OOP versus procedural programming, the pirates versus ninja way
- Details
- Published on Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:00
- Written by Joachim van de Haterd
A few weeks ago, I tried to explain the concepts of Object Oriented Programming versus Procedural Programming to a she-geek. There was a catch: up to a few weeks ago, she know next to nothing from computers. The analogies I used were so bad, that I really want to share them.
How to ruin a Friday afternoon lunch break
- Details
- Published on Friday, 01 July 2011 21:38
- Written by Joachim van de Haterd
The combination of an old Plesk version with piss-poor support, a non-backwards compatible database daemon and a bad default option coupled with a poorly executed package update ruined my Friday afternoon. Watch out, kids! Here's another horror story from the ugly world of system administration. For a change, I will dive into something from the *nix world that tries to make my life miserable.
Clementine: All hail the Amarok 1.4!
- Details
- Published on Saturday, 21 May 2011 09:32
- Written by Joachim van de Haterd
Sometimes it is best to stop innovating. I rediscovered the Amarok 1.4 User Interface. It has a new name: Clementine Music Player. Back in 2008, I had the perfect music player. Then Amarok 2.0 come out. In many ways, it was a step back.
Another reason to hate Exchange server
- Details
- Published on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 14:57
- Written by Joachim van de Haterd
Here's one from the trenches of IT support. Today's source of frustration is Microsoft Exchange 2003.
IE6 countdown
- Details
- Published on Saturday, 05 March 2011 08:45
- Written by Joachim van de Haterd
Oooh! Here's a new one! Microsoft has launched a site to keep people for using its own products! This calls for a rather old-fashioned rant! Old-fashioned in more ways than one I might add.
Troubleshooting a special GRUB Error 13
- Details
- Published on Thursday, 21 April 2011 17:33
- Written by Joachim van de Haterd
A few days ago I got my first kernel update for my netbook in 7 months. However, it did not boot anymore. Here's what I did to fix it.
- Loading...
