Diary of a CrazyFrench

According to AppleInsider, iChat will support Jabber in the next MacOS X version. Jabber is an open instant messenging system that proves to be more versatile than the other IM.

I think I already blogged about that earlier in September, but the articles are off-line.

According to the Inquirer, OpenOffice.org 2.0 makes use of HSQL Embedded database engine for its database component. The issue is that HSQL is written in Java and though require a Java runtime, which is not free, given the current state of the Free java reimplementation. The source code license has not changed, but this dependency is probably not the best choice, even thought it is also Free Software. Probably because Sun and Java are so closely related.

Firefox ad has been published in the New York Times. But it is a real shame that I can't view it with a Free PDF reader. xpdf 3.00 does not render it completely by just skipping the Firefox logo, Ghostscript just fail with an error. gpdf does not do better than xpdf, because it use the same engine.

Oh, and don't tell me to run Adobe Acrobat Reader on my box, it does not. There is not PowerPC binary for Acrobat, and we don't have the source code.

I agree with Thom May & Daniel Stone startup measurements for Ubuntu Linux, when it comes to cupsd. CUPS can be slow to startup, even with an empty configuration. Unrelated to what he is doing, I discovered that CUPS does not start as fast as I wished.

GNOME Foundation 2004 Preliminary Results has been published. Congrats to all the board members.