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 […]
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 […]
I’m starting to think that all the weird problems I see with thick blogging clients has to do with my old version of movable type, so I bit the bullet and upgraded to 4.23 today. Their upgrade process is pretty simple, just copy new files over the old directory. Everything seems to have gone ok. […]
I spent a little time looking for blog clients for Linux. Turns out there’s a pretty good looking one called ScribeFire, so here’s my test post. It’s kinda weird that it’s built into Firefox as an extension, but I guess it makes sense since it’s going to be dealing with webpage-like material. Meh. It doesn’t […]
I’ve been looking for some backup apps lately… starting to worry about that 60 gig Lightroom catalog sitting un-backed up on my local drive. And I even have a NAS to boot, which I’m not really using for anything. First thing I tried was a trial version of SyncBackSE. While I see a lot of […]
I found two examples of said retardedness today. Even with my freetype fir filter hack, fonts in open office writer look super fringy. WTF. Are they using a totally different rendering path? If you set the hinting level in the gnome appearance control applet to “slight”, but your xrdb says “Xft.hintstyle: hintfull”, then Firefox renders […]