Present Perfect

One of my favourite free software-related ones is skipping through the freshmeat RSS feed.

"GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings."

Is there anyone left who even wants to use an editor that doesn't do UTF-8 ?

One of my favourite free software-related ones is skipping through the freshmeat RSS feed. "GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings." Is...

At GUADEC, someone tripped very violently over my Belkin travel power supply for my laptop.  I don't know who, the guy was away before I had a good look at him, mumbling excuses.  This was at the spidery floor that was Etap's.

I couldn't get it to work anymore, so I quickly bought a replacement travel power adapter made by Trust.  It worked fine in Belgium.  This morning I plugged it in at work, then plugged it into my laptop, and after ten seconds it made a loud pop.  Now the blue light on the power supply won't come on anymore.  Sigh.

What's worse, since then, my laptop doesn't detect the power cable plugged in either - obviously not with the busted power supply, but it also does not work with the IBM one for this laptop.  I can still boot the laptop, since I have some charge left in the battery, so I don't think it's the motherboard as such.  I opened up the laptop completely, removing the screen, so I could tighten the power connector screw, but it didn't help.

So, intarweb, anyone else ever had this problem, and what should I do to fix it ? Is this a case of "take out the motherboard and resolder the connector ?"

At GUADEC, someone tripped very violently over my Belkin travel power supply for my laptop.  I don't know who, the guy was away before I had a good look at...

Alvaro, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here. But your post makes zero sense. You saw some article on Slashdot about Linus possibly calling someone a hypocrite, and you use it to attach your OpenSolaris wagon to it.

For god's sake, do some research. It's a SlashDot post ! Did you actually see Linus call the GPLv3 authors hypocrites ? The Slashdot article links to some other article that claims Linus said something in a post. The article doesn't even link to the post it talks about, instead it links to the mirror page for the kernel.

For good reason - the actual post does not say something like "I say GPLv3 authors are hypocrites." The article author is misinforming on purpose, steering people away from what Linus actually said, to peddle his wares - in this case, his article. And it's working, because smart people like you are just parrotting him verbatim, then peddling their own wares - in this case OpenSolaris. People with their own agenda will take whatever anyone with some weight in the community says and take it out of context. You should be smarter than that.

Alvaro, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here. But your post makes zero sense. You saw some article on Slashdot about Linus possibly calling someone a...

is when you set your alarm for 4.40 in the morning, because you've ordered a taxi to take you to the airport for an early flight, try hard to go to sleep at a reasonable hour but lie awake for too long, then get a phone call at 3.40 because there is some problem with Telefonica that affects a bunch of customer and when you log in and check up on it it's been resolved on its own, and you have an extra hour to kill but you feel like crap.

I wish I had that amazing ability others have to sleep during the day.  Whenever I do that I feel like crap for the rest of the day...

is when you set your alarm for 4.40 in the morning, because you've ordered a taxi to take you to the airport for an early flight, try hard to go...

Getting up at 7.  7 hours of travel.  LUGRadio is 5 minutes from the train station but my twattiness made me book at the hotel the furthest away from both as possible.  Taxi through Wolverhampton.  Is it normal for a nursery to be next to a tattoo palace, or is it local city flair ? 3 out of 4 calls with my phone make my phone claim that "the number does not exist", even though I'm on Vodafone UK here, and I was assuming Vodafone would be at its best here in the UK.  So I'm not sure at this point if my 3G modem card doesn't work because a) the roaming wasn't correctly activated b) I'm doing something wrong software wise or c) the coverage here is crap.

Things can only get better from here on out! Time to write some talky bits.

Getting up at 7.  7 hours of travel.  LUGRadio is 5 minutes from the train station but my twattiness made me book at the hotel the furthest away from both...