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So, I’m pretty behind on a lot of stuff. I haven’t had a connection at home for half a month, and so had to spend the majority of my time yesterday downloading my backlog of email. I’m behind on my work, and I’m behind on a lot of personal stuff.
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The one thing I like about Mozilla Firefox is the fact that I can open several sites in tabs, as part of my home page settings. <grin>. To use, simply separate the sites you want opened by the '|' (pipe) character, in the home page Location: text box (Tools > Options, General section)
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Some links I found recently, after a long and lively debate I had with a co-developer about the economics of open source software. I was for open source, and my colleague was for closed source. He basically was arguing that open source fundamentally can't be sold (i.e., there is no business there, and open source will die out). I was arguing that there is a business model there somewhere.
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Lately, I’ve been working on a project in Microsoft Visual C#. The language itself closely resembles Java (especially in certain parts of the class library exposed by Microsoft .NET), but its heritage is more C++ than Java. Inheritance is via the same construct/syntax as C++, and both interfaces and classes are inherited this way, unlike in Java with its
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I’ve been catching up with F/OSS news lately, and have been reading several articles, blog posts, and news items. What seems to be the common denominator in the F/OSS community is the level of zealotry and passion that dominates conversations and comments. For example, this blog post of one user’s opinion has pretty inflamatory comments from various KDE and GNOME users.
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Some snippets of last night's conversation, while I was playing around with the Debian box (now named butiki, no relation to my home box:
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Switched one of the boxes at the office from RH 7.2 to Debian yesterday. Sweet. The only bump I encountered was replacing the RH-installed LILO MBR with Debian’s LILO MBR (and, effectively getting the box to boot itself.) I initially did
lilo -M /boot/boot.b(big mistake), and panicked when LILO died on the first boot. I then (belatedly) found out that the CDROM drive was broken, and couldn’t use my ever-so-nifty Slackware 8.1 CD as a rescue disk. So, I instead used a Slackware 8.1 bootdisk I had lying around my room, and finished setting it up this morning. -
Things I do on a caffeine high, involving Java:
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Rediscovering some Pinoy bands— Sugar Hiccup in particular. Interesting vocals and musical style. Can’t describe what band they remind me of right now, but I can say I definitely like it.
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... but I'm not using you to edit my JSP and Java source code. I'm switching to JEdit. Not that I'm no longer going to use you— just not for anything remotely related to Java.
Imported from my LiveJournal.