To anticipate and prevent
(yea, slacking on the blog posting. I fail). I still haven’t found a fix on this particular little topic. Of course that doesn’t surprise me seeing as how no one else has an answer either (other than the good ol “It’s just not Linux compatible”). I really hope one of these days that someone gets…
Well I never got to writing about it, even though I wanted to. Maker Faire. It took place May 3rd & 4th in San Mateo, CA. It was really cool, though I didn’t get to see a lot of it. I was volunteering for those fun folks at the Wikimedia Foundation (For those that don’t…
So I’ve been totally slacking on writing blog entries. But Dvorygirl has convinced me (simply by showing me what a slacker I am) to get off my duff and write about RCC 2008. So RecentChangesCamp is a wiki related camp/conference. Where we had conference times and locations — but instead of having paid speakers —…
I was talking with Ben earlier today about Ubuntu and we got into a discussion of usability problems. They aren’t necessarily major issues, but range from annoyances to “duh?”. I figured I’d discuss them, and for a few of them I have Ubuntu Brainstorm links. Mounting of unclean NTFS drives (Brainstorm #4994). This is a…
This is a serious question I’m grappling with today. I went to the local camera store and saw a lens for my Nikon that I really wanted. They told me it was $400, ok, no big deal. I checked Amazon while still in the store and it was $336. How can I in good conscience…
I wandered outside ::GASP:: for a bit today to take some pictures for Wikipedia. I made it a point of writing down a bunch of articles in the area that needed pictures last year… but I didn’t get much of them done. Winter came soon after. I’ve finally gotten off my be-hind to go take…