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
