In a newsgroup thread today, I heard (rather, read) an open-source fanatic complain about some minor shortcoming in a proprietary piece of software they are forced to use at work. This went something like,Bloody Microsoft! This stupid Outlook/Word/etc. can't even do XYZ!
The implicit claim, of course, being that their favourite open-source ( Read more... )

The following people have wished me a happy birthday:

• SlavaUSSR (a friend of romanski): 50 minutes early
• Some random Wikipedian I don't know: 1:04
• Apollo (friend from Rostock): 8:47
• Parents: 17:10
• n_true: 1 day late + 18:26

People who use the mouse more than the keyboard got it all wrong. The mouse constantly requires manual interaction. The keyboard, however, is fully digital!

I can't believe how hard it can be to do something as simple as recording something in stereo.

The sound editor that calls itself the most popular open-source one, Audacity, can't even record in stereo! How crap is that ( Read more... )

Sagt die Lehrerin: "Fritzchen, sag mal einen Satz mit 'Müsli'!" Antwortet Fritzchen, "Ja, Schwiizerdütsch müsli mer schwätze!"

If someone tells me that something I did, said, or wrote is impolite, rude, or in any other way objectionable, surely they do so in order to pressure me into "bettering myself", which essentially means to behave in a way they prefer. Logically, it is therefore actually their problem if they get worked up over something I do, say, or write, because ( Read more... )

[12:26] timwi: Can you come over to my desk for a secnod? :)
[12:26] romanski: Only as long as "secnod" does not mean something like 10 years in Klingon :)

I tried to copy a CD yesterday. Nero came up with a long series of "unrecoverable read errors", even though the CD worked totally fine when used normally. I have a theory to explain this ( Read more... )

I made this on Roman's computer today. :-)


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No particular reason for this posting.

( But it has a picture. )