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About Zakhar

I, Zakhar Kolleen Lutgardis, write about things that don't piss me off. That's pretty much my standard test when deciding if I like something. If it does not piss me off, then I'm happy.

Multiple Instances of Firefox at the same time

I don’t know if the MOZ_NO_REMOTE workaround is still necessary for Firefox 2.0, but I do know I’m at the point where I want to run multiple Firefox profiles at the same time. I kept searching for firefox instances concurrently, … Continue reading

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Piracy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s voluntary collective licensing plan is the only real way to get out of the “piracy” problems on the web today. The only problem is that the labels would receive far less of a cut than today, … Continue reading

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iTunes

Why does it annoy me so much … why isn’t there a truly good alternative (including netcast support)? It like totally infests the machine. Would it be too much trouble to ask that iTunes (and the bundled programs) only run … Continue reading

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Open Source Software and Education

Here’s how it ought to be: Each district in the United States hires1 or 2 programmers (predictable yearly IT budget). They all use a bugzilla website to communicate on software projects. The software projects are voted on by employees of … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer 7 standards compliance

There were huge discussions about IE7 being better at supporting web standards, but it didn’t mean microsoft finished implementing support for the primary web standard: HTML. IE7 doesn’t support all of the elements (“element” meaning “a fundamental or essential constituent … Continue reading

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ISP data transfer caps

(this does piss me off) Yes, there’s a limit to the amount of data that an ISP should allow it’s users to transfer in a given month. That’s the speed of the connection (megabytes per second) times the number of … Continue reading

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iPod

Why the hell isn’t there a “shuffle these” menu item just below the “play all” item in menus for artists, genres, albums, etc?

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Hunters as Environmentalists

I guess it should seem appalling, and maybe it used to to me, but now it just makes sense. What hunter would kill the last of a species — a poor one. There’s already good common sense about gun safety … Continue reading

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Grades and Grading

I’d say more, but Alfie Kohn pretty much said it all. (except for the full explanation of motivation theory and grades).

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Would Not Piss Me Off

When thinking about a few things (Thunderbird’s shady priority for Mozilla, RoundCube, Gmail, Social Networking Sites, iGoogle, Pidgin, etc), I’ve decided that it would be best if there was an opensource project for domain owners to install that would include … Continue reading

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