Choice is one of many reasons why I really like this distribution over the other popular flavours right now. I share the same dissatisfaction for Unity and Gnome 3 with most of the community. While this is the main reason for jumping ship and crashing the Mint party, there are some really simple things I like, like Dropbox.

If you need this, you’re probably doing it wrong. But if you really must check to see if a variable has been assigned yet, there’s nothing really stopping you. Here’s one way of implementing it.

Here’s how to make GDM stop showing *every* user account at login screen by default. I don’t know why they released gdm with the broken gdmsetup and showing all accounts in the window by default.

After October rolls by, this shouldn’t be a problem as the updates to 10.04 LTS will fix the acpi problem. However, if you need Ubuntu to run on a twitchy laptop that crashed during bootup or fails to install at all, the Maverick Ubuntu Meerkat 10.10 beta is out now.

I haven’t run into this fancy little kernel output before. While automating the writing of partition tables and file systems to removable storage devices, I thought i’d test the case of a read-only file system. This error comes from trying to write a partition label to /dev/sr1 which is the cdrom device. *** stack smashing detected ***: unknown terminated. backtrace and memory map…

Why can’t I find a code generator that works? Tepache is a code sketcher for python that uses pygtk and glade, but it is broken and it looks like it hasn’t been updated since July 2005 anyway. Gladex was broken out of the box. Autocode does not like my glade and the documentation is limited.

I hate age the Month, Day, Year age verification on websites. Some kid is going to see that and enter their real age? Seriously? That’s more of an IQ check. And for you guys collecting the stats on how many people you turn away, you might want to think about how many people may have accidentally mistyped the year. Congratulations, you just turned away another customer.

I have a hotmail account. I’ve had it since 1996, so there’s some nostalgia there, but it’s garbage. Sure it looks smoother than it did in 1996, but it’s still the same old weak sauce with the same basic features it had a decade ago.

Give me a real netbook any day of the week. Touch screen is nice, but I just can’t get on the Apple band wagon. I’ve tried, believe me I’ve tried. The sad part is, we’re conditioned to Apple’s dictatorship. There’s no expectation of an Apple device to allow you to do what you want with it. We’ve never known freedom with any apple device, so why should we expect it now?

Care package runners are still too fast, and by care package I really mean any of those package grenades that allow you to run as if you’re speed hacking. Model 1887’s still have too much range, although they did make somewhat of an improvement. I still feel cheap using them, so i’ll continue to skip them in favor of the previous shotgun. But the big problem I have is with the various texture and XP hacks. I think their fixes lasted on the order of minutes or hours rather than days.