Thu, 24 Apr 2008

Open Source Census

Meike wonders about Open Source Census and their 45 MB tarball (and several other strange things).

The good news is: There is a 270KB ruby thingy which seems to do the same, and even while marked as Expert User Only it seems to run just fine... I think; I lost patience after it scanned my /home for 6 minutes, and I didn't found a possibility to tell it not to scan my /home (which I don't wont him to scan) or /srv (which just contains a lot of files where it won't find anything usefull).

BTW: While we are at complaining at them: Please make the system so, that I don't need to register to send you my data. Thanks.

postet at 23:20 into [Debian] permanent link

Sun, 20 Apr 2008

Planet as mailing list? Why not DPN?

Jörg Jaspert wonders, if planet.debian.org should be available as a mailing list, too. That's a proposal to solve the problem, that planet has been used by more or less official announcement and discussions, but not all people have time / want to read planet.

An other solution would be to make sure, that important blog posts are mention in the next issue of the Debian Project News (which have just been started and could still need some help).

postet at 14:14 into [Debian] permanent link

Sun, 06 Apr 2008

Bad timing, is...

deciding to go on a diet the day before you are invited to a all you can eat pasta & co restaurant.

postet at 01:48 into [Debian] permanent link