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Monthly Archives: July 2005

11th of July in HEL

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

The first thing I really noticed in the morning was that I missed the breakfast, again.On the other hand this wall in the cafeteria caught my lens – this is a clock up in the air, aprox. 3-4 meters up from the floor. Now that you know, where it is, notice the power plugs … [...]

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CDD ideas

Monday, July 11, 2005

I am now at the speach of Andreas Tille about CDDs and let me dump here my idea, what the CDD framerowk should do. it should be enough to write one structured text file to create a CDD you can select a set of packages that are: needed, recommended, conflicted; you can preseed debconf database [...]

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Delayed photoblog – July 10

Sunday, July 10, 2005

This day is rich on pictures – 8 of them got in here, but that is a bit compensated by low number of photos tomorrow Here is a photo of the cafeteria where all meal are served at the Debconf. It is not a bomb bunker.This is the breakfast of mine for the day. You [...]

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DC5 – Jul 9

Sunday, July 10, 2005

After some nice breakfast, the Debian Day started with an address from the leader.Jaldhar H. Vyas did a nice talk about the Debian in general, touching a lot of later subjects too – due to some technical problems, he had to go without his slides: Then Gunnar Wolf did a talk about free software, where [...]

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1.08 Euro?!?!

Saturday, July 9, 2005

This will not wait until the daily summary: in Extremadura all mainterance costs of all LinEx distributions, including a dedicated system administrator in every school and including three developers only cost them 1.08 euro per computer per year !!!This is simply fenomenal.

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Debconf – first day + morning

Saturday, July 9, 2005

Let us try out a photoblogging format for the daily Debconf5 reportings.I only arrived here yesterday and here is the schedule of the bus from the center of Helsinki to the campus region:After following the many friendly signs, I arrived to the site and spotted the first developers:Some more were just around the corner: After [...]

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SOFTWARE PATENTS REJECTED!!!!!

Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Hurrray!648 in favor (of rejection), 14 against, 18 abstentions

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Anime night

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

A couple of days ago I was at an event of the local anime society – half a night of anime. The selected movies were really psyhic. It started with a simple and easy “She and her cat”, continued with a nice and romantic “Voices of a distant star” and then went into overdrive with [...]

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Slow and Strange hangs

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Yesterday I started to try to configure my desktop and my notebook to talk to each other via wireless using the AdHoc mode. The results were far from good – the best I could get, after few hours of desperate hacking around, was a working link with 100 Kbit/s.The best thing was that my desktop [...]

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Return from BXL

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

When I came back from Brussels, my bag went missing in the airport. It seams that BXL airport folks lost a trolley or something, as I was not alone in this. The airport people took my phone number, home address, tag and ticket numbers and a description of the bag.The next day they called in [...]

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