Was pointed out by a reader that, as I license my blog under a fairly liberal CC license, linuxworld was well within their rights to to what they did. Of course, this is true. My problem is not a legal thing (’oh my! they stole my ideas!’)- I mean, I put them out there for [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2004
Fri, 12 Nov 2004
12-Nov-04Fri, 12 Nov 2004
12-Nov-04In the ‘just when you thought the media couldn’t slink lower’ category, is this story from linuxworld that looks like an interview with me, smells like an interview with me, and is completely cut and paste from my blog entry. Laaaaame. I suggest adding linuxworld to your list of lame-news-sites-to-never-read-again. Of course, it probably already [...]
Fri, 12 Nov 2004
12-Nov-04<build_sheriff_hat>It is really exciting when people get their first commit to a module and when they are strongly in favor of constant dogfoodability. Now, if only those commits would actually build… ;)</build_sheriff_hat>
Had a brief discussion yesterday with Claudio Saavedra of gnome.cl; they’ve got a bunch of stuff going on- not just this weekend, but another [...]
Thu, 11 Nov 2004
11-Nov-04and there is a conference in chile this weekend as well. This is crazy! And awesome. The idea of a trans-atlantic #gnome-hispano hackfest is just way too cool.
Clearly someone from the marketing project needs to write up a small press release, gather some quotes from participants (and ideally a translation into Spanish and Portugese!) and [...]
Thu, 11 Nov 2004
11-Nov-04ccache + the tarball trick nearly halved the amount of time a tinderbox build cycle takes (from around 180-210 minutes to around 115.) Thanks, Jamesh. Now I’m going to have 50% more logs to delete… currently there are 7.5G of build logs in the tinderbox dir. :)
[Later] Hrm, or maybe I failed math. Seems it [...]
Thu, 11 Nov 2004
11-Nov-04Elijah: oddly, despite growing up about as far ‘down’ as you can get in this country, I’ve always said I was ‘going down to…’ whereever I was going.
Decent day at the office today; more productive conversations with Thanika, and we got our first several non-novell-filed bug in bugzilla.novell, which is cool. And had a beer [...]
Wed, 10 Nov 2004
10-Nov-04Flew home from Provo last night. I had a great time. We’d prepared Novell for what they might see, bandwidth-wise, but people were still pretty excited by the volume of interest. Nice to see.
Ate a lot of good food, mostly at the house of my hosts, Guy and Sophie Lunardi. Met Mike Hager of SUSE, [...]
Tue, 09 Nov 2004
09-Nov-04And here we see why I think compulsory voting is a terrible idea.
Mon, 08 Nov 2004
08-Nov-04Oh, and before I forget, an anecdote from my crazy afternoon on Friday as we got the CDs to master. Novell’s CD mastering process requires running a checksum-ish program written in Java but touching some low-level Windows bits, so it only runs on Windows. It actually took us quite some time to find a Windows [...]
Mon, 08 Nov 2004
08-Nov-04After many months (in some ways, well over a year) of work, I’m happy to announce to my readers (aka, planet.gnome, since no one else reads this ;) that the Novell Linux Desktop is released. I wanted to write a classic release announcement, but hell, I’m tired :)
NLD is based on SUSE 9.1, with the [...]