This is just a quick post to say how much Microsoft and their draconian OS licensing mechanism are pissing me off right now.
Last week my computer stopped booting. I didn’t get around to looking at it until a few days ago because I had visitors over from the UK. Not just that, it is Christmas, [...]
I know for sure that many of the geeks out there on the World Wide Wibbly have the “fun” task of sorting out every possible computer issue for any/all of their family and friends in the cases where they’re not geeks themselves. I am one such geek, and I’ll be honest and say that I [...]
As I’ve already mentioned, I’ve started dabbling in the joys of Linux by installing Ubuntu (Dapper Drake). This was partly joyous and partly painful - but mostly joyous While going through some of the less enjoyable moments I spent a fair bit of time trawling forums and hanging in IRC channels (#ubuntu-au on irc.freenode.net [...]
While mulling over the meaning of life during the course of the day, I decided to take the plunge and install Ubuntu on the disk that I freed up ages ago - why I waited this long, I really don’t know, I think it might have something to do with lack of spare time (or [...]
I know I shouldn’t laugh about this, but I couldn’t help it
Any geek that’s in a relationship has probably heard the words “GET AWAY FROM THAT !$@*ING COMPUTER!” (or something along those lines) more than once. Even if you haven’t, you might have heard it from your mum when you were a budding [...]
Right now I’m finding this question a tough one to answer. The hardcore geeks out there are probably saying “install all the distros you need!”, but I’m not sure if I want to do that or not. Right now, I’m thinking not, and it’s going to take a bit of time to convince me that [...]
After reading Dan’s response to this a few days ago, I decided to have a bit of a play with Notepad++. I do think it’s a very nice little text editor with some lovely features. It’s quitck, it’s simple, and the syntax hilighting works a treat (no thanks to Scintilla of course). One thing I [...]
Have the days of writing code in VIM ended? Is Emacs ready to be put to bed? Are we destined to spend the rest of our development lives heads-down in a bloated and expensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?
IMHO, this argument is very much a Linux vs Windows style argument.
To those long term VIM and [...]
