I get really annoyed by random articles/blog posts written by Linux/Ubuntu evangelizers that all talk about how they had to use their friend’s Windows laptop and it was slow and had all this crapware, etc. What they forget, is that if it actually became easy for 3rd parties to ship software on Linux, then you’d […]
To my horror, I discovered that the last three “shoots” on my photo were all inadvertently taken with a ISO 800 setting. These camera makers really need to tweak the interface. Back in the film days, you put one roll of film in. That roll had a constant ISO. You know what film you put […]
A few months ago, I read about PeerGuardian, a special windows program that blocks traffic to and from certain hosts that are known to be associated with law enforcement agencies and the like or just plain old spyware and malware. That’s cool, except that today I discovered that the reason my Outlook can’t download any […]
I don’t really know the lingo, I just know what I see. Look at the image below. Can you tell which is which? The left is XP, the right is Linux (Firefox, mstt core fonts, and mlind’s freetype/xft/cairo updates with David Turner’s newest lcd filtering patches, full, BCI-enabled hinting). I took the screenshot by overlaying […]
I had a bad feeling about this Asus P5B motherboard ever since I got it. It claims integrated wi-fi, but all that really means as it has an internal usb header with a usb wifi device hooked up. And all the utilities are ricer-looking. And the auto-bios update utility can’t find bios files on their […]
Damn, they already even have a website. This is Havoc Pennington’s “vision” for Gnome. I like the old saying about how those who do the work get to decide. I’ll reserve judgement on this whole online desktop thing, but what I don’t want to see is a bunch of code written in a way that […]
I’ve been using the “classic” windows theme for a while now, but yesterday I decided to switch back. Big blue title bars and task bar. Yep. It’s ugly. But I find it more usable. There are two key features: The focused window is easer to differentiate. The main reason for this is that the window […]
I inadvertently ran a red light today. Yea, it happens. I’ve probably done it maybe 5 times total in 10 years of driving. The problem is, the intersection that I happened to cross (Park Presidio and Geary) has a camera that captures you as you go by. I’m probably not going to fight the ticket, […]
aKademy, the yearly KDE developer get together happened, and they fortunately put up all their videos of the talks. Fantastic. Each video however is so fixated on the presenter, that it cuts out the slides!. And worse yet, not all the talks have their slides posted. The two most important parts of a slide based […]
Sorry for the cliche heading. Reflecting on my own situation gives me a good insight into why Linux hasn’t really landed on the desktop. It comes down to one simple reason: If I run Linux, I can’t pay anyone to solve my problems for me. Actually, at work, Linux is great. At work, I have […]