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Comment on The Wrong Path for Desktop GNU/Linux by Randy

Randy — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:39:49 +0000

Thanks for the comment! It’s good to see a “suit” making some good calls. You may want to look at Cinnamon from the folks at LinuxMint as well. I’ve also worked through some of the bugs I found in Gnome 3 and Unity over the past couple of weeks. I found that old AMD/ATI drivers were causing a lot of the problems. That doesn’t fix the intuitiveness of the interface, but it did help with some of the stability issues with the DEs.

Comment on The Wrong Path for Desktop GNU/Linux by Mars047

Mars047 — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:23:47 +0000

I normally don’t post on blogs, but this time I thought I’d add something to your post. As one of those “suits” in my field, I also hate what they did with gnome and this unity garbage. In operations or business you need stability and proven form. So it’s not just devs that don’t like it, the power users and business people don’t like it either. I know every piece of software that I utilize, and don’t like being told what to use. Anyhow great article, your points are great. FYI I’ve also instructed my SYS Admins to deploy KDE to replace xp and 7 around 2013. Gnome was going to be the replacement de, but gnome 3 and unity shot that down. Cheers.

Comment on Adding Slick 2D and lwjgl to Eclipse Project by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:42:37 +0000

Thank you for the amazing tutorial!

Comment on Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration by Randy

Randy — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:52:34 +0000

Glad to help! I use this all the time, so I know it’s handy!

Comment on Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration by Barry Walsh

Barry Walsh — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:30:45 +0000

Cheers for this, first solution I’ve read that didn’t say to ask your host to enable allow_url_fopen. Worked great, so thanks!

Comment on The Wrong Path for Desktop GNU/Linux by Ilya

Ilya — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:50:19 +0000

Hi! I disagree that unified user interface is bad. It is good. What is bad is whan instead of highly-customizable, or at least, classical and universal UI they push nailed primitive smartphone-like interface through our throats. The other problem being is that with removing the old interfaces that already became standard they remove also all the software that was designed for them and make a typical Linux system a mix of applications designed for different desktops, backends and toolkits, little integrated with each other even by their look.

If Linux sticked to Qt2 in the early days and evolved it evolutionary it would surpass windows in popularity by now. But the folks behind Qt defer author from writing for linus by promising a new, non-compatible version of the toolkit each time. So when Qt3 was the most popular the authors had to start new projects for Qt4 and this practice continues.

Comment on Codeigniter Controllers Give Server 404 by Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:16:38 +0000

Thanks – that helped me too with exactly the same problem!

Comment on How to remove launchers from Gnome 3 Panel by Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:25:42 +0000

Thank you!!!!!

Comment on Corsair Vengeance K90 – First Impression by Dustin

Dustin — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:33:27 +0000

I’m using this keyboard on Linux as well, Ubuntu 11.10 to be exact. I have the same issues, where the Lock key indicators don’t light up correctly. The only one that turns on is the Num Lock indicator which gets stuck in the on position. Also, with the first press of the light button, from off to low, the result is the opening of the calculator, which is really strange. These issues aren’t really major, and I still love the typing of this keyboard, but I’d love to know what your current opinion is of this keyboard. Whether or not you’re still enjoying it, and if you’ve found any fixes to the problems on Linux.

Comment on A Free “Net Nanny” Solution using OpenDNS by Erin

Erin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:23:51 +0000

Great article, Randy. Thanks so much for sharing the news of OpenDNS. We’re so lucky to have users like you that share their success in order to help keep other families safer online. Another option for parents looking for an even easier solution would be Family Shield. It’s just different IPs that have the blocking built right in http://www.opendns.com/home-solutions/parental-controls.

By the way, I’d love to send you an OpenDNS t-shirt so you can wear your OpenDNS orange loud and proud. Give me a shout with your size and mailing address!