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Comment on Printing from Mac to Linux: the cheat sheet by John Russell

John Russell — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:34:04 +0000

Thanks for the excellent guide! It also works perfectly for printing Linux-to-Linux!

Comment on Printing from Mac to Linux: the cheat sheet by Sage

Sage — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:17:56 +0000

Printing has been our one major headache (aside from OpenOffice Impress) since switching to Linux for all our computers a few months back. Network printing works sometimes, but it’s really hard to predict when it will quit and why.

Comment on Time zones: do we really need them? by Sean Whitton

Sean Whitton — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:40:55 +0000

You could still have the selection box, but an onLoad hook or somesuch that, if JS is enabled, changes it from ‘please select’ to ‘auto-detect’ and then you satisfy every browser (and those who might want to manually set a timezone) and make it easy for others.

Comment on Time zones: do we really need them? by Dami

Dami — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:23:26 +0000

While this might not work for everyone, I’m fairly certain that you could correlate geo-IP data with time-zone data of the notices.
(The slight extra information this would result in in addition to the UTC time is that you could see if someone was “denting”, for example, in the middle of the night…)

Comment on Time zones: do we really need them? by Aryeh Gregor

Aryeh Gregor — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:54:00 +0000

I think the best way to do it is have a server-side preference, but keep it updated via JS. On registration, have JavaScript autodetect the right setting and submit it. Thereafter, maybe even on every page load, you could check the user’s preferred timezone and compare via JS against the current system timezone, and update the preference automatically (via AJAX or whatnot) if there’s a mismatch. Should be a simple variable compare in the common case, no noticeable client-side overhead, and requires no more JS than necessary.

For people whose system time is wrong, or who don’t use JS, you could have a preference somewhere out of the way, with the default being “Autodetect using JavaScript”.

Comment on Time zones: do we really need them? by David Gerard

David Gerard — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:47:45 +0000

UTC Forever! If it’s good enough for Wikimedia, it’s good enough for everybody! The mere detail that I live in UTC+0 is neither here nor there.

Comment on Location fuzzing in StatusNet by brion

brion — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:23:28 +0000

There’s some talk of that, yes…

Comment on Location fuzzing in StatusNet by Arjun Ram

Arjun Ram — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:24:59 +0000

Why not allow fire eagle integration? Fire eagle handles location accuracy by default. It already is a location broker. Thoughts? My 2p.

Comment on Confusing Twitter settings by brion

brion — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:47:29 +0000

The system we’ve currently got can only pull updates by polling Twitter’s API, user by user. Ok for a small site but not very pleasant for a larger one; it’d just take too long and might end up tripping too many requests from Twitter. We hope to do this more cleanly with real-time push updates if we can get something working cleanly…

Comment on Confusing Twitter settings by derschreckliche

derschreckliche — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:37:18 +0000

Good suggestions.
I would probably add an “if they have an account on %%site.name%%” to the first, but your idea is still much better than the one used now.

BTW: Do you know why “Import my friends timeline.” is disabled on identi.ca ?