I continue to gain confidence with (Emacs) Lisp. I used to have a hacked up (my-find) function that worked reasonably well but was a bit flaky and capable of missing stuff in other languages. It turns out it's faster to ask git a lot of these questions if your working …

It seems I'm not the only one unconvinced by Rhythmbox's shuffle mode. No sooner I mention it on the local IRC than one of my colleges points at some work he did over Christmas. While I've not got time to start running around patching my work box with a suitable …

Yet another small nugget of code has gone into a public source tree. When I get a chance I'll have to fix up the one that didn't make it.

Sun would really like Solaris to re-capture the hearts of developers since loosing so many to Linux. They are certainly making strides in the right direction with their Open Source strategy. However sometimes the creakiness of the code does show up.

I've spent the best part of the day trying …

I saw an interesting piece discussing Microsoft's woes with their band-aid fix for playing multi-media while on a loaded network. From the description of the scheduling work around it does seem like a school boy error, you just can't fix performance issues by tweaking priorities.

Although Linux is still meant …