This is not my first blog, I’ve been writing a blog in Spanish since October 2003. It has some big numbers: 1280 posts, 2561 comments and 58 trackbacks.
And recently I noticed it had broken links. Lots.
So I’ve programmed a small tool to help me clean out the posts of broken links: linkcheck.pl.
I’m sure the tool isn’t perfect, but it has worked great with my blog and has found 4544 links, and 611 were broken. I say had and were because now they’re over thanks to linkcheck.pl.
The tool is simple: connects to your database and gets the posts. Then it looks for links and checks them, and if any URL it’s broken, it’s replaced with the text in the link. Simple and neat.
"It didn’t attract that much attention at the time, but this setting was changed by the small group who maintain GNOME Control Center. They claimed that text-only interfaces were better."
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From Get your icons back, where Adrew brings some light to the “dude, where are my icons?” story in latest Gnome.
That was IMHO one of the weird things in Fedora 12; and even after reading the release notes and realizing that it was a decision/change from upstream, I must admit I got pissed off at first with Fedora.
My fault, because I’m not the kind of person that reads the release notes before upgrading. I thought the upgrade broke something. OK, shoot me :D.
Sometimes something it’s broken in a release, and the user that puts all his confidence in a distribution gets disappointed. Shall the answer from the distribution be it’s broken upstream?
Although the release note it’s OK and explains everything, I’m not sure. It isn’t good to disappoint your users.
"The Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combination currently “zaps” (hard-restarts) the X server, and thus loses any unsaved data in applications, etc. This key combination is also largely undocumented, so users (probably ex-Windows users) may press this key combination without expecting data loss. This spec proposes to follow upstream’s lead and disable this key combination by default in order to prevent this usability issue from occurring in normal installs."
