It's slowly become obvious to me that one of the mistakes with the'add a comment' form here on WanderingThoughts is that it doesn'tshow you the entry and existing comments. I know, a while back I thought that this was a good idea, but I'vechanged my mind since then; it's a design mistake.

Why I know this is pretty simple; I base it on personal experience.Whenever I write a comment myself, I invariably wind up with two windowsopen

In hindsight, it is somewhat peculiar that I spent a considerable timeusing Fedora 11 with a broken Flash setup instead of seriously lookinginto the situation. What happened is that I made a simple assumption: Iassumed that Flash and the associated infrastructure needed to run it ona 64-bit machine were second class citizens, looked down on and basicallyunsupported.

If I'd assumed that Fedora wouldn't leave Flash broken on 64-bitmachines, then it being broken on my machine was clearly

Every so often I discover some exceptional piece of braindamage inSolaris. Here is one of them, presented in handy illustrated form:

$ cat cdtest#!/bin/shcd /not/there || echo failedecho got here$ sh cdtest./cdtest: /not/there: does not exist

(No other output is produced.)

Oh yes, Solaris. Killing my script when a cd fails is just whatI want you to do, especially when this behavior is undocumented andcannot be turned