Comments for PAPPP's Rambling

Comment on Linux Future by joe daddy

joe daddy — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:20:03 +0000

let’s hope the devs stay the course and don’t ruin it.

Comment on Linux Future by joe daddy

joe daddy — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:17:28 +0000

systemd is not unix, so too bad, you can have your frankenstein os, just don’t try and impose it on anyone else.

Comment on Linux Future by Teresa e Junior

Teresa e Junior — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:45:18 +0000

Ah, and you forgot to mention that the *Kits always get broken. I used Debian Unstable for years until this *Kits crap begun. Now I decided to stay with Debian Stable, because at least I know the *Kits will get broken only every two years.

Ah, and BTW, Debian Wheezy works awesome with init instead of systemd (and boots much faster than systemd if you use readahead-fedora or e4rat).

Comment on Pharoah by J

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:02:24 +0000

I found my way here from reddit originally to read your (quite excellent) shapeoko posts, and found myself enjoying your other entries as well. This was a really touching post. It made me feel all the feels, as they say Now I want to go home and hug my cats.

Comment on HTC Doubleshot/MyTouch 4G by EDC 2013 | PAPPP's Rambling

EDC 2013 | PAPPP's Rambling — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:02:54 +0000

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Comment on Pocket Organizer by EDC 2013 | PAPPP's Rambling

EDC 2013 | PAPPP's Rambling — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:58:25 +0000

[...] made an EDC post back in 2009 that is now woefully out of date. I’ve had the little pen case thing I carry come up a couple [...]

Comment on Shapeoko: Part 5 by dext0rb

dext0rb — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:49:42 +0000

Thanks for your writeups on the ShapeOko. I’m working on a build now and I really don’t want to use a Dremel for the spindle. Have you hooked up your spindle yet? Any more info on what speed controller you’re using? Thanks!

Comment on Google is Getting Awfully Evil by pappp

pappp — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:28:23 +0000

Interesting, I saw some “This explains why users of our corporate XMPP system have been complaining” posts in comment threads places this was reposed, and didn’t see any clear statement on what google actually settled on doing in the jabber-operators thread, so I’ve been assuming it was roughly true.

It does look like the FSF article is characteristically overblown, although the number of times they have been early instead of wrong about that sort of thing makes me give them more credit than they might deserve.

Comment on Google is Getting Awfully Evil by Bob Pelerson

Bob Pelerson — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:21:41 +0000

Trusting the FSF for anything is a bad idea. For truth in reporting is a particularly bad idea.

If you read the jabber-operators thread you will find they did not intentionally break federation. They restricted invites/day from specific domains (they listed three in the thread but this is dynamic probably) and allow most others. The domains they restrict were unusually spammy.

Comment on Google Exit Plan by Google is Getting Awfully Evil | PAPPP's Rambling

Google is Getting Awfully Evil | PAPPP's Rambling — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:44:34 +0000

[...] the week just underscore the point. Last time Google made me nervous, I wrote about working out a Google Exit Plan, I now find myself needing to put at least part of it into action, on a “which parts do I do [...]