Archive for June, 2009
Security and stupidity
Okay, I’ll rise to the bait.
You can’t be serious. There are often people seeing what you type, besides which, if this was adopted then people would _start_ looking. When I’m assisting someone on a computer and they are at a password prompt, I even go to the lengths of looking away - very [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2009 under Life Rants.
Comments: 3
an hour to get the mouse working
Upgraded desktop to Linux 2.6.30 (and newer NVIDIA drivers), this also upgraded me to Xorg 7.4.
As a result, my Logitech G7 mouse changed behaviour. Instead of the horrible side “back” button doing middle click as I like, it started doing back. Pressing a scroll wheel as often as a Unix user does is not [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under Life Rants.
Comments: 2
three FAIL
I was setting up a 3 broadband dongle earlier today, shame their website was failing (connection reset). That’s fair enough, these things do happen, though it’s not terribly impressive.
However, for a large corporation I’d hope (not expect - I’m not that naïve) they at least set it up a bit better. A single [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under Life Rants.
Comments: none