While I am not all that particular about most things, poor fonts annoy me; particularly if most of the desktop is OK. The Linux (strictly speaking XFree86) font display was always either ugly or hard to get working. Ubuntu has sorted this out in the main »
Usually I am in favour of testing, when people say “weighing a cow does not make it any heavier” I reply that if you measure nothing, you will never see any improvements. Usually people can come up with cogent arguments against the particular things examined »
Exporting a ZFS filesystem via NFS is easy, you just use the command zfs set sharesmb=on POOLNAME/FSNAME In order to share via CIFS (sometimes called SMB) to windows clients, you used to have to use Samba. This is not a problem for simple setups that »
Azureus is crap in Linux. That is to say neither the Ubuntu package or the download from the webpage worked for me straight away. Deluge on the other hand is working a treat though. It’s written for Gnome in C++ and Python so I may be able to get my »
I suppose once you begin blogging it’s only a matter of time till you start posting lists of your favourite things, usually Firefox extensions. Here are my top N. Tab Mix Plus Disable .xpi install delay Mouse Gestures FireFTP Customisegoogle Adblock »
Pensions; Not exciting to most people, but you ignore them at your peril. I started mine this week as my work offered to match my contributions up to 3%of my salary. I was holding off untill I was out of debt, but their contribution means its daft not »