matt | September 20, 2011
So, when Netflix basically doubled their prices, I was cool with it. It was a heck of a deal, and I looked at it as “we’ve been getting the streaming stuff as an extended beta for free, and now we have to pay for it”. Even if I wasn’t being so generous, there’s also the [...]
matt | December 26, 2010
Some months ago, I discovered at work that my email was over quota. Q: Why do we have email quotas? A: We set them on the server because after some amount of space, Outlook/Exchange corrupts your mailbox, and we’d much rather have that corruption happen on your desktop than on the server. Q: Well, it’s [...]
matt | December 18, 2010
Okay, so PDFs kind of suck. They’ve added so much crap to them that they’ve got a pantload of possible vulnerabilities, and the format has become so overgrown that trying to find a program that isn’t acrobat reader that can consistently read all variations is impossible. Evince, for example, while generally quite good (and indeed, [...]
matt | December 17, 2010
So, with winter here, I’ve been playing video games.. or, well, trying to play video games. Fallout 2 doesn’t work under wine anymore.. or, rather, doesn’t work in any version of wine running under Ubuntu 10.04, which kind of suggests that it is an X problem. Now, one thing I happened upon is PlayOnLinux, which [...]
matt | November 26, 2010
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and got plenty to eat. AB’s brined turkey recipe is quite good. The turkey was wonderfully seasoned and juicy. His cranberry sauce, not so much. It’s okay, but the Ocean Spray canned stuff is better. To go with it, we had stuffing doctored up with mushrooms and apples, [...]
matt | November 17, 2010
Why is it that no one can make a music management application which can correctly sync with mass storage type players? This is not exactly rocket surgery. Specifically: (And I realize that this is actually an Ubuntu bug) – I plug in my iPod3G running Rockbox via Firewire, which kicks it into disk mode and [...]
matt | September 25, 2010
So, I used to be pretty down on Wine, because you’d set something up, then it would break in the new version, and you’d have to re-fix it again. A couple months back, I tried it again and was very impressed. Most things just worked out of the box. This luck has apparently run out. [...]
matt | August 12, 2010
So, I find some house rules for 6mm combat for F.A.D. 4.0 on there (thanks to teh google), but apparently I can’t downloading without registering.. so I do, but then apparently I need to either upload something or pay money. WTF? Luckily, bugmenot had some logins which work. Is me, or has the level of [...]
matt | August 2, 2010
Yeah, so E16 has some window placement issues, E17 is slow, so I switched over to IceWM. Figured I’d give that a go.
matt | July 22, 2010
In the beginning, I was on RedHat, and there was Gnome + Enlightenment. Later, Gnome adopted Sawfish, but you had a choice. I still used Enlightenment. Then I don’t exactly recall what happened. I think Enlightenment went away from Gnome, I tried several (IceWM, Fluxbox, etc.) finally settled on FVWM, which I used for several [...]
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