I mentioned a few posts back that bugs.zachgoldberg.com would come around, and after a lot of procrastination it is finally here! First things first — a couple thank yous and relavent links are in order: dreamhost, for making the one-click-install so utterly painless edgewall for providing trac as open and free software The guy at [...]

There are so many major corporations suing each other over complete drivel now a days that I’ve lost track of who is pointing the lawsuit-press-generator at who. Below is an aggregate from a few minutes of Googlin’.  Kudos for the idea for the title goes to the NYTimes. (Note: this is still a work in [...]

That is, unless you plan on owning them and supporting them. Allow me to explain. There are some tools, like the Linux Kernel or the Python Interpreter that you’ll be able to use (for the most part…) without a second thought. (Though, there are definitely imaginable, and in fact scenarios I’ve run into, where tweaking [...]

Today Google had one of its fancy playable logos. They really are nifty – I actually found myself playing with it and admiring the physics for a couple of minutes. And then I noticed…. So was everybody else. I got a couple of messages from friends who also spent a couple of minutes with it. [...]

The biggest challenge in helping out a friend in need (running Linux, of course — I don’t bother troubleshooting any Windows problems with any tool other than an Ubuntu Live CD now-a-days) is often their local networking setup. Why? Because I can point out tutorials or guides until I am blue in the face but [...]

So I admit it,  I have a huge problem. I check my email constantly — every 20 seconds constantly. I cannot work on a computer with less than two screens because email must always be visible.  Buzz and other social media, however, don’t get checked as often.  So, today,  right before a late lunch I [...]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626593 I never thought it would happen. My girlfriend figured something out about the Internet. In the real world I have to pretend to be normal and communicate with people.  I usually can take solice in the internet, those hallowed sacred grounds only a real hacker understands.  I can go there and know that unless [...]

So yesterday I got a desperate call from the folks — Windows got gunked with adware, viruses and other forms of badness and dad couldn’t use it to work from home anymore. So, after work i got on a train and headed back to the ‘rents for some quality computer troubleshooting family time. My instinct [...]

I’m on the subway in ny , heading home from GUADEC in The Hague, n Netherlands. First things first — a huge thank you to the gnome foundation for helping sponsor my attendance, and to all the conference’s fantastic sponsors. Some highlights: -Produced a introspection->docbook documentation generator which is in a branch on gobject introspection, [...]