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Life

Just filed the application for transfer to Civil Service. I'll end up serving 4 months extra duty for that, 16 months in total.

In Norway, where I currently live, there is conscription, as there is in half the nations of the world. It is demanded that you make yourself available for the military machinery of the state for 12 months and are willing to take the lives of others and jeopardize your own.

Update: 2 months extra for doing Civil Service, 14 months in total.

In Tim O'Reilly's response to Jim Allchin's comments on "open source" software development, he links to Ontario Swine Improvement Inc.:

I was disappointed, because Allchin's comments ignored all of the reasoning behind the widespread change from the term "free software" to the term "open source." (While there is a lot of overlap between the ideals of the free software movement and the open source movement, the two are not identical.)

I'm amused that O'Reilly makes open source look like swine.

Exciting day with many interesting talks by free software ûberhackers at OSDEM (denoted FSDEM by rms).

If you get the chance to hear people like rms, wichert or Jeremy Allison sometime, I deeply recommend to attend their talks.

Returned to Oslo from Brussels tonight.

Arrived Brussels with Annett on Thursday.

We're attending the OSDEM (or FSDEM, that Saint IGNUcius prefers to call it).
Listened to three interesting speeches today:

• rms on Software Patent Dangers
• werner on the Gnu Privacy Guard
• fyodor on the nmap portscanner.

Tomorrow mathieu is going to talk about bonobo and wichert on Debian.

05:10: Awaken by snow crunching vehicle.
10:03: Monday morning. Yuck.
12:01: Calculus for physical science class begins. Maple gets demonstrated on MacOS.
15:00: Move raquet - next week.
15:31: libc in SunOS 5.7 sucks.
15:35: _Really_ sucks.
16:10: Upgrade Interbase 6.0 to 6.0.1 on Debian for client.

Unsupported on-disk structure for file /opt/interbase/data1/data/Nfr.gdb; found 9, support 10

19:31: Move Slackware server to Debian GNU/Linux for client along with Ingvar.
00:27: GNOEKKA rebooted.
00:55: Left machine room.
01:45: Eat pizza.

The University of Oslo computer club PING will be hosting the Nordic University Computer Club Conference 2001 from 2001-02-16 to 2001-02-18. See the NUCCC web for details.

David Brownell (db) signed up today! He is the man behind the kernel USB driver for Kodak DC-2XX series digital still cameras, Java USB, and jPhoto, among other things.

einn ~ $ uname -a
SunOS einn.ifi.uio.no 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc
einn ~ $ /bin/vi foo
xterm-debian: Unknown terminal type

 [Using open mode]
Segmentation Fault

Signed up for OSDEM in Brussels (February 3rd-4th 2001).

Next week I'll be working for LinPro at some site at Frankfurt in Germany.
My flight leaves on Monday November 6th at 6:30AM from Oslo Airport.
I'm supposed to spend five days in Frankfurt and head back to Oslo on Friday afternoon.

20:05: Packing.