Done yesterday (20100318 Th)

[mdlbear]

0318 Th
  * up 6:30; W=200.2; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes.
  @ As Expected, Ridiculous, Wrong, Exaggerating And Misleading Report Claims
    That 'Piracy' Is Killing Jobs 
  @ Embedded.com - Embedded World and the death of the PowerPoint presentation
  @ What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code | Work Smart | Fast Company
  @ Free Tools to Back Up Your Online Accounts
  @ Peeling The Layers Off 'Piracy'
  @ Court Effectively Says No 4th Amendment Protection To Copies Of Emails
  @ OpenTaxSolver solves taxes, openly
    Open Tax Solver
  @ Open source and the Morevna project [LWN.net] 
    Konstatin Dmitriev's Morevna Project is to 2-D animation what the Blender Foundation's Open movie projects have been for 3-D. The goal
    is to produce a production-quality, full-length animated feature, using
    only open source software, and license the source content and final
    product under free, re-use-friendly terms.
  @ Open Clip Art Library 2.0 [LWN.net] http://openclipart.org
  @ Getting Loopy: Performance Loopers For Linux Musicians | Linux Journal
  @ Renoise - About Renoise
  @ Towards Day One | MeeGo (blend of Moblin and Maemo)
    (ignore what HPL said about mi-gos) 
  @ Qi Hardware is copyleft hardware
    (from Hackable Linux clamshell goes on sale for $99 - Linux for Devices)
  @ Building an open source business | opensource.com
  * Walk: hill; 3.5x around pond.
  @ Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account - Michael Tiemann
    (in Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution)
  * reserve shuttle for Ash (didn't ask for the name on the credit card)
  * allowance check for YD
  * archive home, etc from gateway; turn off 
  @ kaath9 - Myth #5: Those systems are too “foreign” to work in the US.
  * contact Awsare to up dose on doxazosin
  * bed ~11; snuggle

Another productive day at work, plus a good walk around the pond. I'll miss that little park after we move; there's a park in the Cupertino area too, but it doesn't have koi, or very many trees. Ah, well.

ETA: it's my work group that's moving, not my family! The Starport isn't going anywhere.

We went to El Torito for our date night, and took a drive afterward, out San Thomas Expressway to the end of Camden, and back via Almaden Expressway and Blossom Hill. Nice. We both went splat around 11pm. Might have been just a little too early for me; I woke up at 2:45.

The pedometer seems to be gone for good. It was useful, but I'm better-calibrated now and can probably get by without one.

Lots and lots of good links, many from LWN.net. Plus another of kaath9's healthcare myth posts: Myth #5: Those systems are too “foreign” to work in the US.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were moving ... glad I got to see your current place then!

Thank you for your hospitality while I was visiting, it was great meeting you and C and the rest.

Probably not of interest, but the Dollar Tree opposite the bar Avalon Rising were playing in last Saturday (Sweeney's? San Leandro) had pedometers for one dollar ... I assume other branches will do so too (it was a dollar store, I think it was dollar tree, it could have been some other one dollar store) ... I know because I bought a one dollar pedometer! (also a one dollar pizza wheel, a one dollar cheese grater, and a one dollar set of US measuring cups and spoons for when I'm making US recipes!)

Am interested that you linked to the MeeGo stuff, as the team I work for in Nokia is tangentially connected (we're currently actually attached to the Symbian OS, but this documentation team is working on standardised hardware APIs and specifications for attaching chips and devices to baseboards which could be running Symbian or Meego (this is *not* saying there will be a single hardware platform that could run either, though I wouldn't be too surprised to see that in a couple of years time, that's just a personal guess)

I'm thinking of setting up a Linux server at home to do mail server, web server and file server stuff ... but I've never used Linux before (and haven't touched Unix since university) so would you recommend Ubuntu or Debian or something else for a computer-literate Linux n00b?

[mdlbear]

I should have been more specific -- my *workplace* is moving, not my home. You're welcome.

Fortunately Ubuntu is based on Debian, so there are more similarities than differences. Ubuntu is better for client systems -- it has a graphical installer, all system administration is done from a GUI -- very Mac-like. It releases every 6 months like clock-work, so it tends to support all most of the latest hardware and protocols.

Debian _can_ be set up like that, but the default is for all configuration and administration to be done from a command line or by editing text files. Much more "traditionally unix-like", which makes it ideal for servers. It also releases on a much longer schedule, which means that it's very stable.

Both Debian and Ubuntu support the Gnome and KDE desktops; the difference is that Ubuntu installs the desktop by default; Debian's installer gives you a "task manager" that lets you install the desktop, mail server, web server, print server, database server, or file server separately. Or none of the above, in which case you can install only the pieces you need and end up with a very light-weight system that will run on 10-year-old hardware.

I use mostly Debian, with Ubuntu only on laptops and netbooks where it came pre-installed and I didn't want to mess with it.