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29Sep/110

Incredible coincidence

The day I discovered that Firefox does not behave like Chrome/IE on Ajax redirects, Firefox 7.0 is out with the fix!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553888

PS: a simple request.is_ajax () after a redirect() in Django highlights the problem.

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10Sep/110

coreutils is a really active project

I'm impressed by the activity of the coreutils project (unix commands such as ls, df, etc). At first glance, you might think command line tools are written for good and only few changes are applied to ensure compatibility with the platforms. With several releases a year and new features for each, it's really an active project indeed.

coreutils 8.13 release note.

You want to show the local time for 9AM next Friday on the west coast of the US, it's possible:

$ date --date='TZ="America/Los_Angeles" 09:00 next Fri'

The maintainers/contributors (Pádraig Brady, Jim Meyering and Eric Blake) are nice and quick to commit your patches.
So don't be intimidated it's not the glibc project!

PS: I'm waiting for the tag on translationproject.org to be able to push the latest French translation.