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The version of Nokia’s Share Online application that shipped with my E71 has a problem. I was trying to upload photos from Berlin over O2 Germany’s data network to my Flickr account, and it unexpectedly returned an authentication error; I looked at “your recent photos and videos”, and got photos belonging to Flickr user mrspin,…

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Whining about Firefox crashes. Here’s one day last week: Start 09301515 – 5 groups, 111 tabs. Pressed page down key; CRASH. Resume successful.1538 – Hang. RAM usage peaks at 66%, CPU 1 goes to 100%1541 – Running, very slowly. Resource utilisation still very high1542 – Hang1550 – Cache cleared, normal ops resumed1813 – Hang. RAM…

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My heart sank when I saw these words: Firefox user interface guru. And yes, he’s had an idea. A suggestion: rather than a fancy new UI, how about having a crack at stability? FF 3, and the later FF 2s, were and are crashy, hangy, and inconsistent. It regularly (daily) gets its knickers in a…

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James Wimberley has a good post regarding changing the electricity grid to support dynamic demand-response, where things like Dutch cold-stores or your fridge over-cool when electricity is plentiful and cut out when the grid is under strain. It’s hugely important in adapting the electrical system to use stuff like gigawatt-size wind farms; essentially, it’s a…

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To the developers of Mozilla Ubiquity: what are you thinking? The whole idea is that you interact with Web things through a command line in the browser that is close to natural language; it’s all a bit like this post about the world’s favourite command line. But at the moment it’s not particularly useful for…

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