I'm using it to post this now

Unfortunately, I have to write html again. I'm using Opera Mini. There's no proofing, no copy/paste in Opera. The phone is amazing, the GPS is outstanding. I can't write more now, this interface sucks.

I just got my tickets for this: http://www.mysound.bg/?act=article&id=2745

Go to a web page -> context menu -> Create App Shortcut:

Then:


Then you have:

Even the icon is there, clicking it opens:


Note: It's not offline:


My opinion: not very useful, but nice.

Michael Moore is a kind-of-a journalist, a filmmaker and a writer in the US. I have read and watched almost anything he did, going back even to "Roger and Me" (please search them up, I can't constantly write target="_blank"). He caught my attention with "Bowling for Columbine", a movie for some kids that armed themselves and killed some co-students and teachers in school. Especially the interview with Marylin Manson and the part where he mocks the locals claims that it was the bowling that put these kids to the idea.

Since then he got an Oscar, written a lot of stuff. He is not always absolutely objective, lets himself carried away sometimes but the personal touch makes him so likable.

He's in my blogroll now.

Galcho commented out in a previous post of mine that Google Chrome's EULA said something like whatever I do with Chrome is property of Google. They of course revoked that and said it was a mistake. If it wasn't I would, obviously, have stopped using it.

Later on I read on the history of the browser and how A browser is very important to Google.
This brings me to another topic. How much info does any corp have about me? Google has a lot - mail, calendar, reader, search.....(there are claims that Google is misusing cookies so they can track anyone - gmail cookie used in search). I don't like the idea that a single entity has so much info about me. As much as I don't like my Government spying on me via the ISPs (an ongoing issue here). I don't trust my Government and I don't trust Google. But until now there's not much I can do. Google's services are really good and free. Maybe if I have some free time, I'll spend it on finding ways to make collection my private info a lot harder, especially for Google. I'll share the experience, of course.

Here's how browser looks process wise:

They really do have multiple processes as they promised.

Update: Chrome just can't play cacao.fm

Update2: Firefox's new super-duper-nice search in history feature...

...is not in Chrome, too bad, it's a great feature.

Actually I don't see history in Chrome. I don't use it too often, but it's nice to have it.

Ctrl+Shift+T is working in Chrome, great

The new browser from Google - Google Chrome - is out.
First impressions: the html editor in the blog is NOT working, no idea why. I have to write html, it's really annoying.
It's fast. I don't see anything that's that much different from firefox.
The plug-ins are missing, I miss them.

Update: It's really fast, but so was firefox before all the pages and plug-ins.
Drag and drop works really nice:

Writing html really sucks.

Update2: It has something like the Firebug plug-in:

It has a javascript debugger, or at least it says so - I couldn't see what it can do.
The interface is really minimalistic, Google Talk style, I enjoy it. I could browse through all the options in a single minute.
It has the firefox shortcuts, downloads (Ctrl+J).

Update3: In maximized mode it uses even the title bar for the tabs. Cool. The tab text is too short to show the full title bar :-(
I REALLY HATE WRITING HTML, I'm going to post to the blog with firefox :((((((((((((
This thing is really fast.

Update4: The dream is over - it crashed (while opening an online radio):


Still, it's a great piece of software, especially the interface.

There was a feature first introduced in XP for burning CDs. In Xp the service was called something like ATAPI burning or whatever. Couldn't burn DVDs. In Vista the same software could burn DVDs. I couldn't find the service name. I may have missed it somehow.

So this software was a nice feature - simple, fairly stable.

But it's so darn slow and requires twice as much space as the burned data. Here's why:

First you copy the files on the CD/DVD with Windows Explorer. This copies the files in a cache of some kind. Trying to burn 4.5 GB requires 4-5 minutes of copying - and the machine is unusable  - copying utilizes the HDD. If you do something else it could take up to 20 min.

Then to burn them, the wizard should be started - this again copies the files to another cache I guess. Again 5 to 20 minutes.

This means 9 GB of space needed + the actual 4.5 GB. And a lot of time.

Vista/XP you messed up a good idea again. Vista/XP you suck.

As far as I can remember Nero was a lot faster, no cache needed, or at least no that much. Is Nero still good? Is there a light version of it?

1. Everytime a class entity gets queried, it's version gets incremented. This makes updating a disconnected entity far more difficult and makes the @Version kind of obsolete.
   Solution: none, I couldn't find anything remotely connected to this problem on the net.
   
2. The primary key in the join table (with a name like 'class_gradedstudent') is not the [class_id, student_id] but is [class_id, student_id, grade]. If you put extra columns in the join table and they are nullable = false, they would become part of the primary key.
   
3. Cascading fails. You have to create and persist a Student first in order it to become a part of a certain class entity. Even though a GradedStudent is said to cascade a Student.
   Solution: none, I tried everything I could think of - no luck. I couldn't find anything remotely connected to this problem on the net.

1. Causes the @Version of the containing object (Class) to increment on EntityManager.html#find(java.lang.Class, java.lang.Object)
2. The creation of an ExtraStudent cannot propagate (cascade) the inner Student - no matter what.

1. First just add some setters or change the access level modifiers (from private to protected for example).
2. Know your transaction authority.
   
3. Count started transactions. If 0, begin. If 0, commit. Rollback when necessary.
   
4. Listen for all the exceptions and wrap and unwrap them.
5. Reuse as much as possible of the code.
   

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Product: Hibernate EntityManager
Specification-Title: JBoss
Created-By: 1.5.0_09-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Specification-Version: 4.2.2.GA
Implementation-Vendor-Id: http://www.jboss.org/   WTF?
Version: 3.2.1.GA
Implementation-URL: http://www.jboss.org/
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.6.5
Implementation-Title: JBoss [Trinity]
Specification-Vendor: JBoss (http://www.jboss.org/)
Implementation-Version: 4.2.2.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_4_2_2_GA date=20
 0710221139)
Implementation-Vendor: JBoss Inc.

It's not very easy, this is the first phone that is sophisticated enough to support the editing page and easy enough to be usable for that purpose. Uploading does not work. Rich editing does not work. But typing is fast enough and easy enough.