Nixpkgs 0.10 released
Nixpkgs\
0.10 has been released. See the release\
notes for details. ⌘ Read more
Nix 0.10.1 released
Nix\
0.10.1 has been released. It fixes two obscure bugs that
shouldn’t affect most users. ⌘ Read more
Craigslist founder will not sell
The founder of craigslist, the free social-networking and classifieds Web site, said on Thursday he is not interested in selling out, just hours after MySpace.com was valued at $15 billion.
“Who needs the money? We don’t really care,” Craig Newmark said in an interview at the Picnic ‘06 Cross Media Week conference in Amsterdam.
“If you’re living comfortably, what’s the point of having more?” Newmark said.
[…]
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Nix 0.10 released
Nix\
0.10 has been released. This release has many
improvements and bug fixes; see the release\
notes for details. ⌘ Read more
Too busy, too much money or…
Our College is trying to re-design. Our web manager has been assigned to some other project of more importance (Dean’s order), so he can’t tackle the conversion of the existing website to a full blown CMS driven one. Other than the locals we have seeing and sit through presentations and proposals, I sent emails –very brief ones, but to the point– to Dan Cederholm, [Dan Bejamin](http://www.hivelogic.com/ “Da … ⌘ Read more
Nixpkgs 0.9 released
Nixpkgs\
0.9 has been released. ⌘ Read more
PhD thesis defended
Eelco Dolstra
defended his PhD\
thesis on the purely functional deployment model. ⌘ Read more
Nix 0.9.2 released
Nix\
0.9.2 has been released released. This is a bug fix
release that addresses some problems on Mac OS X. ⌘ Read more
Nix 0.9 released
Nix 0.9
has been released. This is a new major release that provides
quite a few performance improvements and bug fixes, as well as a
number of new features. Read the release\
notes for details. ⌘ Read more
Service deployment paper accepted for SCM-12
The paper “Service Configuration Management” (accepted at the
12th\
International Workshop on Software Configuration\
Management) describes how we can rather easily deploy
“services” (e.g., complete webserver configurations such as our
Subversion server) through
Nix by treating the non-component parts (such as configur … ⌘ Read more
They advertise with the best
Imagine my surprise when I saw the following Google Ad showing under one of my posts this morning:
[Was a screenshot of a Microsoft MSN advertisement on Google]
I guess Microsoft knows who is the best, right? I mean, the only way to see that advertising (other than serving adds on your own web space) is by searching the web using Google. I think it is funny… and interesting. ⌘ Read more
Single sign on
Since I am going to start migrating all my web logins to a single sign on approach (using Chris Zarate SuperGenPass), I think the best way to start is by saving the bookmarklet I will have to use over and over. There is a Greasemonkey version available, which has much more features than this bookmarklet version. I will use the latest because it works with all browsers.
The bookmarklet is: Single Sign on.. Drag and drop it on you … ⌘ Read more
Patching paper accepted for CBSE 2005
The paper “Efficient Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component
Deployment Model” has been accepted at CBSE 2005.
It describes how we can deploy updates to Nix packages
efficiently, even if “fundamental” packages like Glibc are
updated (which cause a rebuild of all dependent packages), by
deploying binary patches between components in the Nix store.
Includes tec … ⌘ Read more
Sunday morning rants
As I previously wrote, I believe IE is no match to Firefox. I will tell everyone I know about its problems, I will show those to them if I can. I will praise the goods of Firefox, so everyone I know will enjoy web browsing as much as I am. But…
One thing is not using IE and another thing is not serving pages to those using it. That’s plain wrong. It is like going to a japanese restaurant and have sushi … ⌘ Read more
The worse Web Browser
Not too long ago I was an Internet Explorer fan. The pages I went to looked fine under it, the experience seemed rich. There were no complains. Then I started fiddling with CSS and moving away from tables. I experienced the advantages of the PNG format and I loved it. I experienced functionability I never saw before. I got tired of hearing about major problems and running security updates. I got my eyes opened.
I wonder why it took that long. Perhaps Mozilla Firefox was not that polis … ⌘ Read more
Philosophical confussion
I do not like unsolicited pop-up windows. I like even less unsolicited browser resizing. Missuse of web cookies blows and should be illegal. Junk and spam emails are a disease (well, not for me, since I use TMDA on my John Companies server and I get zero spam) that is getting out of hand. Porno and the sex industry for sure are a profitable business; most of the spam today adver … ⌘ Read more