December 2009
6 posts
“The endless proliferation of fake nuance is one of the major products produced...”
– Michael Vassar in the comments of Less Wrong: The Correct Contrarian Cluster
“What’s important isn’t so much the initial state of the software...”
– Jeff Atwood
It’s good life advice, too.
TeuxDeux →
Via Seth Godin: a beautiful ToDo application. But until it supports sending tasks via Twitter (and thus by SMS), I’m sticking with RTM.
Somehow, it took me 3 years to destroy my Zorpia...
Three years ago, a very nice friend of mine invited me to a service called Zorpia. It was a dumb ass shit social networking site. I think she apologized to me later. It was one of those deals where they try to trick you inviting all your Gmail contacts.I don’t recall having used the service, but in the past six months, I’ve been getting email alerts from Zorpia. Crap like, “Hey...
Compiz+Graphics card unfun today
I’ve spent all morning on this—never a good idea, but I get obsessed sometimes. What a pain in the ass. Apparently I can’t use the old Catalyst versions that support X1600 because it conflicts with newer versions of XServer. Looks like I’m suck with the Open Source version, but I’m going to try this:...
Compiz+Graphics card unfun today
I really regret getting this Sony VAIO BX640P notebook two years ago. One of my main sources of grief is its ATI Mobility Raedon X1600, which is supposed to be a decent graphics card but really has been a great hassle because of compatibility. But it was doing okay in Ubuntu Jaunty and Karmic. I’ve become fairly dependent on Compiz for desktop management—particularly the Scale plugin,...