Monthly Archives: October 2005

OpenIT should target PHP 5.1?

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Michael Schurter

According to the current poll on the OpenIT Community Site, the majority of people who have voted think OpenIT should target PHP 5.0 or greater. While I would love to use all the nifty new object oriented features of PHP … Continue reading →

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Why I Don’t Block Ads

Posted on October 11, 2005 by Michael Schurter

Laziness mainly. Slashdot had an article today asking people to comment on why they block ads. I don’t block Internet ads. Part of the reason is that I’ve just never gotten around to installing AdBlock even though I hate it … Continue reading →

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aoss to the rescue

Posted on October 7, 2005 by Michael Schurter

So in less time than it took me to post about my problems with RealAudio in Debian yesterday I fixed it today. The alsa-oss package contains a handy little tool called aoss. To run an application built for OSS on … Continue reading →

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Real Audio in Debian

Posted on October 7, 2005 by Michael Schurter

While my wife Samantha is usually quite content with our home computer running Debian GNU/Linux (Etch), she does have a few quite valid gripes. The big one as of late has been the poor state of audio support in Linux. … Continue reading →

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Why I Hate Microsoft Office (this week)

Posted on October 4, 2005 by Michael Schurter

Everytime I’m forced to use Microsoft Office, I find something else I hate about it. Today I was editing the 50 page document I talked about a few days ago. I stupidly assumed Microsoft Word 2003 documents were backwards compatible … Continue reading →

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Specs … what are they good for?

Posted on October 2, 2005 by Michael Schurter

Quite a coincidence that Linus Torvalds posts a rant about specs right after I posted about a 49 (now well over 50) page spec I just wrote. While Linus was referring more to hardware specs in relation to operating system … Continue reading →

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