Ars Technica – Reviews – Mac OS X 10.4 TigerWhat would you expect from a review of a point release of a operating system? About the same as you would expect from the point release itself.This one had much more then I exected. First of all the changes [...]
LWN: An amd64 Debian sarge release in the works I really hope that this release will work out fine and that it will also demonstrate feasibility of independant arhitecture specific teams doing releases for SCC arhitectures of Debian of post-Sarge. I don’t see OpenOffice.org in the [...]
THE 1 MILLION DOWNLOAD CHALLENGE – Opera Web Browser
I love those crazy Norwegians!
Actually there seams not too much of the world outside Debian for me, BUT today I discovered for myself a concept of biofilms. It came up with a chat with a beutiful girl that aims to study microbiology. It appears like bacteria floating in water and bacteria attached to a surface are two compleatly different [...]
The Deamon, the Gnu and the Penguin (chapters 4 & 5)It is really fun to read about the earlyest history of computer software. Especially it is fun to see how for most of the computerized history of the world, the software has been free in all sences of [...]
Another fine episode of Dr. Who brought to non-U.K. populace of the world by the digital wonders of BitTorrent has just gone trought my screen. I must say that I am in love with these series since I’ve seen the first episode of the new Doctor.While the humor is a bit thin and plots are [...]
It is one year ’till I’ll have to present my master thesis. Today I’ve been thinking that my current topic “AOP crosscut and UML” is not really my thing as it involves a lot of formal logic and mathematical manipulations with said logic. And I am not that math inclined anymore. Any deviation from current [...]
I just returned from the member meeting of Latvian IKT Association. The meeting was fun – I was poking in every possible legal issue that I could find in the voting process for the new board and even a young lawyer woman that was invited to the meeting to provide some legal support could not [...]
I spoke too soon – Exim gave up on me failing to start with an obscure message:Exim configuration error in line 301 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated: group mail was not found
The group ‘mail’ was still there and id and getent commands confirmed it. With help from #debian@irc.debian.org I was able to figure out that /etc/groups had [...]
Just now I did some hacking of TikiWiki on the LAKA site. First I added a feature – now RSS feeds from news articles can be selected by topic. Then I put two rss aggregators on the main Wiki page of the site – one with all articles on ‘LAKA’ topic and the other one [...]
