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staring into the abyss

Nobody can say if GNOME 3 is better or worse than GNOME 2.

A whole lot of people, yours truly included, have said that GNOME 3 is much worse than GNOME 2. That should account for something.

Today is the last Friday of July, which means that it is System Administrator Appreciation Day. To all my friends and colleagues who spend days and nights and servers rooms or on shifts, who works remotely even when on holidays abroad, who’s mobile phones constantly buzz with SMS notifications of devices and services going up and down, who remember more numbers – IP addresses, network masks, port numbers, RFC numbers, etc – than any mathematician, who can troubleshoot a problem even with amount of alcohol in their blood lethal to mere mortals, to all of you guys – Happy SysAdmin Day! Have a good one!

Every good work of software starts by scratching a…

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

By means of On This Day WordPress plugin I got rem…

By means of On This Day WordPress plugin I got reminded of how I used to build my own Linux box for home’s media center, back in 2003. These days there is no need, thanks to XBMC and other similar applications. Which got me curious as to when was the first release of XBMC. Coincidentally, it was back in 2003. First time I’ve heard about it was probably three years ago.

New York Times drops BlackBerry app

BlackBerry users can no longer use the official New York Times app to read news stories over their devices, in a fresh blow to Research In Motion, the maker of the smartphone once considered an essential tool for business professionals.