{"id":356,"date":"2007-04-11T10:10:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/11\/some-short-nuggets\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T16:10:16","slug":"some-short-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/11\/some-short-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Short Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a bunch of quick blurbs I thought might be of interest.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"dev.opera.3\">Dev Opera Article #3 up<\/h4>\n<p>Go read my latest <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.opera.com\/articles\/view\/svg-evolution-3-applying-polish\/\" title=\"SVG Evolution 3: Applying Polish\">article<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\/\" title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/a> on Dev.Opera.  It deals with SVG filters so I recommend using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\" title=\"Opera Web Browser\">Opera Web Browser<\/a> (or recent Firefox 3 Trunk builds).  You can comment <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.opera.com\/forums\/topic\/184772\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"linux.mac.pc.videos\">Slacker vs. Geek vs. Cool Chick<\/h4>\n<p>The PC vs. Mac commercials are probably the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fuAHcGVr8qI\">parodied<\/a> series of commercials ever, now here are some from Novell that add a twist.  Many may have already caught these videos on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/\">Novell<\/a> site, but I thought I'd post the YouTube links because they're a little easier to get at (and the audio has less of a <i>hiss<\/i> to it):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cldeHjFig_c\">Clip 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7eTguZ5OzJ4\">Clip 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pa1RCg-Ccp0\">Clip 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Putting the hardware vs. software comparisons aside for a minute, my wife and I both liked these commercials (especially since I was watching them on a OpenSUSE 10.2 box).  It figures that Linux would be friendly, savvy and somewhat hot chick.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n<h4 id=\"suse.character.map\">Character Map on OpenSuse<\/h4>\n<p>Speaking of Linux, I was typing up some genealogy information on my OpenSUSE 10.2 box and could not find the equivalent \"Character Map\" application that Windows has at Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map to copy some characters like <b>\u00e9<\/b> and <b>\u00ef<\/b> and to my clipboard.  Can someone put me on the clue train?  If there is no such application - how do people type those characters on a standard US-English keyboard?<\/p>\n<p><i>[Update:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightpc.com\/blog\/\">Rob<\/a> let me know below about the Gnome Character Map (Suse package in YaST is \"gucharmap\") and I've now installed it]<\/i><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"snowstorm.in.april\">Snowstorm in April<\/h4>\n<p>It's snowing today in the north-west Chicago suburbs.  On April 11th, 2007.  And not just a little flurry, more like the <i>everything is covered in snow and it's still coming down<\/i> kind.  What is up with the weather?<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"winer.microsoft\">Winer on Graham on Microsoft<\/h4>\n<p>For the most part, I agree with what Dave Winer says about Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/2007\/04\/07.html#isMicrosoftDeadFeh\">here<\/a>.  Maybe not \"dead\" but largely \"irrelevant\" for a lot of people.  On the other hand, I think Paul Graham is living in a little too insular a bubble if he rarely comes across a Windows box.  And if you're a web developer you still have to deal with the fact that most of the deployed browsers out there are Microsoft browsers, despite all the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\" title=\"Firefox Web Browser\">great<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\" title=\"Opera Web Browser\">standards-comforming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caminobrowser.org\/\" title=\"Camino Web Browser\">free<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/safari\/\" title=\"Safari Web Browser\">browsers<\/a> available.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a bunch of quick blurbs I thought might be of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40,24,9,25,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-linux","category-microsoft","category-quicklinks","category-software","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}