Someone recently brought to my attention that I’ve offended/hurt someone by the (by now, months old) words on my blog. That is perfectly fine. I’m not here to be a politically correct person. This is my space on the Internet—and I’ll say what I like here. You know how I believe in freedom and its [...]

So for the past couple of weeks I have been doing work at a client’s place of business. This client—like many other small and medium-sized businesses—uses Windows on all of their desktop systems. They have a couple of server boxes that are running GNU/Linux servers, but they are not running GNU/Linux on the desktop at [...]

Every now and again, I come back to looking at device drivers and driver-writing, and I wonder why there is not some common interface for device drivers. What would the world be like if we could write a device driver for Linux, and be able to use it on FreeBSD without modification? There was a [...]

This past week, we were all sick, and I was able to do very little in the way of work.  The kid was rather well off, or so I thought, because he wasn’t sick sick, just came down with a bit of a cough.  Well, now, he’s rather sick.  He is complaining that his ear is hurting, [...]

AllTray is a rather small project—for the moment, there is a single developer working on it (myself), and there aren’t a terribly great number of users, though the users that it does have are most excellent.  For a long time, the users didn’t have the ability to observe the development processes for AllTray, nor did [...]

So, as has already been reported elsewhere on the Internets, Comcast (of which I am a current customer) is going to assess a 250 GB limitation on transfer for its residential customers. This is more than a little disturbing, being that I signed up for unlimited use Internet. Disclaimer: The math in this post is [...]

It’d appear that people think you are faking your birth certificate when it is worn and the toner that is on it wears off. Stupid idiots. (Even when you can see that it’s worn toner, and you can see that the letter hasn’t been altered. Surely, technical types cannot be the only people that can [...]

It seems that Nelson over at the OSI’s Web site is confused about how “fundamentalist” can be applied to an Open Source advocate. It can be done; one just has to remember that a “fundie” (the variant of the word which makes the malicious connotation clear) is someone that exists at a special place called [...]

You know, I have been reading a lot of interesting things lately. Just read another post that was interesting to me. This article was about how Linux is bloated. “Bloated? Linux?” Yeah, well, most modern software is bloated, and it is rather sad. Now, that having been said, he was talking about a distribution, but [...]

I used to write a lot of projects in PHP when I was working for creating a Web interface to something. However, I recently have spent some time learning other languages—C# and Java being two of them—and am beginning to realize that I think I would rather use one of them for creating anything larger [...]