I’m disappointed to learn that “there are no plans for an official 64-bit version” of Google Gears.  Makes it hard to use Google Gears with a 64-bit Linux.  It’d also be nice if Google bothered to mention this in the system requirements, rather than burying the limitation in a discussion group. Update: apparently there are [...]

Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 has been less smooth than I’d like, but I do like the improvements in the new release. The Canonical partner repository for Ubuntu 8.04 is empty, except for the Opera browser. Why have a repository that is not maintained? The vmware-server packages in the repository for Ubuntu 7.10 haven’t been kept [...]