Wed, 23 Jul 2008
06:30
Not together, unless that's what floats your boat:
Thirty-Five Ways To Use Sausage
Southern Food Connections on raw dairy product.
See David Gumpert for more of the same.
Thinkin every nigga is sellin narcotics.
Sausage and Raw Milk
Searchin my car, lookin for the product
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06:22
My god. It's full of
butthurt.
Through all the screaming about smoke filled rooms and OMG ITS PIDGIN ALL OVER AGAIN ELEVENTY: It is my considered opinion that unlike in the Pidgin debacle, the KDE devs have not earned and do not deserve this backlash of vitriol. And 99% of it is people stubbornly repeating you can't take my desktop from me, while ignoring the fact that they can continue to use KDE3 and wait for their distribution of choice to include KDE4 and/or declare it ready for general use. Aaron Seigo told people over and over that nobody would stop them from making 4 behave like 3, if that was what they wanted. In return, he received so much abuse he made his blog invite-only for a while just to read it.
Now today I find
Killing the Desktop Metaphor with GNOME. And given the previously mentioned events, I don't think it's unfair to assume that even if the author is not a principal GNOME developer, outlining plans for the future: If the teeming millions get hold of this, it'll be unending butthurt all over again.
Meanwhile, I remain content with Openbox.
PS: Half the time Beranger makes sense, but most of the time whatever point he might have is obscured by the flecks of foam. (Says the pot of the kettle.) Far better to be found at Human Readable and Penguin Pete's.
KDrama
Tue, 22 Jul 2008
17:59
In this case,
DadHacker's story of working with the Secret Service.
Unintended Consequences show up everywhere
Wed, 16 Jul 2008
23:05
This is a fraud. With a name like that, I expect a Linux distribution that focuses on the console.
If you search Distrowatch for all distributions with "no desktop", the vast majority are geared toward firewalls, file servers and other appliances.
People have been asking for years. And after all this time, it still seems that noone has felt like scratching this particular itch. At this time, it appears the best one can hope for (other than building one's own Linux From Scratch) is a metapackage that installs a chosen suite of "best of breed" console applications, along with whatever tweaks are neccessary (i.e., none of this nonsense).
I want words, not pictures
First it's a novelty, then it's a convenience, then it's the standard and the alternatives are actively discouraged, then everybody thinks you're a paranoid nutcase if you don't go along, and finally no alternative is available.
It shouldn't be this hard.
Followup: TTYLinux is superminimal (12Mb disk space, more or less). GRML Small is primarily based on Debian, with the goal 'to be a distribution well suited for users of texttools and sysadmins'. Minibuntu is obvious, containing only four packages (two of them meta). And there's INX ("Is Not X"), a console-only live CD derived from Ubuntu (the install routine is incomplete and a work in progress).
So things are looking up.
[/freedom/technology] [#permalink]Sat, 05 Jul 2008
19:21
All you who say "Microsoft" instead of "Microsoft representatives"?
You're lazy and stupid.
All you who say "government" instead of "government representatives"?
You're lazy and stupid.
Stop referring to entities that do not exist.
That is all.
Your stupid minds
00:15
It's fifteen years later.
Future Vision
Thu, 03 Jul 2008
15:55
Andrew Tridgell's classic account of How Samba Was Written via the "French Cafe technique".
What's the big deal about SVG? Firefox 3 users can get a taste.
Two Unrelated (Data) Points
15:55
Penguin Pete: You Can Hack an OS, But You Can't Hack People.
Seven part series. Very recommended, along with everything else on the site.
The Tragedy of Linux
15:55
Mark D says it's a good thing.
Blosxom sucks
Mon, 30 Jun 2008
03:53
"I was taken out of context" followed by "Then what did you really mean" hardly ever results in actual clarification. Here is no exception.
Hands off - this is private property
02:59
More specifically, Blosxom with tags. I haven't tweaked the technical side of things here in ages. If I do, this should be one of the first.
On slimming down: Have been exploring more Linux/etc distributions geared toward providing power in a small, sleek package. PCFluxbox, derived from PCLinuxOS, has potential but has crashed at two different points on two different machines during boot/install -- a shame, as its successful users seem very appreciative. LXDE is still on the 'to try' list, as are PUD (LXDE Edition) and CrunchBang Linux. (For even more specialized tasks, there's the free NAS OpenFiler; and for ready to use Asterisk and more, Elastix.)
Also following K Mandla after reading application recommendations; Linux Mint Blog though I haven't yet tried it (another "Ubuntu killer" reputation-wise); Splashtop Blog and being quite pleased to hear that not only will Asus be incorporating this Linux BIOS in every one of their motherboards, not just the higher-end models, but will also begin including it in some of their notebooks. More Mini-ITX news, and if that wasn't enough, even if I don't get in on the alpha it's exciting to learn about Boxee, taking Xbox Media Center to new places and heights. First in the comments here, one of the guys from Neuros hooks up with the Boxee folks, then this 5-minute presentation with Q and A overwhelmingly takes first place as people's favorite.
Exciting times, if turbulent.
Want: Asus motherboard with Splashtop/other Coreboot style goodies, to boot OS in under 30 seconds; then 8Gb solid state disk for a lightning-fast home directory that can still fit on one dual layer DVD backup. All other data on external drives and/or network storage. Works for desktops or portables.
Long-term because so many other things take priority: Still have the Speedstream 5861 ADSL router we used for years at the office until it died. I determined it was a fraction too small to contain a then-current Mini-ITX motherboard, but I'm glad I held onto it because the latest models are less than 7 inches square. Would be a fun retrofit to turn into a "real" router, non-highdef media player, lightweight workstation as described above -- just add 16Gb solid state disk for enough room to dual boot Windows and Linux. (Next step -- getting Coreboot on these mini motherboards, and more mobile devices and ultraportables...)
More advanced than I know what to do with but I pick as much low-hanging fruit as I can: Git Magic. Along with Linus' original Google presentation on Git.
Tags
Thu, 24 Apr 2008
21:35
First they bend over for the lawyers.
Then they remove useful information -- which after a shitstorm of complaint, and the development of a third party workaround, they grudgingly added back in a half-assed implementation that wastes screenspace. All while mouthing platitudes about how "some people are never satisfied", "some people will complain about anything", and "everyone's preferences are different" (talk about failing to see the point).
Then they change the simple, unobtrusive "user is typing" indicator to an obnoxious text spam. In your face, in your way.
And most recently, in a yet-again example of "my way or the highway", they determine that you, the user, have no real need to resize your text entry area, just an irrational "preference" that in their opinion, you have no real "need" for. After the expected outbreak of butthurt, the final straw tipping point is reached, and a response given:
Also: Double middle finger to these twats for trying to erase history. Deleting the older source and packages? Stupid, stupid rat creatures. It only makes you look worse.
PS: Even before the name change, the writing was on the wall.
Screw it. I'm going back to Bitlbee.
One Step Closer to MS-DOS Communism
