ceesaxp The Land of Wind, Ghosts and Minimised Windows Windows can’t, you see, just blithely stop drawing a program’s window when it’s minimised. I think that’s because you can’t count on programs to redraw themselves correctly, or because they may freak out if one or more of their various window-drawing strategies is not correctly bit-bucketed. … … Read more
I bought one of these a short while ago — I felt the need to try and improve wireless reception. My good-old LinkSys WRT54G has rarely produced a signal stronger than 60% percent and I could well feel the difference in speed between direct plug and wireless access to internet. Looking at the reviews of … Read more
One of the things I like to do to take my mind away from the daily grind is cook. I don’t like it being a routine affair — that’d kill the whole feel of it. What I like about it is that on one hand you have a recipe — which a rule set that … Read more
There has been a number of different views on the matter of new markup language spec for the web in the past few weeks. As a hobbyist, I certainly cannot provide a solid foundation for my views, other than that some things feel right, and some don’t. In this case, a lot of X/HTML5’s “backward … Read more
Steve Jobs’ recent Thoughts on Music have been around the blogs, news sites and general media. There’s been a nice article in Economist, a long thread on Slashdot. Why did he say what he said? This position does not seem to match many of the past actions by Apple? I think that the story is … Read more
David Brin has written an article at Salon titled Why Johny can’t code. The basic premise is that it has become very difficult for the younger generation to pick up computing, as simple and straight forward environments of yesteryears are gone. As an example given by David, it was much easier to do between late … Read more
This is a reply to an email I have received from Mark of CNXN fame, the one that made del.icio.us and Reddit with his No-Folder tutorial as a feedback to my post. The text has been edited slightly to better fit blog. First a quote: As illogical as this sounds I find this very valuable … Read more
Apple software logs out of India- The Times of India: Considering the low-cost, high-quality talent pool that Bangalore offers, it is unclear why Apple decided to shut shop just over a month after it commenced operations. Say what? Maybe the proper way to react to Apple’s actions was to actually stop and think: are there … Read more
As seen on Slashdot, quoted from CRN: CRN | Lenovo, Linux, Lenovo3000 | Lenovo To Shun Linux: Computer maker Lenovo will not install or support the Linux operating system on any of its PCs, including ThinkPads and a series of new notebooks, the company said this week. So, it has started. It has not really … Read more
Over at Mark Rosenberg has published a tutorial on Using Outlook Without Folders, Without Filing. This is so much un-GTD that I had shivers going down my spine when I realized what this was about. This is also likely targeted at those lucky among us that don’t fear seeing an inbox full of 12,345 messages … Read more