How to ship C++ software on linux
Why, it’s easy. Just ship all the C++ runtime libraries that you need. % dpkg -L google-desktop-linux | grep \.so /opt/google/desktop/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /opt/google/desktop/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 :
GRUB error 17
The Dell/Ubuntu guys are out of the gates with their first models, and also with their first QA mishap. I like Ubuntu ‘n’ all, but requiring users to edit their bootloader configuration to hack their way out of your mistake surely leaves a bad impression. Lets just hope that people know what they’re getting into […]
WTF
So I’ve been happily using Thunderbird 2.0 at work to connect to our Exchange server at work. It was going so well, that I decided to try it out at home. Install Thunderbird 2.0 on Feisty… connect to vpn… type in account info… download headers from folders… so far so good. Thunderbird claims to implement […]
Arghh.
So my experimental website doesn’t work :-). I’m not sure what the cause is, but once you sign out of an account, you can’t sign back in. There’s a long thread about the problem on the Drupal site. I tried many of the suggested fixes, but it still fails to log me in correctly on […]
10 years of email
So apparently Microsoft came out with a patch to fix the horrendous Outlook 2007 performance problems. In this article, there is a choice quote from Jessica Arnold, the Outlook program manager: In the long run, she said the company is “definitely investigating” whether to re-architect Outlookâs use of .PST files for local storage, as some […]
Back to IE7 for a while
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 doesn't understand Web Compatibility issues
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. […]
Itching for a Mac again…
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 […]
Paying Others to Pick the Good Stuff
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 […]