This is a vague idea I got recently and will try to work through as I’m writing this post. I got the idea in the first place is because I’ve been severely dissapointed by open source in the last few months (I’m ok now); and as the GPL fanatics are the worse of the open …
Continue reading GPL Quicker Fucker UpperIt’s that time of the year when people who have a life go live it fully, and people like me are left bored to death, cause their work is not as interesting :) So I looked over my to do when you’re bored to death list and found this idea – research, or at least …
Continue reading Open source projects competing for manpowerBranches always freaked me out. From the day when I read the subversion manual I knew they are hard to deal with and the benifits are dubious. If you ever had to deal with maintaining a fork, or a project that was forked – the technical challenges are exactly the same. I imagine it’s reasonably …
Continue reading Branches are hardhe Windows port of ISO Master is almost ready. That’s not a programmer’s amost, it really is. All the existing ISO Master functions work, I added a drive selector (that wasn’t needed on Linux), the nag screen works, and I set up a page on the website to accept payments via a credit card or …
Continue reading How evil I have becomeWell, there’s nothing seriously wrong with that screenshot – I’m talking about the picture of me working on a reasonably popular open source app for Linux (ISO Master). What’s wrong with writing open source apps for Linux? Nothing, unless you need to make money to pay your bills :) Linux users are so used to …
Continue reading What’s wrong with this picture?Oh man, I have quite forgotten how much time I spend around really intelligent people. My decision to solicit feedback from the masses about the Executable Shell idea reminded me just how how lucky I am. In almost every place I brought it up the response was something like (actual quote): One good thing about …
Continue reading More on fanboysAfter getting a lot of feedback from a lot of people about on last post I decided this is too important an issue to let be. I am now convinced more than ever that the inability to run downloaded programs is the result of stubborness (very common in open source communities), and I have to …
Continue reading eshSome Windows and Mac users will be surprised at this, some will laugh – and well they should. On Linux it’s not possible to just download a program and run it, not even if it’s a program for the right platform. How stupid is that? The problem is that (probably for no-longer-relevant security reasons) any …
Continue reading Execute a downloadToday I’ve heard a story about how an IT company can’t find qualified employees. It’s the third time in two weeks that I’ve heard such a story, every time from a different company. And being a reasonably competent recent graduate looking for full-time employment – this was the final straw for me – I had …
Continue reading I’m tired of your whining, Company X1337: Hacker “Sp33k” for leet, or elite. Originating from 31337 “eleet”, the UDP port used by Dead Cow Cult, a hacker group, to access Windows 95 using Back Orifice, a notorious hacking program. This topic deserves a whole series of blog posts, but I can’t commit to that. For now I will only look at …
Continue reading Of the 1337 programmers and their fanboys