I really like Ubuntu with apt-get and synaptic to manage and install software, the total freedom to customize and yadayada you’ve all heard it before. However, sometimes the experience is not so pleasant, crazy actually, the first incident happened in the very beginning of my Ubuntu usage about 2 years ago. The culprit then was Beryl (now Compiz Fusion). After installing Beryl on my Nvidia powered desktop machine at home it started to randomly freeze the living shit out of it in a completely random way. It’s a total horror to have the coolest windowing in the world and it isn’t working, so close but yet so far away! That was the first time I realized I was feeling something I had never felt before as a Windows user, or in this context for that matter, envy. ... Read More

A lot of the giants have changed focus or lost whatever it was I liked from the beginning. ... Read More

Yesterday I read an article in my reader, by DHH I think, it prompted me to take a look at the Basecamp homepage. I’ve never used Basecamp so I tried basecamp.com which was totally wrong, that in turn made me Google for “basecamp 37signals” which gave me the proper link to basecamphq.com as the first result, the second result however leads to whybasecampsux.org. Intriguing, so I clicked it.... Read More

[4:16:18 PM] HS says: btw i managed to install the affiliate thing on my laptop and the data looks ok but i cant use it, i cant login in the admin backend, it just reloads the login screen without any error messages or anything, do you know if the admin backend is finished?... Read More

Why oh why do people make lists like this, it seems like our dear Reinhold just had to cram 40 things in there. ... Read More