equivocal ramblings

I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. — Dr. Maya Angelou

The installation process for openSUSE 11 is quite impressive. LVM, package selection, desktop selection etc. were all top-notch without any hiccups (unlike my past experiences with Fedora). Post-installation set up was quite smooth as well, except for the part where I wanted a static IP — took 15 minutes to figure the GUI for that out. Seems more geared towards network administrators than end users.

I can’t say I expected the green to be pleasant, but I can’t complain — looks very nice. Overall, solid stuff.

Vista Service Pack 1. I put music on, walk away and come back a while later. My screensaver is active. I click the mouse once to deactivate it, and what happens? Audio playback skips.

Vista Service Pack 1 Audio: Fail.

P.S.: I can’t help but notice that everything I write about Vista tends to the negative. About the only positive thing I can say is that It’s quite pretty.

Before I forget how to find this article again, I’ll just blog it. By the way this works fine for a K850i too — Synchronising a K610i with Evolution.

From Wikipedia:

Towel Day is celebrated every May 25 as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after his death on May 11, and since then has been extended to an annual event. On this day, fans carry a towel with them throughout the day. The towel is a reference to Adams’s popular science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. — Towel Day

I didn’t notice that it was Towel Day today, and yet, I’ve (coincidentally) been carrying a large towel around in my backpack all day long :) Unconsciously, I’ve fulfilled my duty to geekdom.

Anyone managed to get Outlook to do email threading (like we get in Thunderbird etc.) at all with IMAP?

Despite following several guides online, enabling threading on my IMAP server, reading the help etc. I cannot for the life of me figure out how it works. Sigh

Definitely one of the most interesting acts of vandalism I’ve seen in a while…

…and then just walked away
Originally uploaded by Michael Heilemann

You just have to appreciate the irony of this paragraph in the CakePHP manual:

Now, in order to help you understand this, let’s use a practical example. Imagine, for a moment, a computer system used by a group of adventurers. The leader of the group wants to forge ahead on their quest while maintaining a healthy amount of privacy and security for the other members of the party. The AROs involved are as following:

• Gandalf
• Aragorn
• Bilbo
• Frodo
• Gollum
• Legolas
• Gimli
• Pippin
• Merry

Indeed, a practical example :P

CraHan doesn’t like that he’s been knocked off the #1 spot on Google. I know your pain man, I used to be the #1 Kevin Francis on Google, but’ve since dropped to somewhere near the end of the first page — my fault really, since I stopped blogging, but still…

So here’s a courtesy link: CraHan

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