Marc, himself, his blogs, and you reading them.... the eternal try-out.McGuyver- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Finally. The bags are packed. We're ready to go. Off with the family for little less then 3 weeks to Egypt! Departure tonight. Noteworthy special dialog: mom Why don't you help me out packing, son. son (aged 6) Ok. Hey mom, what are these mom (whishing she remebered those before asking him to help) Condoms, son. ...snipped... Intertaining dialogue balancing between honesty, truthfull leveled information transfer and slight evasiveness. son (showing he understood) Well, they sure didn't...http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004719.html mpo the bofh- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Confession time. I suck at system administration stuff. No, it's worse: I just hate every moment spent at doing (euh, failing at) it. I even have my own theory to justify why. It's a personality thing, and I'm sure every psy-HR-manager out there will have tons of scientific argumensts to back my claim. The corner-stone of my theory runs around the huge amounts of utterly illogical detail-facts one need to pile up to cope with the "Arbitrary Complexity" introduced by tons of well-thinking...http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004611.html Incredibles!- (Found July 8, 2008 ) "Of course every super-hero has an alter-ego! Do you think I go shopping in this outfit" In an attempt to prove that teachers are in fact super-hero's, there is at least two of which I've discovered their alter-ego: Mark Van den Borre, is a music teacher who also started this great initiative of listing up ubuntu-support-spots in Belgium. and "Meester Jan", my (worhsipping) daughter's much adored (by mothers as well) teacher, is in fact nobody less then PIV HUVLUV the stand-up comedian. ...http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004628.html J-Dapper- (Found July 8, 2008 ) It's announced to happen today, but it hasn't happened yet so it seems... So we're still waiting for the big world-wide mayor download feast to start. Anyway, it got me thinking about way back how this debian peep talked about this other guy that was running this new linux distro. For some reason, that was enough to get me into it. Which means I've been going through the warty-hoary-breezy sequence up to now: patiently awaiting dapper. The big pre-release-news posted on the ubuntu-fridge...http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004636.html Dapper Update Story- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Updating to the new Dapper distro was slightly less boring then expected. Getting everything up to where I was before was as easy as: use upgrade-manager -d fix up the xorg.conf for fglrx reconfigure vmware done Uh, leaving breezy was a breeze :-)http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004640.html Information Biology- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The commodity (in our world) of "being able to read" is hiding a tremendous natural wonder. For me personally it's at least the wonder bringing me one of my biggest joys. Give me letters and I'll enjoy reading, sucking up the memes contrived in them. By the way: It's fun to see how it's taking a similar place in the lives of our kids (even when the youngest is yet to learn how to make meaning of those funny marks, it's obvious he's already drawn to them) My current read...http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004642.html Insomnia cure- (Found July 8, 2008 ) People not tired enough by counting sheep can now switch to counting ubuntu users.http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004652.html Taming maven-2, part 1.- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Or as Howard was putting it; 'appeasing the petty God'. Matter of fact, the maven team selected his quote to be this week's guiding 'topic' of the maven irc channel. Entering maven-2 land is like coming home after the long and winding travel maven-1 was about. Yeah sure, there is some laundry you badly need to do. But your custom build cutlery is getting a dedicated spot on the cupboard as opposed to getting wrapped up and displaced all the time. If you're the kind that..http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004656.html Open source licensing - final version.- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Finally an open source license model I completely grasp: The NpBoL. I think it's both the original and the final version since I can't see how one could make it more complete by removing anything from it. This completely appeals to one of my most natural social tactics. I'ld like to call it the "since you invented your existence into my life, I'll gladly opt to ignore you did so"-approach. Sometimes though public pressure requires you to disguise it with a flair of naivety and continued...http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004683.html Quiz time- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Found myself at an incredible difficult fund-raising-quiz last weekend. Which translates to "Paying your share to feel stupid all night." Go figure! Anyways, among the load of those silly "Why can't I remember stupid facts" questions there was also the more interesting logic and riddle section. Here is one from that set: Two ferry boats (A and B) operate on a river. Both boats have different (but constant) speeds. At a given time they start off together at opposite sides of the river and...http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/archives/004600.html |