The truth hurts

THIS is a response to Jean-Mathieu and Anil, both of whom responded vehemently to my post on Nomad. It started as a reply to their comments, but I decided to make a post of it.

Would either of them two (if they are actually two different persons) care to point out where my analysis (if they consider that post to be one) is wrong?

Jean-Mathieu, you’re mistaken about me getting commissions from Emtel. You see, when a company provide a good service, it’s natural for their customers to praise them without needing any monetary incentive. Unfortunately, there are only bad things to be said about Nomad, and I wouldn’t lie about it even for money. Here’s what is a fact for me: Emtel rocks, Nomad sucks. Period.

(If you had read my blog in the past, you would have seen that I have written a few good things about Nomad, but that was a very, very long time ago.)

Democracy talks about neutrality? When did I say this blog was democratic and allowed free speech? It’s written and paid for by me, so if you don’t like it, feel free to fuck off. The only reason I’ve even allowed your comments through is so I can have a laugh.

From AFRINIC, the IP address (196.22.145.15) from where both Jean-Mathieu’s and Anil’s comments originate:

inetnum: 196.22.145.0 – 196.22.145.255
netname: ADB-NET
descr: Dynamic Dialup – Curepipe
descr: AFRICA DIGITAL BRIDGES NETWORKS LTD
country: MU
org: ORG-ADBN1-AFRINIC
admin-c: VR2-AFRINIC
tech-c: VR2-AFRINIC
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: ADB-NET-MNT
notify: vishaal.ramessur@networkplus.mu
changed: Vishaal.ramessur@networkplus.mu 20051202
source: AFRINIC
parent: 196.22.144.0 – 196.22.159.255

Maybe it’s my turn to question if Jean-Mathieu/Anil has/have anything to gain by supporting a company that do so much dis-service to their customers.

Eddy.

Four easy steps to running WebKit on Windows

THE WebKit development team announced SquirrelFish yesterday.

SquirrelFish is the new interpreter in the JavaScript engine and is 1.6 times faster than the one used previously. It is also part of the latest nightly builds of WebKit and is, therefore, available to everyone.

Even though installing and running the development version of WebKit is straightforward on Mac OS X (it is just a matter of downloading the .dmg file and copying the application bundle to /Applications), Windows users may find the task daunting.

But, they should not. Here is how to get WebKit running in four simple steps.

1. Download and install Safari.
2. Download the latest build of WebKit.
3. Unzip the downloaded file and copy the contents to the Safari installation folder. (It is safe to overwrite webkit.dll and the rest of the files.)
4. Execute run-nightly-webkit.cmd once and run Safari from the Start menu as you would normally.

UPDATE: You need to run run-nightly-webkit.cmd at least once, as in step 4.

Use the Acid3 test page to verify that your installation is successful; the test result should be 100/100.

To test the speed of SquirrelFish, you can execute the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark and compare the results with those from another browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Opera). But, Processed Tower Defense is probably a more fitting and fun way of testing this impressive new JavaScript engine.

Enjoy.

Eddy.