November 2008
17 posts
Sorry for spamming you, but just one more now....
“Zenith”.
This is his remix of The Flying Pickets’...
Hey it’s my old best friend’s birthday...
This song goes great with the comic below.
“That’s why real programmers get confused by Halloween and X-Mas, cause OCT...”
– from a tdwtf comment
Ubuntu Oddities, pt. I
Sharing fails
Context-clicked a folder and selected to share it. Said I needed to install a Windows networking service. I said yes, but I had synaptic open so it failed. Closed synaptic and tried again; but after clicking install service nothing happened, and then it said the session needed to be restarted. Doing so yielded nothing though, sharing still doesn’t work and trying to enable it...
MacBook Pro Ubuntu triple-boot dancing
I’ve had some serious problems installing Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro (revision D, the penryn edition, released start of 2008; the model before the unibody MBPs). I’ve tried twice now, once with 8.0 and then with 8.1.
After installing Ubuntu exactly according to the instructions at the Ubuntu wiki, the Windows installation would be broken. Directly after install, when trying to boot...
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If that was my office, I would live off saline solution and caffenie, I would never leave it. I would also have that music pumping throughout the room. Every second of my life from that moment forward would be a mini sci fi movie.
Ok, seriously though. It looks freakin’ badass, but I’d love to see some actual practical applications…
“TouchFlo is like a very thin candy shell over the stinking pile of shit that is...”
– Gabe over at PA. Seems to apply equally well to all other recent Windows Mobile phones (Xperia, *especially* the original HTC Touch, etc…); I mean, how couldn’t it? A UI designed for keyboard and mouse, shoehorned into a handheld and retrofitted to work with a stylus by changing as...
The Mac ZFS project is awesome and I can’t wait for the day when all my machines run ZFS, but that day doesn’t seem to be today. Bill Winnett on the zfs-discuss list:
Since posting this problem, I have also found other issues. Sometimes using finder to move larger files from a hfs+ filesystem to a zfs sub dir with umlaut O in the directory name, the file gets lost. The file does...
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Japan, in 1991 and 2008 respectively. Same train, same platform; very timeless. And VERY crammed!