Some days ago, the Free Software Foundation published a short, very interesting article by Richard Stallman that claims, as summarized in the title, that the FOSS community should not pursue the patent-encumbered way of the compatibility with closed minds.
This is not to say that implementing C# is a bad thing. Free C# implementations permit users to run their C# programs on free platforms, which is good. [...] The problem is not in the C# implementations, but rather in Tomboy and other applications written in C#. If we lose the use of C#, we will lose them too. That doesn’t make them unethical, but it means that writing them and using them is taking a gratuitous risk.
It’s a few weeks now that I’m keeping my personal Gentoo overlay on github. I’m uploading there some ebuilds that I need, usually to fix bugs corrected only on Bugzilla, to bump recent packages or anything that is not yet in the official Portage tree or in any of the popular overlays that I use.
If you wish to use it, just clone it somewhere in your disk with git clone git://github.com/dark/darkGentooOverlay.git
and add the fetched folder to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY.
If you have any comments, please let me know
In a few days, the UNIX time will reach quota 1234567890.
You can try and see the exact second in which this event will happen on your machine by running in a shell: perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'
For all of those (like me) who live in GMT+1 (CET) the output should be:
$ perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),”\n”;’
Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 2009
I assure you that I will be eagerly waiting for that moment. (whatever the reason)
At the first look, I kept staring at it for minutes. I didn’t believe that the story was true, or that someone could even think of buying that crap. What am I talking about, you say? Give a look here, for example.
And, yes, I could write posts more often, if only exams gave me a break, and someone stopped bugging me every ten seconds .
I’ve recently read an interesting article about how having back the money you’ve paid for the preinstalled Windows copy that is bundled with many personal computers. I know that this is an old story and almost everyone has ever read/heard about one million different ways to accomplish the goal. Anyway, I’m posting the link because the author of this article, while confirming that the refund call is long and tedious (if not useless, sometimes), has written down a small quantity of common you-cant-get-your-money excuses, along with the appropriate responses.
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