I’m giving up on social networks. Between G+, Flickr, Twitter, Path, LinkedIn, and whatever else, it’s just too damn hard to manage them all. It feels like work, which is exactly opposite the point of being connected to my friends. Whither Facebook? No, sorry. They don’t give you control over your own stuff. When computer [...]
I’ve resisted hacking my phone for a long time because, well, I want it to be a phone and not yet another computer for me to manage. But the latest nonsense with the piece of shitCarrier IQ virus is unbearable and pushed me over the edge. For my normal friends who don’t keep up with [...]
Last January through April, I pretty much fell off the face of the earth, in real life as well as online. For those that asked, I alluded to some long hours at work, but of course couldn’t say much publicly. Well, we finally launched, and I’m quite proud of all our team accomplished. Without question, [...]
As of this writing, it is a little painful to use pbuilder to create a Debian chroot on an Ubuntu host due to LP: #599695. The easiest workaround I could figure out was the following: $ cat ~/.pbuilderrc-debian COMPONENTS="main contrib non-free" DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS=("${DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS[@]}" "--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg") And then you can issue: sudo pbuilder create --basetgz /var/cache/pbuilder/sid.tgz --distribution sid [...]
It is a fact of life that everyone receives more email than they can handle. It is also a fact that email is a skill, and there are varying levels of proficiency out there. So, it is only a matter of time before you find yourself on the annoying end of an email thread gone [...]
Like many open source folks, I consider irc a crucial piece of every day infrastructure. I use bip as a proxy to help me keep up with conversations that occurred while I was away. The next time I connect with my client (xchat, in this case), I get a playback of the old conversations, and [...]
There are certain situations where one might want to generate a quick .deb package that just installs things onto the target system without doing anything fancy, like compiling source files. The classic example is if you are in charge of delivering software to a group of machines, but do not have source code to the [...]
Warning: I just learned how to spell python-twisted today, so it’s entirely plausible I’m advocating bonghits below. If you have real answers, especially for developers, please let me know. Let’s say you’re a sysadmin deploying or a developer writing a twisted app. It’s likely the app is writing a bunch of logs somewhere. The problem [...]
/* This file is part of the KDE project. Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). [...] */ [...] #define ABOUT_TO_FINNISH_TIME 2000 Innocent English-as-a-second-language typo? Or wry self-referential pun? You decide.
[direct link for folks who can't see the embedded video above] The entire world of libre software is built upon the idea that copyright laws must be respected. And just as vigorously as our community defends the GPL, so too must we defend the rights of other makers whose works are copyrighted. We are all [...]