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Monthly Archives: February 2005
Will Somebody Please Think of the Children?!
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Yes, Phil
and I will be installing Gentoo on his
lappy; that’s his choice. For anyone else out there who’s considering
using Gentoo, I’d recommend against it.
As the
Pragmatic Programmers point
out, Don’t Repeat Yourself; this is just as true for repeating
someone else, as well. Another distribution (say,
Ubuntu), will provide you with
pre-compiled packages, saving you hours upon hours [...]
James Bowes is not responsible for lost or misplaced time
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Ian, maybe you should just use ready-made software, like the ever-popular
wordpress. Then you could put off doing work by wrestling with the database schemas!
Oh yeah, did anyone else get one of the Mike Smit life-size cardboard standups that Dal made?
Mike Smit merchandise is gonna be huge this year. *HUGE*
Planet News
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
By popular demand, the number of posts shown on the front page has
been increased (to 60 or two days’ worth, whichever is less 30). I’m also
looking into removing the time normalization, which, besides making it
look like Henry isn’t nocturnal, could
provide some context about where people are.
HEY UNDERGRADS, STAFF, AND FACULTY!!!
Your representation on the [...]
Ximian Fanboy Redux
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
The most recent episode of the always excellent
LugRadio features an interview with
Miguel. Mainly they talk about
Mono, though there is a small bit
in there on Ximian’s history.
The interesting point that one of the LugRadio guys brings up is
this: what if, instead of paying 25 people to work full-time on Mono,
Novell instead payed them to [...]
I am a Ximian fanboy
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Novell announced a new Free software project today, hula. It’s got a lot of good things
going for it, not the least of which being a sexy logo. Mature
codebase, scalable arcitechture… I could spout lame catch phrases
about this thing all day. The important part is that the goals include
making a halfway decent online calendar app, and [...]
Planet Goodies
Monday, February 14, 2005
A few people
mentioned maybe increasing the number of posts
visible on the front page of the planet, or perhaps showing two days’
worth of posts, no matter how many that may be. If anyone else has
some feelings on this, let me know. In particular, is there any point
in having the XXL version of the planet?
In other [...]
Hello, World!
Monday, February 14, 2005
The planet launched today,
after getting it’s delicous new domain name. Many thanks to everyone
involved thus far, and to all those who will be soon (yes, I’m talking
to you! I’m running ‘tail -f’ on the access logs right now,
you know).
Something Missing
Monday, February 14, 2005
Colin’s new CSHead
is great, but it felt to me like there was something missing. Through a
complicated series of experiments, I figured out what that missing
element was, and now I give you… Colin’s new, improved CSHead!
Making X look good
Sunday, February 13, 2005
herk: you want eye candy? I got your eye candy right here:
skippy
3D-Desktop
Xgl
Miguel de Icaza