Francis Strand – How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons. Francis is an American living in Stockholm, Sweden. Nearly every Blogentry contains a new swedish word to learn.
Blogshares and Powerlaws
After I commented out the Blogshares icon a few days ago, because it did not work, I visited the site today, to see whats going on. Blogshares is down because of Technical problems and may or may not come back soon. Of course furious debates and flames are going on in the forum. In one posting I found a link to an interesting article by Clay Shirky about Weblogs and Power laws. Obviously this weblog will never become popular, since it started too late :-).
arved.free-bsd.org dead :-(
Since yesterday arved.free-bsd.org is dead. The DynamicDNS provider decided that he needs to earn money. This is second time this happened to me, I really need a better solution.
Several service of mine are affected like:
- The hostname is the primary MX for arved.de. It will probably take until Monday until this gets fixed. Please use other emailadresses instead like arved@FreeBSD.org
- This weblog. I am currently grep’ing through /usr/local/www to find all places where MT hardcoded the link in. A Rebuild unfortunately didn’t change everything
- Links from third party sites, like Google, so probably at the moment no one will read this entry 🙂
More OSS developers?
In an interesting thread on kdedevelopers.org Aaron Seigo and Brad Hards are discussing strategies how to attract new developers to KDE. Thoughts:
- Taking companies developer programs as an example
- The KDE Extragear project
- The GNOME Love Mailinglist
- a mentor program
- ..and of course improving documentation
procmail statistics
On Saturday I introduced a bug into my .procmailrc which resulted in all my mails being stored in a Folder called “Sender: ” (exercise to the reader: What did I wrong). This is interesting, because I can now say how many emails I get (including spam and mailinglists). The number is impressive: ca. 20/hour. I can easily spent the whole day reading email if I read everything I receive :-).
Goodbye 5.1, Hello 5.2
Okay, All my three 5.x Machines are running 5.2-BETA now.
5.1 was released on June 9. It was a huge improvement over 5.0 which had several problems that bite me, like a broken xl(4) driver that made it unusable. 5.1 worked for half a year on my main Workstation and no major problems prevented me from being productive. Although le tried to use it on the univie newscore, and found several problems under heavy load.
Hopefully 5.2 will be as stable. Before Codefreeze CURRENT was quite unstable due to several last-minute commits. But after a week in Codefreeze it feels usable again.
OpenBSD driver for wi(4) based USB WLAN Adapters
On a FreeBSD Mailinglist imp pointed to a recent addition to OpenBSD: Support for wi(4) based USB WLANS Adapters like my Netgear MA111. Next time i have some spare time I will look into porting this to FreeBSD. But probably someone else with more kernel Fu and more freetime will beat me.
Knowledgebased Systems
While upgrading Polly and Sauna to FreeBSD 5.2-BETA, I started the countdown for the first exam this term. It will be on December 12 for the course “Introduction to Knowledgebased Systems”
A KBS consists of
- The User Interface
- The Inference component
- The Knowledgebase
- The Knowledge Acquisition component
- Explanation component
Christmas
Just heard on FM4:
“Only wimps are buying Christmas presents before December 24, 12:00”.
Happy First advent!
port install darwinports
I spent this weekend getting darwinports to run. My greatest problem was, that I needed to install various Apple Developers packages like X11SDK. Now I am installing qt, gtk and all my favorite Apps.
There some nice things about dports i like already, e.g. automatic plist generation, or the simpified status file in the WRKDIR. But there are still a lot of things I need to get used to.