Views on Life

• Anyone interested in that dent bot I mentioned earlier; check out my mate http://identi.ca/oberon #
• @bdeferme chap, that just sounds Really wrong :p (imagine the wrong as the Depeche Mode sample..) #
• @bdeferme Did you read it? Do you Live by it? #
• @bdeferme .. I might read it when I run out of good books to read :s Considering I even havent read the linux exposed, that wont happen soon #
• gNote is still quite quirky though :/ Weird behavings #
• That being said, @oberon is denting away just lovely #
• @gdk Be glad you didnt post that on any blog. Posting anything on #Gnote is like sprinkling Mono dust; Evangelists pop up seconds later! #
• @bdeferme How cute, they posted nearly simultaneous LOL! #
• @bdeferme ni al uwen @apollo zijn msgs zijn even duidelijk ze :p #
• @gdk LOL! Glad to inspire #
• @gdk by the way, you should answer my last email :p #

Just wrote a lil dent bot thingy; check it out at http://identi.ca/oberon

more of a quick proof of concept kind of thingy at the moment though..

• What to do with people who use arguments like ‘you’re stuck in a mindset that I don’t even mention’ .. probably best to just ignore them #
• I reeks tar here #
• @bdeferme lol. There s an awful tar smell here & that should ve been “It reeks Tar here” You know.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar #
• What to eat, what to eat :/ #
• @bdeferme Great! Next .. Where to eat, where to eat :/ #
• @bdeferme that wasnt usefull at all #
• had spaghetti. great lunch #
• @bdeferme yes, despite your rather difficult proposal #
• Walking around in the city, I sometimes miss a soundhorn with an amazingly loud ‘WRONG’ sample as heard in the Depeche Mode song. #
• Only 3 Days , 5 hours, 52 minutes till fishy watching #
• Just had a Great idea for a fun identica bot #
• @nocturn hehehe I’ll keep it a surprise, if all goes well, I’ll have a go at it tonight & you ll all be able to see then #
• Time is DEFINITELY relative #
• I really do like the Proximus client service. Just got a call & the told me something I do care about in a short and concise way. Nice #
• @bdeferme Are you advising me David Allen books????????????? #
• perl makes a difference between ` and ‘. There obviously IS a difference, but the typographical difference makes code difficult to read! #

Im home alone & friday s a nooo work day. So ..

• I want to do the grass in the yard
• I want to start on the living room
• I want to put up the paper cabinet
• And something else I cant really seem to remember :s

There!

I just finished jPod by Douglas Coupland.

jPod is a very funny book about software people. Lots of weird stuff in it, several utterly strange pages, several times again. Fun! Slightly absurd at times though not as absurd as Tom Sharpe novels..

It actually made me laugh out loud several times. And that doesnt really happen usually.

A good read!

No time to post any decent posts today, because I had to reply on earlier posts comments. The 2 posts show both sides of the spectrum when it comes down to comments. The interesting & helpfull comments on the 64bit Linux post and the sad comments on my earlier Tomboy gNotes post.

Its really sad how mentioning mono sparks such a flame fest. Even when pointing that out, trying to draw attention to the attitude problem that apparently exists in the Mono community, the first reaction started off with “Honestly, I think you’re a douche.” Proving my point in a rather painful and almost comical way! I could barely believe what I read and considered it being a joke of my colleagues on my behalf. I soon leant the annonymous poster (how cowardly) to be a student from Leuven, and apparently a serious post. Its worth reading, really :/ Dont feel obliged to read my initial post though, the comments only touch on the content of that post and mostly react to what they think to have read.
Its sad really.

Luckilly, there are still decent people around, trying to help in the comment section. (cfr the 64bit post)

And to sign off on a happier note..

Anywho, I’m off to bed & looking forward to more angry words, I expect. What a pitty.

• Whats with the cold weather and these trafic jams :s #
• I should really post my series of Screen articles, because they re growing obsolete :/ #
• Banana time! #
• @bdeferme Super #
• @bdeferme I didnt really love it back then though I was paranoid; looking out for annoying moving ads & waiting for the annoying midi! #
• The mono related flames are flowing in. I on my gNote post #
• Another fine example that some commenters barely read the posts they comment upon.. Next please! #
• Im wondering how these random Mono freaks find that post. Is there a blog somewhere tracking mono posts for those looking for a rant? #
• Weird shit happening in my previous project. Im very curious as to the source of that problem. It ll be next week though #
• More foul language in the gNotes post comments.. I feel like pointing out the junk logic, but there s work to do now. #
• I keep on being happily surprised that my laptop writes & blanks CDs on battery power! Im really used to decrepit hardware #

• Well, he isnt very talkative today :s #
• Exit TomBoy & Mono, Welcome GNote! No more .exe lines in my process list #
• Baby its coooold outside #
• It IS a small world after all Just met a fellow planet.grepper in the halls! #
• @nocturn I know, It was on my mind when I posted the message & in my notes for the blog post about GNote Ill be writing tonight #
• Whow, that sucked! And cost me quite some time too #
• auch – another piece of supercool code gets scrapped. But at least it ll be in the next files #

Ive been an avid user of Tomboy notes for quite a while now. It helps me keep the head clean and stores passwords, analysis, lists, simple notes and whatnot for me. I love the fact that I just open it, type some & close it again without the nuisance of saving, forgetting to save, being asked to save, ..

The only thing that sometimes bothered me, was seeing a .exe in my process list (due to tomboy being built on .net Mono technology)

I’m glad to say that that minor annoyance has now been solved Some poor bored soul on the interweb decided to make a C port and ensuingly released GNote More info on the GNote project can be found on his blog!

I would however like to make a point here..

Its a pitty the Mono people always get such a rant going when someone decides to move away from it for whatever reason. Linux is about choice, but not using Mono doesnt appear to be a valid choice for those people..(cfr posts guy, gNote release blog posts, ..) I can understand being pro Mono, I can understand seeing the positive side, but I really dont get why everyone makes such a fuss about it? Yes its a nice, valid technology. Yes, its a great project. Yes, you ll probably use Microsoft copyrighted material. Yes, you ll have to trust MS on that. Yes, you (most likely) have no idea about how close Novel & MS Actually are! Ive seen all these points agreed on by both pro & contra evangelists yet in the end, it always turns Nasty!

Choosing for GNote is in no way an insult to Tomboy. In the contrary! In a perfect world, I would like the tomboy people to embrace the port and integrate the port into the usual releases; leaving people the alternative to use mono or the plain C version.
Everyone bitching on the new version blog posts.. Someone deeming a project worth converting (yes, away from the Holy Mono) is quite the complement to the quality of the software. Both in concept as in execution.

So yeah, I dont get the negativity around the wonderfull GNote initiative And I’m using GNote Right Now!

I finally gave up & installed an SVN server. I ve been needing one for a while now & well – this is it!

I was happy to commit that wad of code and documents & be confident never to lose it again I’ll need to create a backup scheme and Ill set up a temp backup scheme asap. & Ill get a decent backup going after the fileserver upgrade on the old fileserver hardware.

The SVN runs on the Soekris and will soon be authenticating on the new LDAP (also running on the soekris since I need those to be online always – ldap login wont exactly work – without the ldap online) server. But thats for later, now I’m just happy to be able to store my code somewhere & Versioning will be awsome for eSwitchpad And ofcourse, Ill have to clean up the svn server definition & create a new virtualhost But .. not now

Hooray for SVN!