Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

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.

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.