Weblog Archives for September 2006

Catch up on all the blog entries you missed.

September 28: Gentoo: A Modular Approach (Seemant); Right, so there was a a bit of furor over my last post about overlays. Let me point out two things: 1. Gentoo is not moving in this direction, these are simply my thoughts. 1. I just want to get people thinking and discussing (maybe someday ...; Read the full post

September 27: Idjits say "what?" (Seemant); So I'm #gentoo-dev and this person asks for voice. I generally give people the benefit of the doubt, so I give it to him: > 15:24 <@seemant> my uncle Charlie wants to say something > 15:25 <+UncleC> actually no > 15:25 <+UncleC> im holding it to sometime later on > ...; Read the full post; The Boob Tube (Seemant); Yep, I'm guilty of it. I hate television, and yet I watch so damned much of it. John Stewart, I blame you partly -- because you bring what is so rare: high quality programming. And I'll confess to being a citizen of the Colbert Nation too, dammit. Now ...; Read the full post; The Dark Clouds over Gentoo (Seemant); So, apparently, the recent Gentoo/Seeds flare up and my own thoughts about it have sparked a little bit of speculation out there. There's been an inevitable (retrospectively) culture shift happening in Gentoo over the last few years. Gentoo has been steadily moving towards Debianisation. I know there are ...; Read the full post

September 26: Car-less commute: Back in the Car (Seemant); OK, so I went home and consulted my accountant. It turns out that the car-less commute cost me: 1. $2.50 in subway tokens 1. $0.90 in bus fare 1. $8.00 in shuttle fares for a grand total of $11.40 for the day. If aimee hadn't come to pick me up ...; Read the full post

September 25: Car-less commute: Day 1 (Seemant); Well, I did it. I left my car at home today! I hopped on a bus around the corner from our apartment, for a two minute ride where I crossed the street to catch a second bus (free transfer) to the T for a subway ride to the ...; Read the full post

September 24: Morning Commute Questions (Seemant); So now that we live closer to the urban Boston area, the T is about a mile and a half from home. And if I take that to the end of the line, I can hop onto a shuttle that'll take me right to the building where I work. ...; Read the full post

September 23: New Trustee Elections (Seemant); Well, I'll eat crow here and now. Ciaran was right about reopening the trustee elections. I thought there would be less interest in a second election, but what do you know, gentoo-core has been a lot more active than I would've thought. As a result, we now have ...; Read the full post; Touche Mike Cummings (Seemant); Mike, I have to say that your post was the best and most thought-out point of view on thie entire issue. That's a method I can get behind, and a mindset I can embrace. And I think it would do Gentoo some good. It may even succeed in bringing ...; Read the full post

September 22: StreamBase: Week 2 (Seemant); Well, this is the end of my second week at StreamBase. I've learned a bunch this week, as it has comprised of my ramping up my knowledge of the way things are. I've been catching up on my reading of the logs over at the CEP interest group on ...; Read the full post

September 21: This is Gentoo, We don't DO new. Go to Ubuntu for that. (Seemant); The title really says it all. Gentoo has become so elephantine that like any large body, it takes more force to keep the momentum going. So, with all the odds, Gentoo is slowing and stagnating. Are there valid concerns about some of the newer ideas? YOU BET. ABSOLUTELY. I'd be ...; Read the full post

September 20: Alternative Fuels (Seemant); Back in the first quarter of this year, my wife and I purchased a second hand hybrid, because her old car died. Now, we've been very impressed with the gas mileage we're getting in that car -- so naturally we drive that one more. While I'm not financially ready ...; Read the full post

September 19: Gentoo/Money (Seemant); So, all of a sudden a conversation started up yesterday in the #gentoo-dev channel about bank accounts, retirement accounts, 401(k)'s, and just general finance. And you thought all we did was talk about portage, didn't you? Anyway, our two financial experts, Doug/Cardoe and John/AllanonJL were there to dispense ...; Read the full post

September 18: Trustees and Foundation Update (Seemant); So, two weeks ago, I announced the new trustees on the mailing list. There was a little push-back, because we only had 5 nominees and 5 open positions. However, since then, there hasn't been any movement on it. So, for now, I'm considering the people on that list of ...; Read the full post

September 16: Rob Levin Has Left Us :( (Seemant); Today was a very sad day. Gentoo lost a good friend. The FOSS community as a whole lost a good friend. Rob Levin (/nick lilo) of the Freenode project passed away this morning. My heart is heavy from the news, and I still can not believe it. It probably will ...; Read the full post

September 15: Why StreamBase (Platforms Part II) (Seemant); That's what I learned this week at the training: StreamBase is a platform. That's right, behind the registrations and logins and all that (more on that in a later post), you get to discover an IDE that's easily the best IDE I've seen for event processing (in a very generalised ...; Read the full post; Platforms (Part I) (Seemant); You know, one of the things that has maybe gotten lost sight of in the past few years in Gentoo is: what exactly is Gentoo, anyway? Is it a distro? Is it a meta-distro? What the hell is a meta-distro anyway? So, I've been playing with Django a lot ...; Read the full post

September 11: First Day at StreamBase! (Seemant); Well, this was the day I've been looking forward to for about 2 months. I finally walked into the StreamBase's offices as their newest employee. It was a great feeling. I'm bubbling with excitement. There's so much to do! The first couple of hours consisted of the usual new employee ...; Read the full post

September 8: Last Day At Brontes (Seemant); Well, this was it. Today was my last day at the old job. It was very very bittersweet. I mean, I'm overjoyed about StreamBase. I'm over the top about my new job -- I'm soo looking forward to finally doing what I love. But I leave behind at Brontes a ...; Read the full post; The Pathetic State of RSS Readers or why Mike Flies at Night (Seemant); There are none. Evolution used to have one. And it was my favourite. Feature. Ever. The gdesklets (no link, see rest of sentence) just suck. They're unstable and they keep crashing. And there's no standalone any more that I know of. I think surfraw used to be it, but ...; Read the full post

September 5: Moving to Mefa and Thoughts of Rochacha, and The Best Chinese Food Ever (Seemant); Well, the lease at the old place was up on the 31st of last month. We were going to move in to this new complex that got built this summer. Unfortunately, the business practices of the management company left a bit to be desired (not least of which falls under ...; Read the full post