Props to my brother Adam for this link. This is for those of you thought that Tux was just a cuddly little penguin; instead of a wingless mega-death giving machine.
Author: Bobby Rockers
File Bugs and Help Test
There has been a great deal of frustration in the Fedora community sense its inception with the lack of community input on this “community distribution.” It has lead many of us wondering exactly what Red Hat plans to do with Fedora. The whole process only became more confusing with the recent announcement that Red Hat Linux is back
This post does a pretty good job of summing up the feelings of many us in the community. One has to wonder how long can Red Hat continue to take advantage of its core supporters and still remain a main-line distribution?
aude sapere
If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.
-Francis Bacon
Failing US Technology
This article from the New York Times talks about the slow slide of American technology dominance as the world becomes more advanced. The article is from the NYT so take it with a grain of salt, but the tracking numbers referenced are interesting.
One of my college professors was a lead engineer for the critical path data on the U.S. Super-conducting Super-collider when the government canceled the project. His statement at the time was “this will put the Europeans in the lead in particle physics research for the next 50 years.” Politicians in the U.S. (over the last 50 years) have been thinking more and more in the short term, and I am afraid we are starting to reap the rewards of our inaction.
The Road to Hell…
God may judge by the content of ones heart; but history judges by the product of ones actions.
A quick test
Overdue Links
Ok, I have a whole bunch of old links that I have been meaning to post here for a while and just never got the time. So without further ado:
- Big D & Bubba Arcade -On-line flash games for waisting time.
- CGI XMLRPC -How-to tutorial on getting CGI to use XMLRPC.
- Crystal Space -The Open Source 3D development toolkit.
- Plane Shift -The Definitive Open Source MMORPG game that uses Crystal Space.
- Single Signon -An IBM tutorial on implementing a single sign-on solution.
- Moho -The cross platform vector based Web Cartoon development enviroment. ahem… ADAM!
- Garage Games -Closed source Linux games.
- J2EE by Sun -A SUN Microsystems tutorial on J2EE development for people with Java experience.
- LiteOn Airboard -The ultimate HTPC keyboard solution. Thanks Jason!
- The Sphinx Project -Open Source voice recognition software.
- Lib WordPerfect -A library for importing Word Perfect documents.
Hope some of you find these links as useful as I do.
Joke of the Day
Tom’s Hard News has the most entertaining news of the day. Evidently Scott Richter (of Spam King fame) is filing suite against the owners of Spamcop. The basis of his suite is defamation. Spamcop evidently has “soiled” the reputation of his company.
Funny I would have thought that being a spammer would have been enough to spoil his companies reputation by itself. Its my opinion that spammers occupy Cocytus; along with Lucifer himself. “All hope abandon, ye who spam!” Crap, I wonder if I will get sued for defamation now.
Tech Business
Got a twofer today on the technology business and how those businesses can complete. The first article is called Why MySQL grew so fast and talks about the massive adoption of MySQL and its place as a disruptive technology. The second article is Shake Your Groove Thing by PBS columnest I, Cringely. It talks about how companies (like Google and Adobe) can and do complete with Microsoft.
One of the strongest points the article makes is that Microsoft in no longer an actual technology company. For example, it has more lawyers working for it than it does programmers. If you want to compete in the world of technology, these articles are a good place to start.
What Death looks like
This story from “The Australian” newspaper talks about a Brithish documentary that was seen on TV a couple days ago. The name of the documentary is My Feotus, and it shows footage of actual abortions in the 4th, 10th, 11th, and 21rst weeks. A couple quotes from the story are:
When I interviewed a doctor about the unpleasantness of performing late abortions it was difficult to listen and not believe it was morally wrong….
I swallowed. I didn’t want to say it, but the word ‘murder’ came to my lips…
Both quotes are from pro-choice advocates. My question is, if you conscience is telling you that something is morally wrong then why arn’t you listening to it. Especially if the action in “question” is the possible murder of another human being. I have a hard time not seeing abortion as the slavery issue of the 21st century. That thing we all know is wrong, but, darn it, it sure makes our lives easier.