Entries in Category: Community

So, a few times in my life I've had a conversation where someone will reveal that they "have expensive taste." Now, I try not to be judgmental, but you know it's hard sometimes, when you hear a line that contains utter pretentiousness like that. Now, these conversations have been in regards to clothing and/or food. So, my younger readers are probably already hip to this -- but apparently, nowadays, you can shell eighteen to 20 dollars (US) for a t-shirt ...

So, I'm in the Django IRC channel yesterday. Well, let me back up for a minute. I'm working on a mock-up/demo for djangofying (did I just invent a word here?) some parts of the StreamBase websites. So, I'm deciding on the models and stuff, and it occurs to me that some pages use the same models, just in different ways (based on various aspects of the model). And so, I think that there must be something to make ...

Look here, Christian, don't you dare think about leaving, ok? I think the extended break is a good idea, but you've yet to actually do it, you know :p. In fact, for someone on holiday, you've been extraordinarily active. So, do what you need to do, just don't leave. That is all. As for the bitchfests and flamefests, it actually seems to me as though things are improving in a small, almost imperceptible way. Let's see if that can ...

Stefan, yes we can avoid it in the future. We can start by not officially hosting anything with license violations. As Stuart noted, licensing is critical to FOSS. And quite honestly, as a trustee, I would be 100% hypocritical if the Foundation discovered someone violating any of Gentoo's licenses, if we continued to distribute the devmanual in its current form. To briefly outline my thoughts: 1. The license violations -- every contributor needs to be acknowledged on par ...

Once in a while, you come across a a fantastic information piece that's top-notch in presentation. This guy had me giggling at 1 in the morning, and I learned stuff from that post (which is why I was up in the first place). You know, all this talk about communities and getting along got me thinking about something. By the way, that segue was sponsored anonymously. I would have to say that the community that really impresses me is ...

So here's an interesting challenge. Where I work, I had to put together a server that converts word .doc format files to .pdf files for some of our documents. After quite a bit of searching around (doc2pdf type programmes and scripts), I'd settled on linbox converter. Basically it's a daemon that runs on a windows machine that has MS Office installed as well as ghostscript and python. A client sends a doc with a request for conversion into, for ...

So, to add to things, Robin e-mailed me saying that since vimap and c-client are both based on uw-imap, they should be tested against kerberos. And, from the comment to my previous post: php and, one presumes mod_php, don't particularly work (during configure) against heimdal. So apparently I missed Donnie's reply to my blog in his blog. Sorry about that, Donnie. In fact, it seems a few distros are ...

Unlike some people I'm fine with talking like a valley girl, like sometimes. So I'm proudly posting my first ever blog entry. I'll use this space to cover some gentoo ideas and maybe I'll make a category of postings about non-gentoo thoughts. I'd like to make a shout out to my wife. By the way, major shout-outs to Daniel for even getting this Planet started, and signing me up with an account so fast. Daniel rocks, as you well know ...