January 18, 2011
"Some Git fans claim Git is now as easy to learn as Bazaar or Mercurial. With respect, we strongly disagree. […] Git is undoubtedly powerful but, in our view, it’s far more complex than a version control tool needs to be for most people."

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From Why Switch to Bazaar? (emphasis from the original).

So basically, you should use Bazaar because it “just does the right thing” and it’s simple enough for you. I don’t like that kind of advocacy, although it may be true for a certain value of you.

I have to deal with Bazaar at work because of a particular project that it’s hosted at Launchpad, and I’m not having a very good time (by the way, Launchpad used to be the killer OSS hosting platform, but I feel it a little bloated lately; I hope it’s not some kind of SourceForge alike syndrome).

It’s just that I MUST use Subversion every day, I like to use GIT at home, and Bazaar falls somewhere in the middle adding some frustration (just because it’s not any other VCS that I’d like to be using).

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November 23, 2010
Changing GDM Background Again!

I don’t know when did it happen, but at some point, Gnome dialog to set the background (gnome-appearance-properties) lost the ability to change GDM background too.

I believe that wasn’t the best known feature of that dialog, but I used it in Fedora 12 (if I recall correctly), and you can check that it was available in Fedora 11 too. But now it’s gone.

You can change the background anyway, using the adequate configuration key in gconf for the gdm user:

$ sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string \
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename \
/usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos/earth-horizon.jpg

I’ve found it in the Arch Linux wiki page for Gnome 2.28, and it works!

OK, I know that’s not the end of the world, but in the same way there are small new features that make you feel a project is going forward and life’s wonderful, there are steps backwards like this that are really frustrating.

I know it’s silly, but I feel better now that I changed the background of the display manager of my Linux system (although it used to be easier than that!).

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January 27, 2010
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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Sometimes called Santayana’s Law of Repetitive Consequences.

I’m sorry, but I told you. Guess what? Yep, we’re out of disk again (146GB and about 6 months later).

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Filed under: rant disk Law of Repetitive Consequences space 
August 4, 2009
"If your application data grows, the free disk space tends to zero. Keep this in mind or you’ll have problems."

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From myself, and dedicated to analysts living out there that really think the storage it’s infinite.

Messages from deep disk space.

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January 16, 2009
Spanish Post Service is like a Black Hole

Correos

Where are the packages that doesn’t arrive to its destination?

  • amazon.co.uk order, destination Xaló: FAIL! (sent twice)
  • bookdepository.co.uk, destination Elche: FAIL!
  • Myself from Valencia, destination Xaló: FAIL!

I don’t know if the other senders have received back the order or not, but the package I sent two weeks ago to Xaló hasn’t arrived and I’ve not received any kind of notice yet.

Sometimes Spanish post service (AKA Correos) works, but this is the worst deliver/lost ratio in my life so far. Seems incredible that a national post service is working that bad in a developed country like Spain, XXI Century.

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December 17, 2008
"[Miriam] Ruiz feels it would be a good idea to have a code of conduct in Debian as Ubuntu does. “That way, women -and maybe other groups too- wouldn’t be de facto censored and pushed down by certain practices that seem to try to keep the current status quo of no more women in the project than those strictly needed. In fact, to be honest, I wouldn’t bring any of my female friends to Debian right now, as things are”."

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Debian women may leave due to ‘sexist’ post, and the message.

If you rant (I won’t discuss here if you’re right or not, but I think it was a bad message in the wrong place) and you say things like these in a news site, I think it’s incompatible with “loving a project” such as Debian. Just because you may be wrong or over-reacting.

May be I’m missing the whole picture here, but Miriam is showing us the Debian developers as a bunch of misogynous guys offending women with sexist messages in the project’s mailing lists. Or even worse, may be other groups are being de facto censored in the same way.

I’m sorry, but I can’t believe it.

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