I hate Ubuntu >:(

Apr 22

File creation date.

When you use Nautilus to copy multiple things to multiple places, is it just me or does it do all the operations concurrently, slowing them all down as it scrubs back and forth between disk locations?

And why doesn’t it have a Pause button?

Apr 18

And why does every other program have a different file chooser?

Huh.  The hacky kludge that Ubuntu used to allow us to run Firefox 3.5 in Jaunty (sorry, I mean “Shiretoko”) has left a redundant folder called firefox.3.0-replaced in my home directory.   But don’t worry, it’s only wasting 600 MB of space.

Windows’ directory chooser is better than Gnome’s.

Apr 14

I love how you have to left-click on the PulseAudio control to get the menu to display, while every other icon in the universe uses the right-click.  Oh wait, no; I hate that.

I finally got video chat working!

After rebooting into Windows for a few weeks, because Pidgin and Skype don’t do video chat in Linux, I discovered that if you run Empathy (which is shit), you can video chat with people on Gmail.  In 2 out of 3 calls, one person can’t see the other, and you have to hang up and try again.  It crashes, the video locks up permanently, and while working correctly, it uses 100% of the CPU, but it works!

Take that, capitalist pigs!

Apr 13

Why don’t SSH bookmarks ever work when I try to open them with Gnome Do?

Apr 09

If I edit my Wine menu entry for “Mozilla Firefox” to “Mozilla Firefox Wine”, it remembers the change, but it’s still not displayed in the menu.  This is because

  1. The menu entry editor only changes the Name[en_US]= value in the .desktop file.
  2. Gnome only reads the Name= value, which does not change when you edit it.