Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 164

I was delighted at finding Erich’s series of posts regarding init schemes - In fact, when reading the bottom of your third message I got disappointing at you stating that this concludes this series of blog posts. Maybe someone can follow up with some details on upstart (which seems to be the most promising init replacement)? - I expected you to delve a bit into other schemes, such as file-rc (which is, AFAIK, quite similar to the standard sysv-rc, but instead of having directories with symlinks has files describing each runlevel in similar terms, and I understand works in quite...

Wow, what a wonderful weekend was this for Debian. And, yet again, I managed to miss the live announcement and party on IRC. So… We got a shiny, new, French DPL. Just after that, we got one last release for Sarge, and right away we got a stable Etch - Who says having a new DPL cannot speed up things? ;-) Anyway… I don’t remember where I started the meme when Sarge was released (it was not on my blog, it seems)… But here it goes again: What were you doing at… Etch release? Having a nice time with Nadezhda,...

As I’ve posted before, I recently read Lawrence Rosen’s Open Source Licensing Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law. And I’m sure many of you will recognize the enormous constructive value of early-morning cavilations. Well, today I woke up thinking about strengths and weaknesses in th different Free Software licenses, and I decided to add my grain to the world of license proliferation. So, here goes version 3.14 of the CoPL. I wonder how long will it take before it reaches /usr/share/common-licenses on Debian systems ;-) CONFUSING PUBLIC LICENSE ======================== This is version 3.14 of the Confusing Public License (referred to...

Wow! I got a mail from the YAPC::Europe organizers telling me I won a book for registering early and sending in a submission (as I have previously told you). I was even more surprised to find out I am one out of two lucky winners! So my new book is Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof. No news yet on whether my talk (Integrating Perl in a wider distribution: The Debian pkg-perl group) will be accepted… But this kind of incentive does push me towards attending even if I am not accepted - Of course, it depends on the University sending me...

Russell blogs about his new 22” cheap TFT monitor. You lucky bastard. I use a 17” Dell LCD monitor at work (sorry, cannot recall the model), and I’ve been quite pleased with it. Granted, 1280x1024 isn’t what I had gotten used to (1400x1050 on my previous laptop and previous work machine), but it does the trick - And for my current laptop, I went for a smaller machine, with a 12” wide-screen 1280x800 monitor. I still find the monitor somewhat small, and the missing 224 pixels are noticeable - but the size is well worth it. But what I’ve been...

And, while on my way there, I’ll get to visit my family in New York (and get to know a bit of the city, I hope) for a couple of days as well! :D Leaving Mexico in June 7th, three days in NY, travel to Edinburgh on June 10th (arriving early on the 11th), and head back home on the 24th. Yay! BTW, attempting to save some money and the pollution caused by air travel, I asked Google for how to drive from New York to Edinburgh. It looks clear and easy, but in the end I settled for air...

It’s been two weeks I got my latest toy. And, lets be honest - I don’t buy me toys very often. My very own espresso/capuccino maker! No, it’s not a pro-level machine, nor does it try to be. I’m a bit disappointed as the espresso comes out slowly and homogeneous, with no foamy layer on top - But hey, it tastes great. So far, I’m still a terribly lousy capuccino maker, but perfection comes with practice. Now, what’s bad about this? First, that -although I’m a heavy coffee drinker, pouring at least 1 liter of regular filter-drip coffee down my...

As I have stated here long ago, I do not really believe in the Debian Project Leader. Yes, it has an importance. Yes, it’s not merely a decoration figure. But I do doubt it can really make much of a difference. I don’t hold exactly the point of view I held back then, but it’s still quite close ;-) Anyway… [ 1 ] Choice 1: Wouter Verhelst [ 7 ] Choice 2: Aigars Mahinovs [ 3 ] Choice 3: Gustavo Franco [ 2 ] Choice 4: Sam Hocevar [ 4 ] Choice 5: Steve McIntyre [ 4 ] Choice 6:...

I run my blog using Jaws, a simple and quite nice blog-minded CMS project started by several friends of mine. I’ve long wanted to contribute to the project, but so far, I’ve only reported a couple of bugs. Boo for me! ;-) Anyway, I just updated from 0.6.2 to the just-released 0.7.1. Guys: You rock! What a painless, easy and (so far) well-working update! I am late already, so I’m not going to check into all the new features. So far, I’m quite happy with the extra easiness and control to get some comment-spam protection, my main gripe so far....

Uwe asks about fast, reliable, not noisy storage mechanisms - And yes, of course, he talks about Flash memory’s well known limitation: The relatively low number of write cycles each area of the memory is known to be able to withstand. I recently told this same argument to a friend who was enthusiastically telling me about his dream project of setting up a computer based exclusively on solid-state storage. Of course, he didn’t like the limitation. But after reading a bit (sorry, I don’t have the URLs at hand - but Google is a good friend), it seems that many...