Category: Technology

BULL progress and stagnation

At work yesterday, during lunch, I started a lengthy discussion that stretched out long beyond the boundaries of regular lunch hours. The discussion topic was my surprise that IT practices—particularly programming methodologies—hadn't changed much, if at all, between my leaving the industry in 2007 and re-entering the industry in 2015. My surprise wasn't a rethorical technique; my unpreparedness for this lack of change has lost me a long-running bet with Wiebe around 2007, when we stopped being colleagues for about 8 years. The content of that bet was as follows: I predicted that in 10 years time—now—computer science would have sufficiently evolved so that software would behave intelligently. In fact, I didn't believe that AI would have emerged by now, but I did expect software architecture to have changed in such a fundamental way that computers would at least have behaved intelligent, even if they weren't self-taught and self-learning. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on August 12, 2017, at 13:08 | Comments closed

Bike settings

During my holliday, somebody may change the settings on my bike, so I want to document a few key ones: Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on August 02, 2017, at 11:08 | Comments closed

Epson XP-630 cartridges

Our printer is an Epson XP-630, courtesy of Marilisa's parents who gifted it to us when we moved into our new place together. Suitable ink comes in the following multipacks: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 26, 2017, at 22:07 | Comments closed

The decade-old posts bug

I just noticed that none of my posts older than a decade could be listed: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 19, 2017, at 20:07 | Comments closed

The terrible state of my tech

It's a bit pathethic how well I have been taking care of my own tech. ever since I started studying. What's worse: this haven't improved when I stopped my studies for other ventures. I think the reason for this is exceedingly simple: I don't like to do work-like things I don't write about; luckily, I love to structure my goals in writing, and this blog still hasn't completely collapsed under my neglect. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 18, 2017, at 23:07 | 4 comments

Fixing the Firefox file dialogs in Linux Mint (17)

For a few months now, the file dialogs (open, save, etc) in Firefox on Linux Mint 17 KDE malfunctioned. Clicks didn't go through and/or were interpreted as drags. I finally figured out that it was caused by the Oxygen KDE theme. Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on February 23, 2017, at 16:02 | Comments closed

Brick uptime

I replaced my server Brick yesterday, resetting my longest uptime on any machine ever. For the record: Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on January 14, 2017, at 14:01 | 1 comment

File Ubuntu bug URL without help page with burried link

The Ubuntu page for reporting a bug does a good job of hiding the actual launchpad URL for filing a bug. Here is a direct one: Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on December 27, 2016, at 12:12 | Comments closed

Fixing hanging and slow Windows Update on Windows 7

Windows 7 update service is slow to begin with, but trying it on a computer that has been off for a while is damn near impossible. This is a known issue, apparently. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on November 17, 2016, at 21:11 | Comments closed

My Front suspension

On my Multi Cycle bike, I have a SR Suntour CR9, serial number TF00478709, Series: CR, Year: 2015, Name: CR 9V-D-P-LO 700C TS 300/0, from 2015. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on July 09, 2016, at 13:07 | Comments closed