At a loss for other, more pleasant subjects to blog about, I will instead write about my nemesis, that being that has brought naught but pain to my life. I speak, of course, of Microsoft Sharepoint. To upgrade one’s version of Windows — Vista to 7, say — is by and large a pretty painless …
March 28, 2010 – 9:50 pm
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By Ian
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Posted in Blog
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Tagged cthulhu, iis, madness, Microsoft, pain, Rant, server, sharepoint, Software, suffering, sysadmin, Windows
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In his essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”, Eric S. Raymond coins the phrase “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” — meaning that with enough testers and enough programmers, it is possible to diagnose and fix any software bug. So why can’t my computer suspend and resume properly? The concept of ‘suspend’ — or …
February 24, 2010 – 9:49 am
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By Ian
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Posted in Blog
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Tagged ACPI, Apple, Bugs, GNOME, Hardware, KDE, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft, openSUSE, Power Management, Rant, Resume, Software, Suspend, Ubuntu, Windows, x86
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Code monkey, wannabe novelist, net-junkie, gamer and all-round geek.
