Posted by csrins on May 11, 2008
Okay. It’s not technically all tech in consideration… I’m writing about the specific domain of software and related hardware.
How many times have we encountered folks throw up their arms and exclaim, “Oh I’m just hopeless with this tech.”
And what’s the “tech” in question?
Most times… something as asinine as getting a word-processor to not nudge a chart into la-la land on some other page.
Yet, it’s amazing how much effort people put in to learning hip and cool hard-to-use tech even if simpler and effective alternatives exist. Plus of course the smug superiority of those-who-know is a major barrier for widespread use of best-practices.
Or perhaps, folks just like the pain of it all. (Yay for the appeal of sweeping generalizations.)
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Posted by csrins on May 11, 2008
A new install of Ubuntu 8.04 which is a Long Term Support (LTS) almost always brings up the annoying Bug #223448 which is marked as a duplicate of Bug #122948.
But # 122948 was first reported on 2007-06-29!
There have been two releases, including the much-touted LTS release for 8.04, with the bug being silently carried forward, with it’s importance in Launchpad as Undecided.
Guess that’s what they mean by Long Term … waiting for Godot!
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Posted by csrins on May 2, 2008
n. the most successful point; the culmination
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