Tuesday, June 12, 2007 – 6:15pm
I do website development. I also care that my websites should display correctly, or at least be usable, on a wide range of browsers and platforms. This comes at a cost of course: to get the full-on cross-platform experience, you’ll need the full-on cross-platform setup.
You could use virtual machines (rather slow in my experience, even [...]
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 – 11:31am
Sometimes I’m stuck with using Windows. Fortunately Cygwin helps out and gives me a nice Unix-y command line where I can get things done in a way I’m comfortable with.
But, the default Windows command line tool found in XP is, frankly, awful. It dates back to Windows 95 (or at least, it looks and feels [...]
Sunday, December 10, 2006 – 11:36am
This week I had the opportunity to play with a MacBook. Well, by “play” I really mean “get it to triple boot”. Sadly, its sleek whiteness doesn’t belong to me.
OS X is the main OS, Windows XP is needed for work, and Linux is there as a tinkertoy.
Friday, June 23, 2006 – 9:46am
Ahhh, this Ubuntu Linux bug report made me smile this morning.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 – 10:39am
If, like me, you’re accustomed to working with Unix/Linux X-Windows type environments, but have to use the “other” Windows(TM) for some reason, you may lament the fact that you have to keep hitting CTRL-C/V for copy and paste operations. And also that Microsoft’s attempt at “window activation follows mouse” is not particularly good compared to [...]
What’s *not* wrong with setup.exe?
Jeff Atwood asks “What’s wrong with setup.exe?”
Short answer: That depends on the implementation. Truth is, most of them are plain awful.
It should be simple, but all too often there are too many steps, too many unnecessary technical questions, reboots required, and worst of all, multiple attempts to up-sell to a paid version and nagging “register [...]