The lesser mabinogion
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Since updating to Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop, and doing some research into my problems with wireless and the Cisco VPN client, I am now fully able to work without wires once more.
In 7.10, when using wireless (intel 4965 chipset) or using a USB broadband modem attempts to use the VPN would result in [...]
I am approaching my thirty second birthday, and have two very important, life changing, and soul destroying decisions to make.
These are the things that keep me up well into the night, and lead me to places I’d really rather not go as I agonise over the options placed before me.
When I [...]
What’s the quickest, and easiest way to share data between an Ubuntu machine and a Vista machine?
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Fuck you Samba, fuck you Vista, and fuck you Ubuntu.
Microsoft seem to be making a habit of producing a half baked, but mostly working implementation of a useful technology in a new version of Windows, and then progressively crippling in subsequent versions, until they finally remove it.
In this case – WebDAV – it actually worked pretty well in Windows ME, mostly worked in [...]
Today’s Daily WTF is just brilliant.
The download speed should be ten times that.
Bah, doesn’t everyone have anything better to do on a Sunday than download stuff?
Go watch TV or something!
Why would anyone releasing an IDE style application in 2007 still use a Windows 3.1 style MDI interface with a “Windows” menu complete with “Tile Horizontally”, “Tile Vertically” and “Cascade” and no other way of displaying two documents simultaneously? It’s not 1994 any more.
All I want to do is edit the CSS source [...]
I came across this interesting blog post talking about Seaside‘s marketing problem, and one of the comments had this to say:
It seems to me, though, that programmers are willing to put up with a lot just to get the ability to save to files and use their own editor.
For [...]
Good idea – spell checking in text fields in web forms.
Bad idea – putting the “add to dictionary” menu item _right under_ the suggested replacement.
Especially when as far as I can tell, there’s no obvious way of removing the inadvertent addition.
