Published at: 12:06 pm - Tuesday June 29 2010
Erik Naggum died slightly more than a year ago. I have never met the man in the flesh, and yet he is the one person who had most often and most radically re-shaped my opinions at their core, solely through the printed word – not only on the subject of computer programing, but on every […]
Published at: 11:06 am - Tuesday June 15 2010
Many graphical Java apps will hang with a blank grey screen when started under Ratpoison and other non-reparenting window managers. The workaround for this appalling brokenness is a very simple one, yet it took me three days of frustrated search – so I ought to post it: Install wmname. Spoof your window manager’s name string: […]
