Sunday November 13, 2011
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
16 Comments
I’ve been an Open Source developer and hacker for a loooooong, long time. It has become far more than a part of what I do. It has become part of who I am. At first, it was mostly about the … Continue reading
Monday August 23, 2010
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
4 Comments
I love my Logitech Marble Mouse. It’s seriously the best mouse I’ve ever owned. And it works really nicely in Linux, especially thanks to this excellent Ubuntu wiki page. And, reportedly, it works really nicely in Windows too, with Logitech’s … Continue reading
Monday January 11, 2010
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I have a 13″ MacBook Pro that I use for my personal and non-work shtuff. I resized OS X down, installed Linux (Kubuntu), and set up a shared partition so that I can keep files there that I want to … Continue reading
Saturday November 14, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
40 Comments
I recently blogged about Desktop Linux possibly having some core/fundamental problems that might be keeping it from enjoying mainstream adoption and 3rd party developer attention as compared to, say, OS X. To my immediate defense, I’ll say that it was actually … Continue reading
Tuesday November 10, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
128 Comments
It’s a shame that my first blog post in months is something so antithetical to my normal posts as this, but 1) I haven’t blogged in forever (darned Twitter/Identi.ca/Facebook!!!) and 2) I just bought a MacBook Pro and am really happy … Continue reading
Wednesday February 11, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
9 Comments
I’m excited. I love learning stuff, I really do. I just did a 12-minute screencast for work, and I think I’ve finally figured out how to get everything to fit together nicely. I’d never done a screencast before–not on any … Continue reading
Monday December 22, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Stark contrast to my last post, I know, but I felt it was only fair to blog about the wonders of OpenSUSE 11.1, even/especially with my little nVidia chip. First off, I still think there’s something wonky going on with … Continue reading
Monday December 22, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
23 Comments
So, first off, OpenSUSE 11.1 has to be the sweetest, best put together distro, like ever. Really amazing, quality stuff. The new installer has some excellent improvements, and package management has never felt zippier (zyppier??) However, there are a few … Continue reading
Sunday December 21, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
2 Comments
I installed OpenSUSE 11.1 yesterday and there’s some… challenges… that have kept me busy for the last 2 days. But I’ll cover those in a different post… Most relevant to the title is this: OpenSUSE 11.1 doesn’t come with blackbox … Continue reading
Sunday October 12, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
22 Comments
I just read Alexander Dymo (adymo)’s blog post “KDE4 performance on NVidia 8600GT: problem solved by bying ATI” and am quite sad because I’m pretty sure that it’s impossible to rip out the nVidia Quadro NVS 140M that’s crammed into … Continue reading