singpolymaposted, “Client: How do I do (thing I don’t understand) Me: I don’t know Client: Don’t you know everything? Me: I am not magic” @ 2009-299.928Z
singpolymaposted, “Helping a user who doesn’t understand scrollbars, to use WordPress is fuuuunnnn…” @ 2009-299.922Z
singpolymaposted, “@willnorris I’ll actually be a GSIntroducer soon. I’m also a CAcert assurer now.” @ 2009-293.963Z
singpolymaposted, “Old news by now, but still suprising: Thawte ending their email cert program. Switch to CAcert! http://bit.ly/1nCElc” @ 2009-293.912Z
singpolymaposted, “ZFS is awesome. Backing up to it instead of using as primary for now, though.” @ 2009-293.786Z
singpolymaposted, “@willnorris can’t __toString take parameters if they’re all optional?” @ 2009-293.612Z
singpolymaposted, “@digerbop no, the PDF is a fail. It is impossible for the machine to fix a broken layout (see comments about pagination, etc)” @ 2009-293.601Z
singpolymaposted, “@digerbop PDF is not evil, but it sucks for on-screen viewing (headers/footers/footnotes/pagination are not optimized, esp for phones)” @ 2009-293.599Z
singpolymaposted, “PDFs are great if you want to print them. If I wanted print, I’d buy a paper book! Publish TXT/HTML. #ebook” @ 2009-293.597Z
singpolymaposted, “pdftotext works okay for viewing on a computer screen, but it seems most interesting PDFs are too gross to have any success on my phone.” @ 2009-293.595Z
singpolymaposted, “@wolever I’m now CAcert assurer. If you like, I can bring form tomorrow if you bring ID I can give you some points 🙂” @ 2009-293.160Z
On 2009-291
singpolymaposted, “Client’s WinXP computer US-internationaly keyboard won’t insert most accented charaters in Firefox. Other apps work fine.” @ 2009-292.950Z
singpolymaposted, “@bobjonkman I may be interested in carpooling to #oglf09 if your car is not full and you’re coming by Kitchener at all.” @ 2009-292.819Z
singpolymaposted, “Considering switching servers to GnuTLS from OpenSSL for rfc5081 support.” @ 2009-292.788Z
singpolymaposted, “@wolever So print out a text/plain message to non-gzip people telling them they need gzip support.” @ 2009-292.687Z
singpolymaposted, “@wolever the Accept-Encoding header will have "gzip" in it if they can understand gzip.” @ 2009-292.681Z
singpolymaposted, “@wolever That’s kind of broken. If you don’t want to serve to non-gzip people, at least print out a message so they don’t see garbage” @ 2009-292.669Z
On 2009-290
singpolymaposted, “You know who needs PGP/SMIME? These orgs who require we email them financial infos. Really, get some crypto!” @ 2009-291.860Z
singpolymaposted, “Pre-ording @doctorow’s "Makers". Amazon says should arrive by 309th” @ 2009-291.847Z
singpolymaposted, “Noodling brainwashed creators like @opher who believe it is artistically/financially devestating to give up a right even when being paid.” @ 2009-291.800Z
singpolymaposted, “@wolever I’m dissapointed that you didn’t just import the vim repository and put a patch on top of your fork. Distributed version control!” @ 2009-290.823Z
singpolymaposted, “Wishing Mike were here to appreciate "Friends" with me” @ 2009-290.190Z
On 2009-288
singpolymaposted, “If you need something more powerful than a wiki, use wikicreole in text files and git.” @ 2009-289.956Z
singpolymaposted, “The thing Google Wave has: hype. People imagine things to do that are awesome. You’ve been able to do them for years. Wave makes them think.” @ 2009-289.933Z
singpolymaposted, “Canadian gov’t moving towards giving telcos the right to install spyware: write your MP *now* http://bit.ly/3uqwoN” @ 2009-289.774Z
singpolymaposted, “Water heater flashing A7. What a useful error message.” @ 2009-289.746Z
singpolymaposted, “@dottorblaster Does she have a reason? XSane works about like every Windows scanning program I’ve used.” @ 2009-289.653Z
singpolymaposted, “@chriswaterguy I beg to differ. Plenty of people care about n00bs. I have almost all my grandparent/aunt types on Ubuntu.” @ 2009-289.653Z
