Archive for November, 2005

metacity, and focus theft

The version of metacity that ships with Debian Sarge has all of the focus theft prevention code disabled entirely, meaning that every new window ever created steals (or is given, however you want to put it) focus. I’ve spent quite a while this morning trying to figure out how to disable this behavior, finding nothing, [...]

1/2lb Beef and Potato Burrito

Taco Bell has a 1/2lb beef and potato burrito. It’s new! It’s made with beef, sour cream, and KFC potato wedges!
I cannot recommend it under any circumstances.
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Hey, Wordpress.org will let you advertise on its homepage

Only $100,000 per week!.
Tell ya what. I’ll do the same thing for $50,000 per week. That’s a savings of over 48%!

Followup about Black and White 2

I went to EA’s site and found some information about a 90-day return policy for defective software. I decided to give it a shot, and sent the opened game and receipt, and included a letter asking them to refund the purchase price because the game’s listed requirements were incorrect.
Turns out the policy is only for [...]

malformed.org: Zend Encoder bad for the internet

Zend Encoder is bad for the internet. Just trying to spread the word.

Ode to Spamcop

Ode to Spamcop, right on! They keep randomly listing gmail’s outbound mail servers. Pretty frustrating.

fsck fsucks

malformed.org has a nice fsck, lost+found gripe. Turns out whatever happened to the RAID wiped out all the data, but in any case, one small change to fsck could make emergency operations a whole lot easier…

Open Source iPod

What would a Open Source iPod be like?