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Paris Hilton releases a Linux distro!?!?!?

This is pretty unreal:

http://bbspot.com/News/2006/08/paris-hilton-tinkerbell-linux.html

“First,” she [Paris Hilton] writes, “I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I’ve been dabbling with coding for ages, but it’s taken me some time to find the courage to release it. As you know, I’m a shy and modest person, and wasn’t sure if it was good enough for the strict standards of the coding community.”

The article goes on to say:

Tinkerbell Linux is based on Slutware Linux and will be distributed on Paris Hilton’s next music CD entitled “Crontab for Love.” Until then the distribution can be downloaded from http://www.parishilton.com/tinkerbell/

i still don’t quite believe it, especially considering that the link to the distro is non-existant.

Love thy local Open Source developer…

Here’s a post i came across via Newsforge:

http://64.71.152.24/index.html

It’s one Open Source developer’s “goodbye, world!” mail, explaining why he’s so pissed off at the FOSS movement that he’s throwing in the towel and giving up writing open code.

Given his arguments, i can’t say i blame him. Both developers and coders can get some good insight into the mind of an FOSS developer by reading his post, and i highly recommend reading it. After all, what happened to him could happen to almost any FOSS developer out there.
Good luck to you, Paul Drain, in whatever it is that you decide to take up next.

Non-user posting re-enabled

After installing a “secure post” plugin, comments may once again by added by unregistered/anonymous users. This requires the entry of a code which is presented as an image. Hopefully this is enough to stop all the spam comment this blog gets.

The times they are a’ changin

From the Internal Bureau of Evangelism:

The Election Commission of India has just voted to uninstall Microsoft
Office from its entire workspace and replace it with OpenOffice:

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=137833

And they’re wasting no time:

“From September 1, every Election Commission office will have a PC
loaded only with OpenOffice and Mozilla or Opera, the open source
Internet browsers.”

(Though, logistically speaking, pulling it off that quickly will be
really difficult, even for their low number of seats (100).)

U.S. state governments which are trying to mandate such a change are
targetting 1.5+ years in the future (which is still aggressive), and of
course have MS evangelists in the same court rooms fighting them the
whole way.

OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org

libs11n porting guide started

Work as begun on a manual for porting libs11n to arbitrary platforms. It’s brand new and probably far from complete, but it may be of assistance to anyone out there who wants to build libs11n on non-GNU/Linux systems or wants to copy libs11n directly into their own source tree. It’s available here: http://s11n.net/download/#porting_guide

FreeBSD Port of libs11n

While doing my semi-monthly search for “who’s linking to s11n”, i came across a new FreeBSD port, available via freebsd.org: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=s11n&stype=all

Many thanks to Aaron Dalton <aaron at freebsd org> for adding it to the freebsd project.

:)

s11n 1.2.4 building under Visual C++ Express

This looks like a Unix environment, but it’s really a Cygwin shell running an application built with Visual C++ Express:

stephan@ludo ~/WinHome/navigating.de/s11n-win32/test
$ ../Debug/s11nconvert.exe -K
51191011 compact funtxt funxml parens simplexml wesnoth

stephan@ludo ~/WinHome/navigating.de/s11n-win32/test
$ for i in $(../Debug/s11nconvert.exe -K); do

../Debug/s11nconvert.exe -f in.sxml -s $i -o in.$i; done

stephan@ludo ~/WinHome/navigating.de/s11n-win32/test
$ l
total 256
drwxr-xr-x 2 stephan Kein   0 Aug  7 22:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 stephan Kein   0 Aug  6 18:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 263 Aug  7 22:24 in.51191011
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 263 Aug  7 22:24 in.compact
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 223 Aug  7 22:24 in.funtxt
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 343 Aug  7 22:24 in.funxml
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 214 Aug  7 22:24 in.parens
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 241 Aug  7 22:24 in.simplexml
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 239 Aug 28  2005 in.sxml
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan Kein 253 Aug  7 22:24 in.wesnoth

stephan@ludo ~/WinHome/navigating.de/s11n-win32/test
$ cat in.funtxt
#SerialTree 1
s11n_node class=streamable_map
{
item_0 Item #0
item_1 Item #1
item_2 Item #2
item_3 Item #3
item_4 Item #4
item_5 Item #5
item_6 Item #6
item_7 Item #7
item_8 Item #8
item_9 Item #9
}

At some point i’ll release a zip file containing the project/solution files and source code.

[A few hours later...]

A zip file containing a VCExpress solution file and a precompiled copy of s11nconvert can be found here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104450

Windows support coming soon…

i have accepted a job at a company where i will be developing software solely under Windows. Part of the deal is that i’ve got to have a PC running Windows, because the work is 100% from home (which is really cool). Since i’ll have a Windows PC with development tools (namely MS Visual Studio) i’ll be able to personally support the Windows port of libs11n. It’ll probably be another month or two before i release a port, but it is now officially on the to-do list. If time/energy permits, i will also try to support a Cygwin release.

:)

The company, by the way, is http://www.navigating.de.