Author Archives: Donncha

Disabled textareas lose their scroll bar in IE – That’s annoying, but it’s up to the user agent to draw the textarea (obviously!), but IE doesn’t do the right thing. *grrr*

Adbusters: Buy Nothing Day – it was December 2nd here in Ireland. Did anything change? I don’t think so. I bought veg and sauce for dinner last night in the local SuperValu and it was busy, busy, busy!
If consumers want any change, not spending isn’t how to do it. Spend differently. Buy produce that most people don’t buy. Go to your local corner shop instead of the huge supermarket. Hey! Prices will be more expensive, but that’s ok, you’re making a difference. *huh!*

Seen on IRC: The difference between Bill Gates and Batman is that Batman beat the penguin.

If you can’t get at your IDE CD burner because Nautilus keeps loading the ide-cd module try the following trick:

Login as root and enter the following, you might have to repeat the command a few times as Nautilus probes the CDROM on a regular basis.
# /sbin/rmmod ide-cd cdrom ; /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi

Of course, I should just modify my /etc/modules.conf but I CBA!

The FuzzyBlog! : Understanding the Importance of Release Early, Release Often – What Often Happens when Commercial Source Developers “Go Open”

Usability and Open Source Software

Brain grows in rat thigh after transplant – so strange!

I’m really catching up today. I was offline during the weekend so old stuff gets linked that I want to read!
Cringely takes on P2P.

Bold technology predictions for 2012 – I think that the world will be much the same as before, some people will “get” technology, most others won’t.