Good news: I'm now running iOS 5.1.1... (unjailbroken. Will have to do that later...) And the update went without having to go back to an unjailbroken version, so it was easy.
Bad news: I made a backup of my music folder (20GB) into my hard drive (30GB free). Then launched the update. It told me there wasn't enough space to back up my media, so I figured okay it's going to back it all up so let's let it do it by itself... I proceeded to remove my backup folder, and launched the upgrade. When I came back an hour later, I had an error message saying there was a synchronization problem. Okay... I rebooted my iPod, it was upgraded to iOS 5, yay, and then I noticed the music folder was empty. Then I looked into my hard drive, and it had 30GB of free data, meaning that none of my music folders had been backed up!
Thank you, Apple..!!!
The music library is still 'backed up' as a text file in iTunes, so I'm going to have to find every CD again on my hard drive and copy it manually... About 200 albums. Again, thank you.
Additionally, iTunes 10.6 is extremely slow to sync. Heck, I started this post after launching a copy request, and it's still frozen. Thank you very, very much Apple. I know what I'll be doing when I consider buying an iPhone... I'll do something else with my money.
Posted: August 17th, 2012, 05:56 PM
Also, Opera too can be an ass...
Opera Mini 7.0.x gives a user agent string that basically identifies it as Opera 11.10. Fine by me. However, Mini doesn't support gradients -- while 11.10 desktop does!
And I don't really see myself going through detectBrowser to add a special case... Or even adding mandatory fallbacks before the linear-gradient line when the browser itself is saying it supports gradients... -_-
I never really liked Opera Mini, will maybe at first since it compresses and down scales everything, but that was when most data packages where slow. Every site is going to have a problem with Mini because how the Opera server mangles everything when it compresses it to send it to the users device
Well, Opera Mini, AFAIK, has always given the ability to disable the compression thingy... It's in the settings page..
Now I use Opera Mobile which is a more fuller web browser that doesn't query the Opera server for compressed or lower quality data.
Plus it has more features yeah. They offer a pretty good emulator for it (heck, if you're crazy enough it's enough usable as a main desktop browser :lol:)However I rather browse with the browser set as "Desktop" so every website I view thinks it is a desktop and not mobile. When I took the screen shot I let the site detect it as mobile, but I rather not browse in that format if you know what I mean.
Can you get Opera Mobile on your device? Opera Mini just is blah.
Opera Mobile is a no-go on iOS because they restrict what you can do with browsing. Really, there are only 3 ways to make a browser for iOS: be Apple and release Safari Mobile, release a browser that uses the Safari Mobile engine, or release a browser that gets its data from a remote server, à la Opera Mini.
So, basically, Apple is abusing their monopoly...
PS: oh crap, another bug... Looks like the smart quote splitter is broken in Opera. Even in older versions..?! And even when manually rewriting surroundText() to avoid going though the Opera path... :-/
Posted: August 17th, 2012, 11:07 PM
Uhoh... Broken in Firefox 16 just the same. Not broken in IE though... Go figure!
Posted: August 17th, 2012, 11:16 PM
PS: oh crap, another bug... Looks like the smart quote splitter is broken in Opera. Even in older versions..?! And even when manually rewriting surroundText() to avoid going though the Opera path... :-/
Fixed! Another silly last-minute bytesize optimization of mine that totally broke the logic of selectionStart... Uh oh. I should start seeing a shrink.