The Indigestible

They’ve had it with MS. Their Dell PC, six years old, can’t be upgraded to Win7. Even if it could, they’d have to back up, for­mat and rein­stall. Which, for the record, is a shitty stu­pid thing on Microsoft’s part. My upgrade curve from OS9 to OSX did not involve a sin­gle for­mat of the HD. At […]

You could spend umpteen skil­lion hours deal­ing with Adobe, or you could give this a shot. I have all the sys­tem require­ments in place. Mac OSX.4.11 or later. Plenty of RAM. Dual core fast box, even if it’s not Intel, but the Motorola chipset. So when I try to run the Flash CS4 installer, it just hangs. […]

In case you ever need to do it your­self. It’s stu­pidly easy. Basically it involves chang­ing the word “approved” in the loca­tion bar to “spam”, select­ing the com­ment you want to unspam, and click­ing approve. You don’t need Akismet, and you don’t need to hack your database. Nice.

Just a quickie. While you can change gen­eral sys­tem set­tings for your default browser sys­temwide in Linux (Ubuntu) by going to System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications, this does not affect how TweetDeck behaves when load­ing URLs. I’ve been using Epiphany because of my somewhat-​​​​laggy net­book, so hav­ing Firefox load when­ever I used TweetDeck was get­ting old. Searching the […]

To bor­row from a lam­en­ta­ble final chap­ter in a movie tril­ogy,1 every time I get out, they pull me right back in again. They being, in this case, gen­eral nerdish ten­den­cies. Followers of this blog will know by now that I’ve restarted my usage of Linux, in Ubuntu form. I can’t begin to describe what a vast improve­ment Linux has enjoyed […]

Came upon a page via another Twitterer today (@blogofinnocence) that made me go a lit­tle cross-​​​​eyed. Here’s the site quoted in full: 0.999… is the same as 1. Not just very close, but pre­cisely iden­ti­cal: a = 0.999… 10a = 9.999… 10a – a = 9.999… – 0.999… 9a = 9 a = 1 There’s no trick here. It’s […]

The rest of you will merely find it baf­fling. Yes, that is Ubuntu Jaunty run­ning in emu­la­tion via VirtualBox on my Mac Mini. Why? Because I could, that’s why.

Welp, that was an inter­est­ing exer­cise in holy crap. After installing Ubuntu 9.04 (net­book remix) on my Acer Aspire One net­book, things looked great; I switched the sys­tem over to the full Gnome desk­top UI — the remix has a sim­ple launcher as its default — and every­thing just ran slick and sta­ble … until I rebooted, and […]

The Ubuntu install was damn near pain­less com­pared to XP, or even OSX. And by con­trast to the insanely recal­ci­trant Slackware I began with more than ten years ago, well, hell, there’s just no con­test. This is actu­ally an Ubuntu remix opti­mized to work on net­books. It runs well, sig­nif­i­cantly faster than XP did on the […]