I bought a recently released HP 7 Plus tablet, a very nice device with bare minimums and a decent price tag ($100). But it still is on Android Jelly Bean. What it means is some (popular) apps, such as Instagram, no longer support it. It makes some sense, as it is not the latest flavor […]
Category Archives: Rave
Rants and raves about difficulties and uselessness of whatever I might see.
Quick note about Ubuntu
Five or six years ago LDAP had an issue in using SSL for NSS and pam.d authentication. As a result you had to use NSCD to make it work. One would expect that over the years this was solved. This week I was adding new virtual servers to our Vsphere “cloud” and guess what! Same […]
frustrated
Isn’t it annoying that you know no matter how you try, finally you are going to be a graduate from a 74th ranking university in US? Not even in the first 50! Why did they announce it so proudly? UPDATE: Well, it seems another ranking thinks better about UTD. It is again announced here. This […]
firefox crashes, too often
Just to quickly say: at this very moment FireFox 2.0.0.2 sucks! It dies when a page has too many elements, like Wikipedia pages. Also, it does not like more than 1 or 2 YouTube videos in one page. It simply crashes, even in safe mode with no plug-in running. Sometimes it does not crash, but […]
Bye-Bye Yahoo! Mail Beta
I switched my Yahoo! mail interface to the classic one. I would rather give up Yahoo! services and switch to Google, but why?
Filter me. I don’t mind, or do I?
Have you seen these movies in which a super hero has to face all sorts of misery and save the world? Being an Iranian geek is just like that. Minus the happy ends, yet of course. From inside Iran: your internet connection is filtered for as stupid things as Orkut.com and FreeOS.com: Also, your internet […]