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Archive | November, 2009

Chrome OS Booting on my Original eeePC

November 20, 2009

Booting and running the Google Chrome OS (which I compiled from the open source Chromium OS source code) on my ancient original Asus eeePC. The 404s are because it takes a while to connect to my wireless internet. Note the awesome graphics bugs, which thankfully don’t happen too often.

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Facebook’s New Photo Uploader – a Plugin Fail

November 19, 2009

I have the utmost respect for the engineers at Facebook. They are a very talented bunch, and the few of them I’ve had the pleasure to meet in person have even been nice folks to boot. Generally, they come up with very innovative and progressive engineering solutions to the huge problems they face, but their [...]

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Use Firefox Betas on the Mac without Overriding Other Versions

November 12, 2009

On Windows, the Firefox installer (quite considerately) won’t override existing non-beta versions of the browser with a beta version (like the recently released Firefox 3.6 betas). Though it doesn’t explicitly say so, Mac OS X users can have a similar behavior, which by the surprised faces I see when  I tell people this, many people [...]

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