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Apparently, the Paludis folk, have knowingly sat on a pkgcore bug simply because “we wanted them to write unit tests to find it rather than actually tell what the bug is.” (paraphrased) - When you constantly claim you are trying to work “together” and then blatantly do something that isn’t, it makes you look like more of an idiot. There is another company out there that does something similar. Not many people like them either.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, I hope to put something more substantial and less annoying up soon.

Edited to remove offensive content, and I do apologise to ferdy for not thinking before just shooting off random drivel on my blog.

Saw this in my feeds, and found it interesting as well. Are Kids Copying Their Parents When They Lie?

Although we think of truthfulness as a young child’s paramount virtue, it turns out that lying is the more advanced skill. A child who is going to lie must recognize the truth, intellectually conceive of an alternate reality, and be able to convincingly sell that new reality to someone else. Therefore, lying demands both advanced cognitive development and social skills that honesty simply doesn’t require. “It’s a developmental milestone,” Talwar has concluded

Happy commercialized single awareness day!

So I was going through some of my backups, because I accidentally blew away my Linux partition on my desktop when attempting to do something silly, and I came across an old AIM screenname that I used to use, and hadn’t for a while… So since I was bored and waiting for things to install, I started going through my buddy list reading the various names and remembering the people behind them… and I noticed that AIM has a Member Since: line… Here is mine:

Member Since: 1/7/1998 5:24:26 AM

NickScipio.com: Picture of the Day
This is so awesome… and sadly, yeah, I laughed too.

Funtoo by Daniel Robbins: A Gentoo Developer’s Reply…

I received a pretty remarkable comment from a Gentoo developer that I thought I’d share. It’s amazing on so many levels. Here it is:

Daniel,

Please DO give up on Gentoo. Gentoo has grown beyond the ability for one man to manage, as your proposal seems to indicate you want ultimate authority. Many developers spoke against your return and few in favor of it, particularly in light of your stringent conditions.

Gentoo was established 1999, not to be confused with the previous Enoch Linux and the number of developers you managed before leaving in 2004 was around 100. Number of developers currently is around 300. Please dont assume that you can come back and things will be your way or the highway or that you can just nestle back into your previous position.

Your offer to help did not spawn the momentum for change that many see now; your offer was in fact AFTER developers began work to rectify the situation. This started when developers spoke up on our internal developer only list and work began there.

We have quite a number of developers who have been Gentoo developers longer than even you were, please allow those folks to continue to run the distribution. Like it or not, Gentoo keeps running and moving forward without your vision or interference. We’ve gotten by just fine for the past 4 years without you, we’ll be just fine. kthxbuhbye.

Posted by Daniel Robbins

So, going on 2 assumtions here 1) that this was an actual developer that sent this and 2) that it actually was sent and isn’t made up (not that I disbelieve Daniel… just can’t believe there is someone out there with that much idiocy…)

Could the asshat please stand up? And then exit stage left? Thank you, goodbye.

P.S. I don’t actually expect it to happen… as the note was obviously sent to Daniel in private, I expect said developer to not have the balls to actually take credit for it.

UPDATE: Just so its clear (this is Gentoo land after all) - I do not support the stance taken by the developer that sent the message to Daniel. Just wanted to be sure that was out there… what with all the mis-quoting and so forth that goes on. (Also, I supported Daniel coming back in the interim, unlike others, I don’t moan about my freedoms being taken away or that I will be “ruled” over by some king or whatever asshattery nutjob paranoid idiotic statements people want to make about it)

So, I saw this over on Thom’s site… and I had to post it here as well… if you are reading this on the planet, you may have to visit my site to watch… sorry yall.

So, last night (well, the early morning - at least my time) welp and I were talking, and he linked me 2 articles that I found interesting…

Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

and then

Who Killed the Software Engineer? (Hint: It Happened in College)

So, I use pfSense as my router - it has a spiffy web interface, and the shell isn’t too horrible either. It is FreeBSD 6.2 based… and the wireless cards are Atheros based.

