Arrrggh. Larry reminded me that today, like every September 19th, be Talk Like a Pirate Day.
And ye can’t sail the vast Internet Seas without a theme song, and some rum.
To end this short post, I leave ya with dis Study on Pirates, the ones that deal with Software anyway. ‘Tis a shame that Linux doesn’t even make the list.
I’ve never done this before and can’t promise to never do this again.
The hobbit you called fat, is skipping his second breakfast.
The dwarf you called ugly, spent hours braiding her beard to distinguish herself from male dwarves.
The Uruk-Hai you just killed, was victim of Saruman’s abuse.
Gollum, who you mocked for his psychosis, suffered for 500 years from the One Ring, poisoning his mind.
The Elf you see crying, just lost his wizard friend to a Balrog.
Re-Post this on your Blog if you’re against Violence in Middle Earth.
“How can you call yourself Free if you still depend on Privative Software?”.
September 15 marks the Mexican Independence Day, which started 201 years ago with a priest shouting at a church, calling us to arms and rebel against the kings and monarchs that ruled us.
I’m not trying to emulate the priest in any way, that’s a wild thought best left for a fanfic of some sorts, but with the current situation we live in my country, I really don’t feel as attached to this place as I used to be.
I don’t remember what day I first tried out Linux (Debian, Mandrake and Knoppix back then), or when I finally decided to get rid of the Windows Vista Beta partition and stick with Fedora Core 6 (That sounds like a loooooooooong time ago), but why not celebrate my independence from Bill Gates the same day most Mexicans celebrate their independence?
That’d give me something to celebrate.
I’ve written about KDE once or twice, but always from the point of view of a Gnome user.
These past few months I’ve been using KDE, 4.6 on my personal laptop and 4.7 on the laptop at work. And I’ve been using KDE because I’ve had no other choice, really. I’m still in bad terms with the general philosophy of Gnome 3, and haven’t felt comfortable in the few days of usage of Xfce and LXDE.
There’s BlueBubble, but my repackaging efforts although functional are kind of broken, and that’s expected. You can’t have your Gnome 2 with Gnome 3 packages as a hybrid. There’s also MATE, which aims to do what I was to lazy to do with BlueBubble: Rename all Gnome packages so that you may have Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 on the same computer.
I’ve started packaging bits and pieces of Mate, but there’s still a long way to go. In the mean time though, and the reason I wrote this, I started getting comfortable with KDE.
True, I bastardized it to the point where it sort of looks like Gnome’s Golden-Age desktop, and I’m using a lot of GTK / Neutral apps like LibreOffice, Firefox, Pidgin and Rhythmbox instead of their QT kounterparts counterparts, but the desktop itself… It no longer feels alien.
I dare say this almost feels like home.
To be honest, I prefer the term “Developer”, but September 13 means it’s yet another Programmers’ Day.
It’s celebrated on the 256th day of the year, which means it falls on September 12 on Leap Years, and 2 years ago, it became an official day in the Tetris Motherland.
Apparently we’re supposed to wear white to celebrate the occasion (Or 0xFFFFFF in RGB).
Either way, Tip of the Hat to all the Open Source Devs out there, go out and celebrate. Carpe Diem and what not.
Edit: I just remembered this XKCD comic. Thought it was appropiate to post it here.
If you’ve ever wondered what the hell goes on in my mind and heart, give this a read, otherwise, skip it.
Life’s a bitch. These past few weeks I’ve been happy. 3 days ago I wrote about a girl I met online, how happy she made me. I woke up with a freakin’ smile on my face every morning, and went to sleep thinking of her. I hadn’t felt this way in a very long time (What is it now? 6 years? 7 years? I stopped counting), and as you can guess by the tone of this post, the magic is gone.
Apparently, I deserve someone better. “It’s not you, it’s me.”. I got Constanza’d. “You’re a wonderful person and you deserve someone better”. And I think I deserve it. I Ted Mosby‘d. I fell for this girl and told her how much she meant to me and I think that freaked her out.
