Wednesday, October 20, 2004

dealing with clients who do not listen and things i prefer to do

a client's server got compromised yesterday due to them adding an anonymous FTP server to the machine with uploads allowed, even though i said not to. now i get to waste several hours of my day. why can't people just listen?

hacked on kicker while on IRC till midnight last night. recruited a new coder to work on KDE while doing that. he's starting in on some easier things in kicker. way to go! and wicky has found inspiration to work on the layout code in ContainerArea. it's amazing how activity begets activity. i'm happy about this.

let's see if the same thing happens with the kNX client next week.

i've also been tooling about with a new website where i can shelve patches, scripts and random stuff. it's rather ugly, but i'm not a graphic designer.

7 comments:

Wench said...

I feel your pain...and now I know what you were talking about earlier today...I thought you were just taking a crack at me and our servers. ;)

Anonymous said...

Aaron, I have a few words for you:

Hourly fees.

Or at least:

Hourly fees for problems caused by going against your advice.

Anonymous said...

"I'm not a graphics designer" is so bad an excuse. If you aren't, then simply don't try to be one. Some of us think plain HTML 3 is beautiful enough... =)

Anonymous said...

i didn't mean that your site was bad, btw. just your excuse. =)

Aaron J. Seigo said...

*laughs* yeah, it's not a beautiful site nor will it ever be. i'm not even trying to make it beautiful specifically because i know that i won't succeed in doing so to a level that would satisfy my desires. i'm going for a simple "even I can't screw it up" look ;-)

Wench said...

Once upon a time, I was paid to be a graphic artist (although, I did a lot more shit work than just that)...but even I like your site. Simple = Good. Especially now that it fits in my browser window. ;)

Anonymous said...

The site is really ugly in Firefox, but looks nice enough in Konqueror. I think that's where the different opinions come from.
Ian