La Tortue Cynique / The Cynical Turtle

Getting rid of NewsMonster

Quite simple after all, even if I'm not sure to have really removed it, it doesn't appear anymore in new windows.

So what to do? Look into all your .rdf files (F3 or grep -i -r are your friends) containing the string "newsm". Then, get rid of all the XML elements directly containing the newsmonster's settings, and voilà.(Tout venant, 2003/02/28 18:08) lien permanent

Yesterday I've tried NewsMonster...

... maybe the news aggregator of future, but not of today. I let the thing aggregate several times, but nothing appeared in Moz. Some times when a site is not reachable, the whole process seem to be blocked... which is bad with freeroller in the current state.

A thing I'm not sure about is the mix between Mozilla and Java. Mozilla has been designed to be cross-platform, is component oriented through XPCOM, and has the required libraries from what I can understand from its architecture (network transfer for sure, XML parsing, there is at least a regexp matching engine in Rhino...). And I didn't find a rational on their site. I suspect there is a good reason behind that, but unfortunately I can't tell which one. Furthemore, with the fuss around building applications with the Mozilla framework, I would have liked to see an application which is not a pure browser and widespreaded built on Mozilla.

Currently I'm just looking for a way to remove that hybrid couple from my computer. Removing the Java part is easy, but I fear to break my Moz installation if things go wrong with the other part.(Tout venant, 2003/02/19 18:14) lien permanent

Nothing to blog

Nothing much to express this month. Began a new project at work, more concentrated on administrative tasks than on coding. Fed up with those wars/anti wars stories, went to the demo last saturday, sad faces everywhere. Mentally tired.(Tout venant, 2003/02/18 17:50) lien permanent

.arg

Very fun... just read today on slashdot that rot13 of .net is .arg(Tout venant, 2003/02/03 17:26) lien permanent