Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 246

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WOW… The Debconf Comas system we set up had been running quite smoothly for already some months. People were registering in quite a nice, ordered way… We had around 30 registered proposals, and everything was fine. Well, mostly everything. You see, we had as a proposal submission deadline March 15 2005, 23:59 UTC. In order to allow only for timely new proposals, Comas checks this date - only that I was checking for the date, not for the time… Since March 15 2005 00:00 UTC until around 16:00 UTC when I fixed this, we were gratuitously rejecting the proposals. And...

Debian has been often rated as a great distribution technically, ideologically and socially. Now, how about seeking objective perfection? What if we could say that our distribution is simply great according to standards that have been widely respected for centuries? I came across the Gematriculator, which uses gematria to objectivelly rate a site? The results for the analysis of www.debian.org: Ok… And how do other Linux distributions rate? Mandrake: 37% evil - 63% good RedHat: 13% evil - 87% good. We need to watch out for these guys! Gentoo: 58% evil - 42% good. Does it surprise anybody? Novell Suse:...

First of all: I have been asked why do I post my blog in English. I know it is syndicated in Planeta Linux en México, a mostly-Spanish-speaking planet (I am though not the only one posting in English, but there are few of us). It is also syndicated in Planet Debian, which is strictly in English. I don’t have time to maintain two blogs. I want my Mexican friends to know what am I up to… So well, now you know. ;-) Visor posted his opinions regarding Mozilla’s and Firefox’s trademarks. This is answering to a posting by Damog which...