Category Archives: Rant

Adobe Hits Eleven on the Irony Scale

I learn from Cali Lewis via her twitter feed that Adobe are talking about developing a version of Flash for the iPhone.

Paul Betlem, Sr. Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems confirmed that Adobe is working on Flash for iPhone. He was speaking at the Flash On the Beach Conference and said, “My team …

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Minor Annoyance of The Day

Seeing “I might go back to Slackware if this bug isn’t fixed.”.

Crikey! Quick lads, refocus all bug-squashing resources on this one, we’re about to lose a user to Slackware!

Whilst I appreciate bugs can be irritating, making idle threats, demands or other pressure really doesn’t help at all. Basing your entire OS choice on one …

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No Competition

The recent Microsoft TV advertisments reminded me of an incident which happened to me in a pub recently.

I went to the pub to meet up with some friends for a drink after work. The wife of one of my friends was also there. She and her friend came over to sit with us outside. …

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Copycat Nonsense

Microsoft sends experts into Apple stores to educate staff about Free Software.
The Free Software Foundation sends experts into computer stores to educate customers about Windows Vista.

At least I think I have that right.

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People wonder why I hate Windows

Update: I have applied the BIOS update by putting the old hard disk back in, and using the working windows install there to do it. It still can’t see all 4G of my RAM.

Apologies for this slight rant. I need to get it off my chest.

I have a Toshiba Portege M400 (3G) …

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