Linux Weekly News writes:
"Novell has sent out a press release pre-announcing Evolution 2.0 (which will be available in the third quarter). Perhaps more interesting is the announcement that the proprietary Connector product, which interfaces Evolution with Microsoft Exchange servers, will be integrated with Evolution and released under the GPL."
Go Novel! Go Novel!
Some years ago me and some co-workers aquired a cheap mini keyboard through Benjamin. It's a great keyboard and a whole lot smaller than normale keyboard since it doesn't have that completely useless space inbetween the normal keys and the function keys and it's missing the never-used numeric pad. Its dimensions are only 32x16cm and that saves a lot of desktop space.
Unfortunatelly we've never been able to find another place where we could buy them. Since the first one came from a computer fare and we didn't know the name of the computer store that sold it to us we couldn't buy it from the original source. The thing didn't have a brandname on it, so it was also impossible to find another reseller.
But some googling brought up this:
Apparently it's called an MTek K371L ErgoCompact Desktop. In the Netherlands you can buy one from Computer Home. There's three different version:
The weird thing is, there's another keyboard just like the MTek one. It's called the ErgoStars Aquarius minikeyboard, and it's priced at €55,-!! That's more than three times as expensive! Perhaps it's more ergonomical, but I doubt it's any different from the one I've got.
Update: Also check out this post to find out how to use the office and power keys under linux.
I'm doubting Python's stability:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./bla.py", line 76, in ?
print rssItemsLastSeen
NameError: name 'rssItemsLastSeen' is not defined
Segmentation fault
I wasn't even doing anything out of the ordinary.. Just fiddling around a bit with lists and dictionaries. Nice going python! ;-)
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Yes! Part 3 of the excerpt on the XSLT 2.0 book.
DevChannel has a link to an article on Linux Magazine about RPM package creation. The article is more of a plug for the package format than an unbiased introduction. But it's interesting non the less. I've been working on a new build enviroment which will also support creating RPM's, so this article was posted at just the right time.
Part two of the XSLT excerpt from the book "XSLT 2.0 Web Development" is out on DevChannel.
Today is (for lack of a better translation) WW-II Memorial Day. On this day we are supposed to remember the terrible war like the nice little society-drones that we are. Much like the three-minute silence for the events that occured at 9-11, we are supposed to silence ourselves during one minute at exactelly 20:00 on this day every year. The reason, like all other reasons for being silent during $random minutes is rememberance.
Like always I'll have no part in it. I refuse. I refuse to silence myself for one short measly hypocritical minute of one year to remember. Why?
Nobody, except those that had to live through the actual war, cares. Sure, they say they do, but they don't. They can't. They can't because they can't imagine it. They haven't lost anybody in that war, they didn't see or feel the gruesome events that took place in the camps and they didn't have to live in fear for one second in their lives (with some exceptions of course). I know I didn't, and I know that therefor I can't really care. So I won't pretend to care like just about everybody in my country does.
Another reason is that it's just plain hypocricy. Do we keep silent for one minute for Iraq? For victoms of earthquakes, mudflows, blown-up spaceshuttles? No we don't. We watch the news in apathy, not really caring about any of it because it's day-to-day business. Sure, we form oppinions about those events. We 'grieve' for the victims. But at night we sleep like babies in our safe and comfortable beds, not losing one second of sleep over it. I know I do. So why pretend to care in the first place? Trying to look your best for those around you whom might think you're a cold bastard? It's all pretend. "Look at me! I really really care!". Yeah, right. I ask again: Are you losing any sleep over any of it? Have you ever given it a real thorough thought?
Yet another reason is that the whole idea is flawed. Why honour those that died in those wars? What good is it gonna do them? They've had their own loved ones to grieve for them, and that was real grief. Not the phony grief we're pretending to have. I personally think that we could honour them much better by learning a fucking leason from the whole ordeal, and preventing them from happening again. Unfortunatelly, we don't. Just look at the U.S' invasion of Iraq. An invasion without the support of the U.N and the rest of the world. An invasion based on lies ("there's Weapons of Mass Destruction™© there!"), lies ("Nah, these missiles are really accurate") and lies ("Bin Laden attacked us! We must defend ourselves! Let's crash some parties in Iraq!"). And what are we doing to prevent it? Nothing. It's the same story all over again. Charismatic man delivers his message to the people; "God is with us!, not those dipshits! Let's kill'm'all!". The people believe him. If you'll listen very carefully then you can hear the guy on the other side of the fence say exactelly the same thing.
Yet another reason is that I'm getting really really tired of having to be silent for $random minute for every little event in the world. You wouldn't helieve how much silence there is in my country. Plane crashes into building? Score +++. Three minutes of silence. Guy gets beating to death on the street? Score +, one minute of silence. Political figure with obscene idea's get's shot? Score +++, three minutes of silence. Silence my ass, I've had it with silence. What's the point? It's losing it's value anyway. It's like saying "I love you" to someone. It just doesn't mean anything anymore. (Although here in the netherlands the dutch translation does).
Let's just drop the act that we care. The war is over, once again we haven't learned anything from it at all. History repeats itself all around as while we're keeping one minute of silent hypocrisy. Bah.
OSDN's DevChannel is carrying an excerpt on XSLT 2.0 from the book "XSLT 2.0 Web Development".
The article discussing some of the new things in XSLT 2.0. Look promissing. Of course you can always check out the XSLT 2.0 standard at w3.org to see what's changed.
Well, after almost exactelly two years, the WTP project is finally finished, stable and (as far as I know) bug-free. So I released version 1.0.
Changes include some small bugfixes and tests with win32 FTP servers (which seemed to work straigt away).
Now Murphy's law should be kicking in, and people will suddenly start reporting all kinds of bugs.
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