Over a year ago, I wrote up a quick and dirty analysis of display prices. Seems like a good time to revisit that now. First, I’ll note the differences in prices since last time: A Dell 30 inch (3007WFP-HC) is now $1189 (down from $1700 for the non-HC version) Apple’s 30 inch is now $1800 […]
Many people have been waiting for high PPI monitors for a long time. There’s a brief period a few years back where laptop companies offered WUXGA 15.4 inch screens, but it appears those monitors proved unpopular among the general population who still had to deal with tiny fonts in windows. The poor man’s way of […]
I’m pretty sure I understand almost everything there is to understand in terms of font configuration on Linux. While configuration is a mess (qt settings, xft settings, xrdb settings, fontconfig settings, gnome settings), the even more frustrating part is that even if you understand all this settings, the result you can get out of it […]
Ok, here’s my first post using the MT4 interface.. Upgrade seems to have gone mostly fine.. except where did my categories go? I hope I didn’t lose them.. Nevermind, the interface just looks different.. Ah, progress. Update: beware the templating changes.. apparently MT4 templates are way different from MT3 ones, and blindly picking a new […]
I guess this is a sequel to my previous posts about running Feisty on my X60. Except there isn’t really much to write about. Things worked mostly out of the box. The only recommendation I’d have is to tweak the font settings (System > Preferences > Appearance) so that you use subpixel rendering and full […]
We’ve been in China for roughly a week, and today we’re preparing to take the overnight train to Xi’an (from Tianjin). Though there is much to say about China (based on what I’ve seen in Beijing and Tianjin), the one phrase I could say to describe it is “under construction”. There are new construction projects […]
Just came across Ubuntu unleashed which appears to be a Ubuntu tips site similar to my ubuntutips.net project. And damn, he has a 100,000 hits already.. Oh well. It’s all for free, so there’s no reason you can’t have two right? Mine’s gonna be better anyways 😉
Every once in a while, I type something like “Linux vs Windows” into google, in a foolish attempt to assess the general landscape (and often find outdated articles) This time, I came across this article. The author argues that the choice provided by open source software results in a usability nightmare for people who don’t […]
So I’ve had the Curve for several days now, and it still impresses. The autotext typing feature is particularly handy, though I don’t feel like I’ve figured out the optimal hand position for typing lots of text. I still mistype a lot of keys like n/b or s/a. Maybe it’s just practice. One thing I […]
My awesome friends felt so sorry for me that they bought me a Blackberry Curve for my birthday. All I can say is that this thing rocks. And I managed to post this without the damn thing crashing.