QtCreator, during various stages of its life, has spit the “no qmlscene installed” error out for quite a few people. If you are reading this you probably search for “no qmlscene installed” and landed here. Since many of you reading this blog aren’t part of the Qt mailing list I thought I would share a question and my response. This problem comes up constantly and I’ve been bitten by it myself far more than I … QtCreator – no qmlscene installedRead more
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Linux Anti-Virus Software Experiments
At some point we Linux users have to install anti-virus and malware software, if for no other reason than to protect the token few completely useless Windows boxes left in the world. A few enterprising rectal sphincters have also been writing email viruses for cross platform email clients and their various address book solutions. There’s even a token few Linux specific viruses. On a few machines I installed clamav from the distro repos. Two machines … Linux Anti-Virus Software ExperimentsRead more
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XJed Looks
Since nobody voiced an objection, I wanted to record this here where the pictures would survive. Chris wrote on the jed mailing list that he applied the CBrief patch to create a pretty good Brief clone under Linux, the xjed display didn’t look right. Personally, I have horrible memories of Brief, but, I must admit, it did have fans back in the day. Back in the DOS and OS/2 days I was more a fan … XJed LooksRead more
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Elementary Isn’t Free Anymore
The other evening I came into the office and noticed one of my older BOINC machines had the hard drive light seemingly stuck on. I switched the KVM over to that machine and saw it was tossing I/O errors. This happened once before several weeks ago and a reboot seemed to fix everything. Now that it happened again, I decided to toss the drive. I have a stack of older drives waiting their turn in … Elementary Isn’t Free AnymoreRead more
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Another Shining Example of AGILE
Facebook (FB) is one of the most notorious proponents of AGILE. “Move quickly and break things.” AGILE – hacking on the fly without any design or road map while committing accounting fraud. Hacking on the fly gets you stories like these. The Declaration of Independence flagged as hate speech. When it comes to the Facebook development team, I can’t help but think of this movie. Definitely the kind of people you want working on a … Another Shining Example of AGILERead more