Negatives
Some have commented that my descriptions are negative.I ran Dolphin on my Eeepc this morning. The experience was quite different, even satisfying. I only had 6 files and folders in my home folder. At...
View ArticleBuyers remorse
That Bruce Tognazin quote I referred to reminded me of an experience I had this winter with a customer. (the names and details have been changed to protect the foolish)Ground source heat pumps use the...
View ArticleBliss
The KWallet icon showed up in my panel. I'm at Revision 821975. See, I'm not that hard to please.
View ArticleProcess or Product
One of my proudest moments was when I learned that someone quit their job as a result of my speaking up.I won't bore you with the story, but what I said cut through all the messaging and managing of...
View ArticleUsers vs. Developers Ad Nauseum
I read this comment on the Dot earlier this week. It stuck in my mind, and I wanted to share it: (link) It was written by someone called outolumo."Couple years back I moved to France for 11 months,...
View ArticlePlasma
When we learn new things, our brains reorganize. This process produces feelings of confusion and frustration. I like that state, and always pursue the limits of my understanding.Keeping the above in...
View ArticleATI and KDE 4
I've got a cheap on board ATI 1200 series video. I've been using the Catalyst proprietary driver from ATI, with some success. I have become reaquainted with the hard reset button, but the free drivers...
View ArticleYMMV
It seems the radeonhd driver doesn't work for everyone. Here are some links that are surprisingly difficult to find using Google.Xorg radeonhd wiki page with many helpful links. There is a section...
View ArticleToo Many Projects, Currency, Google Sucks
Google doesn't really suck, but when you use something as often as Google, well, it sucks sometimes. For example. If you live on the bleeding edge of things, and are having a problem with getting...
View ArticleDoesn't Quite Work (tm)
It started when I tried an update of Kubuntu. Using the gui, Adept I think. It borked, and crashed with some error or other. I really, really want to forget the syntax of dpkg, but this gui that...
View ArticleSolzhenitsyn, December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008
One summer quite a few years ago, I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was a hot day, and I shivered due to the cold. That was how powerful this book was. A man...
View ArticleMiscellaneous
I'm attempting not to be grouchy. We had our first snow fall of the year; wet, sloppy and cold. Although I probably wouldn't have noticed it as much if I wasn't walking the dogs, rolling in the wet...
View ArticleNot A Team Player (tm)
Impatient and cynical. Moody. With no understanding of the realities of the software business. Obviously don't write c++ code.All this because I dare mention that Nokia has released a beta of a tool...
View ArticleLook Back at 2008
The big news this year is the beginning of the KDE 4 series. On January 11, 2008 KDE 4.0 was released. KDE 4.1 was released on July 29, 2008.The firstcommit regarding KDE 4 happened on May 8 2005....
View ArticleQt LGPL
Big news. I actually liked the GPL since it forced 'payment' of some kind. But there is no denying that the license conditions of Qt have limited it's adoption. Those barriers are gone.The one thing...
View ArticleNortel Bankrupt, My Fault
Nortel, a venerable manufacturer of telecommunications equipment has filed for bankruptcy protection. Their last gasp was the tech boom of the 90's, but since then they have been shrinking. The market...
View ArticleQt and Community
The opening of the Qt repository is potentially the most important move Nokia has made.Jeff Jarvis documents the decline of print media and explores strategies that could be adopted to keep in...
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Rapid Application Development
An itch showed up, I needed (wanted) a simple, or so I thought, application to edit or create a definition file for the Energy Plus building simulation suite. Energy Plus is a US department of energy...
View ArticlePhantom Pain and Python
Been rereading The Brain that Changes Itself (link). A friend had a severe injury a number of years ago, lost two limbs. He experiences phantom pain, where the missing limb hurts or itches. Quite...
View ArticleAlmost ready to release
Almost ready for the first release of Energy Plus frontend, idfeditor. code.google.com/p/energyplus-frontend. The link lists the features that are done. I'm in the process of testing by building and...
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