Present Perfect

Another 6 months, another Fedora release ! (I am happy Fedora is back on a 6 month schedule).

This is the first release of Fedora that I have on my computer without realizing I have it; I went checking this morning when the release would be, and apparently it was today. I checked my /etc/fedora-release, and I'm already on it, because apparently our Fedora hackers made the excellent decision that installing test3 would get you on a repo that would freeze for Fedora 8.

I think that is a great decision, it gives people more confidence to go and try the test releases because they know they will end up on a stable distro in the end.

Now mind you, I only got on the test3 release because my new T61 had some issues under F7 and I was hoping new X and kernels would fix most of them. My wireless (iwl4965 is still flaky, suspend to disk still does not work, and the video still has issues, but I digress)

Here is one question and one request though. First of all, who originally coined the name "Codec Buddy" without even writing a single line of code ? Seriously, the name is dumb, it can only remind me of the infamous paper clip or Microsoft Bob.

It's terrible that this name persists even though there is nothing in the whole thing using that name! Every time I read something with the word Codec Buddy, I decided against hacking on the thing, so it's one of the reasons it has arrived as late as it did.

So, the request, is simple: stop calling it Codec Buddy. I'm holding it hostage until you know better :)

Here's an interview about Codeina with our well-loved media nut Bastien and me. Ignore the wrong URL and the wrong titles and the multiple spelling mistakes for the word codeina.

Congrats to the Fedora team ! Now please fix my wireless and my suspend somehow :)

Another 6 months, another Fedora release ! (I am happy Fedora is back on a 6 month schedule). This is the first release of Fedora that I have on my...

Why is it that every time I get a mail sent from an iPhone, it ends in:

Sent from my iPhone ?

Funk dat!

Why is it that every time I get a mail sent from an iPhone, it ends in: Sent from my iPhone ? Funk dat!

Like my grandmother said, "Never eat Chinese twice a day." I paid for it on the toilet last night, in full. I felt queasy all day and medication was needed.

Normally I wouldn't mention that unappetizing tidbit, because I have many much better war stories.

But in this case, I do, because there are two reasons I went to work anyway today, one of them amusing, the other maybe not.

The other reason was that there was an important meeting about my work that I did not want to weasel out of under any circumstances. This meeting was about SLA's.

The one reason was more practical. This week, they're refitting the water pipes in our building, which means that every morning, they close off the water at 8. The first night I prepared by showering late at night instead of in the morning. But last night's sudden food poisoning made the prospect of spending the day in an apartment without water very unappealing.

So, imagine this in terms of SLA's. We're building some system at work where, roughly speaking, we're selling some streaming services with SLA's at 99.5 or 99.9% uptime. (I'm simplifying, since really, good SLA's are supposed to be determined through rigorous application of probability and historic evidence, respecting the mathematical laws of probability)

Did these guys break my water SLA this week ? 8 hours, two days, that's already below 99.6% And the Chinese restaurant ? I've been told by someone that 25% of European food ingredients come from China, and do not meet the same stringent quality control as the others. What is their SLA ? 90 % maybe, based on historical evidence where I went there tence and got stung once ?

What's the SLA of the service where I'm healthy, or have water ? Answers on a postcard please.

Like my grandmother said, "Never eat Chinese twice a day." I paid for it on the toilet last night, in full. I felt queasy all day and medication was needed....

Since it happened to fit in my travel schedule, tomorrow evening I will be taking part in what is rumoured to be the world's first ICT quiz. (I'm sure it's not really - why only last month I was partaking in a hardcore geek open source quiz at the Open Source In Mobile event in Madrid, with such brainracking questions as "where does the name EMACS come from" or "what was the first computer game". But I digress).

Anyway, I am going with my long-time fellow Apestaart compadres, and since we're supposed to be a team of 5, we asked diehard mac-head Robbie Delaere (of URGent and Studentenjaren en Jambers fame) to round out our team. Two Unix heads (of which one a die hard quizzer), two Windows heads, and a Mac head - like Fons says, if we don't win, it's because the questions were wrong.

Since it happened to fit in my travel schedule, tomorrow evening I will be taking part in what is rumoured to be the world's first ICT quiz. (I'm sure it's...

I forgot one of my other favourites: puñalada. From a song: amar sin ser amada es una puñalada. Ain't that the truth.

Since I messed up my Catalan favorite, here's another one - boig per tu. The g is more pronounced like the x in xocolate.

I forgot one of my other favourites: puñalada. From a song: amar sin ser amada es una puñalada. Ain't that the truth. Since I messed up my Catalan favorite, here's...