Tuesday, March 2, 2004

Pondering the Imponderable -- 9:50 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I'm not going to get all political in this election year, but this article is funny nonetheless in a depressing sort of way. The lesson to learn here is that everything you will hear from both parties this year will be spin. Here's an example where the Internet is a useful tool for separating fact from fiction.

Personally, I'm thinking of voting for this fine candidate. Or maybe I'll just vote for me.

J.t.Qbe comments: I'd vote for you. What'll you be running under--the Salvator party?

A.T. Hun comments: I dunno. Probably either the Wood Party or the Silly Party.

Monday, March 1, 2004

id Recommends NVIDIA? -- 11:04 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Is id really recommending NVIDIA cards for DOOM3? That's what this announcement claims. I did notice that one of those stickers was on the GeForceFX 5700 Ultra I bought last week. My guess is that this is more marketing than it is anything else. Still, I'm hoping that my new card can run the game decently when it comes out. At the very least, this is likely to cause some high-pitched whining to come from the ATI camp. Thanks Blue's News.

ESR Usability Follow-Up -- 5:24 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Eric Raymond wrote a follow-up article on usability to the one he wrote last week. He gives numerous examples of folks who wrote to express their agreement with the original article (much like I expressed on The Haus). He concludes with this:

It's been twenty years since the GNU Manifesto and nearly seven since The Cathedral and the Bazaar. I think it's time we stopped congratulating ourselves quite so much on our dedication to freedom and our ability to write technically superior code, and began more often to ask "What are we doing to serve the real users?" Good UI design, and doing the right thing by Aunt Tillie, ought to be a matter of gut-level pride of craftsmanship.

Preach on! Thanks Linux Today.

Fun with Juk -- 1:43 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I've been toying around with Juk (for some reason, their website seems to be dead), the new music jukebox that comes with KDE 3.2. At first, I kind of poo-pooed it as worthless. Now that I've been fiddling with it for a while, I'm beginning to see its power and ease-of-use. It allows you to build collections of your MP3/OGG collection and play them in just about any order you might like. My favorite part of it is that it is just dead-simple to use. I have it set to pop up a little window, announcing the current track. My only grip so far is that the OGG decoder doesn't seem to like some tracks I just ripped. I'll have to fiddle with that a bit.

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