Archive for May, 2009

Uneven Bacon

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Don’t you hate when the center of the bacon is done, but the ends aren’t? I know this is a side effect of uneven heating on my electric stove. Normally, the workaround for this is to use a heavy cast-iron skillet. Unfortunately, I’m already using a heavy cast-iron skillet! So, I’ve been on hold waiting […]

Novell, RedHat, and Mono

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

So let me see if I have this straight. RedHat publicly states how upset they are with the Novell/Microsoft patent deal. RedHat, in a completely unrelated decision, decides not to include Mono as a standard core package in their Enterprise Linux, now or ever. Some developers are sad because this means their .NET packages can […]

Vista has disabled the Aero interface…

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Disabled Aero? Because “one of my applications” does not “support” it? How about telling me which application? How about re-enabling it when that application exits? How about coming up with an Aero theme that doesn’t make me seasick when I drag a window? I hate Vista.