Grumble Grumble: The things that piss me off.

What’s wrong with this picture?

20 October, 2007

Well, 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 …

More on fanboys

8 October, 2007

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 …

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6 October, 2007

After 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 …

Execute a download

5 October, 2007

Some 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 …

I’m tired of your whining, Company X

26 September, 2007

Today 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 …

Of the 1337 programmers and their fanboys

19 September, 2007

1337: 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 …

Cool, quiet, and reasonably priced server

18 September, 2007

This is a post about open source, don’t grumble, that’s my job. What’s it got to do with open source? Well, littlesvr.ca is the channel for my open source work to get from my desktop to the users. It’s an emal server, a web server, an FTP/Telnet/SSH server, a Subversion server, a mailing list server, …

Animations on the web

15 September, 2007

I worked for a year or so to enable Animated PNG images to work in Firefox. Support for this feature will ship with Firefox 3. But that’s old news. Today I learned that APNG support has been added to Opera. It’s not surprising that I didn’t know about it, there’s no reason why they should …