Archive for August, 2007

The Ubuntu Name Game

August 28th, 2007

There have been many posts recently suggesting changes in the naming of Ubuntu distributions and doing away with the K/X/Ed/Ubuntu naming convention. The suggestions try to solve a perceived problem in marketing. With the emergence of 3rd-party projects with *buntu names, there is a fear of creating confusion in branding/naming. But even without those 3rd-party [...]

+365 days… coming back

August 25th, 2007

Another year of my life has passed by. I don’t know if I’ve grown wiser or smarter. But now, I can see where I’m standing where I want to go, and what I can do to get there. So finally, after a month-long retreat, I’m finally ready to get back to “work” again. World, here [...]

Like a river flows: Upstream and Downstream

August 24th, 2007

Thanks Troy for blogging about this and saving me from having to say it first and turning into a flame magnet (although the responses from your blog tell me that I’m to paranoid). Now I can just blog and say that I’m reacting to you.
[Link to Troy's Ars Technica article]
The basic point of [...]

Oh Happy Day!

August 12th, 2007

After weeks of “reflective silence”, topped with days of sulking after losing so much of my data, I finally experience once more the happiness that makes life.
I’m the proud owner of two of my dream items:

Yep! That’s a violin. There are 3 musical instruments that have always interested me: piano, flute, and violin. I’ve always [...]

Starting (almost) from scratch… *headdesks*

August 1st, 2007

It’s another one of those thing that happen in life that makes you want to kill yourself (or at least headdesk a hundred times over. Last night I was trying to setup both my machines for Kubuntu development work. Following the Ubuntu packaging guide, I set up a chroot environment. This morning, just a few [...]