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Category Archives: Computers and Internet
Posts on computer science and the web, rants about OS:es, Window Managers, Platforms for almost publishing content on the web, and the like.
Masonry – Cascading grid layout library
Masonry (masonry.desandro.com) is a JavaScript library for creating grid layouts by placing elements in optimal positions on a web page – like a mason fitting stones in a wall.
The most complex structures built by mankind are software systems
It is said that the most complex structures built by mankind are software systems. This is not generally appreciated because most people cannot see them. Maybe that’s a good thing because if we saw them as buildings, we’d deem many of them unsafe.
A thought on new and fancy Window managers in Linux
A thought on remakes of Linux window managers and desktop environments (that give you a mouse elbow because you have to flit the mouse over to a corner every time you want to switch programs…):
The design of the desktop environment on a computer isn’t some f-cking art fair, we’re talking about a tool here! Go play with your X-box instead!
I mean, sure, all these new fancy window managers look really nice, clean and … empty… I guess it speaks to the seriousness of the users of said systems… clean and empty…
Did mankind land on the moon?
Did mankind land on the moon? NVIDIA would say, “yes!”
You don’t need less configuration
Don’t complain about things (computers, Linux installations, Desktops and Window Managers) being too customizable!
Ask for either administrator locked customizations or customization themes.
If you have to administer a thousand workstations and the users can customize themselves to hell and back twice over, then I can understand you do not want too many customization options open to the user…
Lobby for administrator locked customizations (a customization setting in itself, of course!)
If you feel like starting your computer and trying to set it up is like entering the cockpit of a Boeing 777, then I can also understand that you would like less customization options you had to worry about…
Lobby for a function like a customization theme, where you can download a set of customization settings from the web or get them from a friend.
See, in both these scenarios you’re not really in the need of less configuration, you’re in the need of different configuration…
…if you disagree, buy a Mac! 😛
Puppet Configuration Management
Puppet is an open source configuration management utility that works on Linux and Windows and has its own declarative language to describe system configuration. (Sounds like just what Windows needs!)
Google glass – resistance is futile!
See the similarities? I think the BoRG collective has arrived and become board members of Google!
Installing a mouse on Windows
After having tried to install a mouse (yes you heard me right, install a mouse) on Windows (now it makes sense, right?) I’m expecting to see a three headed dog walking on its hind legs.
Now, my mouse (my Microsoft mouse) was not supported by my computer (running Windows) so I had to rip the newer mouse from my Linux box and plug it into the Windows box, and after downloading, confirming the usage agreement (huh?) the mouse driver software installation progress *phew* started. After a lengthy stare period featuring a progress bar I finally had my mouse.
Yay!
While all that progressed I plugged the old (“unrecognizable”) mouse into my Linux box and lo and behold, it worked the instant I plugged it in. (Actually, no I’ve learned not to “lo and behold” Linux like decades ago, it’s SOP for that OS that simple things just work – sure you have to choose your graphics card wisely etc, but hell, a mouse pointer…?)
But Microsoft’s OS is superior… that’s what the Microsoft aficionados are whining anyway.
Oh, and pray the gods you always have access to Internet or your supersplendidgloriousfinesuperior Windows will have to work without a mouse…
Facebook… center of the universe?
I just stumbled onto Facebook (it wasn’t my fault!) and when I wanted to leave I had to press an “are you sure you want to leave Facebook”-button.
So, I checked and still today Facebook isn’t part of the standard model of physics and it doesn’t seem to be part of any of the big religions… so yes, the universe WILL survive without Facebook.
I clicked, “YES I want to leave” and I’m still here!
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