Author Archives: Donncha

BUG backpackers hostel reviews A1 Playfair House Hostel – I’m trying to find a hostel in Edinburgh. Here’s reviews of the first one on a google search for “Edinburgh hostel”. Which review would you believe?

Zimran picks up on the story that MS will ship Linux apps within 2 years. I doubt it somehow but I will welcome it if it happens.

Soup is Good – it certainly is. the guy(Bill Gates) gives $100 million to India to fight HIV/AIDS and then has his corporation invest $500 million to undermine the Indian Government’s attempts to use open source software in their government systems.

Golden Rules for optimizing your pages – via PHP Everywhere.

Interview with Tim Perdue. GForge and behind the scenes at SourceForge – very, very interesting. What really happened at VA Linux.

How to get on Fark

David Isenberg on the stupidnet – MSFT may have a monopoly, but it doesn’t have the poles-and-wires monopolistic advantage that the telcos have. The potential for a marketplace in stupidnet applications exists.

hello my computer was making a strange hissing noise.. I wouldn’t go near this PC if I was asked to fix it!

Learning by Shipping – this reminds me of the idea behind “Crossing the Chasm”. Early adaptors use a product in ways they find useful and maybe in ways the original maker didn’t even think of. Different market segments use products in different ways often. I might be (reasonably) happy to compile and manually install open source software, but 99% of people won’t, and that’s one major reason they don’t use Linux or anything but Windows/Mac OS.

After installing Mozilla with the xft patch as mentioned before this is what it looks like. I had to install the latest Galeon too, but I wanted to do that anyway.
Originally the default font Galeon used was “serif” but the serif fonts didn’t look very good, they’re a bit “busy” or “smudged”. The sans serif fonts though look better IMO. This is the font other apps on the RedHat 8.0 desktop use too. I’ll probably comment later after I’ve used the browser for a few hours, so look out for that!