Tag Archives: Rant

Sweet, delicious Kool-aid.

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Torrie Fischer

Apparently aseigo is having problems with pulseaudio.

Just thought I’d like to say I’ve never had a big problem with pulseaudio in my day-to-day usage. And by that, I mean playing music, using skype, receiving notifications, and streaming sound over …

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My Elevator Pitch

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Today, Planet Fedora had JonRob’s post that asks the question, “What is your elevator pitch for using free software?”

I’ve got three reasons, ranked in order of importance:

Absolute freedom to do what I want
Free software is high quality
Its free as …

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Windows isn’t Insecure. It just has idiots.

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Today’s slashdot article references a program built by NeoSmart called iReboot. NeoSmart says that they’ve manged to create a way to work around Windows Vista’s UAC system. Their method involves making a system daemon run at startup and then …

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Hillary Shouldn’t Have Won Pennsylvania

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

According to CNN’s Election Center, Hillary won Pennsylvania by a 10% margin. She shouldn’t have won this primary, because people should vote for the better candidate, not because of their genitals. Alas, such is this country. Searching the blogosphere …

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Safari, the Red-Headed Stepchild of Browsers

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Torrie Fischer

With the recent release of Safari on Windows, I thought it’d be nice for me to reiterate my ideas about the Browser Wars. For my everyday browsing, I use Konqueror on Linux and Opera on Windows. Right now, there …

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Google Street Views Paranoia

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Torrie Fischer

My god, everyone is paranoid. Have a look at this article on Real Tech News. Idiots are saying that Google Street Views is a violation of their privacy. If thats the case, lets just make it illegal for others …

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Fedora is a pain

Posted on May 27, 2007 by Torrie Fischer

I’m starting to dislike linux. A few days ago I updated all my software via yum, and initng magically refuses to spawn mingetty on my ttys. Yes, I used yum. I was forced to stop using smartpm because the …

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