A Day in the Life of Dorian for 2010-04-12
- Thanks for all the !KDE !linux suggestions! End results 4 #openSUSE, #5 Fedora, 1 #Unity, 3 #Mandriva, #3 Chakara, #1 Kubuntu if I can count #
- Thanks for all the !KDE !linux suggestions! End results 4 #openSUSE,#5 Fedora,1 #Unity,3 #Mandriva,3 #Chakara,1 #Kubuntu (if I can count) #
- Based on what I see and what I need from a !KDE !linux distro: I guess I’ll be coming back to #openSUSE. (Old #SuSE user). Thanks everyone! #
- A week of mourning. #Poland has lost a lot of great people with Saturday’s aircraft crash in Smolensk. Difficult times ahead for all Poles. #
Mourning the Loss of My Compatriots
This site is now wearing black, not as a change of style. No every Pole is in mourning this week, to remember the tragic aircraft crash in Smolensk that killed the president of Poland and many Polish civilian and military leaders.
Saturday morning, I found out about the President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, commanding generals, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Head of the IPN, bishops and crew died when their aircraft crashed in Smolensk. I watched the footage of firefighters making their way through the strewn wreckage. I couldn’t believe it. It was surreal. I found it out when I got out of bed, and opened up my phone. I saw one of my friends in Poland writing on her Facebook message, “What a tragedy.” And I wondered what had happened. There is it was, the news of tragic passing of so many.
It is tragic, not just sad. One the anniversary of Katyn, the president and the entire delegation flew to Katyn to take part in the 70th anniversary. The day before his highness Czar Putin acknowledged Katyn but also brought up a tragic incident where Russians died. I don’t remember the exact circumstances, it was not like the massacre of Polish officers and intelligensia at the hands of Soviet NKVD. Every human life lost is a huge loss for humanity. But taking life with the depravity of Stalin is something inhuman. The President and the delegation wanted to set the record right, and to celebrate the anniversary properly. But they never made it… In a way, the world know nows about Katyn thanks to the tragic incident.
The details of what happened are still being worked out. The initial reports are that of a terrible accident. Given the circumstances, and details not reported by the mainstream media… I have my misgivings, especially about how conveniently this terrible event plays into certain interested persons and groups. What we know for sure at the moment, is that Poland has lost a great deal of important and valuable people. Let us pray for the repose of their souls, and for comfort and true peace for the people of Poland.
A Day in the Life of Dorian for 2010-04-09
- I think, therefore I am lost. #
- In other news, upgraded to !KDE 4.4 thanks to the #Kubuntu #PPAs. And I’m really, really liking !KDE. Yup still the best desktop experience. #
- @dhraak Nice. #openSUSE has come a long way since when I used #SuSE 8.2. And yes !KDE 4.4 is awesome, regardless of distro. 😀 #
- And just when you thought the Canadian banksters were better than their American counterparts: http://tinyurl.com/yamwwmw #
- @ddevine Hmm… I’m up for suggestions for a good !KDE distro, that has lots of apps, good hardware support and is easy to maintain. #
A Day in the Life of Dorian for 2010-04-08
A Day in the Life of Dorian for 2010-04-07
- Huh. Wonder if my gut is right. I think I just got snubbed for no reason. People behave weirder than programs. Maybe thats why I’m a coder. #
- Caught up on the news. Time to fix some defunct backends, database scripts and an assortment of small clean-up here and there. #
- Yes! Finally got that database issue resolved. Well… assuming nothing else pops up. Now on to fixing that elusive bug on the web app. Hmm. #
- Haha! Thanks to #Eclipse community for solving my debugging problem: http://tinyurl.com/yhp7y3y Hint: Use J2SE 1.6.0_v19 and not 1.6.0_v14 #
A Day in the Life of Dorian for 2010-04-06
- Good morning all! Just consuming the first cup of coffee of the day. Trying to figure out which problem to take a stab at first. #
- #shotofjaq On coffee: I love it, what wrong with being hyper-caffeinated? 😛 But some devs are real junkies, and need more rest than coffee. #
- #shotofjaq Marketing always makes sense. We as people always market ourselves. But advertising is way too expensive for most FLOSS projects. #
- OK, back to being confused and lost. Someone forgot to mention about the concrete maze in which the hedge maze is in. I need a sledgehammer. #
A Day in the Life of Dorian for 2010-04-05
- Tada! Feeling awesome… like if someone handed me a pair of shears to cut through the hedge that is life. 😀 #
We have a Go for MeeGo
6 days after I blog that the MeeGo project should start with a release of MeeGo as a first step… well they do exactly that. Now before everyone goes off and tries to flash their nifty Nokia N900, please don’t. This first release is just the underlying stack, without any GUI elements. As in if you flash your device to this first release… you’ll get a console with a blinking cursor. Now I don’t know about you… but I don’t know how to make a phone using the console. Still great work MeeGo folks. I look forward to seeing the upcoming release with the MeeGo User Experience, to see how the system will look once it becomes something an advanced end-user can use.
On Hiatus
Maybe I should put off on posting any new updates considering I haven’t slept this night. I plan on hiatus from writing for a bit. I have things that I need to sort out, before I’ll have time to blog anytime soon.