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Thanks for the warning!
Ok, so I have my Mac Mini ready to overtake my old PC as my home server/gateway/whatnot. Before anything, I must thank Filip for his warning - I had left 3GB at the end of the disk to set up MacOS - Just for fun, just to play with it, maybe even to use the Mac On Linux trick. Anyway, if I want to do anything with MacOS, I can use Nadezhda’s G5 imac… And it is not sane to have a server’s interface to the world rely on a stack of two (cooperating, but still…) OSs. I’ll just stick...

Lateness, angst, addiction - Trying to get hold of my life
This is by far the most stressful long period I can remember in my life. I was quite in control of things approximately until around June. Since then, things have been falling over me in a quick and heavy sucession - First of all, being co-organizer at Debconf was quite hard. I had run conferences before, but nothing ever like this - And, I should add, I never had a German boss running the show. [friend=”Stockholm”], as a project leader, you really rule… But whoever works with you should be warned: It is not easy. Gunnar’s Rule of Future Life...

Yet Another Meme
Nice one, Mike! I would have liked to end up being more humane, though ;-) Much More Scientific You have: 77% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and 47% EMOTIONAL INTUITION The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored about average on emotional intuition and well above average on scientific intuition.Keep in mind that very few people score high on both! In effect, you can compare your two intuition scores with each other to learn what kind of intuition you're best at. Your scientific intuition is stronger than your emotional intuition. Your Emotional Intuition score...

Please describe yourself
Ok, so my brain is right now thinking on how to make Comas (my Conference Management System, which is quite nice, but somewhat unflexible. Sorry for the butt-ugly and incomplete webpage…) more flexible - And I have come accross some quite nice things. First of all, I want the fields for each person (the person table) to be easily modifiable, allowing me to add/remove attributes at will between different instances of Comas. Ok, this is the muscle behind my new idea. Yes, PostgreSQL-specific, as basically everything in Comas: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW table_attributes AS SELECT c.relname AS tablename, a.attname AS...

On nice, closed numbers
Wouter: I also remember finding it shortly in the future and missing it. It sucks. Anyway, try to be creative: gwolf@mosca:~$ LC_ALL=C date -d ‘1978-05-06 + 10101 days’ Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 CST 2005 Yes, I know this looks like binary but is decimal, but… Well, looks nice :) I think the sanest for me will be to wait ~11 more months: gwolf@mosca:~$ LC_ALL=C date -d ‘1976-04-27 + 11111 days’ Thu Sep 28 00:00:00 CDT 2006

Of floods and the longest distance between two points
In order to understand this post, if you are not familiar with Mexico City (specially with Ciudad Universitaria), you should get this flood experience route, which illustrates the longest and wettest possible route between two points I have ever had to use. Yesterday, we had quite a nice Debian México group meeting. I invited the people over to my Institute, and we started on time, at ~17:00. I should note that my office has no windows, so until 16:50 I still had the impression we had nice weather - I came back from lunch at home at 16:00, and we...

Meme time!
Following Tolimar, Kov, Noodles, Amaya, and the people who have fallen off the edge of the Planet: Gunnar needs to stamp images with time when capturedObviously gunnar needs a world map store and use the information he has gatheredGunnar needs a box for his blocksGunnar needs to finish his clean-ups he planned or I guess already started.Gunnar needs to develop more body rhythm to advance in this style.Go rent "Scars Don't Sweat' because Gunnar needs the .003 cents he earns from each rentalAsther and Gunnar need a miracle! Asther needs her healing and Gunnar needs an additional measure of God’s...

Isn't it Galeon 1.2 which went off the path?
Axel Beckert was ranting regarding how Galeon 1.3 sucks so badly he sticks to his Woody (Gnome 1.4 IIRC, Galeon 1.2) desktop. In one of the lines of his rebuttal/statement of what he wants from Galeon, he states: I just strongly disagree with pure simplification being the right way in UI design. This is the problem with Galeon: That it went far away from its original intention. Its original motto (which I discovered to be still in use) is The web. only the web… Well, I really enjoyed pre-1.2 versions of Galeon, but it just bloated, bloated, bloated until it...

I like understanding why I am not a Gnome user
Erich: Most Linux users expect me to run Gnome, KDE or -at the very geeky extreme- xfce. I hate them all - I hate xfce and KDE much more than I hate Gnome, yes, but I cannot live in a Gnome-based world. It is just not comfortable. It is not fun. Some months ago, I tried them all. One week with Gnome, one sour week with KDE, three very sour days with xfce. The world makes you feel you should be using an integrated feature-bloated desktop, and that good ol’ beloved Windowmaker with {rxvt,emacs,firefox} is an anachronic no-go. I find...

FSL Vallarta, September 2005
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