Microsoft SQL server 2005 launch

I went to the Microsoft SQLServer 2005 launch an all I got was this lousy mug

Wikipedia Uncyclopedia

Αν και το θέμα έχει "παλιώσει", είπα να το ξαναπιάσω με αφορμή ένα πρόσφατο άρθρο στο Register.
Ανακαλύψανε λοιπόν λέει τον υπεύθυνο για την παραποίηση του άρθρου για τον Seigenthaler στο Wikipedia (αλήθεια το είχε πάρει κανείς χαμπάρι οτι το Wikipedia στα ελληνικά το μετάφρασαν σε Βικιπαίδεια? έλεος με αυτές τις μεταφράσεις...)
Τέλος πάντων πίσω στο θέμα.. τον βρήκανε, και ο φίλος δικαιολογήθηκε και δήλωσε οτι νόμιζε πως το site ήταν για αστεία, και πως ήθελε να κάνει πλακα με καποιο φίλο του..
Παρεμπιπτόντως ένα τέτοιο site υπάρχει όντως, και λέγεται Uncyclopedia (που και μόνο το όνομα σε προδιαθέτει για το περιεχόμενο...)
Και ενώ το ερώτημα για μένα εξακολουθεί να είναι "Γιατι δεν διόρθωσε το άρθρο ο ίδιος ο Seigenthaler", προβληματίζομαι αν πλέον το wikipedia έφθασε σε εκείνη την επίφοβη κρίσιμη μάζα...
Γιατί ναι μεν όταν η κοινότητα ήταν σχετικα (για τα δεδομένα του internet) μικρή και τα άρθρα, σε κάποιο λογικο αριθμό, τότε το σύστημα λειτουργούσε (και όπως θύμουνται οι παλιοί, λειτουργούσε υπέροχα).
Όταν όμως ο αριθμός των άρθρων φθάσει σε κάποιο αριθμό αναμενόμενο δεν ειναι αυτό το φαινομενο;
Σε λίγα χρόνια θα το θυμώμαστε αυτό και θα λέμε οτι εκεί ήρθε ο θάνατος του wikipedia, όμως η λογική του wiki θα ζήσει.
Γιατι το wiki θα υπάρχει για αντικείμενα μικρότερου εύρους, όπως Howto, Episode Guides, κλπ
Ήδη το TV Wiki έχει αρχήσει να αποκτά κάποιο κύρος, και να θυμίζει τις εποχές του υπέροχου TVTome, που δυστυχώς καταστράφηκε όταν έγινε tv.com...
Αυτά για την ώρα...

RTF Howto

So here I am reading the documentation on how to make my own ebuilds on my current kde svn archive.
Very very cool things in there by the way
But because I'm getting bored I decide to search a little bit on the internet in case someone has already done it...
...and I guess I should have googled it sooner
So project berlios was the answer to my prayers
I did have a few problems though
Somehow svn couldnt cope with my old snv tree. Answer? I had to manualy delete several directories
Anyway everything is working now (no no support for blogger in konqueror) I'll be looking more into this into the future

Gentoo

It's been a long time since I blogged

I recently decided to change the distro I've been using and try Gentoo. Up untill this weekend I was using FC4... well sort of FC4, since it was an update from FC3 (which was an update from FC2) and many packages were from FC5 devel so you could call it an FC5432, which was buggy as hell (I couldnt download every single dependency so I had to... ahem, cheat a little). In other words, dont update with a 56K dialup line...

So why try gentoo if you have a dialup?

Dunno... I shouldnt have done it I guess but I did and I dont regret it. Gentoo is fine with me.

Of course there are many things that differ from FC4 (and from many other standard linux distros that is) but I'm getting the hang of it
I really like the building from scratch paradigm of gentoo and sometimes it's better at dependency handling since it wont update every single dependency just because a change in the minor version (No that's not entirely true, right now I'm upgrading evolution just to make the gnome-clock running which I souldnt since it wasnt on the dependency list... but what the heck)

Now what I really would like to see...

Right now I'm using gnome (2.12) which isnt bad, but I really am a KDE freak arent I?

And I really like using the svn source that it took me long to download and upgrade (dialup remember?)

So could there be a way to install my svn sources using the ebuild system?

OK I could just install it and get on with it (that's what I did in FC4) but here we have this great source based distro, I cant see why this would be impossible
just imagine if I could do emerge kde-svn (or sth) and it would update the sources through svn and install dependencies itself

As a matter of fact I had build a set of scripts that did exactly that but now I have to read the ebuild documentation to see if I can do it with gentoo tools (has a nice ring to it right?)

The only way I can see it now is to write my own ebuild files and grab the distfiles from the svn tree with make dist or something, but maybe there is another way...

Anyway I'm really tired to try this now, so it will be a project for another day (maybe tomorrow)

Another thing I wanna see is freaking-Blogger-Support in konqueror

And I mean the real thing with the nice tools and all not the html version

But maybe they're waiting for kde4 (there's much waiting in kde recently)

So for the time being I'll use gnome and zip it, so for the time being... Baghira doesnt rule (no no that's a blasphemy)

Anyway that's that

Blog you later

Baghira CVS Screenies

Baghira is just getting sweeter and sweeter :)
Here are some screenshots from the current cvs version

Showing off the great OS L iconset
Notice that the konqueror window here is modified and it has a Finder caption. Also the menu has been hacked around a bit so it's somewhat simpler now. I'm still working out what to add and what to remove though... the bookmarks menu was useless in a file manager so, away with it :)







You can use bab to switch between baghira styles.
Here kaffeine runs in Tiger mode while the Find Files gismo runs in a brushed metal mode











This is another modified konqueror. It uses my Safari mode which means, simpler menus and leaner toolbars
You can also get a hint of the new starter