.

Hier, je constatais encore une fois que les articles de Une de Libé et du Monde sur le web étaient illustrés de la même photographie sur un texte issu directement de l'AFP. La démission du Ministre de l'Intérieur Indien. Idem ce soir pour les manifestations à Bangkok. Il y a quelques jours, je constatais également que quand CNN et Le Monde ont le même sujet de Une, il est très courant que Le Monde en ligne reprenne exactement la même photo que CNN, CNN étant en général plus rapide pour publier.

La presse française est en-dessous de tout. Libération n'existe plus, c'est devenu totalement illisible. Le Monde est l'ombre de lui-même, ses articles sont mauvais, ses analyses sont inexistantes, ses reportages et enquêtes exclusifs sont oubliés depuis longtemps, ses signatures n'en sont plus. Le Figaro reste fidèle à lui-même mais le Figaro, ça reste pas grand-chose. Seul le Parisien reste un quotidien parfaitement adapté à son lectorat et ce n'est pas un commentaire négatif, bien au contraire.

Dans un tel paysage et malgré la crise de la presse écrite, il reste étonnant qu'autant de gens lisent un journal.  Moi qui étais un véritable papivore, achetant la presse tous les matins et bien sûr le Canard tous les mercredis, je ne lis plus que le Canard. Je compte sur les doigts d'une main le nombre de quotidiens achetés par moi en 2008. Ce n'est pas le Web et sa diffusion quasi-gratuite de l'information qui attaquent la presse française, c'est la presse française elle-même qui se suicide par manque de qualité.

Après le fauteuil qui vous bousille le dos (voire vous tue, le dossier est en cours d'instruction pour deux morts suspectes), le dentifrice, les peintures, le lait, j'en passe et des meilleures, la République Populaire de Chine a le plaisir de vous proposer pour la saison des fêtes son soja "bio" à la mélamine !!! Bah oui, si la mélamine est-elle même bio hein ?

One paragraph in this article made me say "spot on". Emphasis is mine.

Reinstalling Firefox also reminded me of a feature in the forthcoming Firefox 3.1 that I was happy to leave behind: tab-switching behavior. I'm a big fan of keyboard shortcuts, and use Ctrl-Tab hundreds of times daily to switch between browser tabs. I loathe the new Firefox mechanism, which switches to your most recently used tab rather than cycling one tab to the right, and showing a miniature preview version of the Web page instead of actually switching tabs. I don't know if others' brains work differently, but the new mechanism leaves me completely lost in a sea of tabs, forcing me to use the mouse, which slows me down.

I reverted to the earlier tab-switching feature by adjusting Firefox's behavior thus: First, type "about:config" into the address bar, then move past the warning message, then type "ctrlTab" into the "Filter" box, then double-click first on browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed and then on browser.ctrlTab.smoothScroll to set them to "false," then restart the browser.

Last time I said it, the reactions were more like "hey your windows box already does it" or "most people like it". People understand it in Windows because WINDOWS are not TABS. They're not organized in a linear horizontal flow so your brain does not try to record tabs' order. And about most people liking the new behaviour, I still don't buy that one, sorry. Not a single person around me, geeks or non-geeks, likes it.

Things I love in my MBP:

• the overall design and hardware quality (if you except the heat of the carter close to the right bottom of the screen when I build a debug build of xulrunner, I found only one issue : when you insert an ExpressCard, the blocking click happens too late. If like me you want to use an expresscard to read SD cards, it's really hard to push your card far enough in the mac)
• the incredible quality of the iSight cam compared to what I had in my Sony laptop; and that one was already good.
• Parallels. I started with a trial version but it's worth every penny.
• the battery life.

Things I like:

• the quality of the keyboard
• the glossy screen, although I haven't tried yet outside of my flat or the office
• the new touchpad, very very cool

Things I dislike:

• the french mac keyboard just totally sucks when you're a developer. Key combinations are needed for {}[] \ and | and that's a bit painful when you code
• more important, the metallic edge of the palmrest is a bit too sharp and it's slowly shaving a portion of my skin at the bottom of both arms... When the bone becomes visible, I'll sue Apple
• I miss the delete key and the page up and page down keys.
• I really miss the ability to resize a window from any edge or corner.
• iPhoto is very slow when it imports a laaaarge image library. Roughly twenty times slower than Picasa...

Things I hate:

• gdb...

Things that surprised me:

• the HD is a 1.8" Toshiba and I can hear clicks coming from it ; it's probably the most fragile part of this laptop.
• the cpu fan is not of the best quality ever...
• MacPorts installation broke once, twice, and only third attempt (I manually set CC env variable) installed it correctly. Yeah, I know, I found afterwards it's a known issue but still, very surprising.
• I just updated the touchpad driver. I must say I did not have a single issue with that touchpad even before updating.
• the USB ports are on the left hand side; when you use your right hand for an external mouse, it's not very convenient unless you have a wireless mouse.
• Thunderbird surprised me too: first the junk mail controls did not work at all because it was a fresh install from scratch. There's a bug about this in bugzilla. I managed to have emails manually tagged as junk be moved to my Junk folder but other things are still broken. I also miss the incoming email notification in the windows version of Thunderbird. There's probably an extension meeting my wishes.
• context menus do not work inside the menupopups of Firefox's personal toolbar. A bit painful when you want to delete a bookmark there.
• lack of a good MSN Messenger client with full video and audio support. Fortunately, Parallels makes it easy to use the builtin iSight with Windows MSN Messenger.
• the max angle between the keyboard and the screen is only 135°.

<Ségolène> (sur TF1) et je vais sans doute gagner demain
<gabriel> (éclatant de rire) oh ça je ne pense pas !

Je suis mort de rire. Quand je pense que Sarkozy voulait que le sommet financier aux US éclipse le congrès du PS !!! Inutile, le PS fait toutes les couvertures de la presse mais je ne suis pas sûr que cela soit très flatteur...