I don’t really understand what happened. Last Friday, we had a lot of fun, she even said we should go out sometime. Now she’s telling me that ” She doesn’t feel anything for me.” She thinks I’m a wonderful person, just not the ‘wonderful person’ she’s looking for, I guess, and one date is all I got to prove I was.
I felt like I was king of the hill. I was extremely happy this morning, even started doing Wii Fit again, y’know, to lose some pounds. Now I’m just sighing loudly. I hadn’t opened my heart to anyone in years, and now that I finally did. Well, It kinda looks like this </3.
I guess what I’m trying to say here is that if you missed the rage-driven, miserable, bitter Nushio who complained about all sorts of little things…
I’m back.
*sigh*
FYI, This post is personal and doesn’t feature much math or free software.
I recently read Ruth‘s “Mamas, Don’t let your babies date some crazy blogger I hadn’t ever heard of” GeekMom column, about how some psycho blogger decided to write about her date with Magic the Gathering Superstar World Champion, Jon Finkel. Apparently they met over some dating site called “OKCupid” and it didn’t work out for them. Boo-freakin’-hoo..
But I’m not here to berate the Gawker blogger(they do enough to discredit themselves). I tried out the site a few weeks ago. I had been in Mexico City for almost 2 weeks and lived by myself in the hotel and yeah, it might make you feel kinda lonely. While watching a Big Bang Theory rerun where they end up hooking up Sheldon with Amy through some dating site, I decided to give it a try. I can’t remember who recommended it Found it! It was a rather short blurb on Phandroid(Thanks, Kevin!), but apparently enough for me to try it out.
You see, through the site I found this cute girl. Apparently the Al-Gore-Rhythm put us at a 91% match compatibility and 0% enemy. We chatted, a lot, throughout about 3 weeks, she ended up ‘friending‘ me on Facebook and we finally went on a date today.
Unlike that crazy blogger, I could actually write the nicest things in the world about her here, but won’t because I respect her privacy, besides we both think meeting people online is kinda weird and had to come up with cover stories like “Friend of mine gave me her address” (If I told you this story, I lied, heh), and having people online reading our date seems even creepier. We had a lot of fun, and are looking forward to the next date, you’ll have to settle for that.
I know the chances of meeting your soul-mate through some dating site are slim-to-none, but I’d like to think I found my needle in a haystack, as early as it might be to say so. If you’re single, keep looking, and why not give that site (Or any other site) a try? Worked for me, and I’m quite happy with the results.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get into a shape. Apparently I can no longer handle a couple of Pump-it-up tracks on Hard without sweating and losing my breath. Man, that sucked.
The Linux 3.0 kernel was recently released, and it’s been ported to Fedora 15 under the disguise of kernel 2.6.40. Sadly, this means I can’t use my damned Wifi chipset because Dell decided to stick a Broadcom on my Laptop and Broadcom hates Linux users.
I get it Broadcom, you hate Linux Users, and I’ve always been able to hate you by installing akmod-wl, while giving you the middle-finger, but apparently even that doesn’t seem to work on 2.6.40, which means I have to hate you loudly now.
Oh well, I guess this means I’ll have to pick my next laptop a bit more carefully, and if Dell decides to continue with Broadcom, look for a different Laptop Vendor altogether.
Edit: I got it working, thanks for everyone who told me to blacklist the module… The problem still stands.. why do we even need to do this? It’s not like Broadcom is some sort of elite Wifi chip, its as crappy as any other, with the disadvantage of not working out of the box.
The last Friday of July is Sys Admin Appreciation Day, and I can’t let this day pass without giving a shoutout to the people running the Fedora Servers. The Buildbots, the Mirrors, the Mailing Lists, the Wikis and every other part of Infrastructure.
Thank you for making this possible, for the hours you spend at mid-night fixing something just so we won’t notice in the morning, and for making sure that everything runs as smoothly as possible.
It’s a shame we only get a single “Sys Admin Appreciation Day” and not a whole week or a month, because you guys are the unsung heroes. Thanks again.
