Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 210

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Romain: IBM keyboards rule. I still have mine, dating from 1989, and in perfect shape. Delicious to touch. I think yours is a special edition, however, as mine has one E key only ;-) Bubulle: In Spanish and Latin American keyboards (yes, they are different and they both suck - The Spanish one sucks doubly), it is common to see keyboards labeled with Intro, a strange attempt to translate Enter. I have never seen a person call that key “Intro”, althought some programs do refer to it. But anyway, for extra points: How would you call the icon for the...

Andres Salomon rants on the apparent lack of focus on usability we have in Debian, compared to Ubuntu. First of all, I think that directly relating the word usability with the concept desktop is a very big and common mistake. I know I am not in the 99% of the computer users - but usability for me almost always means the opposite: Interfaces that stay out of the way giving you easy access to whatever you need (and I do mean whatever - think a nice and cozy shell, think ol’ beloved Emacs). Once again, I know I am not...

Lars: I also like very much the typical Norwegian cheese slicers - I have had one for a long time, even before knowing where they come from. There are still many ocasions, though, when what you want is a simple, plain old knife.