Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 167

Ok, at least Erich states something I agree with (and, lets be fair, its also told by Marius on a comment to my previous post): XML should not be pushed where the data to be represented is flat (or flattish - Say, a INI-style configuration is enough with a not-exactly-flat-but-still-unnested configuration). Still, I do not buy XML as adequate. Erich insists on the Apache configuration file as an example of how not to do things - And I agree wholeheartedly: It sucks and makes no sense. However, it’s just too easy to break proper XML nesting (for the love of...

In short, Erich says that XML, plus the right editor, Just Works(tm). Well, yes. But when you are over a slow link, or when you are desperate with a b0rken system, you just don’t have Eclipse at hand to edit a config file. Of course, you could use the half-existing XML support you talk about in vim (I have not tested it, cannot be sure of it), but it is still a PITA if your /usr is not working fine or if your termcap is too dumb to manage. Yes, there are each time less of those situations, but anyway…...

I came across a very nice story by Leonel Rubio (Leonel, please correct me if I’m misattributing this to you), licensed under the Creative Commons license. It’s in Spanish, but quite worth a read - Aquellos que Poseían la Biblia (Those who owned the Bible). It starts with the supposition that Disney, at the end of the ever-recurring cycle where they ask the US Congress to extend the duration of copyright (so that Mickey and Donald don’t fall into the public domain), they push boldly for a new record: Not just 20 more years, but 500. Of course, this would...

Erich wonders about a sane way to reorganize the configuration file mess we have, going in fact farther than Aigars’ previous rant on the topic: Not only it would be really desirable to do away with the dotfile-as-everything-but-more mess, it would be really, really nice to do it in a more or less standard way. Erich suggests four base configuration syntaxes - I won’t reveal too much, as his message deserves being read as well ;-) But hey, I have a question here: I know XML is well-established and well-supported, and I’m told there are a couple several hundred thousand...

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Hah! Targetted memes have hit again - Arareko decided I should talk about myself. I will do this, but I won’t point the finger at five others - Lets see just who bites ;-) Besides, having left this post rot as a draft for over a week already, it got a bit more interesting: The meme bit from two sides. Arareko (as well as Ion) was bitten by Cicloid, from the mx.planetalinux.org-derived side of reality, and then Hanna bit Wouter on Planet Debian. Ok, time to get this message out from the freezer… So… Five not very well known things...

I’m officially on vacation. That basically means there is nobody at my office. This time, though, it does not mean I will be the only sentient being in the building - I’ll take most of the three weeks at home. I hope to be able to do some Debian work and catch up with some other projects… Anyway, part of not being at the office means I don’t have my usual dose of coffee. At home, I very seldom drink coffee, although I really love to have it home-style (i.e. not made by the easy-to-massify drip coffee machine). In fact,...

Many people have recently posted in Planet Debian regarding the use, usability and usefulness of having comments enabled in blogs, of using comments as the right way for following discussions, of dealing with spam, and so on. I’m sorry I’m not linking to more of them, but I’m too lazy to look them up. This is one of the down-sides of not using comments - Ideally, if I were interested on commenting on a topic, I would just leave the comment on the blog that started it. It goes somewhat against Joey’s logic of posting both the comment and the...

Thanks to H01ger for linking to one of the coolest map-like things I’ve seen in a long time: Yet another map of Internet - this time, an IPv4 allocation map. Useful? Maybe not, having tools such as Geo-IPfree. But quite nice to print and have as a poster ;-)