A rantbox
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
This is the subject of one of the spam messages I got today. Kinda links that software maker and incompetency rather nicely together, doesn't it? ;) As a sidenote, it's interesting the spammer used a normal mail program to send this crap, The Bat. [You see quite a wildly varying spectrum …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
This week I have to do two examinations, and wrap up other things, but then I can sit back and relax a bit. Saturday the 24th an old friend comes visiting us, and will bring the movie Nosferatu with her. Old vampires galore :)
After that, days of celebrating we have …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Source: this Slashdot posting from jsse in the topic about Music should be heard but not understood
It is Q3 2030.
You're arguing with your wife again. It seems she's missed her spending quota again this quarter. A proud patriot, you have no problem spending 85% and sometimes 90% of …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Now that even Alex has seen it, I really need to go watch that movie before it disappears from the about 12 screens it's currently shown on in The Netherlands [really a pity it wasn't advertised more: Firefly really rocks]. So... who wants to come with me? :)
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
... even when you've bought it already. Let me explain: when you shut down the operating system on your computer [say, your laptop], you expect it to power down the hardware. So when you close the lid of your laptop while it's shutting down, everything is fine. Except when you wake …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
As both he and I ran out of our monthly rate, he's persuiting a Flickr Pro account so he can upload as much as he want. It's a really nice geeky and thoroughly tought out tool, so it would be a nice gift for him. So if you like Gandalfar …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
The last hacking session just ended and we're wrapping things up, packing stuff. I finally made aquamorph start Xfce4 properly [stupid permission thing on /tmp/.ICE-unix ...], so now I can start building a minimod modifying the user interface, making things a lot nicer for the user. Hopefully I can use …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
So this night I went to bed at 4AM, after having fiddled around trying to get Xfce4 to actually start up when booting aquamorph. It looks like the startup scripts don't call the startxfce4 script I was looking at, and I was looking at why the hell not ;)
Alex is …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
It has just started, but the first evening with the whole crew is awesome. We are eating pancakes Alex is baking [he's a lot slower cooking than we with us ten can eat :P], and discussing stuff, hacking kernels, trying to get livecd's to work at laptops [why do laptops …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
My pics can be found at my own Flickr page, as my account hasn't been approved yet, it seems.