Archive for October, 2007

Multilingual Planet Fedora

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Lennert made a splash today with with the mixed-language feed. I am only surprised that it took him so long. Fedora Planet from my reading when the first French invasion happened in the beginning of 2006.

In reply to Lennert, my friend Máirín the obvious argument, “if you don’t like it, don’t read it”. Fair enough, this is what is going to happen to Fedora Planet then.

Redesign of the emergency roller-coaster

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Seen at :

A brainstorming meeting between NASA, the contractor RS&H, and Disney concluded with a new design to the coaster, approved ahead of the start of construction next year.

I can see a new attraction at DisneyWorld in Florida now: you start at the top of the structure and have 3 seconds to jump into your seat and strap in (if the coaster departs without you, you die), then you ride it down and out through life-threatening clouds of escaping UDMH, while the whole thing is about to explode into a big-ass fireball at any second. It’s going to be awesome, if only Disney’s Legal approves.

My first Linux

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Looking at , I tried to recall what my first Linux was, but I really cannot. It was too long ago. I copied the distro from , and I think it was an SLS of some variety, with 0.99pl12 kernel. The distro installed by booting from a 3.5″ boot/root set, then untarring from a small stack of floppies. I vaguely recall struggling with a 5.25″ floppy, which was somewhat smaller (1.2MB vs. 1.44MB). There was no X. The only purpose it could serve was a mail gateway with uucp connections.

Google Reader vs. Mugshot

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

As a reader, Google Reader has nothing on Liferea. So, it looks that its key advantage is how it allows to create , hosted at Google. But even then I fail to see the point. shares any kind of link, but Google Reader shares only blog postings. Ergo, Mugshot > Greader. Right? So, what were the vaunted PhDs at Google trying to do? They could’ve cloned Mugshot, but didn’t. Integration with Orkut is nil too. Very odd.