Category Archives: Rant

Epitaph for a good idea

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Anders K. Madsen

While the Medison Celebrity $150 laptop was obviously a good idea, it was — as some have noticed — very, very poorly executed. While debates on whether or not it’s actually at all possible to produce a laptop that cheap … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, In the news, Rant, The World | 7 Comments

One more reason to not really like MSN

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Anders K. Madsen

In a recent article on Slashdot is given yet another reason — actually two reasons — to not use MSN (not even just the Microsoft client, but the entire protocol). Apparently Microsoft is aware that malicious URLs can be sent … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, In the news, Rant, Software | 7 Comments

Squircle is the new rounded rectangle

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Anders K. Madsen

I finally got the stuff moved to another and better web server (very kindly provided by my dad) so hopefully response times will be quite a bit lower than before. I must say, WordPress requiring more than what the old … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Gear, Lillesvin Networks, Linux, Rant | 7 Comments

A $150 laptop — for real?

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Anders K. Madsen

The Medison Celebrity appears to be too good to be true. It’s cheap, comes with Linux preinstalled (Fedora, according to the FAQ) and ships in only 4–6 weeks! We all know, that on the internet, when things seem too good … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Linux, Rant | 3 Comments

Too fresh to cope

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Steffen

I was wanting to install X11 on Mac OS X, such that i could test the Synfig Studio port madsen [0] is cooking, as it depends on it. But was too slack to get out of the sofa (see pervius … Continue reading →

Posted in MacOS X, Rant, Synfig | 2 Comments