I wrote a previous tip about how to use Monaco while running an xterm on OSX’s X server. Here’s a similar tip, except running on Linux this time. I like Monaco for it’s legibility at small screen sizes, so I wanted to use it in my gvim session. The first step is to copy the […]
I finally got around to teaching myself a little Macromedia Flash. Here is my first result. The more flash I learn, the more I find it is a superior platform for doing graphic design on the web. It has much more precise layout mechanism, and it appears to completely solve the font problem. I haven’t […]
As much as I dislike IE7, Firefox go ing her ky jer ky on me eve ry hour I use it, re qui ring me to re sta rt it drives me even more nuts (and at least 4 of my colleagues have verified that I’m not the only one who hits this bug). So […]
Microsoft has a pretty strong reputation for maintaining backwards compatibility for applications that run on their platform. They have to, since the continued operation of many thousands of critical applications depends on them doing so. Microsoft understands this special position and responsibility, and has put an amazing amount of work into keeping old program working. […]
I’ve come to believe that the number of the Service Pack for any Microsoft product actually is code for how they feel about the release. Initial Release = “Hey this doesn’t crash for most people! Good luck getting any work done with it though!” SP1 = “Ok, all the really broken crap is fixed. But […]
Well it’s been about four months since I sold the Powerbook. I had all types of reasons to get rid of it, but now I find myself looking at macs again. What’s changed? Well there are a few specific things: Mac performance got a lot better. The PPC to Intel jump was huge, and even […]
I got a sudden spike in my regular daily traffic last week, and it’s all from Google, and all for an article that I wrote quite a while ago. After googling a bit, I discovered that Google apparently does a full rebuild of their indexes approximately once a month. That means that even if it […]
One of the reasons I built a PC this time around was the price. The machine I built cost $1300 or so. The Mac Pro I could have bought would have cost at least $2000 (though with better specs). But if you have the similar specs, the price ends up being pretty similar. Sure, I […]
As is the case where I’m put in any situation where there are multiple options, I’ve switched blog software many times. Mainly between WordPress, Textpattern, and now Moveable type. While the migrations for most of these are fairly well supported (well, WP to MT is a bit of work), the one thing that gets you […]
I’m a fan of Proggy Programming Fonts for terminal use. But they don’t work out of the box on my Ubuntu machine. The reason seems to have something to do with my display’s DPI setting, in combination with the fact that the TTF versions of these fonts are not real embedded bitmap fonts. Actually, let […]