http://blog.pumacode.org Toby's Geeky Half Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:50:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the benefit of anyone who may Google this in the future: just spent the better part of tonight trying to figure out why I suddenly couldn't debug PHP in Eclipse without throwing crazy, unhelpful errors about "process model delta" and an asynchronous message filter of some sort. Long story short: ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2009/03/17/eclipse-process-model-delta-errors/ So I guess I must have been living under a rock for the past several years because I had no clue that GoDaddy offers free SSL certs to open-source projects. Good for you, GoDaddy! Intrigued by this, I looked around a bit more for some commentary on this offering. I found ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2009/03/17/kudos-to-godaddy-and-bob-parsons-almost/ Ever since making the switch to Ubuntu last year, my longing for TortoiseSVN on my development PC has been growing stronger. Not strong enough to consider switching back to Windows, but frankly all of the Subversion clients I've tried for Linux are pretty terrible. But today, I happened across the NautilusSvn ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2009/03/15/nautilussvn/ I've been using the IE8 Beta 2 for a couple weeks now, and overall I must say that I'm rather impressed. I guess I should qualify that: I'm impressed by how much IE has improved over the past couple years, but considering where they were with IE6, that may not ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2009/01/21/ie8-beta-2-still-hasnt-fixed-the-little-things/ After upgrading my Eee 900 to Ubuntu 8.10 (actually Easy Peasy 1.0, although I might switch back to just regular Ubuntu), I found that I could no longer use the bundled version of VLC Player connect to my streaming ethernet webcam, which is behind an SSL-protected Apache proxy. The problem ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2009/01/12/adding-new-root-certificates-in-ubuntu/ After reading the hype around the "leaked" beta of Windows Vista SP2 Windows 7, I decided to download it myself and give it a try. So I grabbed a trustworthy-looking torrent and, after a few hours of downloading and seeding, fired up VirtualBox to give it a try. I was running ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2009/01/05/windows-7-beta-in-virtualbox-with-virtual-guest-additions/ We use SharePoint 2007 at work, and I have a blog on it for work-related posts. I had heard good things about Windows Live Writer, Microsoft's desktop blog post composer for Windows Live and Sharepoint blogs, so I decided to give it a try. The first thing it did was ask ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2008/08/29/a-reboot-less-microsoft-installer/ As I mentioned in my open source pledge, I've switched from Windows to Ubuntu Linux as my main development environment. I'm very happy with the switch overall, but the one piece of software I really miss is TortoiseSVN! It also means I haven't had a chance to test my TortoiseSVN Menu ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2008/07/03/new-version-of-tsvn-menu-extension-for-firefox-3/ I just got a nice dose of schadenfreude as I read this email from Bill Gates after he tried and failed miserably to find and install a couple pieces of software for Windows. Anyone who uses Windows has been there before: hour after frustrating hour spent trying to coerce your ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2008/06/25/why-doesnt-windows-suck-less/ I've mentioned earlier that I think Apple is a rather anti-open company. They have enthusiastically used DRM to lock users into iTunes, and their recent overtures to move away from DRM seem half-hearted and hollow. They even opt for a proprietary connector on their iPhones and iPods so they can ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2008/06/16/apple-going-open/ I've had my Eee for a few weeks now and my experience with it has been pretty much as I expected: overall I'm very pleased with the little device, but there's definitely room for improvement. The keyboard is usable (I'm typing this post on it now) but a few layout ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2008/06/14/looks-like-dell-may-give-us-the-eee-killer/ Here's a great site and accompanying blog post that detail many of the annoyances that have plagued Windows for far too long and still aren't fixed in Vista. They concentrate mostly on visual and design aspects (as opposed to functionality) and may seem pedantic at first, but Microsoft still hasn't ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2008/06/05/death-by-1000-paper-cuts/ You know how after you've been in an unhealthy relationship for a while, and you've decided to break it off, but haven't actually done so yet, it still feels like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders? You're not exactly looking forward to the breakup, and you're a little ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2008/05/29/its-not-me-windows-its-you/ So, like I said, I ordered my Linux-based Eee PC from Amazon last week. Well, not really from Amazon, but from one of their partners through Amazon's main site. That was five days ago (granted, that included a 3-day weekend), and I hadn't received so much as an order confirmation ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2008/05/28/wowthanks-for-the-status/ I just read this fascinating yet painful attempt by CNet journalist Ina Fried to extract any information whatsoever about the next consumer version of Windows from Microsoft's new Senior Vice President of Windows Engineering, Steven Sinofsky (who just took over from Jim Allchin). If you don't feel like reading six ... http://blog.pumacode.org/2008/05/27/windows-7-will-be-awesome/