By Chad on 5/17/2005
Edit (4/25/2006): I am officially discontinuing support for this plugin. I have a comment near the botom explaining further. This is my first public WordPress Plugin. It’s sort of an “inverse” of Owen Winkler’s Adhesive plugin. Whereas Adhesive makes posts “sticky,” Solvent makes them “slippery,” so that they won’t be displayed on the front page [...]
Posted in WP Plugins | Tagged plugin, software, Wordpress |
By Chad on 1/27/2005
It’s kind of fun to see old (but good) ideas about usability and feature bloat return to the forefront in a product. Those of us who remember the night-and-day difference between the Macintosh and MS-DOS (or even Windows 3.1) think of this as axiomatic – that the software should get out of your way as [...]
Posted in Software Libré | Tagged Blake Ross, Firefox, Mozilla, software, usability |
By Chad on 8/19/2003
I know I’m beating this thing to death, especially since nobody who drops by my site much cares, but here’s a few more items about everyone’s favorite Linux trash-talker. The case, and SCO’s continued assertions that black is white, up is down, and that software licenses can’t give users the right to copy, is starting [...]
Posted in Software Libré | Tagged copyright, Disney, GNU/Linux, GPL, SCO, software, Software Libré
By Chad on 6/9/2003
If you’re like me, you are behind a crazy-restrictive firewall, that only allows outbound traffic through a web proxy. Occasionally, I have need of non-release software, like the latest CVS source from the ant-contrib project. The stupid thing is, the latest CVS packages don’t include proxy support. After hours of searching, I finally found an [...]
Posted in Hacks, Software Libré | Tagged CVS, hack, HTTP proxy, software
By Chad on 5/14/2003
The SCO Group, formerly Caldera Linux Systems International, has upped its strident tones as it marches headlong into oblivion. It would be funny if they weren’t trying to take GNU/Linux with them. This time, they are stopping all sales of SCO Linux and Caldera OpenLinux products (the products that gave them the money to buy [...]
Posted in Software Libré | Tagged GNU/Linux, GPL, SCO, software, Software Libré, software licensing
