http://skidde.net/offroot Thoughts by Intelligent Design Wed, 03 May 2006 01:08:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You want to make sure that a company's going to have your back. Right? So I'm trying my luck with eVGA right now. I've recently determined that that loud grinding noise coming from my computer is coming from my video card fan (why exactly my video card has a fan, I'm ... http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2006/05/02/evga-support/ Verizon implements tough new anti-spam technology. And here I was thinking that at some point I would be having all my e-mail moved over to a Verizon account. Eh, maybe not. Really, what's so hard about having options for these kinds of things? Use Verizon's e-mail service, and miss 90% of ... http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2006/04/24/nazi-spam-filters/ Let's play a game. Name all the user interface issues you can see below: Here's what I noticed (apologies, most aren't really apparent from a screen shot): No way to resize the columns with the file names so that you, you know, know what exactly you're replacing. You can't resize the dialog box, ... http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2005/12/06/name-the-usability-issues/ Do you read blogs? Do you pay attention to what your customers are saying -- not just to you directly, but everywhere else? On the Internet? Hope so. Recently I've been thinking a bit on the impact that forms of mass-communication have been having -- or, perhaps, should have been having ... http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2005/07/16/big-business/ Normally I'm not tempted to check out the contents of spam messages as they make their way to my inbox, but a couple caught my eye the other day: Most helpful PayPal Phisher I've ever seen. http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2005/06/06/spammers-getting-more-friendly/ John Kerry hasn't given up in his quest for political domination. At least someone caught it, eventually. http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2005/05/28/dangers-of-wikipedia/ Abandon it after about two months. Not that I've abandoned this, yet. I have other writings in the works, they've just taken a backseat to more important and, moreover, time consuming matters. But this is why they invented RSS. http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2005/04/24/how-not-to-start-a-blog/ Its features, um... a 3 inch LCD screen, it's like the first device to have one of those, ever. Thanks again FOX 5 news for your informative interviews-on-the-street. I guess my PDA's 3.7 inch LCD screen technically isn't 3 inches. http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2005/03/25/sony-psp-revolutionary/ I couldn't get Debian to work without hanging, so I tossed it. Instead I downloaded Slackware 10.1 and set that up, it was relatively painless actually. Now typing this from Firefox, using GNOME. Shocked that it's not slower. Oh, also very happy that my wireless card no longer drops connections ... http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2005/03/21/welcome-back-slackware/ So, I decided to get rid of Slackware on my laptop in favor of Debian, and so far it hasn't been so great. I wanted to get rid of Slackware because I thought it was too hard to deal with (and I probably screwed up the installation to some extent, ... http://skidde.net/offroot/archives/2005/03/20/installing-debian/