Older blog entries for louie (starting at number 131)

• Watched all of season three of Coupling last night. Just incredibly hilarious stuff.
• Glynn: So, will Sun make that HEAD VNC server public? :) pretty please? :) (We really do need to do it, but if someone else is already doing it...) Otherwise, sounds like a very reasonable plan, particularly the part about just nuking all the low priority bugs after making sure they go upstream. I may consider proposing something similar within Novell.
• Cool to see Matt arguing for some more sanity in Debian. I personally think that a succesful community-based distro is an important indicator of the health of the larger Linux/Free Software community, so I hope it succeeds.
• Bryan, when are we getting to see your evo-in-gnome-blog sexiness? [Two minutes with google later] OK, let me rephrase. When are you going to nag jeff to put your blog on p.g.o?

Reading Glynn's comments on energy level at GUADEC, and had to comment. A few things:

• The architecture of the site was different. For the first time, instead of forcing everyone into one room to get network, we had brilliant wireless access. Good for sunlight and fresh air, bad for the energy that only locking 100 hackers in a room for hours on end can bring.
• There was definitely the java/mono issue outstanding, especially for those of us on the board trying to move this issue along. We did have some good talks at the advisory board level, though with nothing really concrete as of yet. I don't think that generally impacted the energy level, but it certainly impacted how the board felt.
• Multiple 8 hour meetings to bookend GUADEC with are brutal, no matter what the content. Hopefully the board will learn from this year and have both the meetings before the conference next year. Again, mostly an impact on board members.

Overall, I thought energy level was pretty good. We're not in a really energetic, driving time right now, like we were for and immediately after 2.0. Part of this goes to some of the issues Nat raised, which I think are concerning, but we're not avoiding them for lack of energy.

Wow! Advo is back. Perfect timing; I was thinking of finally getting my life in order and putting up my own blog. Now I can let my natural laziness take over. Thanks to everyone who helped get it back up (and up in the first place, of course).

GUADEC was really awesome. Really great to meet roozbeh, dave coombs (with whom I had great soup, and who did the yeomans work of documenting the benches), other NITI folk, ynakai, dick, hpj, dodji, and of course the inimitable andrew sobala, to whom I gave the pants/trousers/whatever. All told, we had a ton of countries represented, which was cool. And of course lots of faces I hadn't seen since last GUADEC that I got to see again. That's probably always the best part of guadec. The incredible facilities, cool talks, long board meetings (groan), midnight soccer, drinking expensive beer, wiki, and generally great organization were just icing- really awesome icing this year, but still icing.

hadess, I resent that statement. I'm full of shit, no e. Bloody english and their weird spellings.

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Sri keeps talking about hardware goodness. We need us some of that.

Was cool to see that Creative Commons released new licenses, and I updated my stuff, but there is no longer an option to do non-attribution licenses, which makes them fairly non-free, DFSG-wise. That is unfortunate.

Lucky brits- Lessig will be speaking in London on Thursday as well as the Friday talk I mentioned earlier.

Work is pretty stressful at the moment, but I'm excited about working on cool stuff and about GUADEC.

Hadess needs to certify his blog as being BLX 1.0 compliant.

Futurismic reminds me of slashdot, in a time long ago and far away, when CmdrTaco was still not afraid to say 'sorry I haven't posted anything lately, my exams have really sucked.' And the news was actually timely and cool.

Heh. The pythons aren't all they used to be but this was fun.

I continue to have fun with planet. It was pointed out to me that you can share things with bloglines, but dunno- I just like fooling with planet, I guess. Not that I'm even sharing my planets yet, really, either, though I guess those interested in the Duke Linux community can poke here.

Saw Oedipus The King last night at the American Repertory Theater. Brilliant staging, great acting, and play still basically as dull as it was in high school, when Doc would scream THE CROSSROADS IS THE VAGINA. Sometimes things don't get better as you age. Shame.

Finally got an ogg player/ripper set up on my new MS-tax-free Dell. Quiet 160Gb disk, monitor dialed down to 640x480, and wireless trackball. Will set up VNC to use from laptops in other rooms if I need to. The open question now is whether to actually completely ditch my old stereo and buy a new set of speakers that are smaller.

Just saw from NTK that Lessig will be speaking at Oxford a week from today. If you're reading this, and you're in the UK, run, don't walk. His talk is powerful and persuasive and will make you want to go apply creative commons licenses to everything you have in bit-like form. So go.

Saw the first episode of The Office last night. Had some funny parts, but mostly just made me uncomfortable. Ended up spending the rest of the night watching old Futurama on replaytv instead. BTW, if you're a replay owner, run, don't walk, to dvarchive. It rules.

I'm excited that Stephen Donaldson is working on a new set of Covenant novels. But he really, really needs to get a new web designer.

I went ahead and put my money where my mouth is and gave a serious chunk of change to John Kerry. I think he'll probably be an ineffective president, but ineffective is better than the effective slimeballs we have running the show now. Yet again, I regret that the Republican Party chased John McCain away in 2000.

[Later: editing instead of starting a new post because I don't want to start a big political thread.] I never said I thought McCain was a moderate; I'm well aware he holds a number of conservative positions I strongly disagree with. But I'd rather an honest, well-intended centrist-tending conservative than the dishonest scuzzbag we've got or the pathetic excuse for a liberal I'll happily settle for.

Found out last night that someone already has luis@gmail, just as someone already had luis@novell. Damn you. DAMN YOU ALL.

Scary- Penn State won't let kids have servers in dorms. Experimenting with new tools is supposed to be part of the college experience, it is how you learn. Sad that PSU has been blackmailed to that extent. I'm sure they aren't the only ones.

Fascinating to me (trying to be ethical in a big company) that google continues to push very hard to be Not Evil. This guy is ridiculously overboard, but it does still make a good point- Google are clearly now the leaders/visionaries in the software space, and people are now looking to them and not MS to have this kind of thinking and deploy it first. They'll only solidify that if they can do integrated desktop search on XP before MS does it on Longhorn.