hating the windows mobile
why oh why is windows mobile such a bad program/application/plattform/insert-microsoft-buzzword-here. my next phone will be a freerunner.
trying to learn dvorak-layout…
not only are the words harder to get right, but Emacs commands is
suddently not where they my fingers expect. Might be good for my brain
to learn another layout, and break some bad habits with the same strike.
You know you have influence when…
You know you have influence when:
"Stortinget (stortinget) is now listening to your notices on Identi.ca."
"Norges regjering (regjeringen) is now listening to your notices on Identi.ca."
Stortinget = Norwegian Parliament
Norges regjering = Norwegian Governmet
If they only did my bidding based on my posting to identi.ca….
The Year of the…
In almost all the major "mainstream" computer shops in Norway I see a
lot of portable computers (laptops) which have screens from 16 inches
and larger, with a full keyboard, numpad and everything. If this trend
continue I predict that 2009 will be the year of stationary laptops /
barely-portable protable-computers.
When Vista misbehaves
I am the “elected” tech-supporter of my family. Sometimes I can help,
and sometimes I’m puzzled by the Vista operating system. My
wife’s computer suddently had a problem connecting to our wireless
router, and I just could not figure out why Vista kept disconnecting
from the network after 15 min. One thing I never want to see again is
the stupid “wirless troubleshooting” help thing. After some time I got
annoyed and rebooted the computer. Booom! Wireless works! That’s just
great I thougth, everything works. Only thing is that she needs to
reboot every 15 min as long as she wants to browse the net (at this
point I should point out that I’m over dramatizing a bit, it was
after only 4 reboots that the issue was resolved). But as a GNU/Linux
user I found this dance kind of strange. I’m used to being told that
Linux is to hard and arcane for most people, but this was just
ridiculous. And the “help-guide/throubleshooting” didn’t help at all,
even after reading it several times. I really don’t want to be mocked
for using GNU/Linux any more. Not after the trouble and magic involved
in fixing a Vista problem. My choice of operating system is both free as
in freedom and working. RTFM all the way as opposed to Vista.