Post archive for ‘Technology’
bBlog woes
So I was playing around with a free opensource C# RSS Aggregator today and I noticed that my blog’s feed was missing quite a few items. A quick look at the source showed that whoever wrote RSS v2.0 support into bBlog was either high or just incredibly stupid, as half the elements were either missing [...]
wheel group in linux
So I was wondering if I could set “su” to only allow users in the “wheel” group to su to root like with BSD. I never thought I’d be lucky enough to find another reason why Richard Stallman (the hippy who started the FSF) is an idiot in the process. The man page pointed me [...]
Windows Installer does, has always, and will always suck
So I managed to break the Windows Installer Service (MSI). This means I cannot install, “safely” uninstall, reinstall, or otherwise modify any program that uses it. Naturally because it’s built into Windows XP Microsoft didnt bother to create a way to reinstall it (why would they need to? It’s not like ANY of Microsoft’s code [...]