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Ahoy to windward!
2006-09-19 07:36 am
Avast, mateys! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day. Stand by to splice the mainframe! Keelhaul the RIAA! Hoist the Jolly Roger!
Break out the grog! We be singing scurrilous parodies on the poop deck!
2006-09-19
Where's the Debian we all knew?
2006-09-19 02:53 pmDebian Etch is not ready for release
When etch was installed we wanted to access the USB disk in order to move some pieces of the backup to the new system. It was pure horror. After plugging the cable into the USB slot, an icon appeared on the screen and after clicked caused the system to mount the first partition on the external disk. It worked. Out of the box. Without tweaking anything. That's so non-Debian...(from Debian Weekly News #38)
I also noticed a while ago that a USB mouse with a scroll wheel was also simply recognised by X.Org in etch and just worked. Huh? That's not how Debian is supposed to react.
Where are the hours of fiddling around how to properly add USB stuff to the system? Where are the evenings you needed to debug such stuff? Nowadays it just works? Where's the Debian we all knew?
Talk like a pi rate
2006-09-19 11:13 pm... that would be, for example, 30rpm = pi radians/sec.
[15 minutes] Not much uncluttering tonight; I'm not sure one can legitimately count the regularly-scheduled weekly task of taking out the trash and the recycling. Takes more than 15 minutes, though.
[album] Started writing the track descriptions. About 2/3 of the way through the list now.
[work] Spent most of the day deep in conversation with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
mr_kurt
and finagler (sometimes one or the other, sometimes both; we
talked about halfway through lunchtime as well). Got quite a lot
hashed out about how to build elaborate structures out of
content-addressed immutable blobs plus a few auxiliary structures. Hacked
and slashed our way to a considerable simplification. Can't say much more
until we publish it, unfortunately. But it'll be cool.