Yes, the obligatory and rather daggy HHGTTG quote to finish off …
I think this shall be my last post on b.g.o. I had written more but changed my mind.
My other, rarely updated and stale, ‘coders diary’ will hang around (as will this for the time being). But I’ve also started another ‘blog’ on [...]
Category Archives: General
So long and thanks for all the fish
September 6, 2008 – 8:54 am
`Chrome’ fails to excite
September 3, 2008 – 4:10 am
Well I tried Chrome. Well I guess they have the address entry ok.
Otherwise – nothing too special.
Awful IE7/vista style corrupted ‘menu-button-in-the-wrong-spot’ system. Why does everyone want to copy the worst aspects of MS’s ui ‘innovation’ like moving menu’s and buttons to unfamiliar places – for no particular reason, and usually to the detriment [...]
how dumb is that
August 1, 2008 – 6:08 am
Hmm, Firefox are adding a pointless ‘preview’ thing when switching tabs, and changing the way it works to be more like windoze (ordering). According to a preview on ars technica.
Umm, wtf for? The preview thing is ok if your system takes forever to bring up the other application or it is iconised, but [...]
things
July 11, 2008 – 6:57 am
So google have re-invented ASN.1. Yay. Oh well I’m not sure why they didn’t just write a nice ASN.1 compiler and release that. At least they have something right. XML does suck for many uses.
After chatting about that a friend mentioned YAML. Hmm, YAML looks worse than XML. It [...]
things and stuff
July 9, 2008 – 4:35 am
Things:
Sigh, along with seemingly every other broadcaster in the world, the ABC has gone the Silverlight route. All so they can over-charge for rentals for crappy old tv shows with DRM attached ($3/week for 1 show?). It’s amazing what influence money can buy (it only seems to be called bribery in third [...]
linux+gnu wins again, or does it?
July 2, 2008 – 2:23 am
So a workmate just had some baby snaps on his Sony Cybershot he wanted to send to his relatives. But all Windows XP (fully patched) wanted was a disc with the drivers on it, even when it was switched to use USB mass storage.
No problem for Fedora Core 6 (with no updates I might [...]
midori, gnash
June 27, 2008 – 7:23 am
Partially from a comment from Jeff and mostly because Firefox 3 is giving me the shits, I started looking around for another browser. I gave kamikaze (or something – can’t remember exactly) a go, but that crashed as soon as i typed in a url. I also tried some pure java browser, but [...]
Fedora Install, Again
June 24, 2008 – 8:36 am
Ok, i’m getting plenty of practice here. My new laptop arrived today, and yes, despite the aust web page saying otherwise, it has a thinklight, yay! Don’t know what i’m going to do with the (hefty) monitor stand it came with – but it was part of the deal.
I downloaded and installed FC9 [...]
firefox 3 sluggish, fedora install notes
June 23, 2008 – 3:37 am
I actually wrote about 3 posts about my fedora installation issues, but I decided against boring everyone with the details (ok i will bore a little). The last straw came on Friday night when I discovered an application I long used (though occasionally) was ripped out of Ubuntu – i don’t really care if [...]
flexibility
June 20, 2008 – 2:29 am
One more followup to the versioned data ideas. I thought of how I could version some other information like document structure and index entries and the like. It worked quite easily with the last design i came up with – I can just create another table for each type of data, and use [...]
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