Archive for the 'Rants' Category

Wed
23
Nov '05
The great linux mystery
by Frank Spychalski filed under Computer, Rants

Why do my fonts have to change every n-th time when I update my system? I just don’t get it - just updated my system and after a short scare everything is running fine except that my konsole font looks like crap. And every other font available und Settings->Font looks even worse.


Tue
19
Jul '05
Ubuntu
by schlumpf filed under Computer, Rants, all

“Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. Obviously it also means “root privileges for everybody”:

Ubuntu uses sudo to allow a normal user administrative privileges. Thus the traditional UNIX ‘root’ account is disabled.

Read the rest of this entry »


Wed
6
Jul '05
Short OW2 Wiki Review
by Frank Spychalski filed under Computer, Rants

Today I finally found the time to install and test the OW2 wiki. The basic idea sounds very promising: a wiki with build in support for tagging. Read the rest of this entry »


Sat
21
May '05
What does this reveal?
by schlumpf filed under Rants, Sport, all
Thu
10
Mar '05
Anti-Software Patent Bribe
by Frank Spychalski filed under Rants, Read this

I’m not really against software patents but I’m sure against the recent anti-democratic behaviour shown by the EU to ignore all public opinions. Here’s a page which tries to raise funds to bribe the EU Council Presidency.

via Julian and symlink.ch


Thu
3
Mar '05
About user interface
by Frank Spychalski filed under Rants

A few minutes ago bloglines showed me that Daniel wrote a comparison between Java and C# Read the rest of this entry »


Wed
2
Mar '05
preaching about xml
by Frank Spychalski filed under Computer, Rants, Work

Uli linked to an articles by Johannes Link which tries to tell us about the problems of XML. I read this article one or two years ago and is was the main reason not to subscribe the “xml magazin”. Read the rest of this entry »


Tue
1
Mar '05
goodbye climbing.de/forum
by Frank Spychalski filed under Rants

As Uli wrote, the climbing.de forum was closed yesterday by its administrator due to misuse by some stupid users. I share some of Uli’s grief about the shutdown but no very much because I gave up on climbing.de quite some time ago for the same reasons Martin closed the forum.

The only climbing forum which is left is rockclimbing.com which nearly the opposite of climbing.de. There’s a ‘community’ sub-forum with very little moderation and heavy flaming going on and a lot of other forums where the strict terms of service are enforced. It might be sad, but on the average, the internet population is so damn stupid that moderation is the only way a open forum can operate…


Sat
12
Feb '05
Thank you amazon
by Frank Spychalski filed under Rants

for this important message

Wichtige Nachrichten

Bitte beachten Sie, dass der Preis von Close Calls (Falcon Guides Mountain Climbing) von 16.5 auf 16.5 gestiegen ist, seitdem Sie ihn in Ihren Einkaufswagen legten. Artikel in Ihrem Einkaufswagen zeigen stets die aktuellen Preise an, wie sie auch auf der Produktseite des jeweiligen Artikels aufgef�hrt sind.

yet another company that could use some more QA…


Mon
7
Feb '05
Furl sucks
by Frank Spychalski filed under Rants

Why you shouldn’t use furl

I prefered del.icio.us anyway, that’s why I erased all my data from furl a few minutes ago…