I'm having a conversation with right now about his latest post. I am surprised he mixes home and work so freely. But enough about that. It made me think of a few observations about corporate life. Aristotle said: “The law is reason free from passion.” I say: “A corporation is…
Month: April 2007
new printer
I'm fed up with inkjets. Every inkjet – every one – I've had for the last 10 years has lasted no longer than 2 years. One day, they just start dropping lines or printing strangely, probably because of a clogged head or waste tube or something. I tried to fix…
OpenWRT Port Triggering update
I don’t really have time to bundle my patches into a package or get them included in OpenWRT (must admit I was surprised to find they weren’t already there). But after having some enquiries from people seeking port triggering, I have posted the patch files and a short howto at…
KDevelop: so much promise, but a bit rough around the edges
I’ve been trying to put together an app using KDevelop as my IDE. IDE-wise, it seems fine: all the usual stuff like syntax highlighting (of course) and code completion, etc. But I find its handling of the gnu autotools a bit rough. I haven’t found a way yet to specify…
April
Ah yes, April 1st. The day when the Internet becomes useless because the various editors out there don't seem to understand that it is not an April Fools' joke when every bloody article you read is a bunch of useless tripe. Less is more, people. And since the Internet enables…