Michael's musings

Wed, 05 Nov 2008

Google Chromium from X-over office

I tried the codeweavers (authors of the X-over office) version of chromium on my debian etch machine. It is at:

http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/chromium/cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

and I installed it with dpkg -i. It showed up in my GNOME-panel, and it appears to run {{{ /opt/cxchromium/bin/wine c:/chromium/chrome.exe --no-sandbox --in-process-plugins }}}

I'm guessing that they did not recompile it under wine with libraries. I wish that they had. There are instructions for installing chrome with wine, but they don't work on debian etch (you need a newer wine, and some newer libraries).

The biggest problem seems to be that many of the drop-down menus do not wait for the cursor to move --- that is, if you are in google maps, and you go to the "By car/Transit/Walking" menu, that it doesn't wait for you to pick the item you want. You have to hold you mouse down to change the combo box.

The other problems are that the window can not be resized, and the bits all kinda look a bit squashed.

I wish I had time to work on the Linux port myself.

Mordor brightens

Robert Weissman writes in corp-focus that:

Yes, the skies over Mordor are now brightening.*

There is an almost palpable, physical sense of relief with the confirmation that the end of the Bush era is at hand.

And the election of an African American to the highest office in the land is an act of racial redemption that was almost unimaginable two years ago.

http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2008/000303.html

I felt it too. I watched bits and pieces (some of it at Doug Yuill's house with a bunch of progress/ogwifi people), and some later on at home.

I felt myself breath easier. Robert Weissman quotes Robert Kuttner

In his book Obama's Challenge, economic journalist Robert Kuttner rightfully argues that the choice for Obama is to be bold or to fail.

I sure hope that the "infrastructure" focus is on sustainable infrastructure. I know that Robert Weissman gets that, but will the US Senate?

Joe Bidden is a regular Amtrak user. What is the official residence of the VP? Does he have one? Will he continue to travel from Delaware by Amtrak? Wouldn't that be cool... "Air Force 2" --- is a train.