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Category Archives: Rant

Blogging platforms

Has anyone else noticed a large amount of ping backs to link farms from Planet Ubuntu feeds over the last few days? I’m getting a fair few. I’d give an example but if I link to a site that takes my posts from a syndicated site and creates posts that are syndicated on other sites [...]

Ubuntu spot the difference

After writing documentation for many years, once in a while I come across a post on the Internet that makes me wonder why I bother. So I thought we could turn it into a game.
Basically it’s like spot the difference, see how many things you can spot that are wrong with it and post them [...]

Religion

So yeah, religion.
Recently I met a creationist and very keen to promote his beliefs he was. I could spend many hours on this post but I’m not going to because the first argument he presented is so misinformed.  When your argument is “the bible says so” you need to make sure it actually does.
The statement [...]

A Windows post (gasp)

Windows software tends to abstract any kind of technicality from the user, except when it comes to ripping.  For some reason, this requires a myriad dropdowns.  I’m computer literate and I struggle.

Vim

I’ve been away from Ubuntu for a while and just installed Xubuntu 9.10 on an Acer Aspire One.  While editing some of the files, I remembered that pressing the cursor keys in insert mode inserts characters.
This is because of vi compatible mode and is easily redressed by adding “set nocompatible” in “~/.vimrc”.  I understood from [...]