02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

is what both are reported as in Linux, and they work fine, as long as they aren’t in ap mode… Once I put them into AP mode, clients can associate, but they can not/will not pass any traffic. And if I look at the Interfaces page in the webgui, it shows tons of errors. One card is brand new, courtesy of Robert Piasek, and one card dsd sent me a while back, since I had no Atheros cards, and I was the madwifi-ng maintainer. The reason for the Atheros based, is that they are rock solid in FreeBSD (typically) however, as I stated above - I get nothing but errors with them now. This is why I haven’t done anything with NetworkManager lately, and really, all I can do at this point is to test the madwifi-ng drivers by loading them.

Kismet and the like work with them as well - the errors that I see don’t seem to affect that operation at all… just when I try to use the card in ap mode.

Anyone have any ideas what would cause this? Sure I know most people are using Gentoo, but perhaps someone in the Gentoo/FreeBSD team has some idea, or someone might point me to something they’ve seen…

Okay, so I was talking with Patrick, and he said “you should blog this!” and I thought, eh, maybe… so I’ve decided to go ahead and do it, perhaps someone out there will actually implement it while I work on other things and I can benefit from the fruits of their labor

First off, issues that tend to crop up, keywording packages. Sure some arches are more responsive than others, and you can usually keyword it ~ if you have the hardware and can test it… but what if you don’t? You have a few different options - you can find someone who does, and beg them to do it, you can open a bug and beg them to do it, you can join an irc channel and beg them to do it, you can request an account on a box that infra controls and see if it works and do it…

I sumit… my idea…
Koji, Mock, and Xen.

Koji and Mock are a couple of Fedora projects that ease building of packages, with a web interface to request and see the status of builds… creating chroots to do so…
What if you took it a step further with Xen? You could then use domU’s to run the various arches (I think - this is just an idea, I have no idea of the feasibility of it, comments are more than welcome to flesh it out!) and get things compiled and keyworded…

But you could also take it a step further. You could integrate it into Bugzilla as well, perhaps even submitting ebuilds themselves to be tested to the build machine(s). Automatically submit bugs for keywording requests including the logs and possibly the package(s) as well so that rather than having the developer keyword it on his machine, he can install the binary package, and USE the program to see if it works without waiting for the package to compile…

Another usage would be… BINHOST - Gentoo’s portage DOES support installing from binary packages, and its quite easy to do so as long as you keep everything built with the same settings as whatever the BINHOST uses. So these packages could be synced somewhere for *anyone* to download and use as well. Which would give the packages more testing (since sometimes a developer of an arch might have no idea what to do to even test the package, but a user out there might want to - might even have already keyworded it on their machine and are already using it but hadn’t tested it. Along with the web interface, you could perhaps submit that you use the package, and any issues with it - if there are any bugs associated with it, these comments would get forwarded to the appropriate bug….

Thoughts? Comments?

Modern Love Song

Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database

Interesting - Sun already has PostgreSQL, wonder why they want MySQL as well…

(hat tip drac who unfortunately, I don’t have a link for)

So I’ve been working on a few things lately… and I just got a mail in my inbox from Amazon, about needing to add payment information for if/when my spot becomes available for the Amazon SimpleDB beta…

And it got me thinking… exactly why is it that I should be paying a company to beta test for them?

J5’s Blog » [ANNOUNCE] D-Bus 1.1.3 (1.2.0RC1) - “Quit nagging, it’s comming ;-)” released
Woot… the release note that I’ve been waiting for… so I go to update it in cvs… and forgot to install cvs on this machine. Should be finished any minute now and I’ll be checking the tree out, hopefully, this should be in the tree tonight, I just need to verify all the patches that I’ve been using have been applied, I saw that quite a few from fdo’s bugzilla were, so we will see. Quite a few goodies in this release.

Update: This is now in Gentoo CVS (and should be on the mirrors by now) - Please test!
Also, for clarification, yes I know that dbus is in git - I meant the gentoo-x86 cvs tree that we Gentoo dev’s use to commit our ebuilds

Vitalsecurity.org - A Revolution is the Solution

Wow…. seriously…