Archive for February, 2009
the great patent war begins. This is the big one.
ff3 sets downloaded files as readonly when using the ‘open with’ feature
1 Comment Published February 25th, 2009 in Sysadmin.Firefox 3 has a new ‘feature’ where downloaded files are marked readonly when they are opened on the fly with the ‘open with’ feature.
The reasoning behind this is that there were many people who lost information because they didn’t realize Firefox deletes those temporary downloaded files when it closes. So Firefox 3 was patched to [...]
facebook: stop the language nonsense (part 3)
0 Comments Published February 17th, 2009 in Completely clueless.If you thought Facebook’s language incompetence could not get worse, you’re wrong.
I received a couple Facebook notifications today in French, from people who live in Flanders. Facebook, this is the 21st century. It’s really not that hard to see that Belgium has, in fact, three official languages, and that French is only spoken by about [...]
Facebook: please hire programmers that speak languages other than just English (part 2)
1 Comment Published February 5th, 2009 in Completely clueless.Facebook is apparently still sending out notifications in the preferred language of the sender instead of the recipient. The problem is worse than just that though. I received a notification in German that said:
… hat dich als FreundIn auf Facebook bestÃĪtigt.
Facebook – you are supposed to know everything. You most definitely know that I am, [...]
Dear facebook – please fix your languages
2 Comments Published February 2nd, 2009 in Completely clueless.Facebook is now sending out notifications *in the preferred language of originator*, instead of the recipient. Someone accepted your friend request but uses Facebook in Spanish? You’ll get the notification e-mail in Spanish.
That is of couse silly. This evening I got a notification in Croatian… Facebook, please fix this.
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