AOL, subsidiary of AOL-Time Warner kills Netscape at the time CNN, subsidiary of AOL-Time Warner advertises for Netscape 7.1 on its home page. Guess it's not the last time they miss something.

I said a while ago that I was sure to see the ex-Netscapers remaining at AOL leave slowly, because there is nothing there for them, because AOL projects are not cool/high-tech enough to feed their geeky brains. Seems I was right, Eric Meyer just left AOL.

" Darwin is all wrong, he could not imagine evolution would create software developers "

Joe Francis, aka floppymoose, starts a new project called Moosilla: a Cocoa version of Mozilla Composer!

If you want to build Mozilla with a french version of VC7, you need to apply the following patch to your tree. The -v call on the compiler differs between the en-US and the fr-FR versions :-/ Thanks Microsoft....

Index: configure
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/configure,v
retrieving revision 1.1211
diff -u -r1.1211 configure
--- configure	28 Jul 2003 20:36:13 -0000	1.1211
+++ configure	30 Jul 2003 11:26:59 -0000
@@ -2620,10 +2620,10 @@
 
 
         # Determine compiler version
-        CC_VERSION=`"${CC}" -v 2>&1 | grep Version | sed -e 's|.* Version ||' | sed -e 's| *$||'`
+        CC_VERSION=`"${CC}" -v 2>&1 | grep version | sed -e 's|.* version ||' | sed -e 's| *$||'`
         _CC_MAJOR_VERSION=`echo ${CC_VERSION} | awk -F\. '{ print $ 1 }'`
 
-        CXX_VERSION=`"${CXX}" -v 2>&1 | grep Version | sed -e 's|.* Version ||' | sed -e 's| *$||'`
+        CXX_VERSION=`"${CXX}" -v 2>&1 | grep version | sed -e 's|.* version ||' | sed -e 's| *$||'`
         _CXX_MAJOR_VERSION=`echo ${CXX_VERSION} | awk -F\. '{ print $ 1 }'`
 
         if test "$_CC_MAJOR_VERSION" != "$_CXX_MAJOR_VERSION"; then
Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.1259
diff -u -r1.1259 configure.in
--- configure.in	30 Jul 2003 02:38:56 -0000	1.1259
+++ configure.in	30 Jul 2003 11:27:03 -0000
@@ -327,10 +327,10 @@
         AC_LANG_RESTORE
 
         # Determine compiler version
-        CC_VERSION=`"${CC}" -v 2>&1 | grep Version | sed -e 's|.* Version ||' | sed -e 's|[ ]*$||'`
+        CC_VERSION=`"${CC}" -v 2>&1 | grep version | sed -e 's|.* version ||' | sed -e 's|[ ]*$||'`
         _CC_MAJOR_VERSION=`echo ${CC_VERSION} | awk -F\. '{ print $ 1 }'`
 
-        CXX_VERSION=`"${CXX}" -v 2>&1 | grep Version | sed -e 's|.* Version ||' | sed -e 's|[ ]*$||'`
+        CXX_VERSION=`"${CXX}" -v 2>&1 | grep version | sed -e 's|.* version ||' | sed -e 's|[ ]*$||'`
         _CXX_MAJOR_VERSION=`echo ${CXX_VERSION} | awk -F\. '{ print $ 1 }'`
 
         if test "$_CC_MAJOR_VERSION" != "$_CXX_MAJOR_VERSION"; then

Until today, 1.5a and 1.5a++ builds did not show the grabber for absolutely positioned elements nor Inline Table UI because I forgot to update the relevant packager/* files. This is fixed. But I just discovered another very ugly bug: table insertion is horked. Working on it.

Update: apparently the last nightly build was built at a bad time for Composer... I just built a fresh tree and the bug does not appear.

I finally found some time to see Matrix Reloaded. And I must say I found it VERY disappointing. I did not like it. I was about to leave the theatre when the crowd is dancing after Morpheus's address to Zion's people. Only Lambert Wilson, the merovingian, is an interesting character because it brings an Inspector Clouseau thing into the movie. Five seconds of smile. Hey, did you notice that when the Architect talks about the grotesque of human nature, the images of Hitler and George W. Bush appear together on the wall of screens behind him?

Not sure I am hardly waiting for the end of the saga.

Time to give back the heavy Dell C840 I used at Netscape to buy my first (heavy too) personal laptop....

• Dell Inspiron 8500
• P 4-M 2.4GHz
• 1 Gig RAM
• 60 Gig HD 7200 rpm
• Nvidia GEForce4 64M
• 15" screen
• internal 802.11b/g

Unilog, SSII dans laquelle j'ai fait une assez brève apparition dans une vie professionnelle antérieure, réussit à s'insérer aujourd'hui dans le Monde. Gérard Gallen... Aaaaahhhh. Au fait, lui aussi doit se trouver dans la gamme d'âge des 50+ et je me demande s'il s'applique ses très sociales idées à lui-même.

" America Online on Thursday named a new chief technology officer as it heats up its efforts in broadband, wireless and other areas. The company has tapped John McKinley, a former CTO of Merrill Lynch and GE Capital, to direct its technology initiatives. As AOL's chief technology strategist, he will also oversee the teams in charge of product engineering, network infrastructure and data centres, and internal business systems and computing. "

Now that's clear, AOL is not an ISP, that's a bank. And a bad one.

Parce Peter et moi, on serait plutôt du genre studieux rigolos mais pas clownesques, parce que sans Tristan, jamais on se serait marrés comme ça au cours de ces deux dernières années, parce que Nom de Zeus, ça a été une sacrée aventure, et une sacrée consommation de chocolat. Parce que je ne regrette rien, bien au contraire, et que si on me disait que cela reprend pour trois ans avec les mêmes, je signe immédiatement. Merci pour tout Tristan.