A photoshop developer named Chris Cox over at Adobe had this to say (Bugmenot Required) about the linux desktop, in response to a user’s request for a linux port:
Is the time approaching when Linux has standards for fonts, color management, printing, etc.?
What’s all this then?
Fonts: Freetype
Color Manaegment: OpenIcc
Printing: CUPS
Is the time approaching when Linux has [...]
What kind of crap is this?
Fitzgibbons [the defending lawyer] said in July that plea negotiations had broken off because prosecutors insisted on prison time, which he said would be too dangerous for someone as attractive as Lafave.
I really hope that didn’t have anything to do with the judge’s desicion… would be a very sad day [...]
I was reading this guy’s blog entry about the linux desktop (it was on osnews or something), and while he does make a few good points, such as how the file manager could be improved, most of the article is just whining about he thought he had installed OSX but ended up with Linux instead. [...]
The city had to do some sort of work on the power grid in our area today, so they shut off power form about 9:00am to 2:30pm. Before I left this morning I shut my server off so it could turn off properly.
When I got back home and turned the server back on it decided [...]
There seems to be a trend lately. Let’s ask someone for help and assume that they can both see our screen and read our mind!
Examples:
(21:39:47) Someone: for my site i can’t get mono to work as my handler for my site i put the handler line in the apache2.conf but it isn’t working
(18:22:24) Someone: i [...]
…when complaining about something you didn’t like gets you on the 6-oclock news.
Last night right as I was about to turn off my computer a friend of mine sent me a link to a video of the to “Monday Night Football” on ABC. Some lady “wearing” nothing but a towel basically convinvced some football player [...]
So I’ve been known to tell friends…relatives…people passing by on the street…that I think Windows…..sucks. Here’s another reason why.
So I needed to install Windows. I wasn’t happy about it, in fact I was nearly in tears but it had to be done no thanks to a software company finally releasing a highly anticipated game a [...]
The latest issue of WIRED came with a CD with 16 songs licensed under a new set of licences from creativecommons that permits you to rip, sample, mash, and share.
Unfortunetly the question I quickly asked myself was “Why would I want to?” because most of the songs on the CD are terrible. There’s some new [...]
This certanly could be the most ridiculus thing i’ve seen, uh, well this month.
School District Bans Halloween
PUYALLUP - A local school district is banning Halloween parties because children dressed up as witches might be offensive to real witches.
Apparently our concept of “witches” comes from a religion called “Wiccan“. The Wiccans are upset because they [...]