Archive for March 2005

Installers and dataloss

Since Slashdot and MozillaZine have kindly dredged up old quotes: I still stand by my original opinion that the code to clean up completely on the uninstall is fine and useful if the install process is far less stupid. We shouldn’t allow installation into populated folders in the first place, unless we can establish that [...]

Notebook Questions

I’m in the market for a new development laptop, and I figure I can get wider feedback here than spamming on IRC. Requirements I have are fairly simple: Integrated 802.11b/g Widescreen display form factor with a quality display. Reasonable weight/portability. (Full desktop replacement not needed. Same with ultraportables. (sorry Chase!)) Good support system. (Hardware is [...]