Archive for January, 2008
Windows Vista is like a papaya: sleek on the outside, but a big mess on the inside.
I am going to do all I can to make sure that no family or friends buy a machine with Vista
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Everyone has to start some place in IT, and we all went through some sort of learning curve, right? But this takes the bloody cake:
Guy sees documentation (note: I write sees; he certainly didn't read it), where it says he should run
./configure …
He then comes back to the mailing list and writes:
We are supposed to [...]
Königin Elizabeth II. ist bei einem Krankenhausbesuch mit zwei Bananen überrascht worden.
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Allerdings habe die 81-jährige Monarchin nicht so ausgesehen, als würde sie die Bananen tatsächlich essen wollen.
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The first thing I recommend you do when you want to write a (technical) book is to find a publisher who doesn't force you to use MS-whatsit (or any other what you see is perhaps what you get system) to write your manuscript. Tell those that do to go take a hike, and continue looking [...]
News from Apple. (click):
[Thanks, Nic!]
[Thanks, Dominik.]
Just before last weekend, I lost about 50 pages of my writing. Not that I really lost them, as in "oops: I deleted them accidentally", thank goodness. No, the LaTeX style sheet I was using had the wrong page size.
I was seeing 540 pages, but my publisher said the page size was wrong. They got [...]
Photo: Vladimir Aarkhipov.