Yes, yes, we all know that Firefox under wine beats Linux Firefox for javascript performance. That’s not what I’m talking about though. I’m talking about the UI performance. Things like switching tabs and scrolling. To me, the Linux version of Firefox in Intrepid or Jaunty was always inexplicably more sluggish compared to the Windows version. […]
Got the FVWM itch this time. If you’re gonna use Linux on your desktop, then it’s lame to try to use one of the “canned” environments. I mean, you’re giving up all that application compatibility and workingness by going to Linux, so you might as well try to get the most flexibility and programmability you […]
My office mate is on hiatus, so I decided to steal his monitors and do a quad-mon setup. Productivity is definitely increased, but I seem to be straining my neck as well. My desk is not deep enough to be able to down four monitors, and curve them around in a way that prevents me […]
I’m pretty much over my Mac itch, but I wanted to write this down to really try to convince myself. The Mac Pro is not a desktop, in the traditional PC sense of the desktop. It’s easy to fall into this trap… it looks like a desktop, it has desktop-like hardware, it’s by far the […]
In the newer Ubuntu’s they’ve moved to evdev, which is a much more dynamic system for configuring input devices. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite seem to understand that I want wheel emulation on my Thinkpad’s trackpoint. Fortunately, there seems to be a way to set it explicity. I use the following script: #!/bin/sh DEVICEID=3 xinput set-int-prop […]
Outlook 2007 is starting to choke my laptop again. I implemented some of the filtering tricks that you can find around the web, and that made it better for a while.. but perhaps my unfiltered folders got too big again. While re-researching the problem I came across the Microsoft KB on the issue. The interesting […]
So far, I’ve actually been pretty OK with Vista. It probably has something to do with the fact that I didn’t touch it for the first 2 years. Maybe that was wise. Or maybe that’s just something you learn to do once you know how software is really made. Anyhow, due to some really unfortunate […]
I got fed up last week because of Linux’s I/O scheduler. Or so I thought. When I started a background I/O task (in my case, a large file being served up by samba), the responsiveness of the desktop would go to crap. Googling a bit led to a bunch of mention about the vm.swappiness sysctl […]
Got a chance to work on my outlook plain text quoting plugin again. It’s been just about 3 months since the last release. Finally had an opportunity to implement a couple features that have been requested for a while: A way to turn off smartquote temporarily. This is now done through a menu item in […]