Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Okay! Who do I blame?
While I am working on a post-fudcon report. Its kind of hard to work when the network continues to drop packets. Currently, I’m on-site in Los Angeles, teaching a course. Why, oh why does this happen?
Cheers,
Herlo
The OLPC Deserves Better!
The following two articles were published in the past couple days. When they were published and made known to me, I was saddened:
Report: OLPC may eventually switch from Linux to Windows XP
Nicholas Negroponte on Sugar and One Laptop Per Child
It appears, that Greg DeKoenigsberg responded (it appears) to these two articles with a great rebuttal [...]
Yum Update: 482:07
As I usually do while teaching class, I installed a Fedora 8 machine, and ran yum update. Today I noticed a strange amount of time for one particular download:
While this is hilarious, its shouldn’t happen. Any ideas? I know it didn’t take 28927 seconds (or about 1/3 of a day) to download that foomatic package.
Cheers,
Herlo
Why do they do that?
As an experienced traveler, I regularly run into a situation where the housekeeping staff will put the plug in the tub and leave it there. Why do they do that?
My reasoning is that its pure laziness on their part, mostly because I am the guest and shouldn’t have to be greeted with a tub full [...]
Thunderbird! You’re Annoying us all!
Let me get this out first, I’m a avid fan of all things Mozilla. Even with the limitations they cause, the problems I’ve heard about Firefox and Thunderbird and all that Jazz, I’m still a big fan, current and future consumer of these wonderful applications.
BUT!
Why is it that a bug that has been logged [...]
Please define “Distribution”
As some of you may know, I am the founder of the Utah Open Source Foundation. On November 10, we’ll be holding the Multi-Distro Release Party, and I planned on sharing Fedora (of course), OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. Its the only Multi-Distro Release Party going on that I know of, but I could be wrong. If [...]
GNOME Question: How does one load https links into the preferred browser?
You’ve done it, you’ve gone to your email and clicked a link. The link will happily load into your preferred browser, in my case, Firefox. If you are using gnome-terminal, its a ctrl+click on the link and it works great. I use irssi with gnome-terminal and when someone pastes a [...]
Boston Red Sox (and me) at the World Series
Okay, okay, I didn’t get in, but it was sure fun to take a train trip down to the World Series to see the vibe. I’ve never been quite so close to a World Series game. The closest thing for me was when I got to go to watch the Utah Jazz get [...]
Why is blootbot (ibot/infobot/jbot) a girl?
Some of you may have seen my mailing list posts to SLLUG, PLUG and Ubuntu Utah. If so, you are welcome to participate here and flame me for asking this question as you may have already answered it there.
BUT
I’m curious as to the history, a farce or truth as to why blootbot is considered [...]
APlus.net – Don’t buy your domain from them!
I generally don’t recommend or (as in this case) tell people to avoid a particular vendor. Generally, my comments are kept to tutorials and simple to complex configurations, or stories about my failures so that others might learn from me.In this case, I pretty much want to rip APlus.net a new one!
So here’s the [...]
