I can’t believe I have not bogged about this before. With all that terrorism threat bullshit, wouldn’t it be nice if there was an airline that would declare itself to be ‘terrorist friendly’ – i.e. all passangers are welcome to come on board with just a simple identity check, no security check, no baggage security [...]
After last post about a FHS amendment to address the structure of user’s home folders, I received a lot of comments and there is one very significant thing that can be changed in the proposal – instead of having $HOME/{.data|.cache|.config}/appname structure, to change that to a mandatory $HOME/.library/appname/{cache|config|…} . This version still has all the [...]
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Justification. Currently there is a huge mess of files and folders that start with a “.” in any users home folder. There is no structure or policy on how applications should choose file and folder names for data that needs to be stored in users home directory. Additionally there is no established consistency between Gnome, [...]
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Catching up on blogs, emails and Debian mailing lists I see that nothing really important has happened while I was off-line: the dunc-tank caboodle escalated and died down when the majority voted that it was not worth the commotion, some people got upset at some other people and decided stop working on Debian because of [...]
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Hmm, I wonder if in the bug squashing parties one can eliminate bugs by hard random hugging?
Monday, September 4, 2006
It would be very good to have a bounty that would pay 100$ to anyone who would find and implement a way to reduce memory use of a fully running Debian Linux + Gnome system (optionally, with all Gnome apps loaded) by one megabyte (as indicated by RAM used in a swapless system – (cache+buffers)) [...]
Sunday, September 3, 2006
More and more early adopters choose to use Ubuntu instead of Debian. Ubuntu has newer versions of the software that matters (XOrg, FF, OOO, Gnome,…) than the stable Debian or, sometimes than even the unstable Debian. Early adopters are the users that are most eager to try new shiny things, do not scream too much [...]
Thursday, August 17, 2006
If one really wants to make international flying perfectly safe (at least safe from terrorists masquerading as passengers), it is in fact very simple and quite cheap: * No carry-on or check-in luggage at all (all kinds of chemical, bacteriological or radioactive materials could be hidden there, for example it can be trivial to make [...]
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
My plea has been answered by a DVFS project specification. For some strange reason, my edits do not show up in the freedesktop.org wiki page and the blog of its creator is not reachable, so I post it here. I am very interested to help develop this tool and then use it in Simple Backup [...]
Artwork is a matter of taste, style and consistency. Design by committee does not work. If we really want to get a consistent, stylish and professional Debian style trough the whole Debian (and I think we should), we need to have an appointed Debian artwork czar – a professional designer or graphic artist, who would [...]
