For the second time in a few days i met strangers on the floor of my house.
In Vienna Austria all houses can be opened by a central key (called “BG Schl�ssel”), so that the garbage collection and the postman can enter the house. Unfortunately now nearly everyone can get such a key via grey channels.
The guy i met on the floor a few days ago claimed that he wanted to visit the company that rented my flat until 2001. Today at around 23.00 a guy entered the house and went straight into the garden (although it was raining) and watched the windows on the garden side. Asked what he was doing there he said that it was not my business and ran away. Since I know that the door of my flat is not a real barrier (and the windows are even worse) and i am not always awake and at home I don’t know what to do…
Planet BSD
If you read the recent comment list, you already know, there is now a BSD Planet. My FreeBSD Category is syndicated there. If you are part of the BSD community and blog please tell Mela, as my blog can’t compete with the Freshports.org feed.
The Joel Test
Kris wonders if “The Joel Test” applies to OpenSource Projects. He took KDE as an example that reaches quite high points on the Joel Test because of it’s strong focus on releases.
Mela pointed out that the BSDs are also focused on releases. I tried the test on FreeBSD and got only 6 points. The most interesting question is No. 6 “Do you fix bugs before writing new code?”. Per coincidence, during last weeks debate about bugtracking software on the developers Mailinglist, I suggested that the RE team puts a stronger focus on the Bug numbers. Take a look at this chart and you can see, what I mean: 1250 reported Kernel Bugreports are just unmanagable.
Head lice
My girlfriend’s nieces (8 and 12) are currently visiting. Yesterday we discovered that they have head lice. *w���h* We spent the whole day washing hair and all clothes. I had to wash my thin hair with lice shampoo too to be safe.
Current reading
I spent most of the weekend reading, as I got a lot of books as birthday gifts, and didn’t had the time to read them last month.
First Haruki Murakami’s “Underground”. A book about the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo Subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult. It is very thrillilng to read especially when you are sitting in a subway. I like the philosophising eastern, a bit depressive style of the author, I think i will try to read more books from him.
The second book was “Spies” by Michael Frayn. Although most reviewers on the Internet seem to like the book, i found it difficult to read, as it is constantly switching between an old man remembering his childhood and the young boy who lives his childhood. The story is fascinating, but the end reads like the author went out of paper.
Today I read Willem Elsschot’s “Cheese”. This is one of the most important dutch books, but i didn’t like it either. According to the reviews it should be humorous, but i was rather bored and annoyed. Luckily it was rather short.
Now the only unread book in my bookshelf is a Terry Pratchett “The Science of the Diskworld”…
What’s your favorite FreeBSD Bugtracking Software?
Currently FreeBSD developers started a bikeshed about Bugtrackingsoftware and how much GNATS sucks. Time for the first poll on this blog.
The future of Systems Research II
Bryan Cantrill article “Whither USENIX?” I mentioned here last week got a lot of feedback.
MT Bug
Today I noticed a serious MT Bug. If i delete a spamcomment and then click on SAVE instead of REBUILD the blogentry gets replaced with the spamcomment. Argh. A reason to switch the blog software…
Comment Spammers are back.
Today I had to delete 6 comments from two sources. Obviously the spammers improved their software, so that they are no longer confused by the renamed mt-comments.cgi. Now I removed the Popup Window, let’s see if this affects the number of spam comments.
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Today I got the results from my first math exam. I belong to the upper third as the average was 4.06. I can’t believe it. This must be a mistake.