Is it me or is eclipse a piece of shit
I know eclipse is free, but come on, I don't know how people actually use this piece of shit to build software. I like open source as much as the next guy, I just like "high quality open source" which...
View ArticleIs it any wonder that Real Media is almost no where in 2007
I’m trying to watch Larry Ellison’s keynote from last year, and I get to see 30 seconds and the real media starts this annoying “communicating …” shtick, which goes on for 10’s of minutes at a time....
View ArticleSometimes you want to scream
Here's a letter I mailed to Rogers today, not email, not submitted via web form, I had to get all old school because their web site sucks so bad I can't submit a "contact us" form and they don't...
View ArticleLatest Firefox update 2.0.0.6 is a piece of shit
I love Firefox its a great browser and the plugin options are awesome, but this latest update doesn’t seem to be working with secure sites like e*trade and even my.yahoo.com portfolios very odd. All...
View ArticleFreeBSD – There’s a reason it’s FREE
So, I’ve been doing some testing with FreeBSD and boy has it been a long time since I’ve used a pure BSD implementation, and I have to say it feels very dated. The installer definitely errs on the...
View ArticleThe latest Microsoft updates (appears unstable)
I installed the latest Microsoft updates last night, things went as they should, and then I turned off my machine (it gets a little warm in the office these days) Only to wake up to my first system...
View ArticleVirtual PC, going, going, gone…
I’ve been pretty critical of VMWare, and I’ve been using Virtual PC since before Microsoft got their grubby little hands on it. Virtual PC in my opinion is generally easier to use and worked very well...
View ArticleProne to fits of rage? avoid OpenBSD
Are you prone to fits of rage, do you get easily frustrated? If so, avoid OpenBSD. Just when I thought an operating system couldn’t get any worse than FreeBSD, OpenBSD lowered the bar, yah! The...
View ArticleInstalling Java – what a pain
If you ask me the Java installer is broken, at least from a usability perspective. Here’s a breif list: You have to install demos and samples (I don’t want them installed) The installer spawns at...
View ArticleFedora Core 9, Dead on arival
I like Fedora/Red Hat it’s the only linux distro I’ve used in the last 5 years, but Core 9 is DOA. Any OS that doesn’t properly start its networking (and I’m not the only one to experience this)...
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