KDE 4.3 sucks, too
September 6th, 2009
It’s been a while since I ranted that KDE 4.2 sucks, so I figured it was a time to give an update, just in case someone is still wondering whether 4.3 sucks, too.
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Facebook – first week
May 24th, 2009
Facebook warning
I have sinned. I joined Facebook on 2009-05-17. As of writing this, I have 80+ acquaintances on my friend list. I’ve tested out the Facebook Mobile as well. It seems to be surprisingly usable.
The issues that come to mind now:
- When adding new friends, Facebook keeps warning you after you’ve hit some kind of invisible daily limit. I hit the limit several times during the first few days, so it seems to be very low. But on the bright side, once you are done adding initial acquaintances, you probably won’t see it ever again.
- You seem to surrender all rights to privacy and having your data collected when you succumb to using applications.
- Image uploading java applet could use some improvement.
What I haven’t tested yet:
- Image tagging
- Applications (and don’t plan to at the moment)
Interesting things:
- Ability to tag images with names of the people on it. Not very revolutionary but works great on a social networking site.
- Good for casual “additional” socialization as a side dish for actually going out and meeting friends.
- Good way to stay up-to-date on lifes of your friends, while riding on a bus, train etc.
- Easy way to get in touch with old friends.
- Everyone else uses it. Wait, no, they don’t. A lot of people don’t. And great deal of them never will.
All in all, not as horrible as I imagined it would be. But you’ve sold your soul anyway.
KDE 4.2 sucks
April 26th, 2009
… and I’m going to use it as an example of free software projects being capable of marketing crap as a good product.
I’m almost wishing KDE 3.5 gets forked and developed in a sane manner. And I’ve even considered testing out Gnome.
The people who said KDE 4.2 rocks, meant “in comparison to 4.1 or 4.0.” If KDE 4.2 is good in comparison to those, I never want to find out how horrible the earlier versions were.
Now, normally you’d start making bug reports about issues you find, but if the overall quality is sour crud, it’d make more sense to report what works.
And the answer to that is “a lot less than in KDE 3.5.”
Freshmeat – “Releases pending approval” bug
April 20th, 2009
I earlied ranted about Freshmeat being slow on approving submissions, but based on the Freshmeat Support discussions, it seems the problem lies in their new software that makes some releases pending approval invisible to the admins. And the oddities don’t end there…
No idea whether just releases submitted within a given period are affected. In any case, I hope they patch it up.
Second bike24 order = success
April 8th, 2009
I just got my second order from Bike24 (from Germany to Finland), and I’ve got to say it was smooth.
- 2009-03-31 Made the order
- 2009-04-03 Bike24 shipped the order (from Dresden, Germany)
- 2009-04-07 Delivery by DHL (in Finland)
- 2009-04-08 Confirmed everything was a perfect fit
Which totals to a week.
Only issue I’ve had so far when ordering from Bike24 is that the local delivery is done via DHL, which was not-so-good experience on the first time. They tried delivering the package when I was not at home (instead of calling me beforehand to ask when it’s okay to deliver – like our postal service Itella does). When I called them back, negotiating a time was, uh, not easy. They couldn’t say exact time that they can deliver (not even within an hour – if I recall right the span was three hours or something like that), and I didn’t manage to get a delivery after working hours, so I had to ask them to bring it to my workplace.
But, apart from that “no good delivery after working hours” issue with DHL, my experiences with Bike24 have been good.
Freshmeat slowing down on release approval?
March 26th, 2009
I just noticed that the ViewGit release announcement I submitted almost two weeks ago is still pending on Freshmeat. Maybe they are busy rounding the corners on the new site look? 
Gmail tagging Google Reader mail as spam
March 15th, 2009
I find it quite funny that Gmail seemed to tag mail from Google Reader as spam. To be exact, it tagged a news item I sent to myself using the [x] Send me a copy of this e-mail feature. I don’t think this is the first time Gmail has been marking mail from other Google services as spam, so I guess they really don’t exclude their own services
MSN / Live bot spamming with fake referrals
March 8th, 2009
Looks like Microsoft’s web spider is crawling sites repoting fake (spam) referrals coming from live.search.com. These referrals are completely bogus and if you look at the keywords, it’s quite obvious.
Debian Etch->Lenny upgrade experiences
February 22nd, 2009
I’ve (mostly) finished upgrading my laptop from Debian Etch (+ backports) to Lenny, and overall it was pretty smooth.
SourceForge now supports git
February 19th, 2009
Finally. About time – this has been requested several times since 2006 or so.
The announcement: Git now available for SF.net hosted projects.
Interestingly, the features page mentions that there is no quota. In that sense, SourceForge seems to be better off than other git services that have a “soft” quota (repo.or.cz has 100 MB for example).
Some pros/cons:
- The write access permissions must be explicitly granted, which is quite different from how Gitorious works.
- There is no mirror mode (what repo.or.cz has) – you can only push to the repo.
Ohloh
