This is generally an excellent article, but I have to take exception with one of its assertions: I’ve been using a second monitor for nearly ten years, thinking that vast amounts of space were key to productivity. The second monitor myth has been around for quite some time. Yet the only actual scientific study I [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Software and Software Development category.
“Human hive-mind game whups computer boffinry ass”
My high-school best friend and I both ended up in Virginia in the very early nineties, a few years after we graduated, he in the Air Force and I going to tech school. We decided to make a trip back to Connecticut to meet up with the old gang. Among the people we met were [...]
“10 Funny Programming Cartoons”
Well, it’s not quite like this… but there’s an uncomfortably high amount of truth there too.
“I could license you to use this software, but then I’d have to kill you”
Most of the licenses listed here are perfectly normal, but there are a few really odd ones…
Ubuntu’s “Bug #1″
This bug was filed back in 2005, but I just discovered it. It’s a nasty one, but between Apple and various Linux distributions, I think they’re making headway on it. The description starts out: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to [...]
“Keep Going. Concentrate on Something Useful.”
The text I quoted above got me thinking. As many of my readers know, I’ve been working on an extremely difficult programming problem for the last seven years. Many really smart people have attempted to solve it before me, and so far, none have succeeded; many others, equally intelligent, believe that it simply can’t be [...]
“State of Decay”
I generally find Verity Stob pretty over-the-top, but she didn’t have to exaggerate this one much, if at all. It’s an old one, but it had me smiling and nodding because I’ve seen more than my fair share of Windows machines with nearly every one of the symptoms she mentions. Far too often they’ve been [...]
“Ubuntu Lucid Lynx: free OS that Just Works”
I started using Ubuntu three years ago, pushed to it by the advent of Windows Vista and Microsoft’s stated intention to force all Windows users to it. It was quite an effort to switch at that point, but it was a lot easier than it had been even a year earlier. And with every new [...]
“How to Start Using Procedure Checklists for Flawless Task Execution”
I stand behind this idea 100%. I’ve been using checklists for certain procedures (like software releases) for a number of years now, ever since I discovered that I was forgetting to do one or two things in each release. They were small things, but they made those releases look less professional. I just wish that [...]
“Firefox tool erases Justin Bieber from Web”
Official censorship is bad, but people censoring what they’ll see on their own systems… I can live with that. I love the name too.