Monthly Archives: August 2006

Yes, I do want 1,543 separate accounts, thanks…

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

In online life, the most annoying thing is probably spam. Followed by pop-ups/unders, and so forth, and sites that are almost entirely a new version of Flash that doesn’t work with Linux. Right after that, the forums that turn up … Continue reading →

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MySQL to drop Berkeley DB storage engine

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

Quick linky to the MySQL story I wrote up today. MySQL is dropping the Berkeley DB storage engine in the 5.1 series, which is unlikely to cause pain for many users, and Brian Aker is working on a memcache storage … Continue reading →

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Web services are the future… the distant future

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

A couple of weeks ago, I was at OSCON listening to everyone blather on about the wonders of Web 2.0 and software as a service and how “licensing doesn’t matter” because everything is going to be running “in the cloud” … Continue reading →

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If you need an example why proprietary software is a Bad Thing…

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

It’s bad enough that a lot of people have their data trapped by proprietary software, these folks have their cars trapped by proprietary software: In the course of a contract dispute, the city of Hoboken had police escort the Robotic … Continue reading →

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Oh noes! The command line!

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

Just reading Mark Shuttleworth’s response to Matt Zimmerman’s summation of the community’s expectations of the Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS release. One thing stuck out about Zimmerman’s comments, that’s the complaint that users still have to use the command line … Continue reading →

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Why reading PDFs sucks

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

The other day, I downloaded a PDF about the making of Revolver by The Beatles. It’s more than 100 pages long, so it’s unlikely I’m going to read through it in one sitting. It dawned on me, while reading the … Continue reading →

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The state of Firefox

Posted on August 4, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

If I were to compile a list of applications that I use most often on my Linux desktop right now, it would look something like this: Vim Konsole Firefox Sylpheed Konversation Rhythmbox KSnapshot Gimp Gaim Akregator Now, I’m only including … Continue reading →

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