02 Jun 2002
If you know anything about the state of the mnet code you know that what I like to do is make thing more usable to the average person. So tonight I had the pleasure of play with The Circle tonight. It’s got some cool stuff.
- you can share your debian apt cache (meaning all the *.deb files that you’ve downloaded, installed, but not deleted) with everyone else on circle, and added apt methods that will transparently try to get packages from circle before trying to get them from the normal site. (md5sums make the world go ‘round)
- the daemon script has an option that can be run to install an init.d script to bring the daemon up on reboot (not sure if the init.d scripts are in the debian package)
- some kind of shell extention where you can switch between circle and the shell (havn’t tried it yet)
I hope to bring some of these same UI ideas to Mnet right after I get the other two big things out of the way. (what are those? stay tuned.)
31 May 2002
Dear Santa, I would like a Compaq^H^H^H^H^H^H^H HP iPaq H3135 with a CompactFlash 802.11b card, so that I can give my mindstorms more brainz (“Igor, more brains. More brains.”). Also so I need this so I can read webpages on the john.
23 May 2002
Yesterday at work we needed more XP the OS and XP the Office Suite licences to install. Little did I know that you could buy just the licences. How weird. It’s been a long time since I actually bought software.
I attempted to talk the work guys into getting Linux and OpenOffice, but they wanted to spend $300 (and I really actually didn’t want to deal with it if it went wrong).
23 May 2002
Last time I heard of her she was spouting off about how we need the clipper chip. Now she’s quoted in a Washington Post story about Open Source in the Armed Forces, saying that, “I’ve never seen a systematic study that showed open source to be more secure.”
Does she work for Dr. Evil?
ps - Dorothy, why don’t you do that study?
23 May 2002
If you read nothing else today try this. So now we have three dinosaurs (music, phone, software) of industry that are just in the way of rapid progress… and they’ve all shown they aren’t going out without a fight. Messy, messy, messy.