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Civilized communication
I thought I should stop writing about stupid behavior on this weblog for a while but I can’t resist. I’ve recently read an interesting article What DNS Is Not by Paul Vixie. It’s about misusing the Domain Name System in ways that may look useful at the first glance but are actually harmful because their […]
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How to prevent collaboration
I tried to make OpenVPN working in a Linux-VServer environment about a year ago. I couldn’t find a straightforward HOWTO nor answers to all my questions. So I described what I had done and sent my questions to the VServer mailing list. I expected that I get answers to my questions and then other users […]
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Playing bridge
Thanks to GNUBridge I could play a few games of contract bridge last weekend, for the first time since my student years!
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Lessons from Sharp Zaurus
There are areas where free software community fails. Not for technical reasons or lack of resources, but because of management and strategic planning incompetence. Once I got an idea to get a Linux handheld. There were two models available at the time: Sharp Zaurus and Nokia tablet. The Nokia tablet didn’t have any keyboard so […]
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Future of the Web: Total ignorance?
Several years ago I complained to a web shop web master about invalid character coding information in their web pages. I was told the invalid information was there intentionally so that the pages displayed correctly in a broken web browser which was used by 97% of their customers. At another occasion I took seriously call […]
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Erik Naggum dead
Erik Naggum has died a month ago. This last action of him initiated another (hopefully the last one) naggumic flamewar on comp.lang.lisp. No surprise. His contributions, their value and his human behavior were discussed. For me, his major contribution remains his arguments about Common Lisp that enlightened me about that programming language. I discovered that […]
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OpenStreetMap contributor
I made my first small contributions to the OpenStreetMap project. I think making free maps is important and it’s a lot of fun. When you buy or use a proprietary map, it’s usually limited in its use, imperfect and you can’t customize and improve it. A free project can change this. My first impressions about […]
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Veronika Zamazalová is out
We’ve got a daughter!
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Smart phones
My old mobile phone becomes a bit unreliable, so I look for a new one. Perhaps a smart phone would be useful, but I’m not interested in proprietary and virus prone OSes without available source code and lacking good development tools and community support. Given these constraints there are at most two options: Google Android […]
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Bogus facts
It’s very common: Someone claims and discusses a fact and makes conclusions from it without checking the fact first and without knowing its context. Even when it is easy to check and to get to understand. And with false facts one can prove anything, especially what he likes to prove. Well, we all do mistakes. […]