Vermyndax on May 6th, 2008

The late night gremlins have struck again…
…the first NO CARRIER podcast is now available for your tasting. We hope you enjoy it. We know it’s missing some fancy opening/close theme music, we’re working on that.
You may listen to the podcast over here:
http://galaxycow.com/podcasts/no_carrier/
…or, if you prefer, subscribe to the feed via:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoCarrier
We’ve submitted the podcast [...]

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Vermyndax on April 30th, 2008

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#477454 - Insulting source code - Debian Bug report logs
…ran across this bug filing in my morning travels.  What a scream.  I love it when nerds get personal and start using source code to do battle.  That’s one of my favorite parts of Linux - just think of all the copies of Debian [...]

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Vermyndax on April 29th, 2008

plasma and the screensaver « ChaniBlog
So, while trolling the feeds and coming across Chani’s post about this screensaver… and what amounts to one of the stranger use cases I’ve seen in a while… there’s this discussion about some plans to integrate plasma widgets into kdescreensaver and whatnot.  Yeah, she has a use case to justify [...]

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Vermyndax on April 28th, 2008

Last Friday I rushed home after work much like I had the week before. I was hell-bent on getting the grass cut before a storm arrived and rained on the parade. This time, however, the storm wasn’t as close.
I managed to take my time to get the grass cut without provoking the rain, [...]

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Vermyndax on April 25th, 2008

After reading CNN Money’s review of the Macbook Air, I feel it’s very important to shout it from the rooftops, since people seem to be too stupid to get to system preferences and discover it for themselves…
MACS DO HAVE A RIGHT-CLICK.
Groan.

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Vermyndax on April 22nd, 2008

Like others, I was having mucho trouble getting Back to my Mac working. I’m happy to say that now it works pretty reliably on many networks that I’ve tried to connect from.
I should start by saying that I do have one of the Apple-recommended routers at home… to be more specific, I have an [...]

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Vermyndax on April 20th, 2008

“Gateway is the first to come out with an all-in-one computer with one cable!”
“Gateway is a technology leader in the industry!”
“Streamlined and beautiful!”
“Intel came to Gateway and said, ‘We want to design the best all-in-one unit ever made!’” (This line was borrowed from Steve Jobs’ speech, no?)
“We have 2GB of RAM, so it’s true [...]

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Vermyndax on April 17th, 2008

There’s one thing that’s been on my mind recently. I’m sure you’re familiar with the news that Apple has been delivering Safari by default to Windows users with iTunes installed. I think just about everyone agrees that this is committing a fairly heinous crime against your users, but let’s analyze a different take [...]

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Microsoft reveals new content partners, DRM for Silverlight: “Microsoft unveiled on Monday new content partners for its Silverlight technology and provided details of a forthcoming DRM (digital rights management) technology for its multimedia platform.”
(Via ActiveWin.com Headlines.)
Did Microsoft not get the memo that DRM is dying?

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Vermyndax on April 4th, 2008

EXCHANGE IS A DICK.

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