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Item: 21 Sep 2004
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Date: 2004-09-21 21:20:46 UTC
On the Fedora front:

FC3test2 is out (give it a try) and it's not too shabby.

There's a bugweek possibly coming up next week - everyone who's anyone 
in Fedora working to sort through the bugs. More to come later.

No, external CVS for Fedora has not been forgotten. Work is underway 
(and on Red Hat's side, we just underwent a sizeable internal change 
that is necessary to support it).

On the everything-else front:

a funny picture[1].

[1] http://cakeru.image.pbase.com/image/33879157/large.jpg

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Item: 24 Aug 2004
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Date: 2004-08-24 23:07:13 UTC
The Fedora community can really use people who are willing to go through 
bugzilla and tame things down there. There are just a ton of bugs that 
the package maintainers will have no time to get to.

It's not the most exciting task, but it's something that almost anyone 
can help with in as small or large quantities as desired.

Also needed are community leaders for each of the architectures. E.g. 
Justin Forbes is The Man for AMD64, but we can always use peeps for ia64 
and s390* :)

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Item: 27 Jul 2004
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Date: 2004-07-27 16:38:36 UTC
What's happening with Fedora lately:

- FC3test1 came out a little while ago.
- The devel tree is totally unfrozen again, so broken deps should be 
fixable if not fixed.
- CVS should be rolled out "soon"

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Item: 23 Apr 2004
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Date: 2004-04-23 15:09:39 UTC
Cool link of the day is TradingBrain[1].

If you added a user-login feature, you could use a neural network to 
combine individual responses into something meaningful. Neat experiment 
in distributed decision-making, in any case.

FC2test3 is being pushed out and is on track for Monday release.

[1] http://www.tradingbrain.com/

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Item: 22 Apr 2004
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Date: 2004-04-22 19:35:13 UTC
Ben & Jerry's[1] annual Free Cone Day. Tuesday, April 27 12pm-8pm. 
Follow the link to find out where.

[1] http://www.benandjerrys.com/

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Item: 21 Apr 2004
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Date: 2004-04-21 15:49:59 UTC
Plots orkut people on a map: http://www.datawhorehouse.com/orkut/[1].

PS. If you still haven't gotten an orkut invite, send me an e-mail of 
introduction, already. :)

[1] http://www.datawhorehouse.com/orkut/

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Item: 20 Apr 2004
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Date: 2004-04-21 03:00:51 UTC
Only a few diary entries ago, I was complaining about the last company 
meeting. Now a new one is coming up, and I'm really looking forward to 
meeting all the great people that work at Red Hat.

Dropping by to say hello to the advogato crowd,

-- Elliot

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Item: 16 Sep 2003
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Date: 2003-09-16 20:41:24 UTC
My home page[1]

[1] http://people.redhat.com/sopwith/

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Item: 12 Apr 2001
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Date: 2001-04-12 15:53:44 UTC
I hate this open source game - it just proves my in(s)anity.

</rant>

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Item: 19 Sep 2000
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Date: 2000-09-20 06:45:03 UTC
It's 02:01, I can't sleep, and there's a bunch of company meetings today 
at 08:30 that appear increasingly boring as the time approaches. It sort 
of rains on my parade of TODO items - I could have finished libGIOP this 
week. Instead, the game seems to be snoozing through discussions of 
kernel hacking and attending suffocatingly purposeless cocktail parties. 
I need to get a potion distilled from the Smurf theme song and inject 
myself with it.

So I am bothering to write this at all because aaronl is being a total 
moron and I'm bored enough to respond: "My biggest gripe about component 
architecture is that I just don't understand when it would ever be 
needed." -aaronl So this essentially means that he has no clue why 
components are good, but everyone else must be wrong because he hasn't 
figured out how to use them. A classic example of his Bigger Problem - 
not understanding use cases beside his own exist.

"Sure, you can write code that will let you browse the web in Emacs (and 
such code has been writen), but this actually has to be implemented 
inside Emacs." - aaronl So this essentially means that he hasn't looked 
at how w3- mode is actually implemented - it's a set of elisp files, 
aka... a component.

I must admit, however, that Aaron's perspective is refreshingly free 
from the burden of experience. In other words, dudes, I want some of 
that crack that he's smoking, because I seem to be having issues getting 
this dandelion to produce the pink elephants he's seeing.

Rather than go on a stupid campaign to rip out features which are 
generally needed, I suppose he could work on adding fine-grained 
conditional feature & module selection, so he could build his bubble 
world more conveniently, not adversely impact those in the Big Blue 
Room, and benefit embedded systems builders in the process.

I'm done with the unprovoked insults and needless griping, so LART me 
and get back to your regularly scheduled world. I'm sure by lunchtime 
I'll have gotten enough sleep to regret this all.

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