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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Communication is More Important than Committing Code

Sunday, August 6, 2006

The problem with Gaim is not that its code base is immature or that it is lacking features, but that its development team is unable to adequately communicate with its users.

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Oh, those Canadian Conservatives!

Monday, August 7, 2006

Canada may be a different country, but conservatives are angry everywhere.

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Apple's Time Machine: A Revolution in Backup?

Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Inspired by Apple's Time Machine, I ruminate on backup.

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To the Designers of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's New Blog

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

I do not know who designed President Ahmadinejad's blog, but they did not do a good job.
The Good Stuff

Easy to remember URL.
Nice use of AJAX.

The Bad Stuff
Using Visual Studio .NET 7.1 and a table-based design to create the page. Speaking of which, the site should degrade gratefully if JavaScript is disabled.
Spelling errors. While I can [...]

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Firefox's Session Restore

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The first time I mentioned Firefox on this website was because it had crashed and I had lost a post that I had written. Indeed, looking back at what I have previously written, it is clear that Firefox often only enters the picture when it is misbehaving.
This does not mean that I do not like [...]

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Linux: It's the Fonts, Stupid

Friday, August 18, 2006

Robert Scoble claims that fonts are the reason why Linux has failed to make inroads in the consumer computing market. I think it is clear that other factors, including security, are more significant.

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Symantec is the Safegaurd

Friday, August 18, 2006

I know that Symantec does not sell a spell checker in addition to their security products, but this advertisement I found on the Cult of Mac blog is still unprofessional. Then again, perhaps it is not surprising, since Norton Antivirus 2006 is not even available for Mac OS X. For protection against Mac viruses, you [...]

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Working with MonoDevelop 0.11

Sunday, August 27, 2006

More accurately titled, "Trying to Work with MonoDevelop."

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Installing Binary ATI Drivers on Ubuntu Edgy

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

More than a thousand words on how to get binary ATI drivers working in "Edgy," the Linux distribution that will become Ubuntu 6.10.

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